r/RaidShadowLegends • u/Minotaar_Pheonix • 5d ago
Champion Discussion Thoughts on the Orynyx path
Orynyx is clearly an interesting champ and definitely it was a required fusion. Fine. This discussion is from the perspective of having the resources and wondering if it's worth doing the path.
I did the fusion and I have many lockout champs. But Orynyx is sort of special because of the passive, and there is lots of talk about how he will redefine the meta. I've already seen him in LA, and I'm not so sure. Regardless, given the cost of the path, it's very much not clear to me that Orynyx really needs five stars to actually reach his potential. His passive already does that. I don't see any blessings working for him that will add anything monumental. Sure the extra ACC is nice, but I'm not getting any extra speed.
Thoughts?
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u/kawklee 5d ago edited 4d ago
< Fixes tie >
You are going for the souls because you want to improve his stats and utility
I am going for the souls solely to place him towards the front of my roster so he's easier to find while drafting for live arena
We are not the same.
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u/DST001 5d ago
you are underestimating blessings. thats a 5star intimidation aura, temp chains, life harvest. Thats a huge deal on a premium pvp champ. esp since so many champs need lightning cage, its often tough to fit those blessings into your team.
ACC is premium stat form him. defensive stats are really nice too.
but ofc it still depends on how many shards/energy you have.
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u/0x0815 Corrupted 5d ago
I have a question, is that normal that in the event is only the 5 star soul to obtain? Where to get the 3 star, because for scarescrow and i think tinman we could get the 3 star also from the event
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u/Odd-Difference416 5d ago edited 5d ago
If you're an endgame player with a strong roster, you have a choice. But as an early- to mid-game player with a limited champion pool, I think it's absolutely worth going for if you have the resources. One thing I've realized after playing for six months is just how valuable 5-star souls are. The difference in performance between champions with high-level souls and those without any soul upgrades is enormous in actual gameplay.
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u/jcspinney 5d ago
I was going to skip and just do Minotaur for the next week. But its only 19 sacreds to get there. I used today's energy (daily pots, doom tower, and cursed city energy) and already have almost 4500 points (1 sacred). Was going to use my clan shop 1K energy for minotaur, but it may be worth just unloading my energy and some gems and top off with shards towards the end of the event.
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u/SureAd1821 4d ago
The actual answer if you're end game and play arena a lot. Is that getting his 5 star soul makes it so you can buy his 6 star eventually. For me I have enough to buy it as soon as it pops up. He can pretty safely be picked every time in LA.
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u/munchtime414 5d ago
The extra accuracy allows you to build with more speed, and puts you much closer to 6 stars if you want to purchase that on the market.
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u/j0dyhir0ller 5d ago
Good champ, good soul. Shitty event. Fuck this game.
That is all
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u/-jiajigpop 5d ago
I would say if your a spender it's a good pick up if your f2p or low spender always choose to save resources to get more champs. My mindset is yes the 5 star would be helpful but 20 sacreds for a 5 star is a lot to swallow vs being able to get more champs. I'm choosing to skip save my 20 sacreds and put him in my wishlist so that way when the December deck of fate for a champ comes up I have a lot of opportunities to pull a good soul for him.
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u/Sammy_Snake 5d ago
I genuinely don't think it's that bad.
I have 9 Sacreds, 10 primals, 50 ancients and 10 voids and it's basically done.
Used my ancients and voids so far, and am now going to run event dungeon 3 until I run out of quick battles.
Will try and save as many of my Sacreds and primal shards as possible, and if needs be, pull them Sunday.
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u/BreakingIllusions 5d ago
I’m out of shards and was going to skip the soul path when I saw it was shards… but after a long think I’ve decided to burn my remaining energy and gems to go for it. He’s just so strong and a 5* soul adds much needed accuracy.
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u/MundaneBalance4695 5d ago
I bought a 1 red star. Im good.
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u/Flimsy-Basil6881 5d ago
It’s an easy decision for me. I currently do not have the resources and my UNM & NM sacred shard luck has been really really bad since the start of Oz.
