Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Unlucky misclick

15 days ago

With the ruleset and element pick that I got I really did not have many options to play
Only 2 elements were active Life and Death
Also Heavy Metal was active which meant little more than half of my entire collection was unplayable
And if that was not enough the mana cap was also quite low being 25 so I really needed to find a low mana cost team from two possible elements and all of the monsters I wanted to play needed to have at least 1 armor
So in my case I went with Death element and Octavia Shadowmeld as my summoner because I had more playable monster in Death element over Life

Xulax Nightwind was my main tank for this battle
Main reason I like Xulax Nightwind here a lot is his Bloodlust and Thorns abilities
Even tho Xulax Nightwind costs a wopping 9 mana I still decided to play him as I really did not have any other better tank to play
And for that 9 mana I got a great monster with great stats and abilities
Void Armor - Magic damage hits armor before 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

Uraeus was my first low mana damage dealer with at least 1 armor so he would be playable in this battle
You might see the pattern in my posts as I play Uraeus in almost all of my battles just because how good this card is
For only 3 mana you get so many stats and he is also neutral which means he is playable in almost all battles
Sneak - Targets the enemy unit in the last position

And for my second low mana backline attacker was Broken Earth Thug
Just like Uraeus if not better as you get same stats but one more ability which being Cripple
But the thing that makes him worse in my eyes is that he is only playable in Death element matches not like Uraeus who is playable in almost all battles as he is neutral monster
But for this battle I would say Broken Earth Thug is better and fits into my team quite decently
Opportunity - Targets the enemy unit with the least health
Cripple - -1 to target's max health after each successful attack. Does not affect units with Immunity

For last but not least I had my 2 mana left and I was lost on what I was going to play
I was scrolling trough my possibilities and ended up on Chaos Animator
There were two reasons I decided to play him one was that he was going to be my backline tank and the second was that even at level one he had one great ability which I was planning to take advantage off and that ability was Amplify
Amplify - Increases damage of Retaliate, Corrosive Ward, Deflect, Return Fire, and Thorns for all friendly units by 1. Does not stack

After seeing the starting board I was quite scared for a moment as I saw my enemy playing strong tank and the classic two no attack monsters + Weapons Training
Then I saw that my enemy did not play Weapons Training and my confidents came back real quick
The only idea that I had was that he misclicked and picked Olivia of the Brook instead of playing Aves Sturgis as they are next to each other in the picking phase.
That left me with a decent team and my enemy with not that great team
But my predictions could still be off by a mile so lets start the battle and have a look

After the first two rounds the board was still looking quite the same as in the start
I had lost one of my backline damage dealers which was sad for a second
Than I realized that my only worries was that his Olivia of the Brook would not steal my Bloodlust with his Mimic as that you possible get him couple of take downs and therefor make him even stronger
But anything could still happen so lets keep watching

In the next two rounds I managed to lose another one of my monsters but I really did not care anymore at this point
And the reason why I did not care was that after those two rounds my enemies Mimic Still had not gotten my Bloodlust and now he was in the first position making him almost useless as he was dealing only two damage per round while I was dealing 5 with an attack and 3 with my buffed Thorns
This was the point were I felt like the battle was 100% over and I was taking this victory home
Lets make one more stop when his Olivia of the Brook falls so there is no question about the ending of the battle

It only took me 1 round to take down my enemies Olivia of the Brook
my 5 damage attack took down his 4 armor and then his melee attack triggered my 3 damage Thorns which ended him off
Now I just needed to wait for the start of the next couple of rounds and then face my victory
If I managed to hit my attacks two rounds in a row the battle should be over with those two rounds lets hope for a quite ending as there is not way my enemy is coming back from his situation

This battle was definitely heavily one sided but still fun to watch
There is not a strategy to take away from this battle sadly from my side but make sure you do not misclick in the picking phase like my enemy did in this battle
Miss picking your team could be the difference between winning and losing you battle even if you have the right team in mind so make sure you are entering the correct team each time you battle
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