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April has brought another big batch of champions into <a href="https://www.raidshadowlegends.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Raid: Shadow Legends</a>, and this wave feels anything but filler. Between Sabrael the Distant looking like a top-end Arena terror, Mavara the Web Diviner entering as one of the stronger recent revive supports, and the new Argonite legendaries all landing with clear identities, this release leans heavily toward utility, disruption, and modern kit design.

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A lot of these kits also continue the trend that players have been noticing for a while now: newer champions are arriving with more layered passives, more skill compression, and far less wasted space in their kits. In plain English, yes, this batch absolutely feeds the power creep conversation. Some of these champions look merely strong, while others look like they were built to force their way into serious PvP, Hydra, or progression teams immediately.

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Sabrael the Distant 

Sabrael is the clear headline champion of the patch. Her base form is built like a ruthless control specialist for high-end PvP, while her alternate form flips into an executioner that punishes defensive mechanics and cooldown-locked enemies.

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In her base form, the biggest standout is how much she does in one turn cycle. She brings a 33% Speed Aura in Arena, a disruptive A1 that can place Sleep and trigger automatically when enemies gain Turn Meter, a buff-strip-and-buff-spread AoE, and an AoE that increases enemy skill cooldowns to the maximum while also dropping Turn Meter and granting an extra turn. That already puts her in the conversation for top-tier Arena openers.

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Then the passive pushes things even further. Sabrael takes no damage when attacked outside an enemy’s active turn, which makes her especially nasty into counterattacks, ally attacks, and similar reactive pressure. On top of that, her team damage ramps based on how many enemy skills she has locked out, which means her control is not just defensive. It actively turns into offense.

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Her alternate form looks just as ugly for opponents. She gains a triple-hit A1 that ignores Block Damage and Unkillable and can fire automatically when those mechanics appear. Her AoE attack can swap HP with a target before hitting, which should give her real damage potential against high-HP enemies, and another AoE attack chips away at Stone Skin, shields, and Magma Shield while ignoring part of the target’s Defense.

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The verdict is simple: Sabrael looks like one of the strongest new Arena champions in the game. She has speed, control, buff manipulation, cooldown pressure, built-in anti-cheat-death tools, and a passive that makes her even more annoying to answer. This is the kind of champion that makes older PvP rosters feel dated in a hurry.

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Best early use: Classic Arena, Live Arena, wave-heavy control setups, Siege offense, and anywhere turn denial matters more than raw damage.

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Build direction: Speed, Accuracy, and survivability in base form, with enough offensive pressure to let the alternate form cash in. She looks like a champion who can justify premium Arena gear immediately.

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Costeau Two-Skin 

Costeau Two-Skin looks like a poison specialist with enough built-in activation and spread mechanics to matter well beyond beginner dungeon play. He is not just dropping poisons and calling it a day. His kit is stitched together to keep poison damage rolling efficiently.

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His A1 can extend enemy debuffs and, when that fails, activate poison debuffs on the target instead. His second skill lays down Poison Sensitivity plus poisons, then spreads those effects to the rest of the enemy team. His AoE brings Decrease ATK, boosts his own Turn Meter depending on how many targets are affected, and instantly activates poisons on all enemies.

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That is a very clean poison damage loop. Apply, spread, accelerate, activate. Add in immunity to Poison, Stun, and Decrease SPD, plus a passive that ramps both damage dealt and Ignore DEF based on enemy debuffs, and he starts looking far more dangerous than a standard poisoner.

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Costeau should be very interesting for Dragon, longer PvE fights, and specialized poison teams. He looks like the kind of champion that can slot into established poison archetypes without feeling redundant.

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Build direction: Accuracy first, then Speed and enough survivability to stay in rotation. Damage stats get better the more you trust the passive scaling and poison activations to do the heavy lifting.

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Mavara the Web Diviner 

Mavara is the fusion champion, and she looks strong enough that she should be taken seriously by a wide range of accounts. Her kit is not flashy in the same way Sabrael’s is, but it is packed with exactly the kind of support utility that keeps showing up in difficult content and long fights.

