Skill Legends Royale: Best Archetypes, Ranked

Key Takeaways

• Best archetype for critical damage, focusing on aggression with critical hit rate and critical defense.
• Best archetype for magic damage, utilizing freeze skills like Persistent Freeze.
• Best archetype for defense, centered around physical and magic protection with Final Defense skill.

There are many archetypes in Skill Legends Royale that correspond to a number of skills that heroes can use during battles. They can be further categorized into three levels of difficulty: for beginner players, for medium-level players, and for veteran players. This list will focus only on the most powerful archetypes, regardless of their complexity.

Each archetype has a number of the strongest skills, which will also be outlined, as well as the most recommended heroes for each one. But every archetype has a weakness that can be exploited, allowing them to counter those skills, no matter how powerful they may seem at first. All these points are important to discuss here!

8 Crit

Best Archetype For Critical Damage

• Difficulty: 2 Stars
• Damage: Physical, Magic

This is the most aggressive archetype in Skill Legends Royale, focusing on improving the critical hit rate, increasing physical damage, and triggering burst damage. The best part about this archetype is that it not only increases critical hit chance but also protects players from being critically hit with the help of Critical Defense ability.

The strongest skill in this archetype is Wartime Rampage, which increases critical stat by 8 points at the start of the battle. The best hero for this archetype would be Mad Axman, who utilizes two critical attacks: Lethal Attack and Boom Boom.

7 Freeze

Best Archetype For Magic Damage

• Difficulty: 2 Stars
• Damage: Magic

This archetype isn’t only about freezing enemies, which is quite effective in battles, but also about freeze magic like summoning ice spikes or creating shields for protection. Players who choose this archetype also get the Freeze Antidote, which reduces freeze status effect stacking.

The strongest skill in this set is Persistent Freeze, which applies six stacks of freeze without any drawbacks. The best hero for this archetype would be Naga Queen. Her best abilities are Freeze Curse and Iceburst Bombs, which launch six ice bombs at enemies.

6 Shield

Best Archetype For Defense

• Difficulty: 2 Stars
• Damage: Physical

Although the Shield archetype is primarily focused on protecting heroes from physical and magic damage, it has a unique Shield Smash skill, which can also deal quite some damage by throwing shields at enemies. The most powerful skill in this set is Final Defense, which can save a hero from dying when receiving a lethal dose of damage.

More than that, players get a speed boost to their dodge and attack skills. The two best heroes for this archetype would be the Royal Knight or Tribal Warrior, as both have access to some highly efficient shield synergies.

5 Sprite

Best Archetype For Summons

• Difficulty: 2 Stars
• Damage: Magic

What if there was a way to summon sprite spirits to the hero’s side, who would fight for them and protect them? This archetype offers exactly that, using such powerful summon skills as Call Guard and Twin Sprites. There’s also a Repel Sprite ability, which reduces the HP of the summoned sprites on the enemy side, making them virtually helpless.

Here, the choice of heroes is quite vast, which makes the Sprite archetype so popular in the Skill Legends Royale meta. But the three most valuable ones would be Jungle Prophet, Chaos Overlord, and Treant Guard.

4 Heal

Best Archetype For Healing

• Difficulty: 3 Stars
• Damage: Magic

The Heal archetype provides players with a vast number of healing and recovery skills, including Natural Healing, Therapy Rays, Medical Explosion, and others. One of the most useful ones is Lifesteal DMG, as it recovers HP automatically whenever a hero deals damage to enemies.

Also, consider such skills, like Healing Disruption, which prevents enemies from healing, making it easier to defeat them. The best hero for this set would be Panda Warrior, who can heal and deal damage to enemies at the same time with the help of such skills as Booze Guard and Bonding Toast.

3 Ultimate

Best Archetype For Energy Recovery

• Difficulty: 3 Stars
• Damage: Magic

Mages and spellcasters absolutely must use skills from the Ultimate set, as it’s the only source of quick energy recovery. While most skills in this branch focus on exclusively recovering energy, such as Energy Regen and Energy Ultimate, there are also damage dealers, such as Initiative Strike.

The best part about this archetype is that it grants access to a number of disruption spells, such as Energy Cost that reduces the enemy’s energy recovery. The three best heroes for this set would be Mystic Mage, Two-Headed Mage, and Astral Mage.

2 Wound

Best Archetype For Support

• Difficulty: 2 Stars
• Damage: Magic

Wound is a powerful status effect that keeps dealing damage to enemies over time, which is very hard to get rid of. On top of that, there’s a very effective lightning AOE in this set, such as Endless Thunder that also inflicts Wound on enemies. Players who use this branch can also apply Wound Immunity to their heroes, which protects them from the enemy’s side.

Note that shields can prevent Wound from being inflicted, so focus on destroying them first. Use such heroes as Kerfuffle Apostle and Naga Queen to utilize this set more efficiently.

1 Rage

Most Overpowered Archetype

• Difficulty: 3 Stars
• Damage: Magic

Rage is a high-risk, high-reward kind of archetype, which increases a hero’s damage the lower their HP drops. Due to the Healing Rage skill, it’s possible to both recover HP and gain Rage, or use Shield Rage to convert damage into more Rage. This archetype also allows players to increase the damage of their ultimate ability by 20%.

The only hero who can effectively utilize such a complex but extremely powerful set of skills is Furious Mage. This branch isn’t recommended for new players due to its high complexity, so keep this in mind.