Universal Tower Defense X Raids Guide: All Modes, Team Comps, and Readiness Checker

Raid readiness checker: which raids can your team clear?

Select your roster strength below. The checker maps your current DPS band to each raid's minimum requirement and tells you which raids you can attempt, which ones you're close to, and what units to get next.

All UTDX raid modes overview table

This table covers the four current raid types in Universal Tower Defense X, ordered by minimum team DPS requirement. Use it to find which raids fit your current progress stage before committing to a grind session.

All DPS values are planning baselines from community testing and modelled data. Boss HP figures are community-estimated from raid footage and Discord session reports.

Proven UTDX raid team compositions

These four team setups cover the range from early raid access through endgame clears. Each was tested across multiple sessions tracking clear rate, wave-phase survival, and total resource cost to build the lineup. Not ideal for every map or team size, but each hits its target raid consistently.

Why control units matter more in raids than in standard waves

Standard wave modes give you time to recover from a lane leak. Raids do not. Once a boss crosses the exit in a raid act, the team fails the phase and progress resets. That changes the risk calculus for every slot in your team.

A slow unit like Water God (Primordial) in a standard wave might add 15 to 20 percent more effective DPS by extending enemy exposure time. In a raid with a 1.8M HP boss, that same slow at the 30 percent HP threshold extends the boss's time in your carry's firing window by enough to close the gap between a failed clear and a completed one. Community session data from the Emperor's Kingdom raid shows a 35 to 40 percent higher full-clear rate in runs that included Water God compared to pure damage setups with the same total DPS on paper.

Ice Empress is the better pick on split-lane raids like Warlord's Ship because she slows both lanes when placed at the merge zone. Her lower cost compared to Water God also means she fits into roster builds that cannot yet afford the Mythic slot. The tradeoff is that Ice Empress has no boss-phase damage and her slow uptime is shorter than Water God's on single-lane maps.

The general rule: bring one control unit for every raid act that has a boss or a fast-wave phase. Raids with three or more acts that each introduce new enemy speeds benefit most from two control slots, with the second control unit positioned to cover the act where the speed spike happens.

How to target specific raid drops and plan your grind

Raid drops in UTDX follow per-clear probability, not a guaranteed pity counter except for Sharpshooter King (Trapper) at around 40 runs. That means the fastest way to target a specific drop is to clear the relevant raid consistently rather than attempting it with an under-prepared roster and failing mid-run.

For Dragon Warlord (Rage) from Emperor's Kingdom at 8 percent per clear: a team clearing the full raid 12 to 15 times per session has roughly an 80 percent chance of seeing at least one drop. Running Act 1 and 2 without reaching Act 3 does not count. The boss fight in Act 3 is where the drop table activates.

For Gluttonous Warlord (Despair) at 5 percent from Warlord's Ship: the same math applies across all four acts. A team completing 20 full clears has around 64 percent odds of a drop. The Despair aura actually improves team clearing speed once obtained, creating a loop where the first drop makes future runs faster.

Evolution materials from Freakybuu Incident are not RNG-gated in the same way. Corrupted fragments drop reliably from Acts 1 through 4, so the farming loop there is about run count rather than luck. Act 5 drops (Limit Breaker Prince and Super Roku) return to per-clear probability.