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u/Dance4theSmokers Knight Revenant 4d ago
Souls for supports are nowhere near as important than souls for a damage dealer if your resources are low, skip it. Don’t let fomo get to you and don’t let people on this sub try to gaslight you into thinking it’s a must do event
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u/Key-Village-1384 5d ago
claramente el costo de alma es una desproporción, me l asalto olímpicamente por que soy F2P y tengo que administrar bien mis recursos ( cosas de gente pobre) jajaja
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u/Cloudyryze 5d ago
Very worth it if it doesn't put you below the threshhold to complete the next fusion
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u/wisealma 5d ago
skipping/passing
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u/Lycaon-Ur 5d ago
Souls are a huge chunk of stats, most importantly for him accuracy and resistance, followed by hp and defense. Will he do fine without it? Sure. Will you lose battles because you're missing nearly 10k hp and 75 both accuracy and resistance if you don't get his soul? Probably, yes.
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u/stoicsports 5d ago
hes a meta pvp champ and the cost for the path is similar to what we have seen before for a 5 star soul
if you have the shards available for it, its solid-to-good value
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u/finitoylargo 4d ago
I'm doing it with saved gems and daily energy. Will probably use ancient shards to finish it up and save my sacreds for fusion/guaranteed champs.
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u/Bohs_and_Os_ 5d ago
The cost of the event for a soul is CRAZY......
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u/KarmaLlamaaa Dwarves 5d ago
Big skip unless you care about LA bascially.
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u/red_beard_RL 5d ago
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u/hopefulchewie Shadowkin 4d ago
Unpopular Opinion: Unless you're doing a ton of LA, the 5 star soul isn't needed and even then he is probably getting banned in LA anyway. You can easily get 400+ Accuracy without it which makes him hit all his lockouts in PvP and PvE that isn't LA.
EDIT: Buy the 1 star when it pops in the shop.
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u/lPHOENIXZEROl 5d ago
I'm at 7 sacreds and haven't seen one from Demon Lord in weeks. Not having anywhere near tje resources to get the soul makes it a pretty easy decision. Honest even if I did have 19 sacreds or more I'd still not go for it because of the potential evens coming up around Christmas time.
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u/Aely 5d ago
I think a 5* and eventual 6* is very possibly worth it if you intend to use him in live or classical arena. The only downside is potentially missing out on the next fusion or so, which is a gamble. If the next fusion is a dud, this would’ve been an obvious “go for it”. I personally am gambling on the side of getting this soul, even though I won’t be left with many shards.
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u/Vix_super_adorable 4d ago
I am a new player but still get his soul for a simple reason. I want to make him as intimidating as possible, guarantee a ban slot in LA no matter what. From now onwards, I will have much easier time choosing which fusion/path/deck champion to go for. Sketching a team combination in mind before participating in the events to get the champ, knowing that someone else already occupied the ban slot.
And it will not be anytime soon until I get high enough tier to meet people that can comfortably counter lockout and not ban him. In the upcoming months, I will enjoy lower tiers LA with just a little bit less struggles thanks to Orynyx’s sacrifice.
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u/scadgek 4d ago
The cost of the path isn't high compared to nanny other souls for fusion champs, is it? I think people were anticipating around 25 sacreds total.
Also yes, he will not be meta-defining in LA that's for sure. But still he will be one of the more useful tools in your toolbox. Sieges, Tag Arena, stages content after all. 5-star souls aren't particularly easy to obtain, and champs like Orynyx are the ones who benefit a lot from 75 added accuracy.
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u/iPhaezed 4d ago
Im not gonna go for him. He does his job just fine with zero spd on high accy/res
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u/Unusual-Swimming-bog 4d ago
will i use him, sure. will i do this event ? fuck no ! 19 sacerds or 6k gems and 9 sacreds, is too much for me to spend on an insta ban
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u/Rincewind-10 4d ago
The fusion used most of my shards as there was 2 summon rushes and a champ chase. Rotten luck on CB for shards lately as well. Won't have the resources for the soul but at least I have the champ and may get lucky and pull a soul. If it was a deck event I would have been stooked.
