Splinterlands - The Advantage Of Last Stand!!!!!!

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I had this nice battle in one of the toughest rule sets of the battle known as Noxious Fumes which makes all the monsters to lose 2 health at the end of each round as there will be a poison poured on each monster whether it's healing one or is a flying monster and that makes this rule set more interesting and one of the toughest to get thru.

Let me tell you a bit about the topic I am writing today as part of this battle I am sharing.

Last Stand is an ability a monster can have when it is the ONLY monster on a lineup and that means, it will be battling from the front position and when that happens, the monster will have increased stats for attack if it's melee attack monster and health and speed for all the monsters.

Battlers have already identified the possible lineups for this rule set with usage of summoner Scarred Llama Mage as one of the safest solutions as the summoner wipes out the poison from the front monster by cleansing it at the beginning of each round.

There is also another ability provided by Scarred Llama Mage to each of the monsters it summons and that is to give each monster with Last stand ability which is something which makes the monsters to gain additional health and speed and even attack based on the type of the monsters we use and this happens only if the monster at the front is the last monster in the lineup.

Llama also gives +2 health to all friendly monsters and this is one of the most used summoners along with Yodin Zaku and Llama is the best when it comes to Noxious Fumes rule set battles as it removes poison besides giving last stand enhanced stats for the front monster.

Battle and Lineup:

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This battle with Noxious Fumes and Close Range rule sets had 30 MANA cap and that was good enough for me to use Legendary summoner of Scarred Llama Mage along with monsters as below to tackle the issue of poisoning in each round.

Lineup:

1. Furious Chicken:

The poison will anyway washout the monsters with 1 or 2 health and hence, I thought of using this at the front to protect Lord A from First attack and this also gives an additional health to scavenger monsters I used in Gelatinous Cube and Screeching Vulture.

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2. Lord Arianthus:

Lord Arianthus is one of the most used monsters in Noxious Fumes battles since it can protect the monsters to follow as it has abilities of thorn, void, magic reflect and shield as well to take lesser attack and attack back melee and magic monsters and even takes lesser attack from ranged attack monsters

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3. Flesh Golem:

Used this self healing tank to keep other monsters active with it's healing ability and this can also give 3 melee attack.

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4. Gelatinous Cube:

Gelatinous Cube is the monster along with Kron The Undying which will be among the more used monsters since with Last Stand ability, these 2 almost never dye at all as those gets humongous health.

Besides the good health, it also has scavenger ability to keep getting additional health with each monster removed from the lineup on either side.

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5. Screeching Vulture:

Another scavenger monster in my lineup and this is the monster with even opportunity ability as well to attack the monster with lowest health.

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6. Earth Elemental:

Lastly, I used this self healing ranged attack monster to keep back end intact.

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Opponent used Earth Splinter as well in combination with Prince Rennyn as his summoner which induces +1 for speed, health and ranged attack for all the monsters it summons and his monsters were, Flesh Golem, Earth Elemental, Epona, Gelatinous Cube, Swamp Thing** and Spirit of the Forest.

Battle:

OK, everything is set, let's go with the battle with round by round details.

Round 1:

As expected, Furious Chicken with lowest health, has to be the First target to get removed and other monsters were able to survive since all of those had better health.

Lord Arianthus was the next target and could stay alive with 3 health left.

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Round 2:

Lord A being the next target for all the monsters from opponent's lineup couldn't go beyond this round.

The other monster kept losing health but still survived for another round.

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Round 3:

While opponent's monsters were refusing to die, I was losing a monster in each round and in this round too, I lost another one in the form of Flesh Golem.

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Round 4:

It was the turn of opponent to lose his First monster in the form of Swamp Thing and that also increased the speed and the health of the monster on my side.

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Round 5:

By the end of this round I was left with 2 monsters and one of them was 2 health Screeching Vulture, and if one sees that kind of situation, one can feel that, I am on losing side, as opponent still had monsters like Flesh Golem, Earth Elemental and Spirit of the Forest with each having 4 attack along with other 2 monsters Epona and Gelatinous Cube.

But this is when the things started turning around!!!

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Round 6:

The removal of Spirit of the Forest and Screeching Vulture gave 2 more health to Gelatinous Cubes and more importantly, Gelatinous Cube also got that Last Stand ability to have health now more than opponent's Gelatinous Cube!!!!

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Round 7 to 21:

The things started spicing up as until round 21, each of the monsters kept healing themselves and the Gelatinous Cube I had, kept recovering from those attack from Flesh Golem and Earth Elemental.

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Round 22 to 32:

The fatigue started from round 22 kept all the monsters to lose their health and opponent's 4 remaining monsters started losing out and by round 32, all the monsters from opponent's lineup lost out and by virtue of Last Stand, the Gelatinous Cube I used survived to win the battle for me!!!!

Isn't that awesome that, a single monster can face and even win because of a ability it has?

Splinterlands is full of such awesome monsters with different abilities and each of those monsters will be useful in different rule sets.

That's all guys in this blog and I hope you enjoyed the battle and this blog :)

Thanks and Have a good day :)

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