Raid Shadow Legends Poison Skill allows a Champion to apply Poison debuff on 1 or more enemy Champions, so they take DoT (Damage over Time) whenever they start their turn. The Poison damage is inflicted based on ENEMY MAX HP. However, if an enemy Champion has Shield Buff with Poison Debuff, the Poison damage will reduce the Shield first before HP (Hit Points aka Life). This skill is excellent against enemies that has vast amount of HP especially enemies and bosses in Dungeons and Clan Boss. There are 2 versions of Poison debuff (2.5% and 5%). The first Poison debuff reduces enemy’s HP by 2.5% of Enemy MAX HP while the second Poison debuff reduces enemy’s HP by 5% of Enemy MAX HP.
Poison FAQ
What is the difference between activate and detonate poison?
“Activate Poison” triggers a single Poison stack to deal damage to the enemy, while “Detonate Poison” consumes all Poison stacks on the enemy. Both methods deliver instant damage, eliminating the need for the enemy to take their turn to suffer the DoT (Damage Over Time) damage from the Poison debuff. This approach is particularly effective for speeding up runs, especially in dungeon boss raids.
Poison Types
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Poison 2.5%Damages the target Champion by 2,5% of their MAX HP at the beginning of their Turn. This damage is only affected by Poison Sensitivity and scales in accordance with the Target’s MAX HP. Block Damage blocks it. If the Target Champion has a Shield, Poison damage will be applied to the Shield first. |
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Poison 5%Damages the target Champion by 5% of their MAX HP at the beginning of their Turn. This damage is only affected by Poison Sensitivity and scales in accordance with the Target’s MAX HP. Block Damage blocks it. If the Target Champion has a Shield, Poison damage will be applied to the Shield first. |
Poison Champions (2)
Poison (Target)
Mythical
Legendary
Epic
Rare
Uncommon
Common
2.5% Poison Champions (20)
2.5% Poison (AoE)
Mythical
Legendary
Epic
Rare
Uncommon
Common
2.5% Poison (Random)
Mythical
Legendary
Epic
Rare
Uncommon
Common
2.5% Poison (Self)
Mythical
Legendary
Epic
Rare
Uncommon
Common
2.5% Poison (Target)
Mythical
Legendary
Epic
Rare
- Bombardier (BL-RAF)
- Eviscerator (DE-RAV)
- Grappler (SW-RDS)
- Gravechill Killer (UH-RAM)
- Haruspex (LZ-RSV)
- Hollow (UH-RAV)
- Kael (DE-RAM)
- Totem (OR-RSS)
- Treefeller (OR-RAF)
- Warmaiden (BA-RAF)
Uncommon
Common
5% Poison Champions (68)
5% Poison (AoE)
Mythical
Legendary
- Bad-el-Kazar (UH-LSF)
- Chaagur (LZ-LAV)
- Corvis the Corruptor (SO-LDM)
- Elenaril (HE-LAM)
- Guurda Bogbrew (OT-LSF)
- Harvest Jack (UH-LHS)
- Kalvalax (KR-LAS)
- King Gallcobar (SY-LSM)
- Noct the Paralyzer (DE-LHM)
- Prince Kymar (DS-LSM)
- Richtoff the Bold (BL-LAS)
- Stokk the Broken (OT-LSS)
- Supreme Kael (DE-LAV)
- Teodor the Savant (KR-LSS)
- Tomb Lord (KR-LSS)
- Vizug the Noxious (OT-LHM)
- Zavia (DE-LAF)
Epic
- Myciliac Priest Orn (SY-EHS)
- Taurus (SW-EAM)
- Toragi the Frog (SK-EHM)
- Urogrim (OT-ESV)
- Venomage (LZ-ESM)
Rare
Uncommon
Common
5% Poison (Random)
Mythical
Legendary
Epic
Rare
Uncommon
Common
5% Poison (Target)
Mythical
Legendary
- Gnishak Verminlord (SW-LAF)
- Narma the Returned (KR-LSM)
- Nethril (UH-LAS)
- Urost the Soulcage (UH-LHV)
- Venus (SO-LSV)
- Zavia (DE-LAF)
Epic
- Aeshma (KR-EAM)
- Akemtum (SW-EAV)
- Anax (UH-EAS)
- Aox the Rememberer (LZ-ESF)
- Cardinal (SO-ESV)
- Dark Kael (DE-EAM)
- Delaaja (LZ-EHS)
- Erinyes (DS-EAF)
- Fahrakin the Fat (BA-EAS)
- Fayne (SW-EAS)
- Fenshi (SK-EAF)
- Juliana (SO-EAM)
- Liburga (OR-ESV)
- Luthiea (HE-EAF)
- Marksman (HE-EAS)
- Myciliac Priest Orn (SY-EHS)
- Occult Brawler (OT-EHS)
- Rowan (BL-EAV)
- Scabrius (SW-EAM)
- Steelskull (SW-ESS)
- Suiren (SK-EAF)
- Taya (SK-EAV)
- Toragi the Frog (SK-EHM)
- Yaga the Insatiable (SW-EAF)
Rare
- Assassin (SK-RAM)
- Avir the Alchemage (DW-RSM)
- Bloodpainter (SW-RAF)
- Frozen Banshee (UH-RAM)
- Gravechill Killer (UH-RAM)
- Hyria (HE-RAS)
- Petrifya Rockroot (DS-RAM)
- Slayer (BA-RAF)
- Tigersoul (BA-RAS)
@Ayumilove, I know that keeping this site updated is a massive undertaking and I appreciate all of the blood, sweat and tears that you put into it; that being said, why are you wasting your time answering questions that were posted nearly 3 years ago? (RE: @assassin Dec 2021, answered this past June)
Thanks again for all of your hard work!
