Kreela Witch-Arm is a standout champion in RAID: Shadow Legends, known for her incredible ally attack ability and versatility across various game modes. In this guide, we will dive deep into her skillset, gear recommendations, masteries, blessings, and performance in key content like the Fire Knight’s Castle. With a well-optimized build, Kreela becomes a powerhouse, not only for dishing out damage but also for supporting your team.
Kreela Witch-Arm's Skills Breakdown
Witchlight Barrier (A1)
Effect: Attacks 1 enemy and places a shield buff equal to 10% of Kreela's max HP on the ally with the lowest HP for 2 turns.
Damage Based On: [ATK]
Upgrades:
- Level 2: +5% Damage
- Level 3: +5% Damage
- Level 4: +10% Damage
- Level 5: +5% Shield
- Level 6: +10% Shield
Kreela’s A1 skill is incredibly useful for adding an extra layer of protection to your team’s weakest champion. The shield provides a steady defense in long dungeon runs, and while the skill requires six books to maximize, the reward is a consistent shield on your squishiest allies, ensuring they survive tougher hits.
Blinding Glow (A2)
Effect: Attacks 1 enemy and places a stun debuff for 1 turn. Has an 80% chance of teaming up with 3 random allies to attack a random enemy.
Damage Based On: [ATK]
Upgrades:
- Level 2: +5% Damage
- Level 3: +5% Damage
- Level 4: +10% Buff/Debuff Chance
- Level 5: +10% Buff/Debuff Chance
- Level 6: -1 Cooldown
This is Kreela's signature skill and arguably one of her strongest. It allows her to bring in multiple allies for a powerful attack, providing excellent synergy in both PvE and PvP content. The stun effect offers crowd control for enemy waves, and her ability to trigger ally attacks on a three-turn cooldown makes her a vital part of any ally attack composition. You can also build Kreela without accuracy if you're primarily using her in boss fights, where stunning isn't as important.
War Weirding (A3)
Effect: Places a 50% increase attack buff and a 30% increase crit rate buff on all allies for 3 turns, then attacks all enemies.
Damage Based On: [ATK]
Upgrades:
- Level 2: -1 Cooldown
Kreela’s A3 offers both offensive buffs and AoE damage. The combination of increased attack and critical rate on the whole team sets up massive damage potential from your DPS champions. This makes her invaluable in clearing waves or even in arena offense. A properly geared team can unleash devastating damage, particularly in synergy with other AoE attackers.
Gearing Kreela Witch-Arm
The Relentless Set is highly recommended for Kreela, allowing her to potentially gain extra turns and reduce her cooldowns on key abilities like Blinding Glow. By getting extra turns, Kreela can boost the uptime of her buffs, especially the increased attack and critical damage from her A3. This makes her an absolute monster in both PvE and PvP.
Recommended Gear Sets:
Relentless Set (4-piece)
The Relentless Set gives an 18% chance to grant an extra turn after any action. This is extremely powerful for Kreela because:
- If Kreela gets an extra turn, the cooldown on her Blinding Glow (A2) is effectively reduced, allowing her to use her ally attack more frequently.
- The extra turn also allows her to extend buffs like Increase Attack and Increase Crit Rate from her A3, War Weirding, keeping your team fully buffed.
- This set helps in dungeons like Fire Knight, where quick cycling through skills and extra turns can make a huge difference in battle efficiency.
Protection Set or Stoneskin Set (1 or 2-piece bonus)
You don’t always need to run Kreela with perfectly matching sets. Mixing in pieces of Protection or Stoneskin gear as single or two-piece sets can add valuable bonuses:
Protection Set
Provides a 20% boost to resistance or 15% to HP, depending on how many pieces you use. This makes Kreela harder to debuff and adds extra survivability to keep her in the fight.
Stoneskin Set
Increases resistance and defense, which is critical when fighting tougher enemies, particularly in high-level PvE content. Even a single piece of this set can provide good bonuses when paired with the Relentless Set.
Stat Priorities
HP
Since Kreela's Witchlight Barrier (A1) places a shield based on her max HP, it's important to build a decent HP pool. This makes the shield stronger, protecting your most vulnerable champions more effectively.
