Drake

Drake is an Epic Spirit character in RAID: Shadow Legends. Drake's role is Attack. Faction: Lizardmen.

On the combined RAID: Shadow Legends tier list Drake is C tier, 596th of the 1029 characters ranked, from where 4 community tier lists put Drake.

Other Spirit characters in RAID: Shadow Legends: Abyssal, Acelin the Stalwart, Acolyte of the Slither, Admiral Blacktusk, Alatreon Blademaster, Anax and 265 more.

A single-target finisher. Final Blow always crits on targets under 30% HP, the basic attack grants an Extra Turn on a kill, and Decimate slows and lowers the ACC of every enemy except the target when it crits.

When the Dragonkin Empire fell, and the Lizardmen first came to the Sorrowlakes, they found a barren swampland. Boggy lowlands and untamable rivers made for an inhospitable environment, but the clans persevered and soon began to spread out from their humble villages into the vast swamp they now called home. But as they expanded, they discovered that they were not alone; the swamps were inhabited by a number of fell creatures, including the reptilian Drakes.

While these beasts that prowled the lowlands were known collectively as Drakes, there are in fact many subspecies, some of whom are fully twice the size of an average Lizardman. Marsh Drakes are sinewy ambush predators, with a natural resistance to the various poisons and miasmas which haunt the lowlands. In contrast, River Drakes are larger and darker in coloration, with an affinity for the roughest waters and deepest lakes. Bog Drakes are the most common type, and are both numerous and aggressive, as well as infamous for their bad temper and worse odor.

There are some commonalities between the varieties of Drake, however. Regardless of their preferred environment, every Drake is capable of flying as swiftly as they swim. Moreover, they are willing and able to tear apart almost any creature unfortunate enough to cross their path. They are as comfortable attacking from above as below, but will not hesitate to retreat should an encounter turn against them. They are clever, cunning creatures, as deadly as the environments they inhabit. Indeed, for many Lizardmen, the Drakes are, for better or worse, living symbols of the Sorrowlakes, and all that is good and bad about the region.

Perhaps it is for that reason that some among the Lizardmen sought to domesticate the Drake, and harness its natural violence for their own purposes. It soon became a mark of prosperity for a clan lord to own a Drake, as it was both difficult and expensive to tame the brutes. Eventually, Lizardmen spawn-breeders found that crossbreeding the various subspecies of Drake led to the creation of newer and more powerful types of creatures. But while these new beasts were stronger and more intelligent than their predecessors, they lacked the brutish fecundity of the true Drake. It has not escaped the notice of the Lizardmen that, for all their rejection of their Dragonkin legacy, their attempt to impose order on these creatures is not unlike that which they once tried to impose on the whole of Teleria.

Many Drakes have been immortalized in story and song by Lizardmen troubadours. The most famous of these is the beast known as Blackscale, a hulking Bog Drake of unusual intelligence and terrifying aggression. Blackscale terrorized the clans around Smog Lake for years until she was finally captured and brought to heel by one of the clan lords at the cost of thirty of his best warriors. He judged it a worthwhile sacrifice to gain possession of such a magnificent beast.

In the months that followed, Blackscale was not so much domesticated as she was won over with massive offerings of food. While the beast could not be tamed, she could be bargained with. Blackscale proved to be worth every life spent in her capture on those rare occasions that she could be convinced to leave her bower for the battlefield. When properly roused, Blackscale was capable of slaughtering the enemy in droves.

Blackscale's favored method of attack was to swoop down from on high and land amid the enemy battleline, where she maimed and mauled anyone within reach of her talons and claws. Arrows bounced off of her thick scales, and her scent drove horses mad, disrupting many a cavalry charge. Blackscale often used this to her advantage, scattering the enemy so that she could hunt them at her leisure, until she became bored of battle and departed for home.

Drake can be summoned from Ancient Shard, Sacred Shard and Primal Shard as a Epic champion.