Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Enemy summoner makes my team stronger

The Ruleset

• Rulesets - Earthquake & 'Tis But Scratches
• Mana Cap - 34
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Helios Matriarch

• With the ruleset and element pick that I got I knew I needed to play someone from dragon element as I had Night Reaper there and I have started to like him a lot in Earthquake battles
• So in my case I went with Helios Matriarch and picked death for my second element as there I had rest of my Flying team

1st Position: Halfling Refugee

• Halfling Refugee was one of my main tanks for this battle
• Main reason I like Halfling Refugee here a lot is his high stats for low mana
• Even tho Halfling Refugee is a selfharm monster I still played him as I felt like he gonna tank a lot of attacks and fall before he gets a chance to affect my team
• 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: Pelacor Deceiver

• Pelacor Deceiver was my second tank for this battle
• Another great tank with Flying for low mana
• Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake

3rd Position: Creeping Ooze

• Creeping Ooze was a little out of place for this battle but I played him because I was hoping maybe his Slow get my enemy to miss at least one or two of his attacks
• Slow - -1 speed to all enemy units

4th Position: Usut

• Possible my favorite Bloodlust monster out there
• What makes him a great monster is his Heal ability which I sadly did not have for this battle as I do not have him in high enough level but what still made me play him was his Flying ability
• Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake
• Bloodlust - +1 to all stats after dealing a killing blow

5th Position: Night Reaper

• Now for the main event
• Night Reaper has become my favorite monster to play in Earthquake battles
• His Wingbreak makes him a great monster to counter my enemy playing Flying monster and on top of that he also has Flying which makes him one of the best monster to play here
• Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake
• Wingbreak - Always targets the first Flying enemy unit regardless of position, abilities, or modifiers. +2 damage if the target has Flying

6th Position: Corpse Spawn

• Corpse Spawn was the last monster I picked for this battle
• The only reason was that I had 0 mana left and one open spot
• And the reason I did not play him in front was that if my enemy should play a Bloodlust monster him self I might give him a free take down

Starting board

• After seeing the starting board I was really on the fence where the battle might go
• On one hand my enemy played a Brighton Bloom giving his whole team Flying which is amazing summoner for Earthquake battles
• But on the other hand his team was only level one and I played Night Reaper with Windbreak which makes him deal 5 damage every attacks as my enemies whole team has Flying
• 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 & 2nd Round

• After two rounds my board was looking quite badly damaged already which made me really scared
• In the meantime I only managed to take down 1 enemy monster
• But anything could still happen so lets keep watching

3rd Round

• After 3nd Round my confidents was slowly coming back
• Even tho we traded one to one with monsters in the 3rd round the overall board was looking much better now
• Lets hope for the best and keep watching

4th & 5th Round

• After the next two rounds I managed to clear up my enemies board really well
• I took down 3 monster while my enemy did not get anything in return
• Now I just needed to take down my enemies last monster and then face my victory

6th Round

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

Summary

• This battle was definitely heavily one sided in the end but still fun to watch as the first two rounds went only downhill for me
• The strategy to take away from this battle is the not so basic but amazingly affective Wingbreak in Earthquake ruleset battles
• In this case I also lucked out as my enemy played Brighton Bloom which grant his whole team Flying but made my team super effective
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