Raid Shadow Legends: Pythion Champion Guide

Pythion is a legendary force affinity champion from the Lizard Men faction in Raid Shadow Legends. Pythions core objective is focused on protecting and carrying your team. His A3 ability allows for a full team revive with 50% hp and turn meter when dead allies are revived and an additional 25% strengthen buff. Meanwhile his A2 is an AoE full debuff cleanse and 10% max hp heal (increases to +5% for each debuff removed), this A2 then places a block debuff on all team mates for 2 turns. Furthermore, his A1 can be used to heal your team mate with the lowest hp by 10% while also hitting an enemy for a double hit.

Pythion can be used effectively at a wide variety of content in raid, including; dungeons, faction wars, doom tower and more. This guide will cover many of those areas in-depth, providing information on builds, masteries, stats and team compositions for efficient runs.

Pythion Stats Overview

• Faction: Lizard Men
• Type: Support
• Affinity: Force
• Rarity: Legendary
• HP: 21135
• Attack: 870
• Defense: 1299
• Critical Rate: 15
• Critical Damage: 50
• Speed: 105
• Resistance: 50
• Accuracy: 0
• Aura: Increase Ally in by 60
• Books to Max Skills: 10

Pythion Skills Overview

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Pythion Late Game Guide

Pythion is a legendary support champion that was added to the game in a Fusion Event on January 2023. Python is a strong and universally useful champion for any player in PvE and PvP. In this guide, we will look at a budget build that an average late game player can build and showcase Pythion. The build itself is focused on difficult PVE content like Hydra and Doom Tower. The follow up pages will feature Pythion with a PVP build.

Skills

His A1 attacks the enemy twice and heals an ally with the lowest HP. Pythion’s A2 cleanses all debuffs from allies, heals them and places Block Debuffs on them. His A3 revives all dead allies and places Strengthen buff on them. He also boasts a useful passive skill that reduces the incoming damage for each buff on allies by 5% and stacks up to 25%. He also has a useful aura that increase Resistance of the team by 60.

As you can see, Pythion has no active debuffs, and his utility is focused on healing, cleansing and resurrecting. You can use him without any books and he will still be effective. Booking his cooldown skills on A3 and A2 helps but may not be required if you want to use him on a budget.

It is especially important that the passive will work on any affinity of attackers. It’s drawback is that the enemies need to actively target Drexthar. This can be used to your advantage on Spirit affinity enemies, especially in Spider Dungeon and Nether Spider in Doom Tower in the late game.

Masteries

The best choice for a high Resistance universal Pythion build would be Unshakeable T6 from the Defense tree and Defiant to focus on maximising this stat. Masteries that increase the survivability and reduce incoming damage will also come in handy. The second branch selected is the Support tree with Lay on Hands that increases the healing. Rapid Response and Cycle of Magic will help Pythion take turns and use skills more often. Lasting Gifts can also be helpful.

Pythion can be used in your Clan Boss team to protect your champions from debuffs, making the team affinity friendly. If that’s the case, you shoud pick Warmaster T6 in Offence tree instead and avoid TM increasing masteries in order to keep the speed tune.

Gear & Stats Build

Pythion’s effectiveness is not tied to a specific artifact set. You have a wide variety of viable sets as long as you reach the right stats for PVE. For PVP environment depending on the league you’re aiming for it may be a different story as covered in the follow up sections.

Regeneration, Relentless and Reflex may be the best choice of the main sets. Secondary sets can be anything that provides the missing stats. High Resistance and Speed are our main goal. HP with DEF are secondary, while attacking stats are of not interest to us if we are not using Pythion on Clan Boss.

In this guide, we are using a budget option that consists of a set of Speed ​​and Immortal, focusing on the necessary stats. This build is utilised on Hydra Hard difficulty, requiring at least 310-350 resistance and 220+ speed.

Recommended Main Stats

• Gloves – HP%/DEF%
• Chest – RES
• Boots – Speed
• Ring – DEF/HP
• Amulet – DEF/HP
• Banner – RES

Refresh Accessories are an excellent option for Pythion in PVE.

