Some Meta Looks Great But It is Hard To Deliver - Armor Strike

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Everyweek I make a couple of Splinterlands post which both are my experience and my journey in playing this game. Today post I want to share something in different way. Usually I share one of my battle, but not in this opportunity.

Today I just wanted to share my though, a difficulty I get while trying something new. The concept was born when I made a post a few weeks ago

https://inleo.io/@dewabrata/aerial-shieldmaiden-your-new-dps-card-arn

At that time, I saw Aerial Shieldmaiden as good DPS card, the card that could deliver high damage per round. When he gets level 4, he will get an armor strike, and that makes him throw his armor as his melee damage.

So it means that at level 4 he will deliver 2 range damage and 3 melee damage from his armor strike. At his highest level, he will deliver 4 + 4 damage, and 8 damage per round for 8 mana unit is a great one.

Later on, I studied on this new card

Warwall Juggernaut shares the same traits as Aerial Shieldmaiden. At level 3 he can deliver 3 + 4 damage per round, and at his max level he will deliver 4 + 5 = 9 damage per round. That number is amazing!!!

So these two cards gave me an idea about developing a Meta for Water Element that focusing on Armor Striking ability

WHY I SEE IT CAN WORK

Ok there are some reasons why I see it can work, but I will make them simple here. One of my reason I see it would work because I see other cards that can support armor strike through the Protect Ability

Runic Skychonk play great part in this part. She has protect ability which add +2 armor to all units, including Aerial Shieldmaiden and Warwall Juggernaut.

But extra armor only won't help this meta in long rounds, we need a support to revive some armors which have gone, through an ability call repair.

We have archer koi for this one. the first can repair some armor and it has a range attack too, which won't make your team losing up some momentum here. Archer koi itself is not something that powerful, but I do not think it is a bad card either.

However this does not mean that we will have to rely on those two cards. There are other cards from other edition or other element such as Neutral element that can be used to support those two DPS.

Conclave Tracker is one of the alternative solution if we can not use archer koi. She has repair ability. We have some other cards with protect ability.

Bottom line is the subtitute or alternative are available here.

HOWEVER IT DOES NOT WORK

Here the fact, I have tried several times to try getting a valid or solid Armor Strike meta for Water Element, but I haven't got the right formula. Theoretically it can work, anyone who read my post here knows that too. However we are talking about facts here, it doesn't work well.

Here are some of my reason why I keep getting it not working well.

1. Too easy to be countered. Your opponent only need Thorn Ability and Corrosive Wards, as the battle progress, those two DPS will become some so so units. I do not know whether this will change when you have a very high level for those two.
2. Speed becomes a big issue here. All the cards I mention above, their speed are so so. They are not a snail with 1 speed, but none of them reach 4 speed. Even at their highest level, their speed is still like that.
3. Somehow it doesn't not connect well with any tank. Well this is the most common failure I keep seeing, if I focus too much on Armor Strike by getting some extra armor, somehow it looks like there is a missing link between my tank and Warwall Juggernaut. Warwall Juggernaut doesn't do well as a tank too.
4. The only think I can make it happens pretty good is when I only focus on one of them, whether Warwall Juggernaut or Aerial Shieldmaiden. Maybe by focusing on one of them only, I get an extra one slot unit which can connect all the missing link.

So what do you think about this issue, do you have some suggestion for me or maybe you have an idea or feedback about this meta?

Anyway thank you for your visit here. See you in Splinterlands Rank Battles!!!

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