Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Perfect Heals

The Ruleset

• Rulesets - Standard
• Mana Cap - 32
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Franz Ruffmane

• With the ruleset and element pick that I got I did not have much of a choice when it came to summoners
• I was forced to play life and even tho the mana cap suggested I play something low mana I decided to go with 6 mana Franz Ruffmane as he had at least a decent buff compared to my other summoners
• With Franz Ruffmane I was also able to play a single gladius monster which could possible turn the whole battle to its head
• Conscript - One extra gladiator card may be used in battle

1st Position: Drybone Barbarian

• Drybone Barbarian was my main tanks for this battle
• Main reason I like Drybone Barbarian here a lot is both of his abilities Enrage and Retaliate
• Even tho Drybone Barbarian costs a large amount of my mana cap I still played him as I have really started to like him a lot
• Enrage - +50% melee power and speed (rounded up) if not at full health
• Retaliate - 50% chance to counterattack successful melee attacks, even if defeated

2nd Position: Uraeus

• Uraeus was first of two Sneak monsters in my team this time
• As usual Uraeus is my favorite pick in many of my battles just because how cheap and good this card is
• Sneak - Targets the enemy unit in the last position

3rd Position: Stitch Leech

• Stitch Leech was my second Sneak monster
• Stitch Leech as even better stats than Uraeus but his only down side is that he is only playable in life element which I really do not like but for this battle Stitch Leech is just an amazing monster
• Sneak - Targets the enemy unit in the last position

4th Position: Divine Healer

• Next up in line comes my two healers
• Divine Healer stats kinda suck but you can not go wrong with 3 mana Tank Heal monster
• Tank Heal - Each round, restores 1/3 of max health (rounded down) to the allied unit in the first position

5th Position: Venari Crystalsmith

• And here is my second healer
• Even tho he costs 1 mana more than the last healer he also has better stats so it was fine with me
• Also the reason for both of these healers was to out heal my enemies entire damage and let my Drybone Barbarian take down them one by one
• Tank Heal - Each round, restores 1/3 of max health (rounded down) to the allied unit in the first position

6th Position: Ajax Lightfoot

• As I already played a summoner with Conscript it would have been rude not to use it
• And because I only had 4 mana left I figured I would go with Ajax Lightfoot as he is an amazing backline tank with his high speed and Dodge
• Also for 4 mana getting 3 ranged damage and Bloodlust ever high chance he would become my unexpected carry
• Bloodlust - +1 to all stats after dealing a killing blow
• Dodge - +25% chance to evade physical attacks

Starting board

• After seeing the starting board I was quite on the fence about the results of the battle
• We both picked the same summoners so they cancel each other out basically and the teams ever also quite close in my opinion
• Even tho I had more damage I believed the battle would come down to who ever takes others Drybone Barbarian down first
• But my predictions could still be off by a mile so lets start the battle and have a look

Here's how the battle went

1st Round

• The battle had started amazing for me
• I managed to take down his Drybone Barbarian first with my one still alive but with low hp (also at 1hp for a brief second)
• But anything could still happen so lets keep watching

2nd Round

• After 2nd Round I was so clad I played two healers as my Drybone Barbarian was on 1hp two times in a single round
• But other than that the battle was going amazingly in all other aspects too, I had managed to take down his backline monster and had now I clear shot at his healer
• Lets hope for the best and keep watching

3rd Round

• This battle is totally owed to my two healers as my Drybone Barbarian was again at 1 hp (fourth times already)
• But with 3 rounds done I now just needed to wait for the start of the next and last round and then face my victory

4th Round

• It took me 2 attack to kill my enemies last standing monster
• After his Aves Sturgis had fallen I took the victory
• Battle Replay Link

Summary

• This battle was definitely heavily one sided in the end but many close calls with my Drybone Barbarian being on 1hp 4 times in this battle
• The strategy to take away from this battle is the basic double Tank Heal set up and also getting lucky with the attack orders
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