i love how many people are passionate about this! Please be aware this is my opinion and its worth thinking of others opinions too. Also Faction wars may lead newer players to keeping a few of my food calls and you will want to watch out for the Rhazin Fusion!
I really wish you would have done some prep work on this. I think this is very dangerous to new players that don't go in the comments and feed Rhazin rares. I like your content, but I actually think this is one of the worst videos that you have made for early game account and FTP players. I can't sit through this any longer with you calling Rhazin rares food. I hope no one in my clan watches this video.
Ben Montgomery you obviously did not pay attention to the video. He said twice, once at the beginning and once at the end, do not feed rares unless you have a copy saved.
@@benmontgomery545 I read your comment before I watched the video, after watching 1 minute your entire statement is completely disregarded. He states as clearly as possible to not feed your rares that are needed for fusions, and warns against feeding rares you don't already have a copy of. I don't know what more you wanted. If somebody from your clan watches this, ignores the warnings on the video, ignores the feeding fusion champion warning ingame, and still goes on to feed Rha-zin fusion rares, they need to look at themselves
HH, after a year of playing I am quitting the game to focus on work. I wanted to say thank you so much for everything you do for the players. You were one of the first YTs I found when starting out and your videos helped me progress thru out the entire game. You guys just don’t get enough credit for the work you put in. Keep rocking, stay safe and many blessings to your channel and family in your future endeavors.
When I first started the game, Heiress was not food. She has that RK snowball effect and she counters any time a ally is hit. So she is constantly firing arrows and is really fun in early campaign fights.
Fun fact: GRAPPLER is the ONLY defense based poisoner in the game, and is pretty good for maybe easy/normal clan boss if anyone didn’t choose Kael to start out with, and before yaga
Definitely feel like you underrated quite a few rares there. 2 personal favs are Judge from dark elves and Jailer from ogryn. Judge can hit surprisingly hard, his a2 fills his turn meter to 80% and ive gotten his a1 to hit for 90k in pretty meh gear. Had some cool debuffer synergy going on. Jailer just seems to have really good multipliers. Can easily steal defensive debuffs and then 1 shot someone with his a2. A3 just his really hard after taking buffs off. Clearly there are way better champs, but would be cool to see them rated as if epics and legs don't exist. Just my personal opinion though, love all your vids, thanks.
@@HellHades I'm sure you know, but just in case: Didn't mean to sound like I completely disagree with your ratings. You know a lot more about the game than I do. I think there are still some hidden gems in the rares and am merely trying to get them the love they deserve!
@@isdebbiefityet7183 Adding extra space to your vault and roster is possibly one of the best investments in gems and silver you can make, especially as FTP.
There are dozens of videos showing epic reviews from numerous content creators. Since there is nothing new going on with the game, the content creators are forced to rehash the same old stuff over and over.
Faction Wars and Free to Play accounts are a great way to appreciate some of these underrated rares. Remember that skills don't tell the whole story. Some of these guys who have crappy skills have monster multipliers. I wish Plarium put the multipliers in the game so we could evaluate those as part of our decision making.
@@evalzeyn9730 You have probably already figured it out, but each champion has an invisible factor, or "multiplayer", that is multiplied against their attack to determine how much damage they actually do. ayumilove.net has the multipliers for each champ datamined if you want to check.
18:29 Grinner always reminds me of the Mouth of Sauron or whatever the guy's name is who gets beheaded by Aragorn before the final battle in The Return of the King xD
Hilarious. “Harrier from One Direction..” lol. 100% agree with your assessments. For uninitiated, when HH says somewhat food, means the champion is probably good for up to early to mid game.
I know he didn't do "uncommon" but I would like to mention I have been running a tier 5 sniper with full life steal armor on and she can solo half way through brutal.
Yeah Sniper is a hidden goddess but I haven't been putting too much resources into her lately even on the account that I set aside a rank 5 Sniper because Sicia Flametongue the Legendary demon spawn getting her to rank 6 and fully ascended is a far higher priority. For my 1st account Sniper isn't a priority because I want either Armiger developed for block revive or Valerie for the shield and buff management or Galek because he's the mascot and I haven't bothered to 6 star him yet. So THAT is why Sniper isn't being focused right now because I have different priorities
One thing to keep in mind is that some rares have hidden value depending on who you team them with. For example, Skullsworn's value goes up dramatically if he's paired with Skull Lord Vargall (SLV has a passive that revives Skullsworn on every turn).
Love this ! I've kept a copy of every rare just in case. However, I'm feeding most of them. Much easier to use these to level up champs...less resources used and less time. Thanks Hades !
I'd say, there are a few rares that you marked as"food" unfairly. But that's mostly for early-mid game, or they need some really good setup. Like Judje for example: his A2 with his passive works similarly to Kantras' AOE, with much lower chance ofc.
Great Video, as always. From a newish player perspective it was of great help and not far from the assumptions I made myself. I just wanted to give a nod to Anointed specifically for early stage Arena. Since the main backfoot in the early-game is alsway the quality of gears, with Anointed you can build a double speed up team with High Kathun, Warmaiden and the Starter, where you can build the last two with just 140 spd and 70% / 55% Crit rate, focusing on Crit dmg and Accuracy for Warmaiden instead. Correct me if I'm wrong: High Kathun at 200 spd goes first and increases all the others by 15%; Anointed at 175 spd gets bumped at full TM, goes second and increases all the others by a 25%, as well as 30% crit rate; The last two get bumped too at full TM and 100% crit rate (all the starters have 15% additional crit rate on AoE attacks), you just have to give Warmaiden 1 pt of speed more than the starter to place the Decrease Def on. I'm using this comp and it kinda works.
