RAID: Shadow Legends

Valkanen Guide

• Legendary
• Void
• Attack
• Undead Hordes

Valkanen is a Void Legendary Attack champion built around Hex, deliberate ally sacrifice, death-triggered shielding, and a conditional secret execution skill. Hex of Blades places Hex before striking every enemy with individually classified single-target damage and scales its damage separately from each target's debuff count. Dread Scythe extends debuffs and can spread two eligible debuffs from one target to enemies under Hex. Death's Bargain can kill a living ally to unlock Malice Unleashed while placing unresistible, unblockable Weaken and True Fear across the enemy team and accelerating Val

Best used in: Arena Offense · Hydra · Faction Wars · Campaign · Doom Tower Floors · Dragon

Skills

• Dread Scythe — Attacks 1 enemy and ignores Shield buffs. Has a 60% chance to increase the duration of all debuffs on the target by 1 turn. Also has an 80% chance to apply a Debuff Spread effect, taking 2 random debuffs from the target and placing them on all enemies under Hex.
• Hex of Blades · CD 4→3 — Attacks all enemies, but each target's damage is treated as single-target damage rather than AoE damage. Before attacking, has an 80% chance to place Hex on all enemies for 2 turns. For this Hex placement, ignores 20% of each enemy's RES for each dead ally. Damage against each enemy increases by 10% for each debuff on
• Death's Bargain · CD 5→3 — Targets an ally. If the ally is alive, kills that ally, unlocks Malice Unleashed, places 25% Weaken for 2 turns and True Fear for 1 turn on all enemies; those debuffs cannot be resisted or blocked; then fills Valkanen's Turn Meter by 75%. If the selected ally is dead, heals Valkanen by 50% of the dead ally's MAX HP, co
• Malice Unleashed — Secret Skill unlocked by Death's Bargain conditions. Attacks 1 enemy. Before attacking, steals all buffs from the target and this steal cannot be resisted. Against a non-boss target whose ATK is equal to or higher than Valkanen's ATK, adds a bonus damage multiplier equal to the target's ATK. If the target's ATK is lowe
• Phantom Bulwark · CD 1 — When an ally or enemy Champion dies, places a Shield on Valkanen equal to 50% of the dead Champion's MAX HP; if he already has a Shield, increases its value by the same amount. This death-triggered Shield cannot be removed, stolen, or transferred and does not trigger from boss or minion deaths. Separately, whenever an

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Synergies

• Tribune Herakletes — Death's Bargain can deliberately kill Tribune Herakletes, giving a controlled way to trigger mechanics that benefit from
• Tribune Herakletes — Valkanen can force an allied Tribune Herakletes to die on demand with Death's Bargain rather than waiting for the enemy