Is Dragon Immune to Turn Meter Reduction in Raid: Shadow Legends?
The short, direct answer is: yes, the Dragon, also known as the Magma Dragon, is immune to turn meter reduction. This means that any skills or abilities that are designed to lower an enemy’s turn meter will have absolutely no effect on the Dragon in Raid: Shadow Legends. Understanding this immunity is crucial for building effective teams and strategizing your dungeon runs. Attempting to use turn meter manipulation on the Dragon is a wasted effort, and you should instead focus on other strategies to overcome this formidable foe. This immunity is a deliberate design choice by the developers to challenge players to utilize different tactics.
Understanding Turn Meter Mechanics in Raid: Shadow Legends
Before delving deeper into the Dragon’s immunities, it’s essential to understand how turn meter works in Raid: Shadow Legends. The turn meter is the yellow bar that fills up below a champion’s health bar. Once this bar is full, the champion takes their turn. Various factors can affect how quickly a turn meter fills, including a champion’s speed stat, buffs, and, of course, debuffs.
What is Decrease Turn Meter?
A Decrease Turn Meter debuff is a skill that lowers an enemy champion’s turn meter, delaying their turn. This is a common strategy in various aspects of the game, particularly in the arena and in dungeons against waves of enemies. By lowering enemy turn meters, your team can get more turns, allowing you to perform burst attacks and control the battlefield. However, this does not work against certain bosses, such as the Dragon, the Magma Dragon, and the Clan Boss.
Why is Turn Meter Reduction Ineffective Against the Dragon?
The Dragon’s immunity to turn meter reduction is a fundamental aspect of its design. This immunity ensures that players cannot easily cheese the boss by perpetually delaying its turns. Instead, players need to focus on speed-tuning their own team and having strategies in place to survive its powerful attacks. The immunity forces players to adapt and develop robust teams with healing and damage mitigation abilities.
Strategies for Beating the Dragon
Since turn meter reduction is off the table, other strategies are needed to beat the Dragon effectively. Here are some key areas to focus on:
Speed and Turn Cycling
Instead of slowing the Dragon down, players need to focus on making their own team as fast as possible to get more turns. Speed tuning is crucial in this regard. This involves making sure your champions’ speed stats are optimized to take turns in the order you require to apply buffs, debuffs, and attack effectively.
Sustained Damage
The dragon can overwhelm a team quickly if not enough damage is dealt. Make sure that your team has champions that can consistently deal high damage to cancel the Dragon’s purple bar before it is able to do it’s large attack.
Defense and Healing
The Dragon’s attacks can be devastating, so a reliable support champion that can apply a Block Debuff buff and Remove Debuffs is vital. The ability to remove poisons, weaken, and decrease attack debuffs applied by the Dragon is a key to survival and staying in the fight.
Focus on Debuff Removal and Debuff Immunity
The Dragon applies a number of deadly debuffs, including poison, weaken, and decrease attack. It is crucial to cleanse these to stay in the fight. This means you will need a champion that can remove these debuffs or provide block debuffs.
Champions to Avoid
Avoid using champions that heavily rely on decrease speed and decrease turn meter skills, as these skills will be completely useless in the fight. Choose champions that can consistently deal damage or offer utility that is not tied to turn meter manipulation.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. Is the Dragon immune to speed reduction?
Yes, the Dragon is also immune to Decrease Speed debuffs, meaning you cannot slow down the speed at which it takes turns. This further emphasizes the need for speed-tuning your own team to get more turns rather than trying to slow down the boss.
2. Does the Clan Boss also have the same immunities?
Yes, the Clan Boss shares the same immunities as the Dragon, including immunity to turn meter reduction, decrease speed, stun, freeze, sleep, max HP reduction, and HP exchange effects.
3. What is the best stage to farm for gear in Dragon Dungeon?
The best stages for farming gear in the Dragon dungeon are Stage 16, Stage 20, Stage 24 and Stage 25. Stage 16 stops dropping Mystery Shards and brews, Stage 20 removes 4* gear, Stage 24 provides the best balance of good gear per energy, and Stage 25 gives the highest chance of 6* Legendary gear.
4. What does turn meter do?
The turn meter is a visual representation of how close a champion is to taking their turn. The yellow bar fills over time, and once full, the champion will act. Speed, buffs, and debuffs all influence how fast it fills.
5. What is speed tuning?
Speed tuning involves setting the speed stats of your champions so they take their turns in a specific order without any gaps, allowing for a coordinated attack and consistent application of buffs and debuffs.
6. Does counterattack count as a turn?
No, a counterattack does not count as a turn in Raid: Shadow Legends. This means that even if a champion attacks through a counterattack, it does not affect their turn meter or interrupt the normal turn order.
7. What is the maximum number of turns in a battle?
The maximum number of turns allowed in any battle is 1500 turns. If a battle exceeds this limit, the result will likely not be counted.
8. How do you beat the Dragon?
Beating the Dragon requires high damage output to cancel out its purple bar, debuff removal or prevention to counter the poisons, weakens, and attack decreases it inflicts, as well as champions that can remove debuffs.
9. What is the most efficient campaign stage to farm for experience?
The most efficient stage to farm for experience is stage 6 of the Brimstone Path (chapter 12) on Brutal difficulty if you can. If not, farm it on Hard difficulty. Nightmare difficulty is not as efficient.
10. What are Clan Boss immunities?
The Clan Boss is immune to stun, freeze, sleep, decrease speed, turn meter reduction, max HP reduction, and HP exchange effects. It is also resistant to HP Burn and Poison debuffs.
11. How does HP Burn damage work on Clan Boss?
While you can apply HP Burn on the Clan Boss, its damage is capped at 50k per tick for rare champions and 75k per tick for epic and legendary champions. HP Burn ticks for 3% of the target’s maximum HP whenever the target moves.
12. Why is Tayrel a good Clan Boss champion?
Tayrel is a popular choice because his A2 ability decreases the defense of all enemies, allowing your damage dealers to kill the Boss faster, and his A1 can reliably apply a Decrease Attack debuff, which is crucial for surviving.
13. What is a “blender” team in the Arena?
A “blender” team in the Arena consists of a Speed Lead Aura champion (like Arbiter), an Ally Attack champion (like Lanakis the Chosen), and two AOE nuker champions, designed to burst down the opponent’s team quickly.
14. What are the masteries to avoid on an unkillable team?
The main masteries to avoid are Rapid Response and Arcane Celerity as they have a chance to increase the turn meter of your team, which can disrupt the order and defeat the purpose of the team.
15. What does “A1” mean in Raid: Shadow Legends?
In Raid: Shadow Legends, A1 refers to a champion’s first ability, usually their most basic attack. If the A1 is considered AOE, this means the Champion is able to use their primary skill to attack or support multiple enemies at once.
By understanding the Dragon’s immunities and optimizing your teams with these strategies, you’ll be well-equipped to conquer this challenge and reap the rewards of its defeat. Remember, adaptation and strategy are key to success in Raid: Shadow Legends!