In the dynamic world of RAID: Shadow Legends, mastering the intricacies of each champion can dramatically enhance your gaming experience. Among the myriad of champions, Arix stands out as a formidable force in the arena and beyond. This guide delves deep into the strategies, skills, and groundbreaking arena build that can transform Arix from a regular champion to a dominating powerhouse in your lineup.
Arix, a legendary champion in RAID: Shadow Legends, can be obtained for free after 750 days. As an HP-based character with magic affinity, she excels against enemies with spirit affinity, providing strategic advantages in numerous battles.
Detailed Skill Analysis
Arix boasts a unique set of abilities that make her not only versatile but also a critical asset in both PvP and PvE modes. Here's a closer look at her skills:
Deathly Arts
Attacks all enemies. Has a 25% chance of removing 1 random buff from each target.
Level 2: Damage +10%
Level 3: Buff/Debuff Chance +5%
Level 4: Damage +10%
Level 5: Buff/Debuff Chance +5%
Damage Multiplier: 0.22 HP
Thornchain Malison (Cooldown: 4 turns)
Attacks all enemies. Has a 50% chance of placing a [Stun] debuff for 1 turn. Transfers a random debuff from this Champion to the targets that receive [Stun] debuffs from this skill.
Level 2: Damage +10%
Level 3: Buff/Debuff Chance +10%
Level 4: Damage +10%
Level 5: Buff/Debuff Chance +15%
Level 6: Cooldown -1
Damage Multiplier: 0.35 HP
Warped Guidance (Cooldown: 5 turns)
Places a 50% [Ally Protection] buff on all allies except this Champion for 2 turns. Also places a [Counterattack] buff on this Champion for 2 turns.
Level 2: Cooldown -1
Level 3: Cooldown -1
Cynical (Passive)
Fills this Champion’s Turn Meter by 5% each time an ally inflicts a critical hit. Heals this Champion by 5% of their MAX HP each time an enemy inflicts a critical hit.
The Ultimate Gear Setup
In a recent exploration into Arix's capabilities, ASH: Raid Shadow Legends, detailed a strategic gear setup that magnifies her effectiveness, especially in the arena. Here’s a comprehensive breakdown of the ideal gear configuration for Arix to help you dominate your battles:
Stoneskin Set
The setup revolves around a six-piece Stoneskin set, crucial for its significant boost to Arix's resistance. This choice is strategic for enhancing her durability against debuffs from enemy champions, ensuring she remains effective throughout the battle by withstanding multiple attacks.
Stat Priorities
HP: Given that Arix's skills scale with her HP, it is vital to maximize this stat. Equipping HP percentage increases on both the chest and boots is recommended to significantly bolster her health pool.
Resistance: A key focus is building as much resistance as possible, ideally within the range of 500-700. This high resistance is essential to withstand debuffs from manipulative enemy skills, maintaining her ability to counter and protect effectively.
Critical Damage: While the main focus is on HP and resistance, outfitting the gauntlets with critical damage increases can substantially enhance Arix's output on her counterattacks and direct hits.
Speed
Strategic Slowness: Contrary to typical builds, this unique setup suggests minimizing Arix’s speed. This approach ensures that she can absorb the initial wave of enemy attacks and retaliate more effectively with her robust counterattacks and HP-driven damage.
Additional Gear Considerations
Accuracy: A moderate focus on accuracy helps ensure that Arix’s A1 skill effectively removes buffs from the enemies, crucial for disrupting their strategies.
Artifact Substats: Pay attention to substats that enhance HP, resistance, and critical damage. These substats are pivotal in rounding out Arix’s capabilities and maximizing her role as a formidable tank and disruptor in the arena.
This gear strategy transforms Arix into a tank-like figure, capable of absorbing significant damage and strategically disrupting enemy plans through her potent counterattacks and debuff transfers. The combination of resistance and HP, augmented by a Stoneskin set, fortifies her as a stalwart presence in the arena, ready to support her team and overcome formidable threats. By following this detailed gear setup, you can leverage Arix's full potential and see a marked improvement in your strategic gameplay in RAID: Shadow Legends.
Masteries
Enhancing Arix’s performance in RAID: Shadow Legends requires a strategic approach to her mastery setup. Tailoring her masteries can significantly boost her effectiveness in both arena and campaign modes. Here’s a breakdown of the recommended masteries:
Offense Tree
Deadly Precision: Increases Arix's critical rate, crucial for boosting the damage potential of her critical hits.
Keen Strike: Enhances her critical damage, complementing her critical rate improvements for greater overall damage output.
Heart of Glory: Boosts damage when Arix attacks with full HP, maximizing the impact of her initial strikes in battle.
Whirlwind of Death: Increases her speed after each kill, slightly countering her naturally slow build in prolonged fights.
Ruthless Ambush: Increases the damage of her first hit on each enemy, crucial for delivering powerful opening strikes.
Bring it Down: Enhances damage against targets with higher MAX HP, aligning with her role in tackling tankier opponents.
Wrath of the Slain: Boosts her damage as she loses allies, making her increasingly dangerous in drawn-out arena battles.
Kill Streak: Increases damage during consecutive kills, ideal for clearing arena sweeps efficiently.
Defense Tree
Tough Skin: Reduces incoming damage, crucial for enhancing Arix’s sustainability in battle.