Speed
Speed is crucial for Kreela because:
- It allows her to cycle through her abilities faster, particularly Blinding Glow (A2) and War Weirding (A3), which are key to her role as an ally attack champion.
- Paired with the Relentless Set, high speed increases the chances of Kreela getting extra turns, further reducing cooldowns and maximizing her uptime in battles.
Attack & Crit Damage
While Kreela is primarily a support champion, she can deal a surprising amount of damage. Her A3 (War Weirding) buffs the team’s attack and crit rate, making it worth building up some attack and crit damage on her to increase her offensive contribution.
Example Gear Setup
Banner: Focus on either Attack (if prioritizing damage) or Accuracy (if you want to land stuns with her A2). Speed substats are highly desirable on the banner.
Amulet: Aim for Crit Damage, especially if Kreela has enough crit rate from other sources.
Ring: Go for HP on the ring to maximize the shield strength from her A1.
Gauntlets: Ideally, Crit Damage on the gauntlets if Kreela’s crit rate is high enough, or Crit Rate if you need to balance it out.
Chest: HP% for survivability and stronger shields.
Boots: Speed to ensure Kreela takes turns more frequently, syncing well with the Relentless Set's potential extra turns.
Masteries for Kreela Witch-Arm
Kreela benefits greatly from offensive and defensive masteries that focus on increasing her damage output while ensuring her survival in long battles. The YouTuber provided a detailed breakdown of Kreela’s ideal mastery setup:
Offense Tree
Deadly Precision (Tier 1): Increases Kreela's crit rate, which is essential for boosting her overall damage output, especially when using War Weirding to buff her allies.
Keen Strike (Tier 2): Increases crit damage, which complements the crit rate and allows Kreela to hit harder with her AoE and ally attacks.
Life Drinker (Tier 3): Provides healing based on the damage Kreela deals, making her more self-sustaining in longer battles.
Single Out (Tier 4): Increases the damage Kreela deals to enemies with low HP, helping her finish off weakened opponents.
Wrath of the Slain (Tier 5): Increases Kreela’s speed when allies die, making her more effective in battles where casualties are expected, such as Hydra or difficult dungeons.
Methodical (Tier 5): Increases the damage Kreela deals with her default skill (A1). Since her A1 also provides a shield to allies, this mastery makes her more effective both offensively and defensively.
War Master (Tier 6): This mastery is perfect for Kreela in PvE content, providing additional damage based on the enemy’s max HP. It works particularly well in dungeon runs and against bosses, enhancing her utility in long battles.
Defense Tree
Tough Skin (Tier 1): Increases Kreela's defense, making her a bit tankier, which is important for surviving tough battles like Fire Knight and Hydra.
Blastproof (Tier 2): Reduces damage received from AoE attacks by 5%. This is crucial for keeping Kreela alive in dungeons and arenas where AoE damage is common.
Resurgence (Tier 3): Gives Kreela a chance to remove debuffs when she loses a certain amount of HP. This helps cleanse off annoying debuffs like stuns or poisons, improving her survivability.
Delay Death (Tier 4): Reduces the damage Kreela receives from enemy hits, allowing her to stay in the fight longer and continue supporting her team with ally attacks and shields.
Retribution (Tier 5): Grants Kreela a chance to counterattack when hit by a critical strike. This mastery allows her to use her A1 more frequently, providing more shields to allies and dealing additional damage.
Deterrence (Tier 6): Gives Kreela a chance to counterattack when an ally is stunned, slept, or frozen. This synergizes well with her ally protection and allows her to retaliate and keep the shields coming.
Blessings for Kreela Witch-Arm
Blessings can add significant value to Kreela, especially in boosting her survivability and enhancing her team utility. The YouTuber recommended several blessings, focusing on ones that either improve Kreela’s ability to contribute damage or make her more resilient against enemy debuffs.
Recommended Blessings
Soul Reap
Effect: This blessing increases Kreela’s damage output, and when a target drops below a certain HP threshold, it triggers a powerful finishing blow.
