In my continued effort to bring you low quality, repetitive, cyclical, drivel on a weekly basis, in a change from the precious metals related rhetoric i usually bang on about, i now offer to you my loyal followers, a bang average #splinterlands blog.
Without much thought, or deep contemplation, ill be sharing with you few brave souls that have taken the time to read this post, my weekly BATTLE MAGE SECRETS Weekly Challenge!. The "share your battle" challange has ended, where the @splinterlands team asked you to share a battle with a specific monster, and now its more about a specific ruleset. This new weekly challenge definitely has its upside, as it allows a wider audience to take part, even when their battle decks are limited.
This week, the team over at #splinterlands has asked us to share a battle with the ruleset "FIRE AND REGRET". As the name suggests, all monsters taking part in the battle gain the "Return Fire" ability....
This ruleset, can completely flip a battle on its head! Conventional battle plans go straight out the window, it also creates a whole new style of play. Ranged monsters often feel pretty safe and secure tucked away towards the back of most players lineups, but this ruleset is a definite gamechanger. This ruleset makes thier biggest attributes (range attacks) their "Achilles heel"...
Every time they attack, they take damage equal to half of what they dish out!! Think of it as "magic reflect" but for arrows. Technically, a team full of ranged monster, could inevitably eliminate themselves.
Lets go play #splinterlands...... Its not like you can pick and choose the rulesets for every battle! After playing what seemed like my full allocation of 50 battles, i finally came across the ruleset i was waiting for:
But doing what #splinterlands does best, they threw a spanner in the works by adding an additional ruleset alongside FIRE AND REFLECT just to mess with my mind and really get me thinking.
Taking these rulesets in to consideration and the summoner choices available to me, I actually decided that for this specific battle, with these specific ruleset, I would pick my tried and tested LVL5 ALRIC STORMBRINGER to use some pretty hard hitting water splinter monsters. My thinking is that there are a lot of magic cards available to me, and by selecting an all magic lineup, I can avoid any extra return damage from the FIRE AND REGRET ruleset.
The best way to win for these specific rulesets is to use magic attack monsters, as they can attack from any position, thus negating the back to basics rulset, and since none of my monsters use "ranged attacks", ill be completely free from return damage.
Putting two high health monsters in the tank and second position should ensure they can stand their own for the first couple of rounds. Their speed and ability for there attacks to avoid shielding will also stand me in good stead.
Watch the battle unfold HERE
Once the two teams are revealed, I always have a quick look at my opponents set up, before hitting rumble. I like to playout in my head how i think the battle will unfold. I try and predict what i think the outcome may be, and judge how well my opponents have set up thier team.
From the get-go i noticed that this was going to be a very difficult battle. Whilst my monsters had what looked like the attack points advantage, my opponent looked to have a great tank, and a monster i personally love playing - lvl 2 CHAOS DRAGON. With small margins for error, its often teams that strike first inevitably go on to win the battle, thankfully thats how it went.
The stage was set, two strong "Magic splinter" summoner teams were sure to give a great battle.
I did strike first, and as expected my magic attacks took the fight to hisbtank. We exchanged attacks and his Djinn Chwala and Djinn Oshannus fell in the first round. The battle started as I expected. My magic attack monsters causing general havoc..... I took first blood, and round 2 got under way, it started to look ominous for my opponent at this point.
With neither of us opting to put a monster with "RANGED ATTACKS", the ruleset was completely negated, but thems the way it plays out in the splinterlands. Luckily for me, one of his largest attackers his DO fell in the first round, now it was a waiti g game.
In a single round the damage was done and there was no going back now. Victory looked certain and would be just a round away. His ranged attack monster is now a sitting duck and just like that the battle was over..... far quicker than i expected too!!
There was no stopping my magic attacks now. The end was in sight and there was nothing that could stop me from blasing my way to a resounding victory.
Whilst the victory came pretty easy in the end, if a few missed attacks hadnt have happened, this certainly could have gone differently.
Actually...... using the SPLINTERTOOL page, the battle wasnt as close as originally thought. Turns out there was no way i was going to lose or would ever lose with this set-up.
Would you have picked a different team/combonation? If so let me knownin the comments below.
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