Blastproof: Decreases damage taken from AoE attacks, common in arena confrontations.
Rejuvenation: Increases the effectiveness of healing received, synergizing well with her passive ability that heals her when enemies land critical hits.
Resurgent: Provides a chance to remove debuffs when she loses more than 25% of her MAX HP in one hit, complementing her high resistance and durability.
Deterrence: Offers a chance to counterattack when debuffs are applied, perfectly aligning with her counterattacking capabilities.
Retribution: Increases the chance of counterattacking when taking hits, central to her strategic use in battles.
These masteries are designed to capitalize on Arix's strengths as an HP-based champion, extending her survivability and impact in battle. By focusing on enhancing her offensive potential while bolstering her defenses, these masteries ensure that Arix can perform optimally in her unique role. Whether you’re engaging in high-stakes PvP battles or challenging PvE content, tailoring Arix's masteries according to these guidelines will help maximize her effectiveness and turn her into a key asset for any team.
Tactical Uses and Gameplay
With this build, Arix becomes a central figure in your team, capable of turning the tide in arena battles. Her ability to remove buffs with Deathly Arts and transfer debuffs with Thornchain Malison disrupts enemy strategies, while Warped Guidance ensures she and her allies stay in the fight longer.
Arix Lore
Arix was once a knight of the Sacred Order. Young and idealistic, she combined her vigor and fighting skills with an unswerving dedication to the tenets of her faith. She rose quickly through the ranks, but always hungered for greater success, greater glory. She harbored a zealous hatred of the Undead, and sought assignments to hunt them throughout Anhelt and beyond.
It wasn’t long before Arix’s fervor saw her overreach. After being promised reinforcements by a senior knight of the Sacred Order, she set out to slay a necromancer by the name of Arkuaz. Her warriors were few, and when she cornered Arkuaz, the expected aid failed to materialize. Arix’s companions fell to Arkuaz’s Undead host. Arix herself barely escaped. When she sought out the knight who’d promised to help her, she discovered that he’d been killed in a battle against another Undead foe.
Arix now saw that the forces of the Order were not powerful enough to protect Teleria from the curse of Siroth’s spawn. Many had the advantage of immortality while the warriors of the Order were mere mortals. Arix resolved to find a way to change things: to find the time and strength she needed to tip the scales in the everlasting crusade against the Undead. It was at this point that she crossed paths with the Cult of K’Leth.
Members of the Cult of K’Leth showed Arix how, if she proved her worth, her soul could be transmuted – via a soul gem — into a younger body. At first, Arix was suspicious of the dark magics involved, but she was also desperate, and believed her purity of purpose would protect her. After all, she did not seek such immortality for personal power, but so she could make herself an unrelenting enemy of the Undead.
And so, Arix was inducted into the Cult of K’Leth, and fell prey to its pervasive teachings. The leaders of the cult, the Knights Revenant, did indeed have their consciousness transferred, to younger, more able bodies, but they had little desire to share such a privilege with the thousands of acolytes who made up their body of servants. Occasionally, however, one would catch their eye.
Arix was one such fortunate. Her sword-skill was impressive, and her presence within the Sacred Order made her a useful asset. She was courted by one particular Knight Revenant, Zoriel, who tried to use her to influence the Order. Over the years, Arix became ever more warped by the beliefs of the cult, yearning for immortality and losing sight of her former good intent. lt angered her to see how the likes of Zoriel were not willing to share their immortality. Eventually, Arix challenged Zoriel, demanding that she be given a new, younger body, or she would not only slay Zoriel, but shatter his soul gem too, snuffing out his existence forever.
Arix defeated Zoriel, and the desperate Knight Revenant granted Arix’s wish. Believing she would need to choose the body of someone pure if her own supposedly righteous purpose was to remain unsullied, Arix abducted a squire from the Sacred Order to be her vessel. Once a knight of the Sacred Order, Arix’s soul was now twisted by decades spent with the Cult of K’Leth, Now the dark magics of this rushed ceremony took from her the only good that was left.
What Arix had done soon became known to the Order, and she was not only expelled, but declared Undead. When Arix’s former friends came for her, they found her much changed. Finding their zealotry small-minded, Arix slayed them all, deciding that it was the Sacred Order which was in fact misguided. If they could not see that only an immortal could match the Undead, then she would not count herself among their number.
In the decades since, Arix’s hatred of the Undead has remained, but her path has long since wandered. She will ally with the Sacred Order, albeit grudgingly, but any amity she once had to it has long ago withered and died. The Knights Revenant now see Arix as an outlier and a danger: to them she is unwelcome proof that despicable, disposable acolytes are not beyond seizing a power of their own. For her own part, Arix cares nothing for her former fellow-cultists. She rose to her current position through her iron will and skill, and any incapable of doing so themselves are not worthy of her assistance. Arix claimed immortality with sword and fist, and she will keep it the same way, whether her fellow Knights Revenant approve or not.
Conclusion
Arix's combination of durability, debuff management, and buff removal makes her an invaluable champion in RAID: Shadow Legends. Whether you're looking to dominate in PvP or require a reliable champion for PvE, Arix offers the tools necessary to succeed. With the right build and strategy, Arix is not just a survivor; she's a conqueror, ready to lead your team to victory.
