Raid Shadow Legends Tier List: Consensus Picks for 2026

There is no official Raid Shadow Legends tier list, so the most useful answer is the consensus: champions that sit at or near the top of several independent lists at once. As of November 2026, that short list includes the Mythicals Starsage Galathir and Theodosia the Disgraced, Legendaries such as Lord Entertainer Fabian, Armanz the Magnificent, Marius the Gallant and Odin Faefather, and Epics led by Geomancer. Below is how the major lists rate champions, where they agree, and how to use them without wasting resources.

We checked this against the current lists from Ayumilove (updated October 25, 2026), Pocket Gamer (updated October 4, 2026 for version 11.75.8) and PCGamesN (updated June 18, 2026), HellHades' champion rating tool and its guide to using tier lists, and Plarium's own support pages, in November 2026.

Why Every Raid Tier List Looks Different

Plarium does not publish rankings of its own; its support site points players who want in-depth guides to the official website, the game forum and its social channels, and the rankings players actually use come from community sites. Each of those sites measures something different, which is why the same champion can be S tier on one list and nowhere on another.

• HellHades scores champions area by area rather than with one grade, with separate ratings for the Demon Lord, Hydra, Chimera, Amius, the Grim Forest, every dungeon including Hard modes, each Doom Tower boss, and Arena roles. Its own guide to tier lists stresses that the ratings are opinions.
• Ayumilove sorts champions into SS, S, A, B, C and F tiers by overall usefulness across Arena offense and defense, Faction Wars, the Campaign, the Clan Boss and dungeons, and describes SS as super unique and best in class.
• Pocket Gamer groups champions by rarity with a single overall rating, and notes that rankings for the newest champions are still provisional.
• PCGamesN keeps separate PvE and PvP lists that include only Mythical, Legendary and Epic champions considered meta, with the PvP list aimed at players pushing for Platinum.

None of these is wrong; they answer different questions. An overall grade tells you a champion is broadly strong, while an area score tells you whether it solves the specific fight you are stuck on.

The Consensus Top Tier for November 2026

The champions below appear at or near the top of at least two of the three current lists. PCGamesN uses short names, so its entries are matched to the full champion names the other lists use.

Champions rated at the top of two or more current lists (Ayumilove October 25, Pocket Gamer October 4, PCGamesN June 18, 2026)

Champion	Rarity	Ayumilove	Pocket Gamer	PCGamesN
Starsage Galathir	Mythical	SS	S (base form)	PvP S+
Theodosia the Disgraced	Mythical	SS	S	PvE S
Lord Entertainer Fabian	Legendary	SS	S	PvP S+
Odin Faefather	Legendary	SS	S	PvP S
Androc the Glorious	Mythical	Below SS	S	PvP S, PvE S
Alaz the Sunbreaker	Mythical	Below SS	S (both forms)	PvP S+
Embrys the Anomaly	Mythical	SS	A	PvP S+
Nais the Shadowthief	Mythical	SS	Not listed	PvP S+
Marius the Gallant	Legendary	SS	Not listed	PvP S, PvE S
Armanz the Magnificent	Legendary	SS	Not listed	PvP S
Geomancer	Epic	SS	B	PvE S

Only four names sit in the top group of all three lists: Starsage Galathir, Theodosia the Disgraced, Lord Entertainer Fabian and Odin Faefather. The disagreements are just as instructive. Pocket Gamer rates Geomancer, Ayumilove's SS Epic, only B, and puts Siegfrund the Nephilim in its Mythical B tier while PCGamesN places him in its PvP S+ group. Pocket Gamer's Legendary top tier also includes Storm Herald Hekaton, Solanar the Gleaming, Bayek of Siwa, Ezio Auditore and Raglin; Ayumilove's other SS Legendaries are Vestele Riverthorn and Vulkanos Fumor; and PCGamesN's PvE S+ tier lists Acrizia, Cardiel, Mithrala, Marichka, Pythion, Gnut and Riho.

Mythicals need one extra note. HellHades describes them as a rarity above Legendary that can switch between two forms with different skills through a mechanic called Metamorph, which is why some lists rate a Mythical's base and alternate forms separately.

Epics and Rares That Rank Above Their Rarity

The top of every list is crowded with Mythicals and Legendaries, but the champions most accounts can build first are Epics and Rares. Ayumilove's SS Epics are Geomancer and Seer, and its S tier includes Deacon Armstrong, Rector Drath, Stag Knight, Uugo, Melga Steelgirdle and others that Pocket Gamer also puts in its top tier. Our breakdown of the best Epic champions covers what each one does.

