Fusion events are functionally similar to the fragment events that we did a guide on before. Essentially, there is a specific legendary champion that can be summoned if you collect enough rewards from most all of the events and tournaments for a couple of weeks. Unlike the fragment events, fusion events have you collecting rare champions from the events instead of fragments.
In this guide, we’ll break down the differences between the two types, give you a path to guaranteed success in fusing your legendary champion, and show you how to see if you’re ready to attempt the resource intensive event. As with the previous guide, this is mostly for players who aren’t already experienced in completing these types of events or who just want a more efficient way of looking at them. Tl;dr at the very end.
Differences Between Fragment & Fusion
Fragment events require you to complete regular events and tournaments up to a certain point to gain fragments of a specific legendary champion. You can only earn these for a limited time, but, as long as you collect at least 100 fragments, you can fuse the champ any time. Fusion events function similar in that you’ll need to participate and progress in regular events and tourneys, but fusion events give you rare champions (and a couple of epics at high levels) that must be ranked up to 4*, ascended and leveled fully, then fused into epic champions which must be ranked to 5*, ascended and leveled. Fusion events take more resources to rank, level and ascend, but yield the option of keeping only the epics you fuse if you can’t get or don’t want the legendary.
Have a Plan
When the fusion summon event starts, the news feed will have a list of all of the events pertaining to it. This gives you the list of available rare/epic champions available and the schedule of events. You can do something fancy and make a spreadsheet to track it, or just hit up the Raid: Shadow Legends subreddit like I did and find someone who made one like this:
Using this information, you can identify which parts to go for and which parts to ignore. Since the event requires 4 of each of the rares to fuse into the epics for the legendary, and it offers only one of each of those rares, unless you can get an epic (which typically requires going very deep into that event reward tree) you have to do all of the events/tournaments for the rares. In the above example, the champion training epic required 12k points or something, and the summon rush epic would have taken a significant amount of shards to acquire. But, if you’ve saved a ton of shards or a ton of food/brews for the champion training, then maybe you can skip some rares (or pick up an extra epic).
How Strong Must My Account Be?
So, to determine if you can realistically do this without spending money you need to be able to farm the gear dungeons at minimum stage of 13. This gives you 4*-6* gear. Less than that and the number of pieces of loot you have to get for the points becomes way too much. If you can’t do that, I’d suggest growing in power and waiting to focus on one of these fusion/fragment events. Obviously, being able to farm a higher stage is even better, but I wouldn’t bother before stage 13. However, in the planning part, you can figure out which dungeon needs more power and work on that team during the summon/training events. During one event, Fire Knight team was not ready until the day before the Fire Knight event started and I used leveling my team to get points in Champ Training day 1 and gearing them to get points in Artifact enhancement.
How Much Silver/Shards Do I Need?
For the Summon Rush, it’s based purely on the quality of shard you use. You’ll want to save Sacreds or Voids for this (and hope it always lines up with a 2x event). 2 sacred shards can often be enough points. If not, use some uncommonj shards to fill out the necessary points. For the Champion Chase, this gets a little more random. Points are based on the quality of champ you summon, not the shard used. For this, I’d save up a good number of rare shards and a ton of uncommon quality ones. If you get lucky with the rare shards pulling epics or better, it’ll be an easy event. I’ve completed the champion chase several times with around 30 ancient shards and a few hundred of the greens.
Finally, for Artifact Enhancement events, you’ll need ~10m going into each one. Each even will end up costing 5-10 million silver depending on luck, since you get most of the points from reaching level 16. This doesn’t mean you need 10-20m silver to start, because you’ll gain tons during the event. Get 10m going in to it and make sure you hit 10m again after.
How Many Potions Do I Need?
This one is important to farm in advance, as you’ll be generally too busy in other areas to do the potion dungeons during the event. Unfortunately, Raid doesn’t let us know in advance what type of champions will be in the fusion. Hurndig required lesser affinity: 40 magic/force/spirit/void 80 arcane, greater affinity: 36 magic/force/spirit/void 108 arcane, superior affinity: 6 magic/force/spirit/void and 12 arcane. The issue being, since we don’t know what epics/rares will be required, I assume worse case scenario and make sure I have enough to do it if ALL of them are the same of any affinity. So:
160 lesser affinity potions of each type except 80 arcane
144 greater affinity potions of each type except 108 arcane
and 24 superior affinity potions of each type except 12 arcane
This enables you to be prepared for any options. So far, this all affinity mix has only happened once, so you’re probably safe with half of each of the affinity potions.
Double Dip When You Can
The reason I like that calendar up above is because it orders it chronologically. You can see what events overlap. This is most important with dungeon tournaments like Dragon with the Dungeon Divers event. Plan on doing your farming for the divers event during the dungeon tournament. These will hit somewhat randomly, so you may get 2 dungeon tournaments during one divers event or you might not. If a champion training tournament or event is also up, the gear you get running 12-3 will count. If possible, do your summoning event during a training event, so when you are feeding 100’s of 1* champs for space (points for summoning, of course), you’ll get points for those levels.
Always be ranking, ascending and leveling the event rares/epics during training events/tournaments. Don’t start on them until one of those events is up, and do as much as you can during that since you have to anyway.
Monitor Your Progress
As the event progresses, keep track of what you have. If you miss a rare, can you get an epic to make up for it? If not, and you can no longer fuse, which epics are best for your account?
TL:DR Version
- Use the event news schedule to make a calendar to make a plan.
- Don’t bother if you can’t do stage ~13 of all gear dungeons
- Have at least 2 sacred shards, 50 rare shards and 500 green shards.
- Have at least 1k gems for energy.
- Start with 10 million silver.
- Have at least 100 of lesser and greater affinity potions of each type and a dozen superior potions
- Double dip on dungeon events and do your summon/leveling together.
- Track your progress to make changes as needed.
- Fuse your champion before the event ends because the option disappears
With this strategy, you’ll be able to collect all the rares you need to fuse your new Raid legendary champion every time without spending any money and while not wasting your time trying to do it too early in your accounts power curve.
For those who got this far but already have solid plans for getting these champs, is there anything you thought I missed? Anything tips players could use to get even more success? Let me know in the comments.