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Pythion Late Game Dungeon Runs

Hydra

In order to fight the Hydra succesfully, it is necessary to distribute roles and have the necessary buffs and debuffs. In the showcased team, Pythion plays the few roles:

1. Healer to replenish the health of allies and keep it at a high level.
2. Reviver in case one of the allies dies.
3. Cleanser, because the heads of the Hydra constantly place debuffs on your champions. d. Helps reduce damage from Hydra thanks to the passive skill.

Team Build

As you can see, there are many roles where Pythion is up to the task:

1. Mighty Ukko for AOE decrease ATK and Block Buff debuffs.
2. Pythion for healing, revive and cleansing.
3. Ma’Shalled for Increase SPD buff and dps.
4. Bivald of the Thorn for healing, Shield buff and Provoke debuff.
5. Husk for dps and Provoke debuff.
6. Geomancer for dps.

Dragon 25

In the Dragon’s Lair dungeon, Pythion will be a great help at any stage. His healing will keep the team HP high, and if someone dies, they will be revived. With such serious support behind you, you can safely try higher levels of this dungeons.

Team Build

Here is an example of composition for Dragon 25:

1. Pythion for healing, revive and cleansing.
2. Myciliac Priest Orn for Poisons.
3. Mistrider Daithi for AOE Decrease Def and dps.
4. Seeker for Increase ATK buff and TM boost.
5. Husk for dps and CC debuffs.

Ice Golem 25

In Ice Golem’s Peak dungeon, Pythion does a great job. On the waves, he supports the team with healing, and on the boss, he removes the Freeze and other debuffs. Thanks to his passive skill, he reduces the boss damage. If someone dies, he can revive them.

If you activate the Golem’s passive retaliation skill while he has both minions alive, then without an ATK Decrease debuff he will most likely destroy your team, especially at stages 20+

Team Build

Here is an example of a team that made it through level 25:

1. Pythion for healing, revive and cleansing.
2. Husk for CC debuffs and dps.
3. Mistrider Daithi for AOE Decrease Def and dps.
4. Madame Serris for AOE Decrease ATK and Def debuffs.
5. Geomancer for dps.

Spider 20

Spider’s Den dungeon not easy to pass if you don’t have a good team or the right champions. One of the budget tactics is to put one opposing affinity champion on the boss that can survive spiderlings attacks. Pythion is well suited for this task at stage 20 due to Force affinity. Having both debuff cleansing and Block Debuff buff negates lots of damage from spidelings debuffs.

Team Build

Here is an example of a budget tactic composition for Spider 20:

1. Pythion for tanking damage from spiderlings and also for healing, cleansing plus revive.
2. Seeker for tm boost.
3. Bivald of the Thorn for healing and Shield buff.
4. Stag Knight for AOE decrease ATK plus Def and SPD debuffs.
5. Coldheart to decrease the turn meter and quickly kill the Boss with MAX HP skill.

Fire Knight 20

Fire Knight’s Castle dungeon is not the best place for Python. He doesn’t have any useful debuffs that are needed for the boss, although he does have two hits on A1. In general, if you need a good support for healing, removing debuffs and to keep the whole team alive to the boss, where the damage dealers will deal with him Pythion is a good choice.

Team Build

Here is an example of team for level 20:

1. Stag Knight for AOE decrease DEF plus ATK and SPD debuffs;
2. Ma’Shalled for SPD buff and dps;
3. Python for healing, cleansing and revive;
4. 2 x Coldheart for decrease the turn meter and to quickly kill the Boss with MAX HP skill.

Iron Twin Fortress

Iron Twins Fortress is a difficult dungeon that can be hard to farm. The boss hits hard especially when his Ironbrand debuffs on allies reach high values. The ability to clear boss’s debuffs such as Decrease ATK and DEF as well as reviving allies makes Pythion a great choice for this content. His passive skill reduces the damage that the team receives as well.

Team Build

1. Mighty Ukko for Decrease ATK and revive.
2. Python for healing, cleansing and revive.
3. Arbiter for tm boost and revive.
4. Stag Knight for Decrease SPD, ATK and DEF debuffs.
5. Geomancer for dps.