Check hairess (from high elves) again. I think she is Not food. Specially A2 . In cb it removes every stun, and gives you 30% speed buff for whole team . I think that's useful for early/mid game atleast. Also great aura for dungeons and cool passive.
Heiress is ok if you dont have anything better to deal with the stun, attack champions are rarely worth it in clan boss though since you cant just stack attack / crit dmg and expect them to survive.
Let me clarify what i mean: she would only work in low clan boss difficulties but at those lvls you really shouldnt worry about the stun too much and just put in more dmg instead. Whichever way you look at it upgrading her to 60 is a huge waste of resources. anything below (40 OR 50) is fine since you can feed her later for real champs.
@@Erado1980 In early/mid game nobody goes for direct dmg ....so atk/crit rate/crit dmg is out of question here. She will do a support role , and for Survivability you see their base denfense. And I think she has very good base defense compared to lots of cb champs
@@Erado1980 You can use her at lvl 50 in dungeons also for the 16% speed aura and speed boost. If you are talking about 6* worthy then there will be very few everything else would be food .....which isn't what he said said in the video. I am just saying that she has batter kit than some of the champs HH said as decent/not food.
@@rahulparamanik2047 You initially suggested a warmaster bonus, which implies lvling her to 60, thats what i was replying to really. Aside from that everyone has a different roster of champs and early on you might find yourself in need of her skill, that kinda goes for alot of these "food" rares.
Couple points - Elhain - enough crit, all her attacks are 2 hitters including her A1, making her decently useful in fire knights early, and still has solid damage in to mid/late when built for it. She's actually done some work for me in cursed/stun sets. Warpriest - I have seen some absolutely brutal ones out there. Like - I think 'oh there team is this, that, a Warpriest and this, I can take it' - only for her to eat all the damage and start freezing people. May have been luck but between CA and a relentless set dude froze my whole team. Mystic Hands - Actually - he's excellent for Magic Keep till you get someone like Rhazin or against certain teams. Arcanist - actually works well with Ultimate Galek for spider, goes before him means he doesn't have to wait a turn, and you can get away with slightly lower C.Rate. Not quite straight to the bin, but not amazing unless paired with the right people. Theurgist - ma be small version but tosses out increase ATK and DEF for all, and a turn meter boost, albeit random anytime she uses her A1. Magus - A1 has 50% chance to stun booked, 100% chance AoE big poison, AoE hit that heals. Plus 16% boost for Arena especially early isn't bad. She can do some work.
This video is super useful! I have so many rares, and I'm so close to getting my Kiel to 6 stars. I'm at level 5 right now and I been debating on using some of them as food.
For those that don't have high end accounts.. Bloodbraid is one of the recommended champs for Spirit keep due to the 100% heal reduction debuff on her A3... for 2 turns with a 3 turn booked cooldown... And Honor Guard has a use in Magic keep if you don't have better..... it's all about where you are in the game... obviously HH has progressed way past where champs like this are useful... as for me.. I'm working on building her up for SK... this is why you need to see where you are in the game and evaluate... I don't agree with all his opinions on the rares, but researching what others think is very useful to see who you should be looking at to spend resources on or not. Definitely appreciate the review!
Steadfast marshall actually can work really well in early CB team if you make Him very slow to go right before CB , since he has aoe veil buff Elhain isin't food if you build her with Poison set , YES POISON SET , learned that from MURDERINC .Or you can build her as a nuker with full Cruel Set but that's for endgame. You should recheck on Grappler , he's great in Fire Knight if you don't have Fellhound Master Butcher actually really good if you build him with ton of hp and provoke or frenzy set.
Hi HH. Just an important not in Chevalier - i know he's not great but he is the only source of increased defence in the faction. This is great for faction wars - and becomes really strong if you have Minaya as it can activate her block debuffs.
Hello, if i remeber correctly, in your spider videos you called Acolyte (knight revenant) a very useful champ and now food. Anything changed about him?
Very nice vid! Just recently got back into Raid, and this is helping out alot. You've got a huge library of vids, but do you have one with just your S-tier rare heroes?
I wouldn’t say Grappler is food, he is decent for early game clan boss, weaken, poison and shield/reflect damage. Also good for fire knight, both hits are multiple and a reflect damage. He hits fairly hard too.
Thanks for another quality video HH. I wish Plarium put the same care and quality into their patches and features that you and other content creators put into their videos. I still like the game and will be playing for a while as I'm working through the mid game but it's very disheartening to see how little Plarium listens to/cares about their players. Whales and Minnows alike.
Guardian is actually pretty good in faction wars when you're facing several Valkyries. He places a block buffs debuff and it's hilarious to watch the Valkyries waste their ability while under block debuff.
I love preserver, she's perfectly balanced and is great at double tapping out anyone left after nuke. I dunno at all why I seem to be the only person who literally relies on her.
Preserver was one of my first rare heroes so I built her up. She's a beast in Arena allowing my 33k team to take on 38k teams since I can turn deny their nuke and snipe the kill. It's all free to play and bronze league, but I find it amazing. If I ever get a 2nd would be great for tag team arena I think.
Awesome. Got some extra food while cleaning out the vault. Also I would like to see a video on Renegade. I'm new to Raid but she seems ideal for a nuke party.
Around 23:00 you go over Crimson Slayer from the Knights Revenant faction, I have her in my fire knight team. She's my only heal reduction champ I have and her turn meter reduction is pretty nice :-) I consider her great for F2P like myself.
Is this list optimized for the newest version of RAID or do you have an update list? Are you going to make an addendum video for this or is there a document form list with the current champ roster that you can share? Thanks.
