Raid: Shadow Legends Dungeons

Strategy

How It Works

1. Defeating Al-Naemeh the Sand Devil may seem difficult at first, but it’s mainly a matter of using certain mechanics and debuffs that usually aren’t effective against other Bosses.

   

2. Al-Naemeh's main weakness is that he is susceptible to Sleep debuffs. However, Sleep debuffs aren't removed from him when he's attacked - instead, he activates his Slumber counter for a certain number of turns whenever he is put to sleep. While that counter is active, the Sand Devil is vulnerable to many debuffs. Whenever the Slumber counter reaches 0 or the Sleep debuff on him expires, the Sand Devil will wake up. This counter decreases by 1 whenever Al-Naemeh receives damage (except damage from debuffs), meaning you can deal damage a certain number of times before you make the counter hit 0.

   

3. Making the most of when the Sand Devil is asleep is important, as this is the only time you can apply debuffs (besides Sleep) to him thanks to his Passive skill, Rest for the Wicked. While asleep, Al-Naemeh loses his immunity to most debuffs, allowing you to place vital effects that’ll see you actually deal damage to him. This is doubly important, as each debuff placed on the Sand Devil reduces the innate damage reduction that Rest for the Wicked grants him. Keep in mind - Al-Naemeh is still immune to crowd control debuffs like Stun, Freeze or Fear, and he also becomes immune to Sleep for 1 turn after he wakes up. Naturally, you will want to bring Champions who can consistently apply Sleep, as well as those who can apply multiple debuffs in a single hit, as to maximize the hits left on the Slumber counter.

   

4. His Soul Sustenance Passive is equally as dangerous, as it causes all of the Sand Devil's attacks to destroy a flat 5% of your Champions' MAX HP. If a Champion also tries to reduce Al-Naemeh's Turn Meter, it'll destroy that Champion's MAX HP by the same percentage. Luckily, you can restore this destroyed MAX HP by healing your Champions while the Sand Devil is asleep, so bringing decent healers is essential to winning this fight.

5. Al-Naemeh's first skill, Rage of the Sands, places a Decrease SPD and a Decrease ACC debuff on all Champions, reducing your ability to place the debuffs needed to conquer the Sand Devil. Therefore, you want to raise your Champions' Resistance stats to resist the Decrease ACC buff placed by the Boss, and also ensure you have high enough Accuracy so you can put the Sand Devil to sleep, and then apply the debuffs needed to reduce his innate damage reduction.

6. Applying multiple debuffs to the Sand Devil not only reduces his defense, but it blunts the power of his second skill, Dune Tempest. This skill cleanses Al-Naemeh of all debuffs, heals him proportional to the total amount of destroyed MAX HP on your team, and then attacks you. Stacking multiple debuffs is key to surviving this attack, as it deals less damage for every debuff that the Sand Devil removes from himself.

7. Finally, his third skill, Feasting Swarm, is devastating if you aren’t prepared for it. It completely ignores 100% of your Champions’ DEF, along with Shield, Block Damage, and Unkillable buffs. This skill will most likely wipe out your entire party, so bringing a Champion who can apply Revive on Death buffs will be key to surviving this hungering locust cloud. Al-Naemeh will go to sleep after using this skill, giving anyone who survived time to regroup. If you put him to sleep again while this skill is on cooldown, you’ll increase its current cooldown by 1 turn. So if you can keep putting Al-Naemeh to sleep, you can stave off this cruel attack long enough to put the Sand Devil to sleep for good.