Splinterlands Challenge - Katrelba VS Djinn Muirat, a very close battle.

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Hello everyone, this time I will be participating in this Splinterlands Challenge, where I will be showing you a battle in the modern ranked league, one of which, neutral units cannot be summoned, also one of the closest battles I have had lately.

The protagonist of this battle will be the powerful gladius unit, Katrelba Gobson, a common earth unit that reaches a melee attack power of 4 at max level. In my opinion, the most powerful common gladius unit, even better than many rare and epic gladius.

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At level 1, she starts with a melee attack power of 2, but in addition to the Bloodlust ability (each unit she defeats, increases her stats by 1) a unique ability that all gladius units possess, she has the Sneak (while she is in the backline, she will attack the enemy unit that is in the last position) and Double Strike (has two attacks per round) abilities.

At level 5, she has a melee attack power of 3, and gains the Snare ability, so she can now remove the flying ability from units she attacks.

At level 9, she gains the Cripple ability, which allows her to reduce the max health of the enemy unit she attacks by 1. Units with the Immunity ability are not affected by this effect.

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Unfortunately I currently only have Katrelba at level 6, but even at this level she performs very well in battles, being able to destroy many units thanks to her ability to attack twice, and she has given me many victories.

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BATTLE

There are two modifiers active this time. The first is the Born Again modifier, which grants all units the Rebirth ability, allowing them to self resurrect once in the battle with 1 health. And the second is the Taking Sides modifier, which prohibits the use of neutral units.

I'm playing with my account: langice. In this battle I'm using Lobb Lowland, the earth summoner, which allows me to use a gladius unit, and reduce the speed of the enemy units by 1.

Pelacor Mercenary will be my tank unit, he has the flying ability, which gives him a 25% extra chance to evade melee and ranged attacks from non-flying units. And, he can also heal himself up to a max of one third of his health each turn.

Quilliun Legionary in the next position, altough it is a ranged unit, can attack even in the frontline thanks to its Close Range ability. Additionally, it has the Void ability, so it takes 50% less damage from magic units. And due to its thorns ability, enemy melee units that attack it, will take 2 physical damage.

Thanalorian Blade, will attack the enemy unit with the lowest health due to her Opportunity ability, and can attack again if the enemy unit she attacked has 2 health or less to finish it off thanks to her Execute ability.

The protagonist of the battle, Katrelba Gobson will be in the fourth position, ready to get stronger with each kill.

And my last two units will be Goblin Psychic and Mycelic Slipspawn, the first one will heal my frontline unit, and the last one has the taunt ability, so enemy backline units will attack it first than my other units.

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In the first round, Mycelic Slipspawn is destroyed by Dhampir Stalker and Meriput Slinger.

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In the second round, Goblin Psychic is destroyed by Lira the Dark and Silent Sha-vi. Then, Meriput Slinger, who was resurrected three times due to the Born Again modifier and the Resurrect ability of Astral Entity is destroyed by Thanalorian Blade and twice by Katrelba Gobson. After that, Pelacor Mercenary is defeated by Djinn Muirat and Harklaw.

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In the third round, Thanalorian Blade destroys Dhampir Stalker once.

In the fourth round, Katrelba Gobson eliminates Dhampir Stalker. And Quilliun Legionary is defeated by Lira the Dark and Djinn Muirat.

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In the fifth round, Lira the Dark and Djinn Muirat defeat Thanalorian Blade. And Katrelba Gobson defeats Lira twice.

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In the sixth and seventh rounds, Harklaw is defeated twice by Katelbra. And Djinn Muirat defeats Katelbra, but she is resurrected thanks to the Rebirth ability.

In the eighth and tenth rounds, unfortunately for the opponent, the enemy serpent fails its attack against Katelbra, and thanks to this, she defeats Djinn Muirat and Silent Sha-vi twice, ending the battle.

Full Battle

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In this battle, the opponent used Astral Entity, which reduced my units' armor by 2. And granted his allies the dodge ability, having a 25% extra chance to evade melee and ranged attacks, and also resurrected the first enemy unit I defeated first. Very good death summoner, that made it difficulty for my units to attack enemy units.

Due to the Born Again modifier, all units were able to resurrect once with 1 health, thanks to this my Katrelba was able to gain a lot of stats each time she defeated an enemy unit thanks to her Bloodlust ability.

I almost lost this battle, as all my units, except Katelbra, were defeated in the fifth round. However, thanks to Katelbra's high speed, gained by defeating many enemy units, she was able to dodge the attack of enemy units, and was able to defeat the remaining enemy units thanks to her double strike ability, winning the battle.

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That's all for now guys, if you haven't played Splinterlands yet, you can join with my referral link. See you on the battlefield!

Sources:
https://splinterlands.com/user/collection
https://splinterlands.com/card-detail/312/regular/6?tab=stats