Pocket Gamer's top-tier Rares are Apothecary, Athel, Coldheart and Warmaiden, and two of those are easy to get. Athel is one of the four starter champions Plarium offers alongside Galek, Elhain and Kael, and HellHades has long pointed new players to the Deadlands Campaign stages to farm Warmaiden. HellHades still calls Kael the best long-term choice of starter, and notes that all four starters are Magic affinity. For what to do with a starter in the first weeks, see our beginner guide.

Rares also keep a job late in the game. Plarium's Doom Tower guide describes Secret Rooms with special rules, such as allowing only Rare champions, and HellHades' Kael page notes he keeps his value in those Rare-only rooms long after he stops leading your main teams. A tier list that only grades Legendaries will never tell you that.

How to Use a Tier List Without Wasting Resources

HellHades' guide to tier lists makes the key point: a high rating does not mean a champion fits your team, and stacking top-rated champions does not work if nobody covers the roles the fight needs. A low rating, likewise, does not rule a champion out if the rest of your team supports it.

1. Pick the fight first. Decide which content is blocking you, whether that is a dungeon stage, the Demon Lord or an Arena tier.
2. Read the area score, not the overall grade. HellHades' tool rates each area separately for exactly this reason.
3. List the roles that fight needs. For the Clan Boss, HellHades names reducing enemy attack and defense, buffs and damage; check which of those your current team lacks.
4. Fill the gap with what you own. A built champion that covers a missing role usually does more than an unbuilt one with a better grade.
5. Check the list's date. A ranking from before the last two updates may miss new champions and rebalances.

Tier lists also assume a champion is properly built: ranked, leveled, skilled up and wearing the right sets for its role. If yours is not there yet, the grade describes its ceiling rather than what it does for you today, and our artifact set guide covers the gear side of closing that gap.

Getting More Out of HellHades' Rating Tool

Because HellHades rates by area, its tool is most useful when you sort and filter rather than read it top to bottom. The page lets you sort results by Overall or by any single area, from the Demon Lord and Hydra to individual dungeons and Arena, and filter by Faction, Affinity, Type and Rarity, with a ratings threshold to hide champions scoring below a chosen value.

• Stuck on a dungeon stage: sort by that dungeon, filter to the rarities you can realistically pull, and look for the roles your team is missing.
• Building a Faction Wars team: filter by Faction, since Plarium's rules only let champions enter their own Faction's Crypt.
• Planning Arena: the Arena section tags roles such as speed manipulator, crowd control, cleanser and reviver, which helps you check that a team is balanced rather than five damage dealers.

The tool also has a Show My Champs option, but it depends on data uploaded to HellHades' optimizer; without it, the page simply shows every champion.

Why the Rankings Keep Moving

Raid changes every few weeks, and tier lists trail behind. Update 11.75, covered by HellHades on August 31, 2026, added four new Legendaries (Thralia, She Who Stands; Owein Winterflame; Thayla Hammerhorn; and Miyoko, Flower of Yakai) and let Provoke bypass the Total Guard stacks of the Mercurial set, a direct counter to a popular Arena setup. HellHades also reported reworks for Robar and Abbess in the same update, with new passives, extra damage and DEF ignore. Plarium's support site tracks known issues for version 11.80.0 from early October, and HellHades' preview of Update 11.90 on October 29, 2026 says the next update reworks or lowers the challenge requirements in Faction Wars Hard Mode.

New champions arrive constantly as well; HellHades observed in 2025 that every update typically adds at least one Mythical. Treat any tier list as a snapshot, and favor lists updated after the most recent patch.

Getting Top-Tier Champions Onto Your Roster

Many top picks come from shards, so pulling at the right time matters; our guides to Sacred Shards and the mercy system cover the odds. Fusions are the other route, and one detail stands out: Plarium's Change Fusion Champion guide places Armanz the Magnificent and Lord Entertainer Fabian, two of Ayumilove's SS Legendaries, in Tier 1 of the Fusion Token swap list, which means you can make either one the target of an active fusion event for 3 Fusion Tokens. Our fusion guide explains how to earn those tokens.

Two more routes are worth knowing. Plarium's Faction Wars guide says three-starring every stage with every Faction on Hard Mode awards Polara Fireheart, one of Pocket Gamer's S-tier Mythicals, so long-term Faction Wars work ends in a top-tier reward. And events have become better for targeting a specific name: HellHades reported that Update 11.75 raised the regular featured-champion boost from x10 to x15, and Plarium's Progressive Chance events now climb from x20 to x30.

Want Top-Tier Names Without the Wait?

Pulling and fusing a roster full of consensus picks takes a long time. If you would rather start from an account that already has some, the store's Raid Shadow Legends page lists Raid accounts with search and tag filters, and each listing title names the account's headline champions, so you can check for the names you want. Plarium's terms forbid account trading, so read our account guide before buying from anyone.

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