Dude Courtier is actually really really good! You did not go through his skills and I guess I'll tell you: his A1 has a chance place a freeze. His A2 hits 3 times and each hit can remove a buff. And his A3 attacks all enemies 2 times and places 30% decrease speed. He's not trash. Also Madman is a useful damage dealer and can be good for spider as well. And Master Butcher is also quite good with his passives. Chaplain is also a decent to good healer. There are others that I would call out but they're close to average. Anyway I'm shocked that you said Courtier is trash. (But then again you didn't even look at his skills)
what faction? Banner lords? Naaa he's trash. Your better off with Elhain, Dupe Kael, Tender Rel, shit like that...Not a garbage tier early game character.
@@TheRealDirtySkillz I was mainly talking about for Faction Wars I think. However alot changed since then and alot has been added since then as well. I ain't played Raid in months and I was free to play when I did play it so I had to rely on rares regardless. And the comment that you replied to is a little over a year old. And I don't remember what video that it's attached to. Anyway I don't really care about the trash talking of any champions anymore whether good, bad, or in between. Long story short: people can build what they want and how they want! Good or bad it's up to the player and everyone has opinions on any champs. Some people say trash others say amazing it depends on how you look at it. However they've so much since then that I don't even know about you may be right and he may be trash now. Also Elhain, Kael, and Tayrel and not Banner Lord they're Dark Elves and High Elves. But I no longer play the game so I wouldn't know lol! I hope you have better luck than I did! Have fun and take care!
I like this video but I really want to love it. Only thing is Painkeeper. Just wish you would have mentioned she can be used in place of 1 maneater for an unkillable clanboss team for people who only have 1 maneater. It takes some tuning for sure but will get you to 50 turns on clanboss.
If it wasn't for that dog gormask I wouldn't have been able to get through more than half of the game that I have I've had him since the beginning and I have him built up pretty high and his hits are extremely extremely extremely powerful He's taken down levels that are 300 or bigger he is pretty crazy strong I love him I am actually pretty shocked that nobody really talks about him
Myrmidon ain't food imo. Probably one of the best banner lord champs. Aoe decrease attack and brings ally protect. Not a bad fw option. And heals himself.
Yeah, I imagine some of these champions could be handy early game or in FW when options are limited. But early game players might gloss over them. I pulled a lot of decent champions early game, but didn't really understand how useful they could be in specific content.
Banner lords is weak faction so chavalier and myrmidon as a def champions are decent as a fw champs. Definitly they are usable up to lvl 50 and mid tier fw.
I Think what HH was saying if you’re FTP and/or Early to Early Mid-Game (Level 25-40) then A Lot of those were Viable options. It’s AFTER that they become almost useless and not worth your Resources. GL
Good video. The problem, however, is that outside of around 6-7 rares you won't actually waste the resources leveling them to 60. Which for the most part makes them useless. Bellower, Frozen Banshee, Kael, Warmaiden, ColdHeart, Apothecary, Reliquary Tender are about the only ones really worth it in the long run. Even these could be reduced to Apothecary/Coldheart as the only definite 60ies.
@Hell Hades - Your champion tier list (very helpful) is currently set so it cannot be downloaded. It's super helpful to download for use on our own PCs as can mark what ones we have, etc. Can you please switch the settings back to enable downloads?
Is Aothar better then Greavechill killer? I got on my CB team: Keal, Pain keeper, SkullCrusher, Frozen Banshie and Aothar. But dont know who to sub for who :D doing 5m to brutal CB. btw, playing just for 50 days now
I was also a bit shocked when he said she's food. She's my first and only 6 star so I have a lot of love for her. I can't get Kael to work as well as her.
I've found that Wretch is actually one of my best units. He's an extremely heavy hitter with debuffs/buffs on every move, and a passive for all battles. He's actually stronger than some of my legendaries!
Heiress; can be cleansed for cb and secondary speed buff to be used with apothecary for 100% uptime on speed and u can still have ur team speed tuned with slower speeds
Yeah, ive found Gator to be good in spiders to keep us free of poison. he doesnt do much else, but he is very good at erasing poison counters before someone more valuable like Aothar dies from poison damage.
@@JAYK47 They both do 2 buff steals, though mystic hand also puts up block buffs. MH also comes with a bit of base accuracy which helps a bit, especially if we're talking new people needing to rely on rares.
Word of advice to everyone if you're a low spender or FTP. Keep one copy of every rare in your vault. If you run out of space open up more in your vault. While many are technically "trash" and should go "in the bin" you might need them for future fusions. The Kantra fusion right now is a great example. Like 13 of the 16 rare champs are literally trash and I used 3 or 4 of the ones I don't have right now as food so now having to farm them again through these events and I so wish I hadn't done that. Keep 1 copy of rares and epics for fusions and then way in future, if you think nah I don't need to lookout for fusions anymore etc, then use some for food or whatever.
As usual of plarium he is horribly slow for a support..because he has a good utility kit... I exactly did the same as you... But, the damn anointed /mystic/ and that ogryn glass cannon with very low % to steal.... All are trash somehow. I got Pydema a week ago so trashed mystic and anointed that i rerolled... Kept anointed for fire knight blue (11?) just for his turn boost/ affinity.... For all mid players as myself within 5-4 star gear... Percentage based speed is key.. Now back to figuring how to get legendary books for lyssandra!!! $$
Stitched beast can be pivotal in faction wars to beat the demon at level 14, due to its turn meter control. I used a level 50, that was good enough, paired with gorgorab to revive him continuosly.Besides that is stitched beast the light version of Rhazin, could be handy in Spider's Den.
