In the dynamic world of Raid: Shadow Legends, the continuous updates and buffs can significantly alter a champion's utility and effectiveness. A recent update has notably enhanced Minaya, a Legendary Support champion from the Banner Lords faction. This comprehensive guide explores the profound changes to Minaya's abilities and provides insights into effective builds and strategies post-buff.
Detailed Overview of Minaya's Enhanced Skills
The recent buff has revitalized Minaya, focusing on enhancing her healing and support abilities. Below are the specifics of her skills:
Graceful Guide
Attacks 1 enemy.
Places a 15% [Continuous Heal] buff on the ally with the lowest HP for 2 turns.
Level 2: Damage +5%
Level 3: Damage +5%
Level 4: Damage +5%
Level 5: Damage +5%
Damage Multiplier: 4.5 ATK
Mending Ways (Cooldown: 4 turns)
Attacks 1 enemy.
Heals this Champion and the ally with the lowest HP by 30% of this Champion’s MAX HP.
Has a 75% chance of placing a 100% [Heal Reduction] debuff and a [Leech] debuff on all enemies for 2 turns.
These debuffs cannot be resisted if Khoronar is on the same team.
Level 2: Damage +10%
Level 3: Damage +10%
Level 4: Damage +10%
Level 5: Buff/Debuff Chance +10%
Level 6: Buff/Debuff Chance +15%
Level 7: Cooldown -1
Damage Multiplier: 5.5 ATK
Beauty’s Allure (Cooldown: 6 turns)
Heals all allies by 40% of their MAX HP.
Places a [Block Debuffs] buff on all allies for 2 turns.
If a Champion is fully healed by this skill, also places a [Shield] buff on them for 2 turns equal to 25% of the Champion’s HP.
Level 2: Heal +10%
Level 3: Heal +10%
Level 4: Cooldown -1
Level 5: Cooldown -1
Lover’s Sacrifice (Passive, Cooldown: 6 turns)
Fills the Turn Meters of all allies by 20% and heals them by 20% of this Champion’s MAX HP when this Champion is killed.
Revives this Champion with 75% HP when killed if Khoronar is on the same team.
Level 2: Cooldown -1
Level 3: Cooldown -1
Aura
Increases Ally SPD in all Battles by 19%.
Gear Recommendations for Minaya
Stone Skin and Supersonic Sets
Combining the Stone Skin and Supersonic sets is highly advantageous for Minaya. The Stone Skin set is crucial for increasing her resistance, allowing her to resist debuffs effectively and maintain her role throughout battles. On the other hand, the Supersonic set boosts her speed, enabling frequent execution of her healing and debuffing duties.
Emphasis on Resistance and Speed
It is critical to equip Minaya with gear that enhances resistance and speed. High resistance helps her avoid detrimental debuffs, crucial for her sustained support in fights. Moreover, increased speed ensures she can administer heals and apply debuffs more frequently, providing continuous support to her team.
Accuracy Banner
Ensuring the effectiveness of Minaya’s debuffs, particularly the heal reduction and leech debuffs, is essential. An accuracy banner is recommended to achieve this, especially vital if Minaya is not paired with Khoronar, as her debuffs are guaranteed to hit only when accompanied by him
HP-Focused Build
Since Minaya’s healing output scales with her maximum HP, building her with a focus on high HP is crucial. This involves selecting gear such as HP percentage gauntlets, chest plates, and rings, all aimed at boosting her health pool to maximize her healing capabilities.
Alternative Gear Sets
Curing Set
The Curing set is a viable option for those aiming to enhance Minaya's healing effectiveness further. This set amplifies the healing effects of her skills, rendering her an even more potent healer.
Guardian Set
The Guardian set can also be considered to augment Minaya’s durability. By increasing her overall HP, this set ensures she can withstand prolonged combat phases, consistently supporting her team.
