Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Earth matches Noxious Fumes

The Ruleset

• Rulesets - Noxious Fumes
• Mana Cap - 22
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Mylor Crowling

• With the ruleset and element pick that I got my first idea was to play fire element as I have the best team there when playing against Noxious Fumes
• But when I tried to fit the whole comp in I quickly ran out of mana so I had do think of something else
• So I settled with earth element as I had Heal + double Martyr combo there and also possible one of the best summoners Mylor Crowling
• Thorns - Returns 2 physical damage to attacker when hit by a melee attack

1st Position: Halfling Refugee

• Halfling Refugee was my first tank for this battle
• Main reason I played Halfling Refugee here was that for 1 mana you just can not get more stats than with Halfling Refugee
• Also as his ability is selfharm I played him first so he would mostly tank first attacks and then fall
• Weary - At the beginning of round 1, Weary units have a 10% chance to become Exhausted. This chance increases by 10% every round, up to a maximum of 80%. Exhausted units skip their turn and cannot Retaliate

2nd Position: Fungus Flinger

• Fungus Flinger was my first Martyr unit for this team
• Both Martyr monster had only one goal for this battle and it was to get taken down and buff my other units
• Martyr - When this Unit dies, adjacent Units get +1 to all stats

3rd Position: Flesh Golem

• Flesh Golem was actually my main tank for this battle
• Flesh Golem was played here mostly because his Heal ability and high stats (when buffed by double Martyr)
• Heal - Each round, restores 1/3 of max health (rounded down)

4th Position: Venari Marksrat

• Venari Marksrat was here just to get killed by Noxious Fumes and buff adjacent units
• Martyr - When this Unit dies, adjacent Units get +1 to all stats

5th Position: Goblin Psychic

• Goblin Psychic was my only healer for this battle
• I actually did not really like him here but I kinda panicked as the time was about to run out on me
• So I picked him and was hoping he would get at least some heals off
• Tank Heal - Each round, restores 1/3 of max health (rounded down) to the allied unit in the first position

6th Position: Fungus Fiend

• Last but not least was Fungus Fiend
• Only played him because I had 0 mana left and one spot open
• Also the reason why I played him in the back was that incase my enemy should decided to play Bloodlust monsters I would not just feed him for free
• Leaving him in the back was probably totally useless but in a world where my enemy plays Sneak or something backline Fungus Fiend would block at least 1 attack

Starting board

• After seeing the starting board I was quite scared about the outcome of the battle as my enemy was much higher level than I was
• But he only played one low level Immunity monster so if I could stay alive long enough so Noxious Fumes takes out my enemies entire team for me
• But my predictions could still be off by a mile so lets start the battle and have a look

Here's how the battle went

1st Round

• First round was a total disaster for me
• I had already lost my first tank with I only doing 3 damage to my enemies Mycelic Slipspawn
• But anything could still happen so lets keep watching

2nd Round

• After 2nd Round my confidents sky rocketed as my Flesh Golem was still almost full hp with one more Martyr buff to come
• Also when the 3rd Rounds stats the Noxious Fumes was going to take down one of his high level monster and damage the second to a point where my Flesh Golem can hopefully end him off
• Lets hope for the best and keep watching

3rd Round

• The 3rd round was huge for me
• I managed to take down two high level monsters while losing only my Martyr monster who also buffed the remainder of my team
• Now I just needed to wait for the start of the next round and then face my victory

4th Round

• It took me 1 attack to kill my enemies last standing monster
• After his Blackmoor Nymph had fallen I took the victory
• Battle Replay Link

Summary

• This battle was definitely heavily one sided but still fun to watch
• The strategy to take away from this battle is the Heal + double Martyr combo in a Noxious Fumes battle
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