I think that gravechill is overlooked as one of the only champions in the game with both decrease defense and big poison. I am considering using her with vizier without ascending her for my unkillable comp.
Super useful vid for those of us looking to thin out list of rares. Check the list of rares to keep in the comments. Its earned a place on the whiteboard in front of the computer where i play. This helped me early game to figure who to focus on. And mid game who to keep for faction wars content. Thanks for the info. Wish you'd update this video to current game and factions. It's still really relevant for a bunch of us.
can u get start up champs later on in the game as a normla "drop" or do i have to start again if i want to have a other of those 4 ? bsp: i chose Elhain and i would like to play kael.
Diabolist is actually pretty good, I farmed like 10 of her and fully booked her. She has very high speed and HP for a rare, with a shield set and resilience she can be helpful
i love how many people are passionate about this! Please be aware this is my opinion and its worth thinking of others opinions too. Also Faction wars may lead newer players to keeping a few of my food calls and you will want to watch out for the Rhazin Fusion!
I really wish you would have done some prep work on this. I think this is very dangerous to new players that don't go in the comments and feed Rhazin rares. I like your content, but I actually think this is one of the worst videos that you have made for early game account and FTP players. I can't sit through this any longer with you calling Rhazin rares food. I hope no one in my clan watches this video.
Right when you said warpriest wouldn’t last too long or something like that my warpriest died
Ben Montgomery you obviously did not pay attention to the video. He said twice, once at the beginning and once at the end, do not feed rares unless you have a copy saved.
@@benmontgomery545 He said in the beginning to keep a copy of your rares. Actually went into the Fusion area to show it ?
@@benmontgomery545 I read your comment before I watched the video, after watching 1 minute your entire statement is completely disregarded. He states as clearly as possible to not feed your rares that are needed for fusions, and warns against feeding rares you don't already have a copy of. I don't know what more you wanted. If somebody from your clan watches this, ignores the warnings on the video, ignores the feeding fusion champion warning ingame, and still goes on to feed Rha-zin fusion rares, they need to look at themselves
Banner Lords 1:20
High Elves 2:22
Sacred Order 3:56
Barbarians 6:27
Ogryn Tribes 8:55
Lizardmen 10:36
Skinwalkers 12:24
Orcs 13:53
Demonspawn 15:37
Undead Hordes 17:32
Dark Elves 20:23
Knight Revenant 22:03
Dwarves 23:36
thank you, lad
Brother, these time stamps were so clutch. Thanks for taking the time.
Wtf. Wjen i clivk on read more on your comment it returns me to a min n sec in the video lol weird
I will never learn how to clip minutes like that...
I love you
HH's Not-Food Rares:
Banner Lords: Valerie
High Elves: Apothecary, Elhain, Reliquary Tender
Sacred Order: Athel, Templar, Mother Superior
Barbarians: Marked, Elder, Warmaiden, Anointed, Soulbond Bowyer, Ragemonger
Ogryn Tribes: Rocktooth, Ogryn Jailer, Siegebreaker, Flesheater, Stoneskin, Bellower
Lizardmen: Gator, Slitherbrute, Bogwalker, Skullsworn, Haruspex
Skinwalkers: Greybeard, Fleshmonger, Gnarlhorn, Channeler
Orcs: Deathchanter, Galek, Veteran
Demonspawn: Diabolist, Hound Spawn, Hellfang, Marquess, Marquis, Fellhound
Undead Hordes: Banshee, Frozen Banshee, Gravechill Killer, Sorceress, Grinner, Ghoulish Ranger, Doomscreech, Seducer, Stitched Beast
Dark Elves: Kael, Spirithost, Coldheart, Paragon, Eviscerator, Pain Keeper
Knight Revenant: Coffin Smasher, Gladiator, Crimson Slayer, Renegade
Dwarves: Runic Warder, Bulwark
wow, i’m surprised how many of these i actually got already
Thank you wise one
Yeah you seem like you know what your talking about more he’s just running through them ant even explaining them Right
You are awesome!
thank you very much good sir
HH, after a year of playing I am quitting the game to focus on work. I wanted to say thank you so much for everything you do for the players. You were one of the first YTs I found when starting out and your videos helped me progress thru out the entire game. You guys just don’t get enough credit for the work you put in. Keep rocking, stay safe and many blessings to your channel and family in your future endeavors.
Same here mate
thanks for the message mate, all the best!
U still play?
This should have taught you to multitask
The commentary on some of these champs made this a pleasure to watch. Gave me a good laugh in the midst of going through all of them.
When I first started the game, Heiress was not food. She has that RK snowball effect and she counters any time a ally is hit. So she is constantly firing arrows and is really fun in early campaign fights.
Fun fact: GRAPPLER is the ONLY defense based poisoner in the game, and is pretty good for maybe easy/normal clan boss if anyone didn’t choose Kael to start out with, and before yaga
Definitely feel like you underrated quite a few rares there. 2 personal favs are Judge from dark elves and Jailer from ogryn. Judge can hit surprisingly hard, his a2 fills his turn meter to 80% and ive gotten his a1 to hit for 90k in pretty meh gear. Had some cool debuffer synergy going on. Jailer just seems to have really good multipliers. Can easily steal defensive debuffs and then 1 shot someone with his a2. A3 just his really hard after taking buffs off. Clearly there are way better champs, but would be cool to see them rated as if epics and legs don't exist. Just my personal opinion though, love all your vids, thanks.
cool, good to see other opinions, i can only go by what i know
@@HellHades I'm sure you know, but just in case: Didn't mean to sound like I completely disagree with your ratings. You know a lot more about the game than I do.
