The importance of "Speed" in a battle 🔥

For several weeks I have been sharing battle strategies where I highlight different ways in which the skills and/or rules of a battle, can be used to place the odds of winning in our favor and increase our win rate, on the other hand, in these same alignments, I emphasize that, one of the main stats that cards possess and that win many battles is "Speed", which of course absolutely all the monsters that we can use possess, so, in this opportunity, I thought it would be good to share an alignment where speed is really determinant in my victory and that this, can decide who wins or loses.

In this specific battle, I show how speed helps me in every way to be able to beat my opponent; and is that, having the opportunity to attack first, gives us a huge advantage before our opponent can do it, because, a scenario may arise, where our opponent may have cards with very powerful abilities on his side of the field, but if for example, one of my cards manages to attack his cards first avoiding his ability to activate, basically the chances that I can be victorious increase by a large percentage, which is the goal we all want in the game. So, based on the above, I hope you enjoy this post, because I will give you all the details you should know and/or apply, to make speed decisive in your game.

Before continuing with what was my lineup, I will explain the skill that, in my opinion, made that I could win this battle, also, I will take the opportunity to give more details on how and when to use it.

Swiftened is one of the oldest skills in the game, which is able to increase the speed of all monsters on my side of the field and as I said, it can give us a great advantage in the development of the battle, all this by the simple fact of being able to attack first as many times as possible, so, using a card that gives us "Swiftened", can be very beneficial to our strategy and alignment in battle.

Of course, this does not mean that it is easy to use, since one of the most used skills by all players is the counterpart of "Swiftened", the so-called "Slow" skill, which decreases by -1 point the speed of all monsters in the opposing field of the user who plays it, a technique that most players use very often, however, there are several ways in which we can counter "Slow" and; even with his ability on the field, we can still make the most of the speed and "Swiftened" to win the battle.

Knowing this, I will detail which are the combinations in which we can use "Swiftened", in order to increase our chances of winning:

• Flying Ability: This ability can give us a great advantage in battle, taking into account that, if our monster has very good speed points and additionally it can fly, the probabilities of our opponent missing an attack increase much more. Also, if our card flies, and has +4 points of speed and additionally we play a card that has the ability of "Swiftened", the total speed would be +5 points, which increases the probability of failure of the attack by our opponent, in addition to guaranteeing us to attack before he does it.

• Fast card game: Another way in which we can use speed to our advantage in conjunction with the ability of "Swiftened" and also neutralize "Slow", is that we devise a strategy where most of our monsters have a speed equal to or greater than +4 points. If this is fulfilled, our speed will be higher than 4 and 5 points, giving us security and defense so that our opponent misses most of his range and melee attacks and giving us an important advantage, since we would attack first.

• Swiftened Combination: We must be prepared at all times, since most of our opponents will play at least one card with the "Slow" ability, but if we can coordinate an alignment where 2 or more monsters with the "Swiftened" ability are introduced, our probability of attacking first will increase much more and we will be able to acquire an immediate advantage over our opponent.

• Summoner and Monster Combination: Very similar to the previous combination, but this time in conjunction with our summoner, so, as you may already know, there are several summoners that provide speed points to our battle lineup, where in addition, if we manage to combine it with monsters that have the "Swiftened" ability, we will be able to make a defensive and offensive team, which will be very strong and where we will surely attack first in all rounds, giving us an absolute advantage against our opponent.

• Alienation with the rules of battle: This is very important, as we should use our speed as long as the battle rules come into confluence with our strategy, since, if we want to use our speed to win, but we have that one of the battle rules benefit the slower monsters and make them attack first, we should desist from an alignment that increases our speed, and rather focus on using the slower monsters in our deck of cards.

This is an ability that I highly recommend using, since, as I already mentioned, our win rate will surely increase, however, it is not a strategy that works 100%, since our opponent is on the other side of the field and can also use the speed against us and damage our strategy with some other ability or attack.