The main idea of ​​the team is to keep the Geomancer alive while the boss takes damage by attacking our team. Pythion’s main task here is to ensure the survival of the team, and he fulfills it well with the help of other supports.

Faction Wars

Pythion is a great champion for Faction Wars. Thanks to cleansing and healing, it will not be difficult to pass even stage 21, where the boss ignores defense on hits.

Team Build

Here is an example of budget team that has 3 starred stage 21:

1. Pythion for cleanse, healing, damage reduction and revive.
2. Rhazin Scarhide for decreasing enemy TM, Decrease DEF and Weaken debuffs.
3. Muckstalker for Poisons and Decrease ATK as well as Decrease DEF debuffs.
4. Basilisk for dps.
5. Muckstalker as just 50 lvl champion for clearing by 3 stars.

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Doom Tower

Floor 119

Pythion shows himself well when passing through the floors of the Doom Tower. High resistance and good speed allows him to protect the team from enemy debuffs, heal allies and if someone dies provide a timely revive.

Team Build

Here is an example of a team that made it through level 119 Hard difficulty Iragoth Eternal Dragon rotation:

1. Bivald of the Thorn for Provoke debuff, healing and Shield buff.
2. Pythion for healing, cleansing and revive.
3. Arbiter for tm boost and revive.
4. Ma’Shalled for Fear debuff, Increase SPD buff and dps.
5. Gnishak Verminlord for dps.

Eternal Dragon

Thanks to his skills, Pythion is well suited as a support champion for the passage of Eternal Dragon at 120 floor of Doom Tower. The tactics are quite similar to the Iron Twins Fortress featured previously. Our main damage dealer is the Geomancer, and the task of the team is to ensure the survival while the boss smashes itself against your team.

Team Build

1. Mighty Ukko for Decrease Def debuff and revive.
2. Pythion for healing, cleansing and revive.
3. Seeker for tm boost.
4. Ma’Shalled for Fear debuff, Increase SPD buff and dps.
5. Geomancer for dps.

Eternal Dragon

Team Build

The team used for Hard Stage 120 Eternal Dragon is as follows:

1. Drexthar is the main damage dealer through his AOE HP Burns
2. Scyl provides support to the team with her constant heals, increase speed, AOE stuns, and emergency revives. Scyl is built with a high enough resistance to resist all the Dragon’s Skill Cooldown affecting abilities so, she can still CC the minions and revive dead allies.
3. Norog provide passive team damage reduction from the Dragon’s Hard hitting AOE and is a secondary DPS.
4. Jareg places Decrease Attack debuff on the boss to reduce incoming damage and places a Continuous Heal buff on your team after taking the Dragon’s hard hitting AOE.
5. Vrask provides additional team healing since the heal from Scyl and Jareg is not enough to sustain the team.

Frost Spider

Agreth Nether Spider is a boss of Doom Tower that likes to apply lots of poisons and gradually kill your team with them. Unsurprisingly, a cleanser like Pythion fits perfectly here. If some ally cannot withstand the onslaught of the poisonous breath of the boss and her spiders ressurection will also come in handy.

The Geomancer tactic shows the fastest clear results, so it applies here as well. The essence of the idea is to place a Heal Reduction debuff on the boss and activate the counterattack of the spiders that will kill the boss while damaging the Geomancer.

Team Build

Here is an example of clearing boss at leve110 Hard difficulty:

1. Mighty Ukko for Decrease Def debuff and revive.
2. Pythion for cleansing and revive.
3. Maneater for Unkillable buff.
4. Ma’Shalled for Heal Reduction debuff and dps.
5. Geomancer for dps.

Magma Dragon

Pythion is great as a support champion on the Magma Dragon boss in Doom Tower. By removing debuffs, he saves your damage dealers or Provoke champions from the Hex debuff that increases damage against them. Healing and passive damage reduction will also be useful.

Team Build

Here is an example of team for stage 100 on hard difficulty:

1. Pythion for cleanse, healing, damage reduction and revive;.
2. Arbiter for tm boost healing and revive.
3. Mighty Ukko for Decrease ATK debuff and revive.
4. Bivald of the Thorn for Provoke debuff.
5. Husk for Provoke debuff and dps.

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