In RAID: Shadow Legends, buffs and debuffs are pivotal in shaping the outcome of battles. Buffs bolster your champions, enhancing their capabilities and resilience, whereas debuffs undermine the opposition by diminishing their stats or restricting their actions. Mastering the interplay between these effects can significantly influence the results of your encounters, be it in PvE or PvP scenarios.
Some buffs and debuffs are straightforward, such as boosting attack power or lowering defense, while others require more strategic thinking, like blocking revives or manipulating enemy targeting. Below, we delve into the most common buffs and debuffs, explaining their mechanics and strategic applications.
Buffs: Strengthening Your Champions
Buffs in RAID: Shadow Legends amplify a champion's attributes, making them more formidable, durable, or resistant to enemy attacks. These enhancements are crucial for both offensive and defensive strategies, ensuring your team can endure longer and inflict greater damage.
- Increase ATK: Enhances the champion’s Attack by 25% or 50%, significantly boosting their damage output.
- Increase DEF: Elevates Defense by 30% or 60%, mitigating incoming damage effectively.
- Increase SPD: Accelerates a champion’s turn meter by 15% or 30%, allowing for more frequent actions.
- Increase C. RATE: Raises Critical Rate by 15% or 30%, increasing the likelihood of critical hits.
- Increase C. DMG: Boosts Critical Damage by 15% or 30%, amplifying the impact of critical strikes.
- Increase ACC: Improves Accuracy by 25% or 50%, enhancing the success rate of debuff application.
- Increase RES: Increases Resistance by 25% or 50%, making it tougher for opponents to impose debuffs.

Debuffs: Weakening Your Enemies
Debuffs can disrupt enemy strategies and turn the tide of battle in your favor. Here are some key debuffs and their effects:
- Heal Reduction: Cuts healing effects by 50% or 100%, thwarting enemy recovery efforts.
- Block Buffs: Prevents the target from receiving buffs, nullifying their support systems.
- Block Revive: Stops the target from being revived upon death, ensuring they stay down.
- Poison: Inflicts 2.5% or 5% of the target’s MAX HP as damage at the start of their turn, causing continuous damage.
- HP Burn: Deals 3% MAX HP damage at the start of the afflicted champion’s turn, affecting allies too. Only one HP Burn debuff can be active per champion.
- Poison Sensitivity: Amplifies damage taken from Poison debuffs by 25% or 50%.
- Bomb: Detonates after a set number of turns, dealing defense-ignoring damage.
- Weaken: Increases damage taken by the target by 15% or 25%.
- Leech: Heals any champion attacking the affected enemy for 18% of the damage dealt.
- Hex: Causes the target to take additional damage when allies are hit, ignoring DEF.
Debuffs like Stun or Provoke can control high-threat enemies, while strategic use of Block Buffs can dismantle defensive setups in PvP. Understanding and leveraging these effects is crucial for victory.
Buffs and debuffs form the strategic backbone of RAID: Shadow Legends. Skillfully applying them can mean the difference between triumph and defeat. Buffs keep your team robust and safeguarded, while debuffs debilitate foes, leaving them exposed. A well-coordinated team will harness both to dominate the battlefield.
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