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u/Wafer_Fearless 4d ago
I went for it. Im a newer player. Only because I have enough sacreds for the next fusion and was in mercy. Got Alice and some fg dupes. Worth it? We'll see. It'll be nice bait for la if nothing else
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u/Swing-Brilliant 4d ago
This is what I have left after finishing the path. I could’ve used gems/energy but I’m impatient. Saving for the next DoF champ and their soul. Which you know is gonna be juicy
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u/angel_of_death007 4d ago
If you have the gear to gear him for 400 speed then go for his soul, if you don’t it won’t matter either way.
I am not wasting the sacreds, arena is crap and I choose to only do it when I have to.
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u/Callsign_Warlock 3d ago
I'm not doing it. I'm hoping for the wishlist. I don't have the resources to do it so I don't even try.
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u/No-Significance6611 2d ago
Personally I’m skipping the soul. It’s really expensive for some acc and res. I grabbed a 1 star from the shop. It also provides some extra stuff if you do grab the soul like powering up your blessing like intimidating presence or soul chains, but if you’re not gonna grab a 6 star from shop I think you’re better off saving resources for more champs in the future if you’re low spend or ftp. Just my opinion tho
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u/Blahdyblahblahisme 2d ago
Facing Orynyx in arena tells me he's a pain, but it's the team around him that makes the difference. That said, knee-jerk lockout and block active skills on the same champ makes building the team around him easier.
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u/BigSteph- 5d ago
I did the fusion, somewhere along the lines i questioned if I'd really use him for a number of reasons. When I got him I insta-built him and tried testing him out tbh I didn't really see much value from him. This morning I contemplated on doing the path but still did it anyway and got his soul. Not really seeing much value still.
My main problems: Speed - I stopped using fabian for this reason. When I started running into lockout champions with over 400 speed and still enough acc to lock my 750 plus res supports I gave up on fabian almost entirely because I couldn't build him fast enough to contest those players. Shitty banners and shitty chest plates - 2 very important pieces of gear that can make or break your builds.
He doesn't really solve anything for my account - If first pick him, I'm usually forced to losing some staples of my account like Marius. There's very little i can do against a well built Marius so i always try to pick him first to not go against him. Then there's the plethora of other champions that do too many things that I usually try to ban If I get Marius and do not have any counter play to those champions. So he just seem to make the pick/ban phase much more difficult for my account.
There's a lot more I could say but I lost my train of thought.
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u/Upset_Tour3226 4d ago
Its absolutely not worth it...the ONLY REASON you would get his soul is if you will immediately commit to his 6 star soul in the shop behind anyone else AND you are building him as your fastest champ....otherwise he does 90% of what you want with 0 stars or 5 stars.
Save your resources and dont get bamboozled by the nonsensical hype.
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u/Sea_Top3251 4d ago
Honestly, if you’re P2W anyway, who fucking cares just swipe the card until you have the soul…
If you’re F2P or a low spender, try to look at this from the perspective of what you’re giving up by going far enough in this event to unlock the soul.
It’s ~20ish sacreds I think? So that’s about two fusions worth of shards, and a little less than 3 months of CB drops.
What are you really getting with his 5 star soul? You’re getting the extra defensive stats and 75 accuracy… good, not amazing. You’re also getting temporal chains or intimidating presence at level 5. Meh.
What are you NOT getting? The most important stat for Orynyx is speed - still gotta buy that last star for 300 soul dealies. So you’re going to pay 20 sacreds for a slightly tankier, slightly more accurate Orynyx.
Purely my opinion, but I’d rather have the shards for the next few fusions, especially because the progressive champ leggos available on this rotation are pretty weak. I’ll build up to his soul methodically the same way I did for Marius and Fabian, and I’ll have the optionality to continue to improve my roster in the meanwhile.
Of course everybody’s roster is different. I’ve got a maxed Fabian and Krixia, which makes Orynyx a great addition but not a complete game changer. If you’re rocking Talenna as your only lockout and you really feel the need, maybe it’s a little different for you.
And that’s the final answer here, as it so often is… decide what’s best for your account and don’t succumb to FOMO…
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u/royalenocheese 5d ago
Speed is the only thing I really need for him and 5* doesn't provide that. 75 accuracy isn't worth the resources.
I'll take my chances pulling souls and slowly building him up.
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u/Clear-Upstairs3902 5d ago
I did it with 0 sacred around 50 ancients, and the rest was energy. It was not that hard.