May I recommend another section, champs that “place” a poison, without hitting? For example Dark Kael’s A3, Tomb Lord’s A2, Urogrim’s A3, Guurda Bogbrew’s A3, Outlaw Monk’s A2 This has the added utility of NOT proccing Mortu-Macaab’s hidden Peril ability on Nightmare 12-7 when attempting the 3 star clear for the final sacred shard in campaign.
@assassin: Activate Poison means activating 1 Poison stack to deal damage on the enemy, whereas Detonate Poison uses up all the Poison stacks on the enemy.
Aren’t you missing Teodor the Savant? He is one of the best (or is the best) poisoner in the game!
Urogrim needs to be added
Presumably the chance of applying a poison debuff is affected by acc and res like other debuffs?
you don’t have orn or noct, maybe some other new ones.
You do not have Teodor the Savant listed here.
Do you have a list of “Activate Poison” champions?
Occult brawler as poison passive is missing 🙂
Chaagur?
What’s the difference between activate poison and detonate poison? I’m at a loss here.
@Shane Williams: This page contains a list of champions who can apply Poison debuff.
Why does clinking the link for Poison Debuff come to this page?
@Spotz: Urogrim has been added to the Poison champion list!
Missing the new King of Poisons: Urogrim
@Alexander M Graves: Venomage has been added to the Poison champion skill list!
@Randy: Assassin has been added to the Poison champion skill list!
Assassin – Shadowkin
A1 – attacks 1 enemy. 50% chance of placing a %5 poison
A2 – attacks 1 enemy. 50% chance of increasing duration of all debuffs on enemy by 1 turn
A3 – attacks 1 enemy. 75% chance of placing 15% weaken for 2 turns.
Venomage | LZ-ESM
A1 – Detonate 2 poisons
A3 – AOE poison on A3
I assume that there is a maximum of Poison stacks debuff that can be applied to a target at once. Looks like no more than 10 at the same time; I tried to test it but can’t figure out whether the new Poison debuffs override the ones with shortest duration, or the ones with lower damage.
Also note that although the damage counts as being dealt by the respective champion, it does not trigger Lifesteal, does not count as a hit from a skill, and is not affected by Weaken. On the bright side, it ignores all forms of Defense and has no damage cap on bosses other than CB.
Zavia sometimes didn’t detonate poison on her A3. Does this skill require anything else like acc or crit hit?
@REDAF: Narma the Returned is added to the Poison list!
Where is Narma the Returned on the ST 5% poison list?
Who else is missing?
What is the viability for this champion in CB while running Vizier?
@Stephen: Anax has been added to the Poison skill champion list!
Anax should be added to the list.
@jok5r: Harvest Jack converts Continuous Heal buff to Poison debuff.
Harvest Jack does not do poisons…
@Linc: Harvest Jack converts Continuous Healing buff to Poison debuff.
Harvest Jack does not use Poison…
how about tigersoul?
Coldheart is on the 5% poison AOE list?
@JimmyFLASH: I have updated the Poison Skill and Detonate Poison Skill champion list. Thanks!
There is some issue on the page.
I see just this:
[list tags=”rsl_skill_poison2_aoe+rsl_rarity_legendary” title=”Legendary“]
instead of Champ lists.
THX for fix.
@Ayumilove
This page is broken. Great work on the site!
@WH4CH: I have added another section for “Detonate Poison” within this page (AoE and Target).
@Turel97: I have updated Dracomorph Poison AoE to Poison Random. Thanks for highlighting the error!
Please add “Deals damage from all poison Debuff instantly” (Elenaril – AOE)(Karam – target)…
hello.
dracomorph has random poison towards enemies.
not aoe.
can you correct the information ?
thanks .
@Phox: I believe Poison damage ignores the effect of Defense and Strengthen, and its scaled based on Target’s MAX HP. The Poison damage will increase if the target has Poison Sensitivity debuff.
@Vince: I have updated the Poison debuff description to include Poison Sensitivity.
@Slug
Poison sensitivity increases those figures by 25%.
Looks like this phrase in the description
This damage is not affected by any other effects and only scales in accordance with the Target’s MAX HP.
is inaccurate now.
HP Burn and Poison have a fixed amount of damage to clan bosses because they have a very high health pool.