I think there are still some hidden gems in the rares and am merely trying to get them the love they deserve!
Grappler not food either, he's better then most
Yh judge is good, has good damage , AOE and has multiple debuffs
Please please do an epic review as well. I'm mostly free to play and running out of space lol
As FtP the answer is simple. None of them are food. Duplicates can be used as books but every single one of them has some kind of use.
hes already one a epic review - a few weeks back
@@peterreime3146 thanks. A little more challenging when space is limited and you want to 6star your champions.
@@isdebbiefityet7183 Adding extra space to your vault and roster is possibly one of the best investments in gems and silver you can make, especially as FTP.
There are dozens of videos showing epic reviews from numerous content creators. Since there is nothing new going on with the game, the content creators are forced to rehash the same old stuff over and over.
HH: Gladiator. Food. Me: Gladiator. Fed. HH: Maybe he's good for FK. Me: Hemm..
Faction Wars and Free to Play accounts are a great way to appreciate some of these underrated rares. Remember that skills don't tell the whole story. Some of these guys who have crappy skills have monster multipliers. I wish Plarium put the multipliers in the game so we could evaluate those as part of our decision making.
What are multipliers? Im kind of new to raid.
@@evalzeyn9730 You have probably already figured it out, but each champion has an invisible factor, or "multiplayer", that is multiplied against their attack to determine how much damage they actually do. ayumilove.net has the multipliers for each champ datamined if you want to check.
Mystic Hand from Dark Elves is actually quite good for magic keep, having both steal buffs and block buffs
agree. one of the best for magic keep
I fooded him
@@vaughnathen1293 Same.
HellHades: Greybeard has an aoe freeze
Also HellHades: Hellfang is the only rare with an aoe freeze
I know right
😄
Lmao I laugh-cried hilarious
I remember you... In the mountains...
HH: Hexweaver
Me: Oh, she’s useless.
HH: Not bad...
Me: What!?
HH: ...If you like trash.
😂🤣😂🤣
Welp, time to sacrifice her to my conqueror then...
18:29 Grinner always reminds me of the Mouth of Sauron or whatever the guy's name is who gets beheaded by Aragorn before the final battle in The Return of the King xD
lmaiiiiiiiii
That's how I feel about a lot of the knight's revenant
Hilarious. “Harrier from One Direction..” lol. 100% agree with your assessments. For uninitiated, when HH says somewhat food, means the champion is probably good for up to early to mid game.
When I hear "food," I hear
RAID: Cannibal Legends
"From the boyband One Direction" - that had me cracking up.
arcanist is a very decent character. great healer and buffer in the rare category.
I know he didn't do "uncommon" but I would like to mention I have been running a tier 5 sniper with full life steal armor on and she can solo half way through brutal.
Yeah Sniper is a hidden goddess but I haven't been putting too much resources into her lately even on the account that I set aside a rank 5 Sniper because Sicia Flametongue the Legendary demon spawn getting her to rank 6 and fully ascended is a far higher priority.
For my 1st account Sniper isn't a priority because I want either Armiger developed for block revive or Valerie for the shield and buff management or Galek because he's the mascot and I haven't bothered to 6 star him yet.
So THAT is why Sniper isn't being focused right now because I have different priorities
I think the #1 thing plarium should take care of is champion balance
One thing to keep in mind is that some rares have hidden value depending on who you team them with. For example, Skullsworn's value goes up dramatically if he's paired with Skull Lord Vargall (SLV has a passive that revives Skullsworn on every turn).
Thank You HellHades, I will often rewatch this vid in the future :p
"Mystic hand, trash"
* *laughs in Magic Keep* *
The Beginning Of Knowledge Mystic Hand helped me get all the way to Level 15 Magic Keep even at level 40.
Exactly. I have a lvl 40 Mystic Hands that's key for MK 15. Makes it so easy.
My thoughts as well... 3rd round against Magic Keep... Block Buffs on his first turn, steal the shield on his second if that doesn't work.
For me too but I invested too much resources into him, early mistakes. He def did help in Magic Keep though.
I am still using Mystic Hand just because I fully booked him using dupes. Still amusing when he steals the shield and it cover his entire HP bar.
I only need a Penitent to fuse Rhazin.
Thing is, I had her and I used her as food. I'm crying in my milk indeed.
Over six months waiting on spikehead for rhazin cause I fed him very early.
happened to me too! lol took me months to get her again!
I’ve fed several Halberdiers and Slitherbrutes and now that I’m going for Rhazin I’ve been trying to get them for weeks!
I know, I did the same thing but with spikehead! Been trying over a month now to pull one. Hes all I need. Everyone else is ready!
Love this ! I've kept a copy of every rare just in case. However, I'm feeding most of them. Much easier to use these to level up champs...less resources used and less time. Thanks Hades !
I'd say, there are a few rares that you marked as"food" unfairly. But that's mostly for early-mid game, or they need some really good setup. Like Judje for example: his A2 with his passive works similarly to Kantras' AOE, with much lower chance ofc.
Hades this was brilliant, could you do a Blind Seer review next. There is no content on her and its my only legendary lol
My only Legendary too
Bloodbraid was my only block heals champion for a long time and due to that was extremely useful.
Great Video, as always.
From a newish player perspective it was of great help and not far from the assumptions I made myself.
I just wanted to give a nod to Anointed specifically for early stage Arena.
Since the main backfoot in the early-game is alsway the quality of gears, with Anointed you can build a double speed up team with High Kathun, Warmaiden and the Starter, where you can build the last two with just 140 spd and 70% / 55% Crit rate, focusing on Crit dmg and Accuracy for Warmaiden instead.
