Players in RAID Shadow Legends (especially F2P) can actually guarantee themselves extra points in the Champion Chase events by preparing in advance.
This is done by preparing the necessary Rare champions in standard fusions and making the fusion only when the Champion Chase event appears.
This way you can get even thousands of points without spending a single shard. Or, what happens more frequently, is a combination of this preparation and some shard opening allowing to hopefully get most of the event rewards including Legendary Books.
What are Standard Fusions?
Currently there are 3 fusions which are always available, these are:
- Broadmaw: this is the cheapest one since it only requires you to prepare 3 star champions, however, you have to wait until you pull these again when you pull your Void shards.
- Relickeeper: 4 out of 4 champions here are 100% free farm-able via the Campaign. The fusion is a little harder as it requires 4 stars prepared, but since it is always available to everyone it is very interesting.
- Rhazin Epics: always available until you decide to fuse Rhazin. 4 Epics are required to fuse Rhazin and there are cases where players don't get 1 or 2 Rares for even ~2 years. So you can keep fusing the ones you have as long as you wish. There is a Mission after the Arbiter that forces you to fuse Rhazin so until you decide to do this Mission this option is open to you (unlimited amount for Epics).
Is it a good idea to prepare multiple of these fusions?
Most people do not bother with this because it takes time and a lot of resources. The 4 star requirement Epics especially are highly inefficient use of resources.
Out of curiosity I setup a poll on Reddit to capture people's preferences (picture below) and from the 148 votes the vast majority (126) do not bother with this preparation and feed the champions as food.
So it will be your choice how you want to handle your own RAID Shadow Legends account - I just want to share with you that this possibility exists, but it does take effort to do it.
(For example: if you prepare 4 Epics then on the Champion Chase you can get 1000 extra points without pulling any shards)
Relickeeper - fully farmable
Another interesting point that user Cortavius2 made in the comments was that Relickeeper fusion may be more interesting because the player can farm freely 4 out of the 4 champions required. However, as I mentioned above, resource-wise this is highly inefficient but possible if someone wants to do it.
Requires: Level 40 Justiciar, Executioner, Templar, Sorceress
(Level 40 Justiciar = Level 30 Warmaiden, Diabolist, Spirithost, Heiress)
Sorceress = can get 100% free from Campaign 3 “Catacombs of Narbuk”
Spirithost = can get 100% free from Campaign 4 “Durham Forest”
Heiress = can get 100% free from Campaign 6 “Palace of Aravia”
Diabolist = can get 100% free from Campaign 12 “Brimstone Path”
Templar = can get 100% free from Campaign 8 “Valdemair Strait”
Warmaiden = can get 100% free from Campaign 9 “The Deadlands”
Executioner = can get 100% free from Campaign 11 “Hallowed Halls”
(thanks ayumilove)
Conclusion
- I believe very dedicated RAID players will do all of these fusions because this allows a 100% free way to get lots of nice rewards from the Champion Chase event without spending a single shard.
- However, not all players can sit and play many hours each day and nobody likes doing a boring task of preparing these fusions which is why I think that the majority does not bother.
