Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Meleeing myself to Victory

The Ruleset

• Rulesets - Deflection Field & Born Again
• Mana Cap - 42
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Tarsa

• With the ruleset and element pick that I got I felt like my best team was in fire element
• So in my case I went with Tarsa as my summoner
• He was the best possible summoner for the full melee team I had in mind

1st Position: Grum Flameblade

• Grum Flameblade was one of my main tanks for this battle
• Main reason I like Grum Flameblade here a lot is his Bloodlust ability
• Also as Death element was active my enemy might play magic based comp so the Void and Void Armor might come handy
• Bloodlust - Every time this Unit defeats an opponent, it gets +1 to all stats
• Void Armor - Magic attacks hit this Unit's armor before its Health
• Void - Reduced damage from Magic attacks by 50%

2nd Position: Ferexian Hero

• Ferexian Hero was my choice for the Reach monster for this team
• I usually play Radiated Brute as my Reach monster but in this battle I had a lot of mana which meant I could play higher costing monster to get little more stats
• Weapons Training - Gives attack type and power to adjacent no-attack units (max of 3 power)
• Reach - Can use melee attacks from the second position

3rd Position: Uraeus

• Uraeus was my first Sneak monster
• Love Uraeus so much just because how many stats you get for only 3 mana
• Sneak - Targets the enemy unit in the last position

4th Position: Kobold Miner

• Next up in line is another low mana Sneak monster
• Also an amazing monster with high stats for low mana
• The only reason I like Uraeus more than Kobold Miner is that Uraeus is an neutral monster and can be played in almost every battle
• Sneak - Targets the last Unit on the enemy Team instead of the first Unit

5th Position: Sand Worm

• As usual when you play full melee based comp you can not go without Sand Worm
• Even tho he costs a high 9 mana you do get an amazing heavy hitter
• Sneak - Targets the last Unit on the enemy Team instead of the first Unit

6th Position: Tenyii Striker

• Tenyii Striker was my backline tank for this team
• Also he has some quite amazing offensive stats
• The only reason I picked Tenyii Striker as my backline tank was his Dodge ability
• Sneak - Targets the last Unit on the enemy Team instead of the first Unit
• Dodge - +25% chance to evade physical attacks

Starting board

• After seeing the starting board I was quite scared as his team was much higher level
• Even tho my enemy missed half of his summoners debuffs he still had a Demoralize ability which meant my Tarsa +1 melee damage was totally countered and our summoners +1 hp and -1 hp also canceled each others out
• On my side I managed to play a great first tank with Void and void Armor as my enemy played four magic monsters who now were going to do 4 damage instead of 8
• All of the above combined I was sitting in a decent position but the level diff could still turn the battle into my enemies hands
• 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 & 2nd Round

• The first two rounds very huge for me
• I had manage to take down two enemy monsters from his backline and his first position monster was on 1hp and 3 armor
• All of that while my team was still all intact
• But anything could still happen so lets keep watching

3rd Round

• After 3nd Round I had finally taken down his first position tank and the takedown fall onto my Grum Flameblade who got his Bloodlust stack from it
• The board was now looking amazingly good for me and I really did not see a way for my enemy to win this battle anymore

4th Round

• 4th Round was a small cleanup round
• I managed to take down both of my enemies standing magic monsters which now left him with his last monster standing
• There now was absolutely no way my enemy could turn this battle to his favor and I just needed to wait till his last standing monster falls

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 quite scary in the beginning but ended heavily one sided
• I believe the battle came down to me having a Void + Void Armor front tank and super high backline damaging squad
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