HP Burn
Rare champions can only deal maximum 50k damage per turn.
Epic and Legendary champions deal maximum 75k damage per turn.
Poison
The maximum amount of damage is based on the difficulty of clan boss:
Easy: 20k damage per turn
Normal: 30k damage per turn
Hard: 40k damage per turn
Brutal/Ultra Nightmare: 50k damage per turn
These are 5% poison damage.
2.5% poison damage deal halves of the above values.
Is the poison dmg reduced by defense or Strengthen?
@Oleg: I have updated Frozen Banshee from AoE to Target.
Frozen Banshee is not an AoE poisoner…
@Rodney: I have added Death Hound into the list above!
@Destroyer39: The champion listed here is mainly for Poison applied to enemies instead of allies. Gurptuk Moss-Beard will be added here if Plarium decides to change his skill to apply Poison to enemies instead of allies.
@Quriousity: I have updated the Poison Skill Champion List to be sub-categorized into 3 sections (AoE – Area of Effect, Target and Random)
Death Hound is missing from the 5.0% list under common
Has someone a list of AoE Poisoners?
Missing Gurptok Moss-Beard, he has a move that places 5% poison Debuffs on allies.
Thanks!
You have Gravechill Killer listed as a 2.5% poisoner but her A1 is a 5% and her A3 is a 2.5%
@poit57
First, toxic set applies 2.5% poison, second – damage depends on difficulty (on easy might be 12k, on normal 20k, hard 30k and so on from 5% poison), third – the overall damage clan boss receives is capped, check his last skill
poit57: did you aply poison debuf on Clan Boss? If yes, there is much more damage from poison (20000/40000 i think)
I am fairly new to the game and trying to figure out the math on these poison debuffs. I don’t see how the damage it is displaying relates in any way to the target’s Max HP.
I had a toxic set on one of my champions and was noticing that hit was only hitting the easy Clan Boss for about 6,000 damage. When I’m the first player attacking the easy Clan Boss in the morning when his max HP is 19.02M, that 6,000 damage is only about 0.03% of the target’s Max HP.
Obviously, I’m not calculating the correct formula, so I was wondering if someone could clarify what source for the number that the 2.5% or 5% should be multiplied against.
I did some brief testing as I noticed the same problem with spider as the first commenter, and it seems that Skavag has additional unmarked resistance to poison as compared to other boss enemies. I tested vs Minotaur for the sake of comparison and from what I can tell Skavag takes 1/10 of the marked amount (.5 or .25%) while minotaur takes 2/5 the marked amount (2 or 1%). For the sake of reproducing, I was testing vs Minotaur 15 and Spider 10, both of which seem to have 5000 HP bar segments. Based on eyeballing, the Minotaur has about 120 segments and the spider has just under 100, and the numbers I was getting for minotaur were around 6000 while the numbers for Skavag were around 1300. I think it would be very helpful if someone made a table of poison resistances, because as far as I can tell there isn’t anything in the game that states this
@soulriven: Hi, I have switched from MapleStory to RAID Shadow Legends since the grind is too much for me to handle haha. What stage are you now in for Clan Boss? (e.g. Easy, Normal, Hard, Brutal, Nightmare, Ultra Nightmare). Poison team setup is quite good in all stages of Clan Boss. If you do not have any Counter Attack champion, I highly recommend having at least 2 Champions that can boost up your speed with Increase Speed Buff and Increase Turn Meter, so your champions can take more turns to inflict Poison debuff while at the same time healing from any enemy damages from Lifesteal Set or from Healer. If you have a Counter Attack champion such as Martyr, Skullcrusher or Valkyrie, speed tuned your champions based on the Clan Boss difficulty. Counter Attack team is best suited for Brutal, Nightmare and Ultra Nightmare Clan Boss, while Speed Team setup is best suited for Easy, Normal and Hard Clan Boss. The speed for each Clan Boss are as follows: Brutal (160 Speed), Nightmare (170 Speed), Ultra Nightmare (190 Speed). Have your Counter Attack champion to be the slowest in your team but at least 1 Speed higher than Clan Boss.
Oh Wow, Blast from the past. when I looked up Raid shadowlegends to spec a good poison team. I didnt expect to find you Ayumi 0_o . Its been what feels like a decade and then some change since we last spoke on Maplestory. Glad to see you’re still alive and well! Great guide its a wonderful help.
Anyway, should i focus on the speed stat for everyone in my poison team, above other stats, especially if I’m going this route? Thanks in advance
P.S. Old character was Soulriven from Bera
Much cheers!
@Juice: I wouldn’t recommend using Poison to take down the Skavag (Spider Boss) since it requires Skavag to take multiple turns to receive Poison damage. The longer you take the fight, the more powerful Skavag become since each time he consumes his spiderlings, he increase his damage by 10%.
Maybe my math is off but I very rarely see poison do a full 5% damage, an example of this when I have 6 stacks of poison on Spider I should counter act it’s healing yet it doesn’t… The spiderling heal 3% yet… Do way more than my poison stacks… I feel like something is off