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She has excellent base speed for a support, a strong Arena speed aura, HP equalization to stabilize the team, and one of the more appealing revive skills added recently. That revive brings Perfect Veil and Unkillable, and it stays useful even when no ally is revived because the buffs still go out. That matters.

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Her passive is another reason she stands out. Every time the enemy team piles up enough buffs, Mavara can increase ally Turn Meter. Every time her own side piles up enough buffs, she heals the team. So she is not just a reviver. She is feeding momentum and sustain throughout the fight.

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That combination should make Mavara especially valuable in Arena, Siege, longer PvE fights, and controlled progression content. She looks like the kind of support champion who rewards good timing rather than brute force, and those champions usually age well.

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Build direction: Speed, HP, DEF, and Resistance depending on role. Accuracy is less urgent unless you want every bit of tempo value possible, so she can be built as a very durable support.

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Bayard the Broad 

Bayard the Broad looks like one of the more creative control-support legendaries in the batch. He combines buff stealing, debuff transfer, debuff spread, AoE Provoke, Pain Link, counterattack utility, and team healing tied to damage taken.

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The most interesting part of his design is how the skills feed into each other. His single-target skill can steal buffs, move debuffs off himself, and then spread those debuffs to the rest of the enemy team. His AoE then Provokes enemies and applies Pain Link, reflecting damage back while setting up counterattacks on himself and the ally with the highest Crit Damage.

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That already gives him annoying value in wave control, but the passive healing makes the package more complete. He also self-applies Increase DEF at the end of each turn, which is exactly what you want on a champion trying to stand in the middle of incoming pressure and turn it back on the enemy.

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Bayard looks like a disruptive progression and wave-content champion more than a pure endgame speed clear piece. He is not the cleanest kit in the release, but he might end up being one of the more annoying ones to fight and one of the more fun ones to build around.

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Build direction: DEF, HP, Speed, and Accuracy. He wants to stay alive, land his control, and keep feeding value through Pain Link, counterattacks, and sustain.

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Phemo the Shepherd 

Phemo the Shepherd looks like a proper defensive control champion. He has the kind of kit that can feel irritating in both wave content and PvP if his numbers are strong enough, because he does not just protect the team. He punishes enemies for trying to play normally.

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His A2 places Increase DEF and a shield on all allies, and those buffs become protected if there are dead allies. The real value comes from the passive interaction: when an ally is killed, Phemo can instantly fire that protection skill without putting it on cooldown. That gives teams a built-in recovery layer even after taking a loss.

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His main control move then brings a long single-target stun, a full Turn Meter drop, and conditional follow-up AoE stun plus more Turn Meter suppression. The passive scaling on successful stuns gives him growing DEF and HP, while allies under his shield become immune to stun debuffs.

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That is a strong package for wave control, sustained progression fights, and defensive utility teams. He may not be the flashiest champion in the patch, but there is plenty here that looks genuinely useful.

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Build direction: DEF, Accuracy, Speed, and HP. He looks like a champion who wants to cycle back into his control tools quickly while staying hard to remove.

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Nosin the Bronzebull 

Nosin the Bronzebull is probably the most wait-and-see champion in the release, but the framework is interesting. He is built around Provoke, Destroy Max HP, repeated Turn Meter gains, and punishing enemies who are forced to attack while controlled.

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His A1 destroys enemy max HP and boosts his own Turn Meter, with both effects getting stronger against Provoked targets. That is a simple but effective loop. His other single-target attack ignores Defense and Stone Skin under the right HP conditions, and can either chain into his Provoke skill on kill or heal allies if the target survives. That gives him a mix of pressure and utility rather than locking him into one role.

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The Provoke skill itself places the debuff on all enemies and gives him Counterattack, which is exactly what you would want on a champion whose A1 is doing so much work. The passive then cuts the damage of Provoked enemies and boosts ally damage against them. That is strong teamwide value if the debuff uptime is reliable.

