Hey there my friends of Splinterlands,
Before starting this article, I wish you a belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
I hope you all enjoying yourselves enough this week as this is a week of fun and amusement.
Stats of the fourth Chaos Legion legendary summoner airdrop card revealed, which is the IMMORTALIS.
The summoner's stats are good but I'm concerned about the mana cost of this card, 6 mana. This means we should use this card in mid to high-mana cap battles.
I don't know if I get this airdrop card, but I'm excited to use him against magic attack-based battles.
Moving forward, the Splinterlands team brought another Share Your Battle Challenge and this week's featured monster is CURSED WINDEKU.
Like the previous challenges, I'll share my thoughts about the Cursed Windeku and describe my strategy, and team combination of the best battle of the week using the Cursed Windeku in my team.
So, read on...
THE LORE
Cursed Windekus are nightmarish creatures that live in the deepest and darkest woods. They hunt at night, stalking their prey before attacking with their claws, while their thorn-like horns and natural healing ability provide an excellent defense.
They exude a pungent pheromone that reduces the reaction time of their victims, often allowing the Windeku to begin devouring them before they are dead. While these lifeless creatures may appear animalistic, they are highly intelligent.
They have heeded the call put forth by the Lord of Darkness. Their thirst for blood is now focused on the Chaos Legion.
“I heard it again... that rustle of brush in the darkness of the forest. No mistaking it now. Something was stalking us."
I picked up my pace and urged Grewa to do the same. We hurried through the trees toward the inn. I could hear her panting behind me. Something howled then, but not like a wolf. Like a man who has gone mad with hunger.
I lost it. I ran. Ran as fast as my legs could carry me. And when I stumbled and fell and got up again, I realized I was alone. No sound of Grewa. No footfalls or heavy breathing.
I rose to my feet and walked slowly back the way we'd come. I heard a sound. A wet, tearing sound. And in the middle of trees, not twenty yards away, I saw Grewa. And I saw it.
The beast was gaunt, its skin pulled tight over its bones. It was the ash-gray color of death, with sunken eyes, like a corpse recently risen from the grave, and twisted horns. And the smell. Oh, gods, the smell.
Its lips were tattered and bloody. It was Grewa's blood. It had torn her open and was feasting on her guts. And she... she was still moving. She let out a little whimper.
And I turned and I ran until I saw your light burning in the distance, and I kept running until I burst through the door.”
The man downed the rest of his tankard of ale and stared into the empty mug. The other patrons of the inn shifted in their seats.
“He's making it up,” one said.
“He's drunk,” said another.
The room burst into laughter. Conversations resumed. The man continued staring into his ale.
From somewhere in the dark of night outside rose a mad and hungry howl.
BATTLE STATS AND ABILITIES OF THE CURSED WINDEKU
The Cursed Windeku is a rare water unit card from the Chaos Legion edition.
This melee attack card costs 6 mana to use in the battle which makes this card a mid-mana-cost card.
Talking about the abilities, this monster has the 'thorns' ability from level 1. Using this ability, when this monster is hit with a melee attack, does damage back to the attacker.
On level 5, this monster gains the 'heal' ability. This ability restores a portion of the monster's health each round.
On level 8, the 'slow' ability gets activated. With this ability, this monster reduces the speed of all enemy monsters.
The stats of the Cursed Windeku also increases through levels, from 2 melee attacks, 3 speeds, and, 9 health in level 1, to 3 melee attacks, 3 speeds, and 10 health in level 5.
At the highest level 8, the stats of this card are 4 melee attacks, 3 speeds, and, 11 health.
BEST SCENERIOS TO USE CURSED WINDEKU EFFECTIVELY
Well, as it's a melee attack card and also has good attack, speed, health, and has the 'thorns' ability, therefore, it can be efficiently used as a low mana cost tank in melee attack-based battles such as 'up close and personal', 'melee mayhem' etc.
The Cursed Windeku can be also used in 'super sneak' ruleset in the last position to deal additional damage to the enemy's melee attack monsters.
The 'lost magic' ruleset is also an appropriate scenario where the Cursed Windeku can be used as a tank.
The Zintar Mortalis is the preferable summoner with this card but the Daria Dragonscale or the Camila Sungazer can also be used with the Cursed Windeku.
THE BATTLE
Now, it's time to share my strategy and the lineup for the best battle I won using the Cursed Windeku in my team.
RULESET
Mana Cap: 17
Rulesets :-
Silenced Summoners: Summoners do not give any stat buffs or debuffs or grant/use any abilities.
Counterspell: All monsters have the magic reflect ability.**
Active Splinter: Life, Death, Dragon.
My Strategy and Team Setup
As one of the rulesets was 'counterspell', I planned to use Cursed Windeku as the tank and the main attacking monster.
I guessed that the enemy will also use a melee attack based team, therefore I used two monsters with the 'thorns' ability. And the remaining monsters were just filler monsters.
So this was my team -
SUMMONER
DALLAN
TEAM SETUP
Team Submission
Round 01
Round 02
Round 03 / 04
Watch the full battle in real-time - https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_7e55961d9ab6dabf0eee4bb3aad24eb2&ref=furiousfighter
These are few other battles which I fought using the Cursed Windeku in my team -
Battle 01
Battle 02
Did your strategy work? What will you try differently next time?
My strategy worked well in this battle.
As I guessed, my enem used a melee attack based team and his monsters gets additional 'thorns' damages from my monsters apart from the main attack.
The Corpse Fiend absorbs the first attack then my Cursed Windeku worked pretty good as a tank and dealt good damage to the enemy's Cursed Windeku.
The Spineback Wolf also did good attacks from the second position.
The filler cards absorbs a few attacks and helped the main cards to remain untouched 'sneak' attack.
I tastes the sweet victory because of this perfect strategy.
And that's all for today, guys.
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Until next time,
Peace.
Akash Kumar.
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