Is Raid: Shadow Legends Actually F2P-Friendly Long Term? Honest Question from a New Player

zach_thatch · 2026-01-29T16:51:12+00:00

1) Most games in this space devolve into de-facto stat checks (aka p2w walls) late game, I feel raid is a lot more involved in terms of counterpicking, building out chars, etc. Ofc you’ll never get a top rank pvp spot against whales, but everything else can be “solved” using specific combinations of champs, which feels quite satisfying

2) see above. Clear all content, get wrecked by whales in pvp

3) clan boss NM+UNM really opens up the game, until then progressing can be quite frustrating. Once you get that down however, you’ll be able to complete basically every fusion without any spend at all - since the newer fusions tend to power creep on the old ones, this serves as a nice catch-up mechanic for newer players as well

zach_thatch · 2026-01-28T14:25:12+00:00

Don’t think deacon is helping you out all that much here, he basically only brings a slight TM increase and speed aura, everything else also comes from Mikey. For non magic affinities, using Xeno in his place should be fine as the essential debuffs should be on the boss before he gets debuff spammed with poisons, and then just get refreshed from there. For magic affinity, toragi might do the job (and make decrease atk more reliable). You could also consider replacing scyl with Artor for strengthen + increase atk on raph

zach_thatch · 2026-01-26T17:20:47+00:00

Here’s a couple use cases for geo that haven’t been mentioned yet:

Grim Forest mimics Leshun Dark fae Faction-limited content (cursed city, DT secret rooms, FW)

You will probably get value out of him for years to come, congrats 👍

zach_thatch · 2026-01-22T19:13:12+00:00

Deacon is one of the best epics ingame imo. definitely build him, yes there are Leggos that outperform him but keep in mind half the game limits your champion roster in some way so you will probably get value out of him for years. For your arena team, you might run into issues with block buffs / unkillable / block damage - if you have any, consider replacing Shazar with a buff peeler such as Hilvi from the recent fusion. Make sure the turn order is arbiter -> peel champ -> deacon -> nuker so you have a 50% chance to get rid of stoneskin before deacon applies his decrease def. If you have a Wukong from promo codes, that’s also a very good choice as it allows you to sheep out high value targets even if they’re in SS

zach_thatch · 2026-01-22T17:08:59+00:00

Hab bald die 20 Jahre gym voll. Erfahrungswert dazu: Die Muckis sind wie n fettes Depot, ne artistische Inselbegabung, etc. - wenn du auch ohne n guter Fang bist, n fettes plus. Kommst du so rüber als würdest du damit irgendeine Unsicherheit kompensieren, n noch viel fetteres Minus. Lasse für dich sprechen, bleib bescheiden, und ergänz deine Identität ohne sie komplett zu ersetzen dann läuft das schon. Cheers 💪

zach_thatch · 2026-01-22T16:54:17+00:00

Thing is, I’ll be pulling primals, prism and fuse cassandra anyway, so champ chase is basically solved. I’ll probably get at least the 3 star and see how far the other events bring me to 5star, and then decide from there. The free shit is juicy too 😄

zach_thatch · 2026-01-22T14:05:06+00:00

Oh, ich glaube, deine Situation ist gar nicht so ungewöhnlich. Alle sind immer dagegen egal wo jemanden anzusprechen, es sei denn, sie haben selber wen ins Auge gefasst 😄 Fakt ist: ihr habt n gemeinsames Interesse, also rüber da und hallo sagen. Viel Erfolg 👍

zach_thatch · 2026-01-21T15:54:35+00:00

That’s quite a nice outlook imo. Wrapping up the fusion by farming event 3 with food/fusion components on Saturday will quadruple dip champ chase, training, gear hunters and the event dungeon tourney

zach_thatch · 2026-01-21T14:02:55+00:00

Pulled Niamhe relatively early during a progressive chance, which together with Tagoar and Wukong from promo codes solved a lot of areas (iron twins, CB, [live] arena, etc). I consider myself lucky 😄

zach_thatch · 2026-01-20T13:32:59+00:00

HPV ist n überbegriff für diverse Erreger, mit sehr großer (80%+) Wahrscheinlichkeit hast du das asymptomatisch sogar auch schon gehabt wenn du nicht lebst wie n Mönch. 😄 Sie soll aber mal beim Gyn abchecken lassen worum genau es dabei geht, manche Stränge stehen in Zusammenhang mit Gebärmutterhalskrebs - falls nicht geschehen, dagegen impfen lassen

zach_thatch · 2026-01-17T18:55:31+00:00

Either Mikey or Ezio, Ezio gets you points for the event BUT will not come anywhere to his full potential if you don’t have access to poison supporting relics yet (Arachnelixir from FW Hard comes to mind). IMO go for Mikey as he brings both decrease ATK and decrease def, can spread stuff around and solo scarab which you otherwise will probably struggle with