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Nosin looks like a champion with real control-and-pressure upside, though how highly he ends up being rated will depend a lot on his damage numbers and how comfortably he can maintain his Provoke loop.

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Build direction: HP, Accuracy, Speed, and enough survivability to stay active through longer fights. He looks built for repeated rotations more than for one clean burst turn.

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Stonebound Thisbe 

Stonebound Thisbe is the fusion epic, and she looks far better than a throwaway epic tucked inside a fusion event. She brings an Accuracy aura, Decrease ATK and Turn Meter theft on her A1, AoE Hex plus Block Buffs on a three-turn cooldown, and a support skill that shortens ally debuffs, heals, and fills Turn Meter.

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That alone would already make her worth noticing, but the passive adds a damage amplification effect against enemies under debuffs she places. It is not flashy, but it is useful. This is the kind of champion that can quietly improve a team without demanding a mythical gear set to work.

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She looks especially attractive for Hydra, general support roles, and Argonite faction progression. AoE Hex and Block Buffs on one skill is already a good place to start. Add healing, some debuff management, and Turn Meter fill, and she becomes a very respectable epic right away.

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Build direction: Accuracy, Speed, and HP. She wants to land her utility consistently and keep cycling back into her support skill.

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The bigger takeaway from this April release 

The real story is not just that these champions look good. It is that very few of them look wasted. Sabrael feels like elite Arena pressure. Mavara feels like a genuinely strong fusion support. Costeau has a clear poison identity. Bayard and Phemo both bring layered disruption. Nosin has an interesting control engine. Stonebound Thisbe looks immediately usable as an epic.

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That is where the power creep conversation comes in. Modern champions are increasingly arriving with stronger passives, better internal synergy, and fewer dead turns than many older champions ever had. This patch fits that trend. Not every one of these champions will end up being broken, but the overall standard is clearly high.

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Conclusion 

If there is one champion who screams immediate impact, it is Sabrael the Distant. She looks like the kind of Arena champion that forces players to rethink their answers from day one. Right behind her, Mavara the Web Diviner looks like one of the better recent fusion supports, and Stonebound Thisbe could easily be one of the more useful fusion epics added in a while.

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The new Argonites also continue to give RAID’s newest faction a strong identity, which makes sense given Plarium’s recent anniversary push around the faction. Overall, this is a loaded April release. Whether you call it power creep or just stronger champion design, this batch clearly has teeth.

Sabrael the Distant leads this April RAID champion review, covering Mavara, Costeau, Bayard, Phemo, Nosin, and Stonebound Thisbe with early build and role analysis.

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RAID April Champions Review: Are These New Units Power Creep...

RAID April Champions Review: Are These New Units Power Creep?!

The latest Progressive Chance rotation in <a href="https://www.raidshadowlegends.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Raid: Shadow Legends</a> gives players two separate summon windows to think through, and this is one of those weeks where the banner matters a lot more than the hype. There are some genuinely elite names here, but there are also a few champions who look better on paper than they do for the average account in practice.

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For this roundup, the real question is not just who is strongest in a vacuum. It is who actually changes an account, who fills a rare role, and who is worth chasing in a Progressive Chance event that still does not change your base odds of pulling a Legendary or Void Legendary in the first place. If you are going in this week, you want to do it with a clear priority list.

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<h2>Best Overall Target: Glorious Pallas</h2> 

If we are ranking pure account value, Glorious Pallas is right at the top. She brings exactly the kind of support package that stays relevant almost everywhere: a full-team revive, a cleanse, Block Debuffs, strong defensive support, and excellent turn-cycling value. On top of that, she is one of the first champions to introduce Fervor, which gives allies extra damage while helping them take less in return.

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That alone would already make her a premium summon target, but the bigger point is reliability. Damage dealers come and go depending on the meta. High-end support champions with revive, protection, cleansing, and long-term PvE value do not. If your account is missing that kind of stabilizer, Pallas is the safest and strongest pull on the board this week.