Correct me if I'm wrong:
High Kathun at 200 spd goes first and increases all the others by 15%;
Anointed at 175 spd gets bumped at full TM, goes second and increases all the others by a 25%, as well as 30% crit rate;
The last two get bumped too at full TM and 100% crit rate (all the starters have 15% additional crit rate on AoE attacks), you just have to give Warmaiden 1 pt of speed more than the starter to place the Decrease Def on.
I'm using this comp and it kinda works.
Nice comp. Which Arena tier are you in?
@@samcoates8944 I'm struggling to get to Silver
Check hairess (from high elves) again. I think she is Not food. Specially A2 . In cb it removes every stun, and gives you 30% speed buff for whole team . I think that's useful for early/mid game atleast. Also great aura for dungeons and cool passive.
Heiress is ok if you dont have anything better to deal with the stun, attack champions are rarely worth it in clan boss though since you cant just stack attack / crit dmg and expect them to survive.
Let me clarify what i mean: she would only work in low clan boss difficulties but at those lvls you really shouldnt worry about the stun too much and just put in more dmg instead. Whichever way you look at it upgrading her to 60 is a huge waste of resources. anything below (40 OR 50) is fine since you can feed her later for real champs.
@@Erado1980 In early/mid game nobody goes for direct dmg ....so atk/crit rate/crit dmg is out of question here. She will do a support role , and for Survivability you see their base denfense. And I think she has very good base defense compared to lots of cb champs
@@Erado1980 You can use her at lvl 50 in dungeons also for the 16% speed aura and speed boost. If you are talking about 6* worthy then there will be very few everything else would be food .....which isn't what he said said in the video. I am just saying that she has batter kit than some of the champs HH said as decent/not food.
@@rahulparamanik2047 You initially suggested a warmaster bonus, which implies lvling her to 60, thats what i was replying to really. Aside from that everyone has a different roster of champs and early on you might find yourself in need of her skill, that kinda goes for alot of these "food" rares.
Couple points -
Elhain - enough crit, all her attacks are 2 hitters including her A1, making her decently useful in fire knights early, and still has solid damage in to mid/late when built for it. She's actually done some work for me in cursed/stun sets.
Warpriest - I have seen some absolutely brutal ones out there. Like - I think 'oh there team is this, that, a Warpriest and this, I can take it' - only for her to eat all the damage and start freezing people. May have been luck but between CA and a relentless set dude froze my whole team.
Mystic Hands - Actually - he's excellent for Magic Keep till you get someone like Rhazin or against certain teams.
Arcanist - actually works well with Ultimate Galek for spider, goes before him means he doesn't have to wait a turn, and you can get away with slightly lower C.Rate. Not quite straight to the bin, but not amazing unless paired with the right people.
Theurgist - ma be small version but tosses out increase ATK and DEF for all, and a turn meter boost, albeit random anytime she uses her A1.
Magus - A1 has 50% chance to stun booked, 100% chance AoE big poison, AoE hit that heals. Plus 16% boost for Arena especially early isn't bad. She can do some work.
Yeah I'm kind of sad that I pulled good knight revenant epics. Wanted to play with magus in fw
Really wish I would have seen this video sooner!!! Great job!
Agreed on 99%. I've had good luck with Acolyte in a few dungeons, good utilities in his kit. That Magus chick has aoe poison which works well.
This video is super useful! I have so many rares, and I'm so close to getting my Kiel to 6 stars. I'm at level 5 right now and I been debating on using some of them as food.
For those that don't have high end accounts.. Bloodbraid is one of the recommended champs for Spirit keep due to the 100% heal reduction debuff on her A3... for 2 turns with a 3 turn booked cooldown... And Honor Guard has a use in Magic keep if you don't have better..... it's all about where you are in the game... obviously HH has progressed way past where champs like this are useful... as for me.. I'm working on building her up for SK... this is why you need to see where you are in the game and evaluate... I don't agree with all his opinions on the rares, but researching what others think is very useful to see who you should be looking at to spend resources on or not. Definitely appreciate the review!
Thank you so much! Thank you Hell Hades! Much appreciated!
I can't believe I've actually sacrificed two or more Anointeds, yet I leveled up Heiress.
Steadfast marshall actually can work really well in early CB team if you make Him very slow to go right before CB , since he has aoe veil buff
Elhain isin't food if you build her with Poison set , YES POISON SET , learned that from MURDERINC .Or you can build her as a nuker with full Cruel Set but that's for endgame.
You should recheck on Grappler , he's great in Fire Knight if you don't have Fellhound
Master Butcher actually really good if you build him with ton of hp and provoke or frenzy set.
Grappler can get you to fk 18 or 19, but I don't think he's worth a 6 star.
Edit: certainly a good early game option though
Hi HH. Just an important not in Chevalier - i know he's not great but he is the only source of increased defence in the faction. This is great for faction wars - and becomes really strong if you have Minaya as it can activate her block debuffs.
Hello, if i remeber correctly, in your spider videos you called Acolyte (knight revenant) a very useful champ and now food. Anything changed about him?
Hell Hades inspires me to visit England one day. Just seems nice, so pleasant lol "slick back that hair avenger" haha
Very nice vid! Just recently got back into Raid, and this is helping out alot. You've got a huge library of vids, but do you have one with just your S-tier rare heroes?
Thank you so much needee this video bad I have 120 rares just sitting in vault and I'm a fairly new player very much appreciated
I wouldn’t say Grappler is food, he is decent for early game clan boss, weaken, poison and shield/reflect damage. Also good for fire knight, both hits are multiple and a reflect damage. He hits fairly hard too.
