Why opportunity is the best ability to use when playing melee ? [ENG/FR]

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[ENG] I love monsters using the opportunity ability, I think they’re some of the most powerful cards in the game.
When you use them on a full melee team, they become unstoppable.
In this post, I’m gonna explain why opportunity is one of the best abilities when playing melee.
I’ll also show you two fights where I use several opportunity monsters.

[FR] J’adore les cartes disposant de la capacité “opportuniste” d’après moi c’est l’une des capacités les plus puissantes du jeu en particulier lorsqu’elle est utilisée dans une équipe utilisant exclusivement l’attaque frontale.
Dans ce blog, je vais expliquer pourquoi cette capacité est redoutable lorsqu'elle est utilisée avec plusieurs cartes d’attaque frontale.
J’en profiterai également pour vous montrer deux exemples de matchs où j’utilise plusieurs monstres disposant de cette capacité.

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How opportunity works ? / Comment fonctionne la capacité “opportuniste” ?

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[ENG] “Monsters with the Opportunity ability may attack from any position and will target the enemy Monster with the lowest health.
In the Fog of War ruleset, which prevents Sneak and Snipe, this ability still allows you to attack the back row”

[FR] La capacité opportuniste permet aux montres d’attaquer, dans toutes les positions, les adversaires ayant le moins de points de vie.
Contrairement aux capacités “se faufiler” et “précision”, elle est utilisable lors des règles brouillard de guerre.

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Which cards have opportunity ? / Quelles sont les cartes disposant de cette capacité ?

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[ENG] At the time I'm writing this post, there are only 16 opportunity monster cards.
If we don’t count the 3 gladius cards that you can’t use in ranked battles, there are only 13.
As you may know, cards that are rare have a lot of value.
As you can see, all the opportunity cards are melee monsters except “Lira the Dark”.

[FR] Il y a actuellement 16 cartes disposant de cette capacité.
Si on enlève les 3 cartes gladiateurs utilisables seulement lors des combats de guildes, cela fait seulement 13 cartes disponibles.
Ces cartes sont donc extrêmement précieuses car il y en a très peu.
A noter qu'à l'exception de “Lira the Dark” toutes les cartes disposant de cette capacité sont des cartes d’attaque frontale.

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Which opportunity monster is the best ? Quelle est la meilleure carte disposant de cette capacité ?

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Market price / Prix sur le marché: 85$ per bcx

[ENG] In my opinion, Dragon jumper is by far the best opportunity monster of the game.
His speed and his flying ability make him extremely powerful because he will hit first most of the time and he dodges a lot.
At levels 2 and 3, he becomes even stronger with snare & stunt ability.
That makes him one of the best cards in the game period.

[FR] D’après moi, il s’agit sans aucun doute de dragon jumper !
Sa rapidité en fait une carte redoutable qui frappera en 1er dans la majorité des matchs.
De plus, la capacité “vole” en fait un monstre très difficile à toucher pour ses adversaires.
La cerise sur le gâteau arrive au niveau 2 et 3 où il dispose également des capacités “Attraper” et "Assommer".
Dragon jumper est tout simplement une des meilleures cartes du jeu !

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Which opportunity card has the best value ? / Quelle est la carte disposant du meilleur rapport qualité-prix ?

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Market price / Prix sur le marché: 0,26$ / bcx

[ENG] In my opinion, Deeplurker has the best value at the moment.
It may be a common card but don’t get it twisted, it’s one most powerful monsters of the Chaos Legion set.
His power and his price make him one of the best deals on the market right now.

[FR] D’après moi il s’agit sans aucun doute de Deeplurker
Malgré que cela soit une carte commune, Deeplurker est l’une des cartes les plus puissantes de la nouvelle collection Chaos Legion.
Son faible prix actuellement en fait une des meilleures opportunités actuellement sur le marché.

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My Battles! / Mes combats!

[ENG] My strategy is simple but pretty effective: Make a team with at least three opportunity monsters so I can quickly beat the backline of my opponent.

To show you how good this strategy is, I'm gonna put below two battles where I used this exact strategy. At first look at the teams, you may think that I’m gonna lose because my opponents have a good counter team against my strategy but (spoiler) I still won!

[FR] Ma stratégie est très simple mais terriblement efficace : mettre 3 monstres ou plus ayant la capacité “opportuniste” pour battre le plus vite possible les monstres les plus faibles de mon adversaire.

Pour démontrer l'efficacité de ma stratégie, je vais montrer deux exemples de combats gagnés où au première abord, nous pourrions penser que mon adversaire à l’avantage.

1st Battle / 1er Combat

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Click here to see the battle / Cliquez ici pour voir le combat

[ENG] In this first battle, my opponent had three magic monsters with 3 points also my team had a speed decrease of 3 points.
Thanks to Deeplurker’s speed and high melee points, I was able to get the win on this one!