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<h2>Best Arena Pickup: Lord Entertainer Fabian</h2> 

If your focus is Arena, then Lord Entertainer Fabian has a real case for the number one spot. He is one of the most oppressive control champions in the game thanks to his True Fear pressure, cooldown disruption, buff control, and the way his passive punishes enemies for trying to play through him. In PvP, that sort of control can decide fights before they really start.

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The catch is simple: Fabian is more specialized than Pallas. He is incredible if Arena is your priority or if your account is already developed enough to capitalize on top-end PvP control. But if you are looking for broader value across progression, bosses, and general account improvement, Pallas is still the easier recommendation.

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<h2>Strongest Void Consideration: Senna Amberheart</h2> 

On the Void side, Senna Amberheart is the standout. She is one of the best PvE support champions in the game, especially in long-form content where healing, revive utility, speed control, and sustained team cycling all matter. Chimera, Demon Lord Clan Boss, Grim Forest boss encounters, and a wide range of difficult PvE fights all suit her extremely well.

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That said, Void Shards are expensive, scarce, and usually the hardest currency to justify spending on a Progressive Chance event. So while Senna is absolutely a top-tier champion, whether she is “worth it” depends more on your shard economy than on her quality. She is worth targeting only if you are already prepared to chase a premium Void and you are comfortable with the risk.

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<h2>Very Good, But More Situational</h2> 

Prince Kymar is still one of the most valuable utility Legendaries in Raid thanks to his cooldown reset and speed-run potential. For fast dungeon farming and certain Arena setups, he remains a monster. The reason he is not at the very top this week is that his value is incredibly account-dependent. Some rosters need him desperately. Others already have their reset options or simply are not at the stage where his value is fully unlocked.

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Osgrun the Defiler is another strong option. He brings ally attack utility, cooldown pressure on enemies, buff removal, turn meter support, and good Arena relevance. He is a very real target if you want a champion who can slot into both PvP and PvE teams, but he is not quite as universally account-changing as the very top names.

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Kebaron the Underflame also deserves respect. He is one of the more exciting offensive options from the newer pool, with strong damage, HP Burn synergy, and good interaction around Deathbrand-style pressure. He looks excellent, and early opinions on him are high. Still, if you are choosing strictly between him and Glorious Pallas for account value, the support champion wins.

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<h2>Solid Champions, But Not the Headliners</h2> 

There are other useful names in this rotation, but they are harder to recommend as top-priority targets. Lady Noelle, Togron the Conjoined, Noldua the Gloaming, Arnorn the Shining, Thor Faehammer, Maria, and even Hegemon all have roles, and some of them are genuinely strong. The problem is that most players are not pulling this week for “good” or “fun.” They are pulling for account-defining value.

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That is why the list narrows fast. If you are trying to be efficient, this is not a week to spread your focus across too many names. Pick the one that solves the biggest problem on your account and leave the rest alone.

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<h2>Final Ranking for This Week</h2> 

Tier 1 – Best Value: Glorious Pallas, Lord Entertainer Fabian, Senna Amberheart 

Tier 2 – Excellent Depending on Account: Prince Kymar, Osgrun the Defiler, Kebaron the Underflame 

Tier 3 – Good, But Lower Priority for Most Players: Lady Noelle, Togron the Conjoined, Noldua the Gloaming, Arnorn the Shining, Thor Faehammer, Maria, Hegemon

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<h2>Conclusion</h2> 

If you want the blunt version, Glorious Pallas is the best all-around target, Lord Entertainer Fabian is the best Arena-first target, and Senna Amberheart is the premium Void prize if you are willing to spend those shards. Everybody else falls behind that first group unless your account has a very specific need.

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That is what makes this week pretty straightforward. There are good champions here, but only a few are truly worth planning around. In a Progressive Chance event, that distinction matters more than ever.

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Raid Shadow Legends summons ranked for April 7 and April 8, with the best targets from Glorious Pallas and Fabian to Senna, Prince Kymar, and more.

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