Dark Elves
With Kael being the most popular starting champion by far, many players will start well in Dark Elves Faction Wars before grinding to a halt in the later stages. Dark Elves, sadly, is one of the weakest factions in 2025, suffering from a severe lack of healers and revivers, and fielding many squishy champions who rely on that kind of protection.
For normal difficulty, Kael will do well enough for damage and Coldheart is the best rare in the game, but you need to scrounge up support for them somewhere. Visix at 9 months login is amazing but comes very late. Kaiden or Rian, protected by strong sets like Shield or Regeneration, can give you the team stability that you need.
For hard difficulty, you will at least have Lydia, Mithrala, and Visix, and these champions single-handedly rescue this faction from hopelessness; the “Big 3 Free” Voids will carry you through nearly every stage of this Faction—you simply need to find 2 more decent champions for the 3-star conditions to go with them.
Strength
Visix, Lydia, and Mithrala are all amazing and available for free
Several great rares, such as Kael, Coldheart and Pain Keeper.
4 epics guaranteed from Doom Tower
Weakness
Lydia can’t help you beat normal difficulty for the first time
Severe lack of healing and weak revivers
Faction Wars
We advise every player to try and progress in faction wars as soon as you can and even if you can only do early floors. Faction Wars rewards you with Forge Materials to craft artifact sets such as Perception and also incredibly valuable Glyphs which boost your sub stats on artifacts further than what you can roll.
Tier List
Faction Wars is often one of the most challenging areas of the game for players to progress when playing Raid: Shadow Legends. Often you are forced into choosing to invest in champions you might not otherwise invest to enable you to complete the faction. This comes with the difficult decision of who you should use. Our tier lists are designed to help you identify what the best champions are to fill the roles required to complete Faction Wars.
Stages
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