Top 10 Most Powerful Spells in DnD 5e

There are a lot of powerful spells in Dungeons and Dragons 5e that have the potential to shape or break a campaign in various different ways. Some spells have really high damage output, while other spells might excel at fulfilling a certain niche or role your party might need to be filled. However, there are some spells that are considered so strong and exploitable that these spells tend to either get banned or reworked to make them feel more balanced. So, in this video, we will be going over spells that are widely considered some of the most powerful spells you can obtain, whether it'd be due to ease of usage, or for how easy the spell is to exploit and take advantage of, or just the general impact of a campaign overall.

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Written by: Zephyr
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├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10. Fireball: (0:31)
9. Animate Objects: (3:00)
8. Banishment: (5:30)
7. Wall of Force : (7:45)
6. Leomund's Tiny Hut: (10:48)
5. Hypnotic Pattern: (13:31)
4. Polymorph: (15:58)
3. Conjure Woodland Beings: (18:37)
2. Simulacrum: (20:56)
1. Wish: (24:38)

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[SSXani]

If you want fireball to be even more useful, play an Order of Scribes Wizard and learn spells of different damage types so that you can alter the damage type of Fireball to a more practical damage type.

[Miggy]

the lowly Shield and silvery barb spells are ludicrously good for lvl 1. Also conjure animals (velociraptors) is very powerful. Forcecage too. Clone makes you immortal. Fireball and Polymorph aren't as good as these, esp since they drop off in use at higher levels.

[MidKnightOTC]

Darkness is my favorite spell to use, in conjunction with faerie fire. Makes any indoor encounter almost hilariously easy. Slap it on a fighter and while they fumble around in the dark I'm wrecking with booming blade ❤ Drow EK fighter is my favorite class of all time

[MizterMeatMissile]

Movements creature speed sent me haha

Edit: not being mean I couldn't present all this information this concisely in my dreams. Its like an Easter egg!

[guyfawkes]

Just remember silvered adamantine cutlery for animate objects ;) cuts the list of resistant monsters a lot

[Romeo_of_Romelution]

Mr.Logs have you considered making a best Fighter fighting style video?

[shadowmyst]

Honestly with what limitations that Simulacrum has it’s more cost effective to just summon a new one when its health gets low instead of spending so much gold per hit point. And if the copy was of a spellcaster (which it usually is more often than not) then you would need to summon a new one anyway when it runs out of spell slots.

[samuelpierce]

Forgive me if this has been mentioned, but technically Cone of Cold does one more average hit point of damage than a 5th level fireball. 🤷‍♂️

[marcussawyer]

The dms don't ban the most powerful option on the list: Fey Shadows... strength drain is really strong and there's no immunity to it, not even undead are immune to it.

[carlosvillanueva]

Wish allows for you to cast any spell under 7th without the 33% chance of becoming unable to cast wish without spell components. Simulacrum is 7th level. So cast until your heart's content.

[guydude]

Wish is like the only valid one here tbh

[aaronsalinas]

Words mean things. You can not cast silulacrum more than once. Words mean things. You can not have more than one copy of you. It's simple. And you break the game for no reason. Words mean things.

[canis]

Mold Earth is my favorite spell. Fight me.

[underscorerx]

Multi-casting Simulacrum is a perfectly valid play. Inevitables were created for a reason

[ronaldshaw]

I wish people would stop comparing fireball and tidal wave. They are not comparable. Tidal wave and lightning bolt is a more fair comparison.

[louismcbride]

I think you missed Pass Without Trace. Having your whole party getting a +10 to stealth and getting the whole party surprise round is better than Fireball. So is spirit Guardians.

[czcrossman]

“It reduces a movement’s creature speed to zero..” LOL love ya bro, missed that one in Post huh?? 😂

[jaceg]

I was missing the lower level bread and butter:
-Sleep: end most level 1 combat encounters instantly
-Find familar: the scouting, advantage from help and passive perception of an owl, not to talk about an living trap detector
-Web: very low level shutdown spell with a great condition in a wide area of effect
-Silvery barbs/Shield: I decide I do not die today

[DaDunge]

25:00 Not really. A free worded wish can only do thing appropriate for a 9th level spell. You can ask for more but overreaching increades the chances of a missfire.

[ronaldshaw]

Confusion is a great one. Targets wisdom and creatures immune to charm effects are not protected from this spell. If anything gets hit with this spell is totally screwed. This spell is good for in combat and out of combat. You want to turn a group of enemies against one another use confusion. This spell can be down right evil in the hands of even a newbie. This is like the spell in Skyrim that will cause a town to murder one another.