Lobb - Quora Spam: NO MORE!

For the non-player, this is a very specific title! Meaning if you do not play splinterlands, it is very hard or impossible for you to understand. Even for people who play Splinterlands, but perhaps in the higher leagues, it may be a bit surprising. Let me explain:

Gladiator Earth Summoner Lobb Lowland and Epic Earth Gladiator Quora Towershead is considered widely as one of the most powerful combos, especially in the Bronze league, where it traditionally had almost no counters. Very similar to Llama - Kron combo, back in the days; remember?

Struggle of Bronze!

Novice is the first league new player start playing when they open Splinterlands account. There are a few SL sponsored 'easy bots' here and these new folks quickly get to Bronze. There is no rewards in novice and none in Bronze III either. But as soon a they arrive in Bronze, they potentially get into either seasoned players with skills or seasoned players with Battle Helpers (YES, I KNOW BATTLE HELPER IS BANNED AS PER TOS)! But we know people are breaking the TOS; and I know who you are, we are coming after you. But I digress, that is not the message of this post.

Point is, people found it very hard to get above Bronze III to get any reward at all, and got de-motivated. Many have mentioned this in the past, so I even created an alt account to test if the saying is true or not. The fact that I play champion league in Modern, I have never played Bronze to be honest. So I tried playing Bronze a number of times back in the day and even recently with this account DRAGONRIDER5479. Notice this even has number to mock numerous bot farms who are not created and just made numbered accounts. So back to the point, I tried but never could go above 250-280 level with free ghost cards and level all CL level 1 cards that I purchased.

Lobb - Quora Spam

There are numerous examples of this combo, and it is played at all leagues and levels. However it is particularly deadly and one sided at Bronze leagues. Why?

• If you are a noob, you don't know what's coming!
• Even if you are a veteran, you may have forgotten how to play bronze
• Maybe you are starting a new account to play lower leagues, and you don't have any Gladiators
• You are slow and old like me, and can't pick the right counters quickly:)

Whatever, may be the reason it comes at you fast. Below is the simplest form, and you have no chance in the battle below against Lobb - Quora.

There are volumes of text written on the subject. There is a good and funny one by @captaindingus right here:

https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@captaindingus/beating-quora-in-bronze-leauge-combo-1--combo-2

Here he even explains some very good counters. The dude have a llama-kron tatoo, so trust me he knows what he is talking about!

Splinterlands support desk led by @royaleagle even have an official cookbook for the problem:

https://support.splinterlands.com/hc/en-us/articles/23255737639188-Common-Teams-Strategies-and-Counters

So even back in the days, before the latest ranked battle update, there were ways. But let me tell you this, they were all difficult. I am a veteran above average player in the Champion League for 5 years and I can regularly rank in the top 100 playing manually (my personal best was 23 and 29), although I haven't ranked that high in years! So when I tell you, with a Level 1 CL deck and ghost cards, I can't climb out of bronze 3, we have a problem!

New Ranked Battle Update

Here is the easy way: if there is not level cap, you can power through it! So I did. I started this new account with a lot of Max CL + RW cards. I am through rather easily.

This is not a brag, but this is the way it should be. You should be able to buy your way out of the lower leagues. That is a EASY way to force noob players to buy/rent more cards. Every card game in the world does that! By the way, a 18 win streak is something I haven't had in a very long time, not just in bronze but anywhere!

So Ban Quora? Anyone?

You see, Quora wasn't the problem. It was the level caps!

Obviously Lobb-Quora is not an issue anymore. I have beaten many Lobb-Quoras within that 31 wins. The one we both enjoyed a lot is meeting and beating @davemccoy :)

Recently Dave did a podcast @thepeoplesguild here:

https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@thepeoplesguild/episode-90-a-davemccoy-conversation

Anyways, here is my battle against Dave:

Battle Link

Please don't get me wrong. Lobb-Quora remains a formidable combo, but even if you do not have any gladiators, like I didn't in this case on my baby account, you can still power through it with max cards, or just higher level cards. This removal of level cap is new, and there will be many issues with it. However, the good things will outweigh the bad I think.

I am going to finish this post by quote Dave:

"He is like a lightning rod!"...................... Dave said that about me. It is absolutely correct Dave by the way, not just in this social network, but also in real life:) I just roll with it. Somebody got to! :)

Cheers!