Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Miss after Miss

The Ruleset

• Rulesets - Earthquake & Equalizer
• Mana Cap - 57
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Helios Matriarch

• With the ruleset and element pick that I got there was only a single element that I had in mind
• That element was Dragon as I had a monster with Wingbreak there which was necessary to counter my enemy playing Flying monsters
• As Dragon element can pick a second element with it I took Earth mainly because my other great Flying monsters were there
• Conscript - One extra gladiator card may be used in battle

1st Position: Pelacor Mercenary

• Pelacor Mercenary was my main tank for this battle
• Main reason I like Pelacor Mercenary here a lot is his Flying + Heal abilities
• Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake
• Heal - Each round, restores 1/3 of max health (rounded down)

2nd Position: Quora Towershead

• As my summoner had the Conscript ability I did not want it do go to waist so I just had to play a Gladius monster
• Even tho Quora Towershead did not have the Flying ability I still played him as he did have the Heal ability which made him him actually better because he was 4 hp every round and only taking 2 hp damage
• Bloodlust - +1 to all stats after dealing a killing blow
• Heal - Each round, restores 1/3 of max health (rounded down)
• Immunity - Provides immunity to magic debuffs and Cripple

3rd Position: Chaos Dragon

• As I still had a lot of mana left I decided to play one high mana cost monster next
• Sadly I only have him in level 1 which makes him not that great but still playable for this team
• But I was after his Flying ability anyway so its fine
• Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake
• Scattershot - Magic and ranged attacks target a random enemy unit

4th Position: Halaran Huntress

• Next up was my take one countering my enemy playing Flying monsters himself
• For 4 mana Halaran Huntress had an amazing stats and also two wonderful abilities that I was after for being Flying and Snare
• Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake
• Charge - Can use melee attacks from any position
• Snare - 100% chance to hit and apply Snared to targets with Flying. Snared units lose all bonuses from Flying

5th Position: Night Reaper

• Now came my most valuable monster in this team
• Also a high cost monster but his Wingbreak made him so worth it in my opinion
• Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake
• Wingbreak - Always targets the first Flying enemy unit regardless of position, abilities, or modifiers. +2 damage if the target has Flying

6th Position: Regal Peryton

• And for last but not least was my wonderful and cheap backline tank Regal Peryton
• The reason I needed backline tank was because earth was active and in my rank people really like playing Katrelba Gobson
• If not taken into account your team could really easily be melted with a couple of Bloodlust takedowns
• So in my case I played a high speed + Flying monster in the back to counter it happening
• Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake

Starting board

• After seeing the starting board I was both happy and scared at the same time
• My enemy did play Katrelba Gobson as I predicted but now he also had to miss decent amount of his hits otherwise he gonna get a lot of takedowns and carry this battle single handedly
• But to find this out we need to start the battle and have a look

Here's how the battle went

1st, 2nd & 3rd Round

• After three rounds the board finally started to go my way
• But I was still so scared because even tho his Katrelba Gobson had missed a lot of his attacks he still had a chance
• On the positive side my team was still all alive and also my Bloodlust monster had gotten one of the takedowns
• But anything could still happen so lets keep watching

4th Round

• After 4th Round the battle was 100% confirmed as I managed to take down two more enemy monsters leaving him with last two
• At this point I started to cheer my team winning this battle without any of them falling as victory was in a bag anyway
• Lets hope for the best and keep watching

5th Round

• This round also confirmed that I was going to win this battle without losing any of my monsters
• Now I just needed to wait for the start of the next round and then face my victory

6th Round

• It took me couple of attacks to kill my enemies last standing monster
• After his Dumacke Orc had fallen I took the victory
• Battle Replay Link

Summary

• This battle was definitely heavily one sided in the end but still fun to watch
• The battle is totally owed to my backline tank Regal Peryton for not giving about and being missed so many time without him the battle would have definitely been with a different ending
• It is always a great practice to think about not only about your own team but also what your enemy might play
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