Ultimate Deathknight

Last Updated: June 4, 2025

Ultimate Deathknight Overview

Ultimate Deathknight is a free progression-focused Undead legendary who excels at protecting allies through damage redirection, AoE Decrease Attack, and shields, making him especially useful for Spider, Ice Golem, Doom Tower bosses, and early-to-mid game survival before becoming more niche later on.

Ultimate Deathknight was released in Raid Shadow Legends as a free Legendary login reward champion in August 2022 following a huge marketing campaign showing the original Deathknight desperate to ascend to greatness!

Ultimate Deathknight has a solid kit that will help players progress through Dungeons, especially Ice Golem and Spider. His AOE Decrease Attack ability is a really powerful ability in both of these dungeons and his team shield mechanic is also powerful to help sustain the team. Those same abilities will also be useful in early Clan Boss and Hydra Clan Boss.
One of the most interesting parts about his kit is a passive with the ability to block single target damage and transfer it to Ultimate Deathknight. This is really cool against spiderlings to ensure the damage is always directed at a tank. The same passive could be put to good use against single target hitters in Arena such as Rotos or Mountain King and no doubt will be used in Doom Tower waves against nasty opponents.

Ultimate Deathknight will have some good use cases in Doom Tower specifically against the Magma Dragon where he can provoke and protect the main target from damage & The Scarab Boss where his shield will help to overcome the provoke debuffs.

Books are certainly valuable in his A2 and A3 abilities reducing cooldowns and improving those skills but it is worth noting he is not the best Legendary in the game and will be used less and less towards end game. A more realistic end game build will be to use him to solo Dragon 25 & Ice Golem 25 with specific Niche builds (toxic gear & specific masteries) or as an Arena Specialist.

Ultimate Deathknight Ratings

Core Areas

Dungeons

Hard Mode

Doom Tower

Faction Wars

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Arena Roles

Understanding Arena Roles

Champions normally form specific roles within an arena team. Our ratings define the roles that the champion fits and rates them on their ability to perform the roles. Below you can see a breakdown of all of our roles.

Cleanser

Champions with the Cleanser role will use their skills to remove debuffs and keep them from being re-applied.

Crowd Control

Champions with the Crowd Control role will use their skills to place soft (i.e. Provoke or Taunt) and hard (i.e Freeze or Stun) debuffs to disable enemy champions.

Damage

Champions with the Damage role will have skills that deal significant damage and are designed to defeat enemy champions.

Damage Absorption

Champions with the Damage Absorption role will have skills or effects that reduce the incoming damage your team takes. This can be through passive damage reduction or by applying skills such as Strengthen or Shields.

Healer

Champions with the Healer role will have skills that restore your champion's Health including Continuous Heals.

Debuffer

Champions with the Debuffer role will have skills that place debuffs that don't fall into Crowd Control or Skill Manipulator roles i.e. Decrease Defence. These champions may also have skills that remove Buffs.

Revive

Champions with the Revive role will have skills that bring your ally champions back from the dead including Revive on Death buffs.

Skill Manipulator

Champions with the Skill Manipulator role will have skills that increase enemy skill cooldowns or reduce your ally skill cooldowns.

Speed Manipulator

Champions with the Speed Manipulator role will have skills that affect the turn meter of your allies or enemies. This includes speed buffs and debuffs aswell as direct turn meter effects.