Why It's Good for Kreela: While Kreela’s primary role is support and ally attack, Soul Reap adds an additional layer of damage to her kit. This is especially helpful in PvE content like Hydra or dungeon runs, where getting an extra boost in damage helps finish off bosses or tanky waves of enemies.
Chainbreaker
Effect: Chainbreaker offers increased resistance and removes control debuffs (like stun, freeze, or sleep) that Kreela might face. It also improves her ability to resist such effects in future rounds.
Why It's Good for Kreela: This blessing enhances Kreela’s survivability by reducing the risk of being controlled by debuffs. Chainbreaker allows her to continue using her key ally attack and buffing abilities even in difficult situations like dungeons or arena where crowd control is common.
Hero’s Soul
Effect: Increases the damage Kreela deals based on the total HP of the enemy team.
Why It's Good for Kreela: While not the primary choice, this blessing helps Kreela contribute more offensively, particularly in PvE boss fights. When facing enemies with high HP, Hero’s Soul boosts her damage, enhancing her offensive output alongside her utility role.
Kreela Witch-Arm in the Fire Knight’s Castle
Kreela shines in the Fire Knight’s Castle, particularly in hard mode, where her ally attack helps break down the boss’s shield efficiently. By pairing her with other multi-hitters like Cardiel, Ronda, and Valkyrie, she can maximize the damage output and shield-breaking potential of the team. Her Blinding Glow ability, when combined with the Relentless set, allows frequent ally attacks, making her an invaluable asset in this dungeon.
Her increased attack and crit rate buffs from her A3, War Weirding, ensure that her entire team benefits from consistent damage increases, helping with quicker shield breaks and reducing the time spent in the dungeon. With careful speed tuning, Kreela can become a reliable cornerstone for any Fire Knight's team.
Lore for Kreela Witch-Arm
Kreela Witch-Arm was born in a small village in the Lost Isles, under the stars her clan believed signified sorrow and ancestry. The first star proved true all too soon, as Kreela's mother died during childbirth. The second star marked Kreela as one with "Hallowsight": a connection and ability to commune with the Orc realm of spirits. Soon after her birth, a Shaman named Tellok arrived in the village, demanding that Kreela be handed over to be properly trained in the spiritual practices that her ancestors had observed for generations.
However, Kreela’s father refused to part with his child, having already lost his wife and daughter. Furious, the Shaman cursed Kreela, and vibrant fuchsia, mauve, and lilac flames erupted from Kreela's left arm, forever marking her as one who refused the call of the ancestors. The curse led to Kreela and her father being exiled from the village to avoid provoking Tellok further.
They sought shelter among other Orc clans, moving from village to village. Each time, they were refused because of Kreela's witch-arm. Realizing they would never be accepted, Kreela's father raised her with love and optimism, teaching her to survive in the wilderness. Kreela grew up happy but headstrong, becoming skilled with weapons, hunting, and surviving the wild. Over time, she learned of her curse and the hardships her father had endured. Together, they planned for a better life, but the "star of sorrow" was prophetic once more. Kreela’s father fell ill, and his death left her heartbroken.
Falling into a deep sleep, Kreela awoke in a strange, dreamlike place, unsure of what had happened. She saw images of her parents but was unable to reach them. When she awoke in reality, she knew she had to find Shaman Tellok. Once she located Tellok, the shaman accepted her and trained her in Orcish rituals and magic. Despite her immense power, Kreela could never again visit the ancestral plane to reunite with her parents.
Years passed, and Kreela's skills surpassed even Tellok’s, but she still sought to reconnect with her family. Unable to reach them, Kreela set off on her own to find new purpose and use her gifts. She currently roams the pirate port of Bleakhaven, seeking answers about her past and perhaps, a path to her future.
Conclusion
Kreela Witch-Arm is a versatile champion, bringing both support and damage to the table. Whether you're tackling Hydra, the Fire Knight, or PvP content, Kreela excels as a reliable ally attack champion. Build her with survivability, speed, attack, and choose the right blessing to further enhance her effectiveness in your team. Don’t forget to prioritize masteries and gear that complement her kit for optimal results.