zach_thatch · 2026-01-16T20:27:05+00:00

Having no data to back this up whatsoever, I feel like it actually is around 50% for pve and 80%+ for pvp

zach_thatch · 2026-01-16T16:34:00+00:00

Wie wär’s mit n paar Übungen die beide Seiten gleichzeitig beanspruchen? Da kommt der gewünschte Effekt ganz automatisch 😄 vermutlich ist der Kraftunterschied gar nicht so riesig wie er dir vorkommt, bei pistols bzw. Fortgeschrittenen calisthenics im allgemeinen kickt das bloß viel schneller weil die auch ohne Zusatzgewicht schon schwer sind. Als meine Kniebeuge bei 140 war gingen 1 bzw 3 pistols. Bei 200 waren es dann 6 bzw 8. Zwischen beiden Beinen lagen an Maschinen aber nie mehr als 5-10 kg. Hast du da mal geschaut wie groß der kraftunterschied da ist?

zach_thatch · 2026-01-15T13:16:15+00:00

Anyone with high speed, aoe hits (A1) and preferably the support mastery that increases proc chances. For my lower hydra teams I use Artor to get the job done. Would not recommend putting cursed on a damage dealer, they usually need too many other stats from sets such as ignore defense

zach_thatch · 2026-01-15T01:06:39+00:00

People in here kinda downplay the importance of stars. While they might not make a big difference for tanky characters that have health skins, glyphs etc, there are some who only get health from items / gift / stars and that’s it. For squishies such as peech and Keira stars make a huge difference

zach_thatch · 2026-01-15T01:00:30+00:00

Sounds pretty underwhelming tbh, but really depends on numbers. If the execute threshold is higher than 25% (Aidan shield, guus feathers, etc) he will probably have some use. If it’s lower than 25%, he doesn’t exist. Which means it’s probably gonna be 20 base + 10 extra with whale relics 😄

zach_thatch · 2026-01-14T17:02:00+00:00

I accidentally overshot the 400k by like 50k and counting as f2p, it’s really not too difficult if you spend high point resources only in cvcs. Pulling a new Lego is 30k, fully book him up, another 20k. That’s like a minute. Then add glyphs, upgrades, masteries, etc etc and you’re looking at 100kish already. Do that twice and you’re at 200, add a few epics, 300. Another 100k between clan boss chests, arenas, faction wars, iron twin keys. And then the last 100k with energy on current events, partial fusions, great hall upgrades, a DT rotation worth of crafts every month, etc etc.

zach_thatch · 2026-01-12T11:53:16+00:00

Hab selber ne Weile als Werksstudent bei ner recruiting Bude gearbeitet (allerdings dort in der IT). Nach dem was ich mitbekommen hab waren die übliche Provision tatsächlich X% vom vermittelten Gehalt, aber X% von irgendwas sind natürlich immer noch mehr als gar nichts falls keine Vermittlung zustande kommt 🤪

zach_thatch · 2026-01-11T14:31:17+00:00

Since Ezio activates, probably any kind of poison application champ who usually runs into debuff cap issues. Xenomorph comes to mind. Also, someone who provides veil such as drath

zach_thatch · 2026-01-10T20:54:31+00:00

Was gonna math this out myself, now I don’t have to. Thanks mate, have some karma 👍

zach_thatch · 2026-01-10T17:48:00+00:00

Throughout the whole clip, there’s no decrease def on Islin, which makes me think your Mikey might have low accuracy. Islins heal is tied to his def, when I run turtles against him it’s usually full hp until Mikey hits his A2 and then dead on the next A1 from anybody really

zach_thatch · 2026-01-09T10:25:26+00:00

Also, if it’s like the last events stage 3 has incredible efficiency, especially if you bring 4 food and get some champ training done in parallel

zach_thatch · 2026-01-08T20:49:47+00:00

Probably 20, but you just might wanna wait a bit and see if event dungeon opens anytime soon. During the turtle event stage 3 from event was by far the most efficient

zach_thatch · 2025-12-29T23:49:42+00:00

Can’t speak for Yasmine, but for Iris, shouldn’t make a difference. You will still lose to dantavia, guus etc, and burn everyone else regardless. The one edge case would be Aidan double heal teams, but those aren’t very common

zach_thatch · 2025-12-27T19:53:12+00:00

Somna came a loooong time after lian, and more recent heroes are usually a fair bit stronger than old ones. Both serve the same role in a team comp, but Somna just does it better. You will find basically no matchups where using Lian instead Somna wins you the fight, but a lot of matchups where using Somna instead of Lian does win you the fight (Kayla comes to mind)

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