When is the best time to pull shards in Raid: Shadow Legends?

What are shards in raid shadow legends?

Shards are the backbone of Raid shadow legends, and the cause of most people’s addiction to the game – myself included, they are an essential resource in the game, not only do they give us new champions to play with, figure out and optimize, they are also needed for every single fusion event.

When are my odds improved?

There are events in the game that are designed to enhance your chance of pulling Legendary and Epic Champions, or to boost your odds of summoning specific Champions.

2x Events

These happen every 2 weeks on a rotation, so every 6 weeks you will see a rotation of each Shard type having a double chance on summoning Legendary and Epic Champions.

10x Events

These happen every 2 weeks and weave in between 2x events. While they don’t increase your odds of pulling higher rarities – what they do is boost your chance to get specifically named champions IF you do pull a legendary or epic in that timeframe by 10x.

Here is an example of a 10x Summon Event.

These will also happen frequently on Tuesdays for Clan vs Clan Events.

Guaranteed Champion Events

There are a lot less frequent than the two above, however, they have been happening more and more frequently in recent months. The idea behind this is simple, summon x number of shards (as stated by Plarium) during the event window, and receive a specific Champion that they announce.

You can find a full list of previous guaranteed events here.

The typical values are as follows:
Ancient: 120-150 Shards
Void: 90 Shards
Sacred: 15 Shards

2 for 1 Legendary Champions

Much like Guaranteed Champion Events, these are few and far between and more of a shock when we do see them, so far we have only had this event occur for Sacred and Ancient Shards and I imagine it will remain that way. But the way they work is IF you pull a legendary Champion while the event is active – you will instantly get a 2nd different legendary for free.

When should I be pulling shards in Raid Shadow Legends to get the most bang for my buck?

Really the best time to pull your shards for maximum benefit from them is during 2x Events, however, this isn’t always appropriate for fusions if you are going for them, as there are always 2 summon events, and only one of these will include a x2 event. You may be able to get around not summoning for the non-x2 events in which case you can save for only x2 events.

By only summoning on events where the odds are increased your shards will be more effective and your champion pool will grow substantially more over time.

What are the chances of pulling a legendary?

Below is the table that is visible in-game, explaining the chances to summon each rarity from specific shards. When x2 Events are active, the Epic and Legendary chances are doubled.

Why are the chances so low?

We believe the chances are the way they are, to make the feeling of pulling a legendary something that is somewhat special, especially early on when you have a limited amount of them.

It’s a feeling that we all chase, and at that moment there is a lot of excitement when you see that gold portrait before discovering whether you’ve hit the jackpot or pulled another useless/duplicate legendary.

If the changes were significantly higher, there would be less of that rush as it wouldn’t be as rare as it is currently and everyone would have access to legendaries which in turn would reduce the use of other rarities in the game who are perfectly suitable and better in some cases.

Plarium would also notice a significant revenue decrease, making it harder to maintain the game as a ‘Free to play’ game.

When you start the game how long will it take to get a legendary?

It could be anywhere up to 6 months when you get Scyl of the Drakes unless you manage to pull one through shards or obtain one through a fusion, it all depends on your luck and spending habits, as the Mercy System in the game will secure you a legendary eventually.

The other alternative is during specific promotion events, you can get a Legendary Champion after just 7-days, but these are not always active.

Here are the past Promo Events:
Ninja
Aleksandr the Sharpshooter
Deliana
Ultimate Deathknight

What is the mercy system?

The Mercy system is Raid’s bad luck prevention system, it activates after you summon a certain number of shards without getting a Champion of a specific rarity.

Once activated, the Mercy System increases your odds of summoning specific Champions of a specific Rarity with every consecutive shard you summon of that Type. For example, after summoning 20 Void Shards without getting an Epic Champion, your chance of getting an Epic Champion from Void Shards will increase by 2% with every shard – until you get an Epic Champion, at which point the odds will reset back to the default chances of that Rarity.

How does it work?

Your mercy counters are tracked individually for each Type of Shard – meaning if you Summon a Legendary Champion from a Sacred Shard, it won’t affect your Mercy counter for Ancient Shards

After you successfully summon either an Epic or Legendary Champion, your Mercy counter will reset for that Rarity from that Type of shard, and your chances will reset to those displayed in the Default Summoning Chances table above.

For Ancient and Void Shards, the mercy counters for both Epic and Legendary Champions are tracked individually. This means that even if you get a Legendary Champion, it won’t reset your Epic Mercy counter.

The chance increases are additive, not multiplicative (meaning an increase of 2% to an 8% chance will take it to 10%)

When do you open your shards? We’d love to hear down in the comments!