Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Team of Abilities

The Ruleset

• Rulesets - Super Sneak
• Mana Cap - 41
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Octavia Shadowmeld

• With the element pick that I got I sadly did not have a large variety to choose from and as I do not have the greatest teams in light I settled for death
• Octavia Shadowmeld was choice of poison as I really wanted to play my Gladius legendary this battle

1st Position: Xulax Nightwind

• Xulax Nightwind was my main tanks for this battle
• Main reason I like Xulax Nightwind here a lot is his Bloodlust and Thorns abilities
• Even tho Xulax Nightwind costs a huge 9 mana I still played him as I also had a plan to play other lower mana costs monsters anyway
• Void Armor - Magic attacks hit this Unit's armor before its Health
• Bloodlust - Every time this Unit defeats an opponent, it gets +1 to all stats
• Thorns - Returns 2 physical damage to attacker when hit by a melee attack

2nd Position: Usut

• Usut was my second Bloodlust monster
• Also a high mana cost monster but two Bloodlust monster in a single team was too good do say no to
• Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake
• Bloodlust - Every time this Unit defeats an opponent, it gets +1 to all stats

3rd Position: Corpse Fiend

• Corpse Fiend was here just to tank a single hit when it should come to him tanking
• The only reason I picked him was that I just had 0 mana and 1 spot open

4th Position: Revealer

• Next up in line is one of my newer favorites
• For only 4 mana you get a decent magic monster with an amazing Stun ability
• Stun - 50% chance to apply Stunned for one round after a successful attack. Stunned units skip their turn and cannot Retaliate

5th Position: Ravenhood Warden

• Ravenhood Warden is possible my favorite low mana death monster
• Not that much because of his stats but more because of his Protect ability
• But his stats are also not the worst for 4 mana the only thing I that he is sadly ranged monster who I usually do not really like
• Protect - +2 armor to all allied units

6th Position: Octopider

• Octopider was my backline tank for this battle
• Also he has some quite amazing tank stats being 3 speed and 8 hp
• Alongside the amazing stats is his Demoralize ability which I really liked for this battle was Super Sneak was active
• Demoralize - -1 melee power to all enemy units

Starting board

• After seeing the starting board I was quite on the fence about the outcome of the battle
• My enemy had better summoner in higher level and also therefor his entire team was higher level than mine was
• But his entire team was setup and ordered quite badly in my opinion which came me a little hope
• 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

• After first round the board had changed a lot
• I had already taken down his Cursed Windeku and damaged his Undead Minotaur to 1hp
• Meanwhile only my Octopider had taken some damage and was possible going to fall in the next round
• But anything could still happen so lets keep watching

2nd Round

• After 2nd Round my team was starting to fall fast too
• I lost two of my backline monsters while I only managed to take down two of his 1hp monsters
• But up to this point my Usut had already gotten two Bloodlust take downs
• Lets hope for the best and keep watching

3rd & 4th Round

• 3rd and 4th Round were super great for me
• Now only two monsters were standing on the battleground
• With my Usut getting another takedown I had so much more stats the battle was 100% won
• Now I just needed to wait for the last two rounds and then face my victory

5th & 6th Round

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

Summary

• This battle was definitely close and interesting
• The strategy to take away from this battle is to play as many strong ability monsters as possible
• In my case I managed to play two Bloodlust, Thorns, Stun, Protect and Demoralize
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