Thanks for another quality video HH. I wish Plarium put the same care and quality into their patches and features that you and other content creators put into their videos. I still like the game and will be playing for a while as I'm working through the mid game but it's very disheartening to see how little Plarium listens to/cares about their players. Whales and Minnows alike.
Guardian is actually pretty good in faction wars when you're facing several Valkyries. He places a block buffs debuff and it's hilarious to watch the Valkyries waste their ability while under block debuff.
You should make a 2022 version of this vid, it would be EXTREMELY helpful.
I love preserver, she's perfectly balanced and is great at double tapping out anyone left after nuke. I dunno at all why I seem to be the only person who literally relies on her.
Preserver was one of my first rare heroes so I built her up. She's a beast in Arena allowing my 33k team to take on 38k teams since I can turn deny their nuke and snipe the kill. It's all free to play and bronze league, but I find it amazing. If I ever get a 2nd would be great for tag team arena I think.
Who the hell is she? Xd
@@integralinsanity1641 😂 she's a rare, easy to see her but most people eat her.
6:08 Justiciar is food but not any type of food. Remember to keep him in order to fuse relic keeper for the arbiter mission.
Awesome. Got some extra food while cleaning out the vault. Also I would like to see a video on Renegade. I'm new to Raid but she seems ideal for a nuke party.
Hahaha I’m literally laughing out loud at you Bloodbraid description 😂
Great video man!!!! you earned my like!!
Around 23:00 you go over Crimson Slayer from the Knights Revenant faction, I have her in my fire knight team. She's my only heal reduction champ I have and her turn meter reduction is pretty nice :-) I consider her great for F2P like myself.
Chevailer is actully pretty good IMHO. I had him in retaliate gear and he did serious work on FK, would occaionally take down the shield in one go
Chavelier !!!! ;) i love him
Is this list optimized for the newest version of RAID or do you have an update list? Are you going to make an addendum video for this or is there a document form list with the current champ roster that you can share?
Thanks.
So is healing like not a thing in this game? :P bc one of the only decent rare healers was “trash”
Great video! Good info! Made me laugh quite a few times!👍
Dude Courtier is actually really really good! You did not go through his skills and I guess I'll tell you: his A1 has a chance place a freeze. His A2 hits 3 times and each hit can remove a buff. And his A3 attacks all enemies 2 times and places 30% decrease speed. He's not trash. Also Madman is a useful damage dealer and can be good for spider as well. And Master Butcher is also quite good with his passives. Chaplain is also a decent to good healer. There are others that I would call out but they're close to average. Anyway I'm shocked that you said Courtier is trash. (But then again you didn't even look at his skills)
what faction? Banner lords? Naaa he's trash. Your better off with Elhain, Dupe Kael, Tender Rel, shit like that...Not a garbage tier early game character.
@@TheRealDirtySkillz I was mainly talking about for Faction Wars I think. However alot changed since then and alot has been added since then as well. I ain't played Raid in months and I was free to play when I did play it so I had to rely on rares regardless. And the comment that you replied to is a little over a year old. And I don't remember what video that it's attached to. Anyway I don't really care about the trash talking of any champions anymore whether good, bad, or in between. Long story short: people can build what they want and how they want! Good or bad it's up to the player and everyone has opinions on any champs. Some people say trash others say amazing it depends on how you look at it. However they've so much since then that I don't even know about you may be right and he may be trash now. Also Elhain, Kael, and Tayrel and not Banner Lord they're Dark Elves and High Elves. But I no longer play the game so I wouldn't know lol! I hope you have better luck than I did! Have fun and take care!
I like this video but I really want to love it. Only thing is Painkeeper. Just wish you would have mentioned she can be used in place of 1 maneater for an unkillable clanboss team for people who only have 1 maneater. It takes some tuning for sure but will get you to 50 turns on clanboss.
If it wasn't for that dog gormask I wouldn't have been able to get through more than half of the game that I have I've had him since the beginning and I have him built up pretty high and his hits are extremely extremely extremely powerful He's taken down levels that are 300 or bigger he is pretty crazy strong I love him I am actually pretty shocked that nobody really talks about him
Myrmidon ain't food imo. Probably one of the best banner lord champs. Aoe decrease attack and brings ally protect. Not a bad fw option.
And heals himself.
Yeah, I imagine some of these champions could be handy early game or in FW when options are limited. But early game players might gloss over them. I pulled a lot of decent champions early game, but didn't really understand how useful they could be in specific content.
Banner lords is weak faction so chavalier and myrmidon as a def champions are decent as a fw champs. Definitly they are usable up to lvl 50 and mid tier fw.
Is saving a copy of rares still relevant? I haven't yet seen a fusion that needed any (apart from Rhazin)?
I Think what HH was saying if you’re FTP and/or Early to Early Mid-Game (Level 25-40) then A Lot of those were Viable options. It’s AFTER that they become almost useless and not worth your Resources. GL
Good video.
The problem, however, is that outside of around 6-7 rares you won't actually waste the resources leveling them to 60. Which for the most part makes them useless.
Bellower, Frozen Banshee, Kael, Warmaiden, ColdHeart, Apothecary, Reliquary Tender are about the only ones really worth it in the long run. Even these could be reduced to Apothecary/Coldheart as the only definite 60ies.
Hexweaver actually okey for FW with aoe heal and aoe speed and c.rate increase.
Shes good paired with spirit host
Yo Hades, with the factions wars becoming more relevant would you say keeping one of every rare is more worth it now?