These gear recommendations are tailored to make Minaya a resilient and effective support champion, capable of reliably executing her skills to heal and protect her team. By strategically selecting the right gear, players can ensure that Minaya not only survives the most challenging battles but also plays a pivotal role in their team's success. This guide provides players with the necessary insights to utilize Minaya to her fullest potential in the dynamic battles of "Raid: Shadow Legends.
Mastery Recommendations for Minaya
Defense Tree
Tough Skin, Defiant: Tough Skin minimizes damage taken from enemy attacks, while Defiant boosts her resistance, key for her survivability.
Improved Parry, Rejuvenation: Improved Parry further reduces damage from hits, enhancing her durability. Rejuvenation boosts the healing Minaya receives, ensuring she remains an effective support throughout battles.
Resurgent, Wisdom of Battle: Resurgent offers a chance to reduce debuff durations, vital for maintaining her utility against control effects. Wisdom of Battle helps delay the impact of debuffs on her.
Delay Death, Retribution: Delay Death helps Minaya survive critical hits by reducing incoming damage when her health is low. Retribution provides a chance to counterattack, potentially crucial for extra healing via her A1 ability.
Support Tree
Steadfast, Pinpoint Accuracy: Steadfast increases Max HP, critical for her survivability and effectiveness in healing. Pinpoint Accuracy enhances the accuracy of her debuffs.
Charged Focus, Exalt in Death: Charged Focus boosts her accuracy on the first turn, allowing reliable early battle debuff application. Exalt in Death offers additional healing when allies are defeated, aiding her team in critical moments.
Swarm Smiter, Arcane Celerity: Swarm Smiter enhances damage against debuffed targets, synergizing well with her debuffing capabilities. Arcane Celerity increases her turn meter when debuffs are applied, speeding up her action turns.
Lore of Steel, Evil Eye: Lore of Steel amplifies the benefits of her gear sets, especially beneficial if equipped with multi-set gears like Speed or Life. Evil Eye reduces enemy turn meters on her first hit, providing a tactical advantage.
Lasting Gifts, Spirit Haste: Lasting Gifts potentially extends the duration of buffs she casts, enhancing the uptime of her heals and shields. Spirit Haste increases her speed as allies fall, which can boost her healing output and debuff application in prolonged fights.
Master Hexer, Sniper: Master Hexer prolongs the duration of debuffs she applies, crucial for her Heal Reduction and Leech effects. Sniper improves the likelihood of her debuffs landing on targets.
This mastery setup is designed to maximize Minaya's role as a healer and debuffer, ensuring she can perform optimally in her support role. By focusing on the Defense and Support trees, Minaya not only becomes more resilient but also more effective at sustaining her team, providing both healing and strategic advantages in battle. This guide equips players with the knowledge to utilize Minaya to her fullest potential, making her a valuable asset in their champion roster in Raid: Shadow Legends.
Optimal Blessings for Minaya
Intimidating Presence
This blessing is highly beneficial for Minaya, especially considering her role as a frontline healer and support. Intimidating Presence debuffs the attack of enemies whenever they land a critical hit on her. This reduction in enemy attack power can significantly boost the survivability of Minaya and her team during prolonged engagements
Emergency Heal
Given Minaya’s crucial role in maintaining her team’s health, Emergency Heal emerges as an excellent choice. This blessing activates an immediate heal when Minaya's or any team member's health falls below 25%, providing a vital safety net that can shift the dynamics of challenging battles in their favor.
Brimstone
Although not the top recommendation for Minaya, Brimstone holds potential under certain team configurations. This blessing causes all enemies to suffer a burn effect when the team scores a critical hit. For teams with a high critical rate, Brimstone can add a consistent layer of passive damage, complementing Minaya's support capabilities.
Temporal Chains
Temporal Chains is a strategic blessing that reduces enemy turn meters each time they are healed. Considering Minaya’s ability to apply a leech debuff, which heals allies based on the damage they deal, this blessing can effectively slow down enemy actions throughout the battle, providing tactical advantages to her team.
