Bosses and the Demon Lord Tower
Rift Raid is a separate fight from the main wave lane. The 31 Oct 2026 post tells players who are stuck to farm rift bosses for gear, then use the blacksmith. A store screenshot shows one of those fights: Fallen Angel, with a boss bar reading 14,166 of 57,996 and a timer. That bar is one pull, not a published max HP.

Rift bosses
Seven names are listed. Five of them match Steam achievement names. Cyclops and Fallen Angel are also named in the day-one hotfix: defeating Fallen Angel had displayed a Cyclops message, and the names were corrected across languages. A second guide only discusses four of the seven. Red Dragon's "130" is disputed: one guide says recommended power 130, another says recommended wave 130. The cell says the screen shows 130 and records both readings.
| Red Dragon | Rift Raid boss | Rift Gate; guides place the unlock at wave 80 | First rift boss; rare gear chest; First Raid 73.4% on 5 Nov; .com recommends 130 power, while .wiki labels 130 as a wave | 4 sources; guides disagree whether the recommended value is power or waveRow sources
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| Fairy Dragon | Rift Raid boss | Rift Gate; guides place the unlock at wave 80 | Second rift boss; fabled gear drops and strength increases after each defeat; Rift Skirmish 47.8% on 5 Nov; one guide recommends 800 power | 3 sources: announcement, Steam achievement and fan guideRow sources
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| Goblin King | Rift Raid boss | Rift Gate; guides place the unlock at wave 80 | Rift Rivalry achievement: 24.0% in the 5 Nov 2026 Steam snapshot | 2 sourcesRow sources
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| Pagan Monarch | Rift Raid boss | Rift Gate; guides place the unlock at wave 80 | Rift Showdown achievement: 18.8% in the 5 Nov 2026 Steam snapshot | 2 sourcesRow sources
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| Bone Dragon | Rift Raid boss | Rift Gate; guides place the unlock at wave 80 | Rift Clash achievement: 9.3% in the 5 Nov 2026 Steam snapshot | 2 sourcesRow sources
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| Cyclops | Rift Raid boss | Rift Gate; guides place the unlock at wave 80 | Day-one fix: defeating Fallen Angel had displayed Cyclops as the boss name | 3 sourcesRow sources
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| Fallen Angel | Rift Raid boss | Rift Gate; guides place the unlock at wave 80 | Rift boss; a Steam screenshot shows HP 14,166/57,996 and a 1:19 timer on one run | 3 sources: screenshot, official patch and fan guideRow sources
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Main-wave bosses
Goblin Shaman and Goblin Chief are named from a launch-day video write-up on a public guide. I have one source for each, so the status column says so. I am not giving them HP or resists.
| Goblin Shaman | Main-wave boss | Main defense waves | Early main-wave boss; guides describe an appearance roughly every ten waves | 1 shared underlying source: two guides cite the same 2 Nov 2026 videoRow sources
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| Goblin Chief | Main-wave boss | Main defense waves | Guides place its first appearance around wave 20, alternating with Goblin Shaman | 1 shared underlying source: two guides cite the same 2 Nov 2026 videoRow sources
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Demon Lord Tower
The tower is a mode, not a single boss row. The day-one hotfix reduced the difficulty of floor 1. It does not say how many floors exist. The 17 Aug playtest note says Rift Raid gained an idle mode and that Red Dragon drop rates in the rift had been wrong. Drop tables are still unpublished, so this page has no loot column.
Achievement defeat rates moved fast after launch. A guide captured on 3 Nov 2026 printed much lower percents than the Steam achievement page on 5 Nov 2026. The achievement page is the set I trust for current rates, and the gap is evidence that early percents go stale in two days. Read them on the achievements page with the date attached.

Questions
What is the Rift in Legend of Defenders?
A boss raid beside the wave defense. Studio posts say you farm it for gear when a wave is too hard. Fallen Angel is visible in an official screenshot.
How hard is the Demon Lord Tower?
Only floor 1 is discussed in public notes, and only to say the day-one patch made it easier. Floor count and rewards are not published.
Sources
- Steam store page, Legend of Defenders (app 4740930) — checked 2026-11-05
- Steam news for app 4740930 — checked 2026-11-05
- Steam global achievements for app 4740930 — checked 2026-11-05
- legendofdefenders.com heroes list — checked 2026-11-05
- legend-of-defenders.wiki heroes and towers — checked 2026-11-05