@Hell Hades - Your champion tier list (very helpful) is currently set so it cannot be downloaded. It's super helpful to download for use on our own PCs as can mark what ones we have, etc. Can you please switch the settings back to enable downloads?
My Elhain cried a little when you said she was the worst of the starter champions. Then she 1 shotted some Kaels and Galeks :)
Is Aothar better then Greavechill killer? I got on my CB team: Keal, Pain keeper, SkullCrusher, Frozen Banshie and Aothar. But dont know who to sub for who :D doing 5m to brutal CB.
btw, playing just for 50 days now
I would have said elhain is second best to kael, her aoes are both nukes. And her a1 is very solid damage.
Elhain is the 2nd best for early/mid game as she is useful everywhere. Athel and Galek are stronger than her late game but not as flexible.
I was also a bit shocked when he said she's food. She's my first and only 6 star so I have a lot of love for her. I can't get Kael to work as well as her.
@@isdebbiefityet7183 elhain is also my only 6 stared champ I'm trying to make my good champions 6 star, but it takes so long 😭
Hi HH, they indicate which champions can be used in fusions. That can be very useful.
I've found that Wretch is actually one of my best units. He's an extremely heavy hitter with debuffs/buffs on every move, and a passive for all battles. He's actually stronger than some of my legendaries!
Heiress; can be cleansed for cb and secondary speed buff to be used with apothecary for 100% uptime on speed and u can still have ur team speed tuned with slower speeds
Definitely needed to see this video. I do have to disagree with acolyte... He has rare AOE cleanse
i pulled paragon out of my very first void shard, super happy bout that! :)
Yeah, ive found Gator to be good in spiders to keep us free of poison. he doesnt do much else, but he is very good at erasing poison counters before someone more valuable like Aothar dies from poison damage.
Man, I was about to look for information on which rares can I put into the oven. Hell Hades to the rescue.
"I think we got ourselves another snack" lmao im dead...
Came for the thumbnail. Stayed for the funny champ commentary
mystic hand is arguably the best rare for magic keep.
Yep. I'm surprised he looked at his kit and did him like that XD
Does anyone notice magus?
She seems better than Kael even
Yup. He got me through Magic Keep for a long time.
Annointed > Mystic hand + can use Annointed for Fire Knight also !
@@JAYK47 They both do 2 buff steals, though mystic hand also puts up block buffs. MH also comes with a bit of base accuracy which helps a bit, especially if we're talking new people needing to rely on rares.
Word of advice to everyone if you're a low spender or FTP. Keep one copy of every rare in your vault. If you run out of space open up more in your vault. While many are technically "trash" and should go "in the bin" you might need them for future fusions. The Kantra fusion right now is a great example. Like 13 of the 16 rare champs are literally trash and I used 3 or 4 of the ones I don't have right now as food so now having to farm them again through these events and I so wish I hadn't done that. Keep 1 copy of rares and epics for fusions and then way in future, if you think nah I don't need to lookout for fusions anymore etc, then use some for food or whatever.
Mystic hand carried me in magic keep till I got Peydma. He's not bad, actually
As usual of plarium he is horribly slow for a support..because he has a good utility kit... I exactly did the same as you... But, the damn anointed /mystic/ and that ogryn glass cannon with very low % to steal.... All are trash somehow. I got Pydema a week ago so trashed mystic and anointed that i rerolled... Kept anointed for fire knight blue (11?) just for his turn boost/ affinity.... For all mid players as myself within 5-4 star gear... Percentage based speed is key..
Now back to figuring how to get legendary books for lyssandra!!! $$
Ash: metal shaper is top tier rare support beautiful shield for a rare
Hell hades: Trash not good enough for food
Metalshaper is the only healer in Lizardmen (not including continuous heal buffs)
Haurspex has revive good enough healing for me
@@gregsmanly2602 revive and heal are 2 different things
Think you'd ever do a quick update video on this with tbe gwo newer factions and any buffs certain rares had/more utility in newer content?
Stitched beast can be pivotal in faction wars to beat the demon at level 14, due to its turn meter control. I used a level 50, that was good enough, paired with gorgorab to revive him continuosly.Besides that is stitched beast the light version of Rhazin, could be handy in Spider's Den.
Hey HH? I love this list did you do an EPIC version of this list?
such a helpful video man, respect
great video is there an updated version? 2023?
I think that gravechill is overlooked as one of the only champions in the game with both decrease defense and big poison. I am considering using her with vizier without ascending her for my unkillable comp.
Super useful vid for those of us looking to thin out list of rares. Check the list of rares to keep in the comments. Its earned a place on the whiteboard in front of the computer where i play. This helped me early game to figure who to focus on. And mid game who to keep for faction wars content. Thanks for the info.
Wish you'd update this video to current game and factions. It's still really relevant for a bunch of us.
Would you use both Coffin Smasher and Bulwark on the same Clan Boss team, or no because you don’t need two HP Burn? If no, which would you rather use?
Thank you for this, it's very helpful
"Graybeard has an AOE freeze! ...... Hellfang, very cool! ONLY rare with AOE freeze." lol I giggled XD
do you have an updated version of this video? i all most let some of these go lol glad i did not, but i know their lot new ones to now
Thought about that a Minute ago, thanks NSA!
can u get start up champs later on in the game as a normla "drop" or do i have to start again if i want to have a other of those 4 ? bsp: i chose Elhain and i would like to play kael.
You can. You can get a second Elhaine, too.
Really appreciate the video and save it for future
Diabolist is actually pretty good, I farmed like 10 of her and fully booked her. She has very high speed and HP for a rare, with a shield set and resilience she can be helpful
Should I use lord shazar or skullcrown for my arena team. I'm in silver 1 btw.