Hello Splintermates and Hiveans,
Hope you are having a wonderful day. This weeks Splinterlands Social Media Challenge! it is time to show " SHOOK TROOPER IN BACK TO BASIC RULESET : 5 SHOTS 4 KILLS " where i am going to share a remarkable battle link replay where shook trooper was the star of the battle.
THE BATTLE
This battle is a 18 mana with need for speed, armored up and back to basics ruleset against a very strong opponent who has a lot of gold collection . My opponent uses yudin zaku as his archon which is the best option in this battle ruleset while i used my archon cryptic to mainly take advantage on shook trooper with a high magic damage where a 1 shot can illuminate an opponent.
Battle link replay:
https://splinterlands.com/battle/sm_yQObB7zHeiwc6qJnd2WV?ref=axemaster88
BATTLE RULESET :
| RULESET | DESCRIPTION |
|---|
 | Need for Speed - you can only summon units with 3 or more speed |
 | Armored Up - all units gain +2 armor. |
 | Back to Basics - units lose all abilities |
STAR OF THE DAY : SHOOK TROOPER
Lash Stagmuck, the scavo technomancer renowned for his role in creating the runi, is hard at work on his next invention: the electrovolt zappack.
This handy contraption consists of a backpack infused with mana, water, and bottled lightning, used to empower a weapon with electrically charged water magic.
Rebel forces have been field testing Lash’s electrovolt zappack. Unfortunately, the initial prototypes have a tendency to deliver a painful shock to the user—as well as everyone around them.
SHOOK TROOPER - Shock Trooper is a 4 mana water epic rebellion reward card. At level 6 it has 5 magic attack, 6 health and 4 speed. At level 6 it has also has electrified abilities (deals 1 damage to all allied Units at the beginning of each round), swiftness abilities ( +1 speed to all allied units) and magic reflect abilities ( returns 50% of damage to attacker (rounded up) when hit by a magic attack). This is one of my favorite monster specially in back to basic ruleset due to its high damage 5 magic and 4 speed which can illuminate an opponent with just 1 move
MY TEAM MEMBERS
| ARCHON | UNIT 1 | UNIT 2 | UNIT 3 | UNIT 4 | UNIT 5 |
|---|
| Cryptic | Halfling Refugee | Endless Gibbon | Xenith Archer | Great Porcupine | Shock Trooper |
1. CRYPTIC - is a rebellion card dual water and death legendary archon. It is a 7 mana cards. It takes out -1 speed to all enemy units and provide blind to all enemy units from the start of the battle. It also gives added two type of tactics , first option is to give enfeeble, -1 to targets melee power after each succesful attack and retalliate - 50% chance to counter melee attack even after being defeated. Cryptic second tactic is poison - provides 50% chance to provide poison after succesful attack. Poison units will lose 2 health at the beginning of each round . And expose - provide 80% chance to remove forcefield, lookout, deflect, shield, void, void armor, cleanse or immunity after succesful attack.
2. HALFLING REFUGEE - Halfling Refugee is a 1 mana epic neutral rebellion soulbound reward card. At maxed level it has 5 melee attack. At level 6 it has also 8 health and 3 speed. It has also two abilities; weary ability and heal ablity. Halfling refugee is my favorite tank in little league due to its high 5 melee attack and even high 9 health. Aside from that its ability to heal makes him a good choice although its weary ability gives some disadvantage in a normal battle ruleset.
3. ENDLESS GIBBON - is a 1 mana water legendary rebellion soulbound reward card. At level 3 it has 1 melee attack, 3 health and 3 speed. At level 3 it has reach ability (can use melee attacks from the second position). With this low mana battle endless gibbon serve as a filler.
4. XENITH ARCHER - xenith archer is a 2 mana rare neutral chaos legion card. At level 8 it has 2 ranged attack, 5 health and 4 speed. Even at maxed level it has no abilities so it can not attack at first position.
5. GREAT PORCUPINE - great porcupine is a 3 mana neutral epic rebellion card. At level 5 it has 2 ranged attack, 0 armor, 5 health and 3 speed. It also has close range ability (can use ranged attacks from the first position) and thorns ability (Returns 2 physical damage to attacker when hit by a melee attack) . In this battle i used it in first position to delays attack on halfing refugee while my opponent suffer from posion.
MY STRATEGY AND POSITIONING
| ARCHON | UNIT 1 | UNIT 2 | UNIT 3 | UNIT 4 | UNIT 5 |
|---|
| Cryptic | Halfling Refugee | Endless Gibbon | Xenith Archer | Great Porcupine | Shock Trooper |
In this 18 mana battle with need for speed, armored up and back to basics ruleset against a very strong opponent my strategy and positioning is to used low mana monster with high damage. My choice of archon is cryptic to take advantage of its poison added ability. I then used halfling refugee as my tank due to its 5 melee damage, then used endless gibbon at second position to support before ranged attack monster zenith archer and great procurpine at 3rd and 4th position . Then for the last position is the star of the day shook trooper due to its high mana 5 magic damage which in this battle show its strength agains a yuding zaku team with a blast or maybe this is just a lucky win for me.
.... Have A Wonderful Day, Summoners! .....
..... VONAK .....
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