Minaya Lore
Fiercely independent, famously beautiful, and known for her kind heart and bountiful spirit, Minaya is the archetype of the perfect noblewoman according to the romantic ideals of Banner Lord chivalric epics. But as with any historical figure, various facts are selectively brought to the fore or gently omitted as the tale is told, and a person quite different from the real Minaya emerges from the patchwork of legend.
Most tellers of the tale introduce Minaya after describing the fall and Skinwalker curse of Khoronar, and his entrapment within his forsaken forest castle. She is hurt, exhausted, and vulnerable, having escaped an attempt on her life. Few storytellers care to elaborate on what led her to such a fate but some speculate that it was courtly politics, chauvinism, or oppressive traditions that set her to flight. Lords of Kaerok had vied fervently for her hand in marriage, not for the sake of love but for power and influence – and to capture a prize desired by all. But she wished to be guided by love, not politics, and held at bay the countless suitors who came to her with guileful and grasping hearts. Her refusal to compromise turned her admirers’ affections to jilted bitterness and for some, to burning hatred. A certain wicked baron dispatched assassins to end her, and Minaya was driven in desperation into Khoronar’s demesne. Thwarted and enraged, the baron seized her lands, using her prolonged absence as pretext. Despite Minaya’s story being their ideal of romantic love, the lords still pursue loveless political marriages to this day.
In Khoronar’s castle the Skinwalker nurses her back to health, but does not permit her to leave. The lonely and tormented Khoronar, desperate for any Human contact, had the good fortune of coming across a person of exceptional empathy, kindness, and courage both moral and physical. She was not afraid of his monstrous form, and she endured confinement at his hands because she knew what it felt like to live in fear of murderous pursuit.
Neither Minaya nor Khoronar wanted either of their respective enemies to endanger the other. In their isolation together they found amity and, sure enough, love, for Khoronar the Skinwalker was much changed in temperament from Khoronar as he was as a heartless Human lord. Minaya pitied him and saw the goodness within him, which bloomed with every passing day they spent together.
But when he became aware of their deepening bond, Khoronar drove Minaya away in fury. He was not yet ready to be redeemed and forgive himself. When she tried to make her way back to her lands and her people, where her duties beckoned, she was attacked again by the baron’s assassins. Later seeing sense, Khoronar rushed to find Minaya and make amends, arriving in time to save her from the ambush. He was gravely wounded, so they retreated to his castle once more, and it was then that they finally confessed their love for each other.
Minaya would have stayed with her love in exile were it not for her loyalty to her subjects. Once Khoronar was healed, Minaya left to attend to her homeland and duties. There she discovered the baron who had tried to kill her had usurped her title, and began a quest to gather support and retake her seat. Khoronar, distraught at her long absence, had a vision of her death in battle. He raced to her ancestral keep and arrived just as Minaya and her loyalists were assaulting the court room she had once called her own. Khoronar was ripping apart the baron’s elite troops when the man fired his crossbow upon him, and Minaya dove into the path of its enchanted bolt, slain by it in Khoronar’s place. The eternal waltz that had weaved back and forth through the lives of Khoronar and Minaya had reached a bloody crescendo.
Every tale tells that this was not Minaya’s end. When Khoronar had slain the evil baron and all his men and finally paused to weep, the Arbiter appeared before him once more, and revived Minaya. The official texts of the Banner Lords say that the Arbiter also restored Khoronar to Human form, and that the two lovers lived happily ever after. Others claim both Minaya and Khoronar live on in Shards, and their tale continues beyond its fabled end.
Gameplay Strategy and Team Synergy
Minaya’s upgraded skills enhance her synergy with Coronar, making them a formidable pair in battle. The unresistable nature of her debuffs when paired with Coronar provides a strategic advantage in complex encounters, affirming her revitalized role in teams.
Conclusion
The buff to Minaya marks her transformation within Raid: Shadow Legends from an underwhelming support character to a crucial team member capable of significant impact in various gameplay scenarios. This guide provides a roadmap for players to utilize Minaya effectively, encouraging them to re-evaluate her role in their strategies and enjoy the newfound potential she brings to their champion roster.