[FR] Dans ce premier combat, mon adversaire dispose de plusieurs monstres avec 3 points d’attaques magiques.
De plus, mon équipe perd 3 pts de vitesse donc nous pourrions penser que mon adversaire à l’avantage.
Deeplurker étant très rapide, il réussit tout de même à finir le travail en achevant ces adversaires.

2nd Battle / 2ème Combat

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Click here to see the battle / Cliquez ici pour voir le combat

[ENG] In this second battle, my opponent had a ridiculous amount of armor, two monsters with repair and Legionnaire Alvar with demoralized. The absolute anti-melee counter team! Will it be enough against my team? Nope.
Deeplurker, Parasitic Growth, and Festting Seaweed put the work and managed to break my opponent's backline before the Legionnaire Alvar. All of that before they had enough time to repair their armor.

[FR] Dans ce deuxième combat, mon adversaire dispose d'énormément d'armures avec en plus deux monstres disposant de la capacités “réparation”.
De plus, mon équipe perd 1 pts d’attaque à cause de la capacité “démoralisé” donc nous pourrions penser que mon adversaire dispose d’un énorme avantage !
Malgré la quantité d’armure importante que dispose mon adversaire Deeplurker, Parasitic Growth et Festting Seeweed réalisent un travail remarquable en attaquant très rapidement les monstres de mon adversaire avant qu’ils aient le temps de réparer leur armure.

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Why this strategy is so effective ? / Pourquoi cette stratégie est-elle si efficace ?

[ENG] The key is speed.

This strategy works so well because my opponents don’t have time to react and take the lead in the battle.
When you use several opportunity monsters they put a lot of aggression on the weakest link.
Usually, all weak links are support monsters who boost the team, they can’t resist a lot of pressure for more than one round.
If you lose one monster (minimum) per round, you only have 6 or 7 rounds maximum to close the game.
It’s a difficult task to achieve when you lose one or 2 monsters per round.
I recommend this strategy which worked for me a lot of time because you can use it in all the leagues.

[FR] La clé de cette stratégie est la rapidité.
Son efficacité réside dans le fait que mes adversaires ont très peu de temps pour réagir et reprendre l’avantage.
En effet, utilisé avec plusieurs monstres cette capacité devient presque impossible à défendre car les monstres adverses les plus faibles ne peuvent pas résister à plusieurs attaques frontales d’affilées.
Mes adversaires perdent 1 monstre par tour au minimum donc pour gagner ils doivent agir très rapidement.
Je recommande cette stratégie à tout le monde car elle est utilisable dans toutes les ligues. Elle m’a permis de gagner de nombreux matchs !

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The people doing V2K want me to believe it is this lady @battleaxe Investigate what she has been up to for 5 years. Its the next step to stopping this. Make her prove where she has been for 5 years or where she is now. She is involved deeply with @fyrstikken and his group. Her discord is Battleaxe#1003. I cant say she is the one directly doing the v2k. Make her prove it. They have tried to kill me and are still trying to kill me. I bet nobody does anything at all. Make @battleaxe prove it. I bet she wont. They want me to believe the v2k in me is being broadcasted from her location. @battleaxe what is your location? https://ecency.com/fyrstikken/@fairandbalanced/i-am-the-only-motherfucker-on-the-internet-pointing-to-a-direct-source-for-voice-to-skull-electronic-terrorism

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I'm a big fan of the opportunity ability. I believe it's one of the abilities that is most difficult to counter. In can only be done with shield and triage. Even then it's not 100% effective. I like to combine summoners that give speed with opportunity cards. That's a very deathly combo :-)


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Totally agree. Speed and opportunity are so good together, it's amazing. I remember at the beginning people were not really impressed with the water summoner but people slowly started to realize that the boost of speed plus the armor makes it an elite play for melee teams. Not surprised that his price increased a lot 😄

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I agree with you. The blue summoners seemd like the weakest one at the start but it's actually damn powerful and it's not surprising that prices increase for it.

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I love the opportunity! Also cool that you write in 2 languages!
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Without a doubt, opportunity is a great skill that, combined with speed, gives great results. But I think it can be countered by using some low hand monster with protection to distract.
Glad to see you joining those of us who promote articles on Listnerds

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Yes, you're right. If you use it too often your opponent may see it and use low-hand monsters to gain some time. That's why it's important to switch strategies in this game

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Good post. I was very interested in reading your strategy. Thanks for the post

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Thanks for the helpful tips. I am new at #splinterlands and have not had much of an "opportunity" to play. The few I have played were practice rounds and I was slaughtered.
Love the bilingual post.

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Splinterlands can be difficult to play at the start but if you keep learning, you'll get rewarded greatly.
Thanks for stopping by 😉

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It's funny because I never really understood the 'opportunity' ability until recently, now I love it :)

Thanks for sharing this on ListNerds!

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I think a lot of people get confused because the monster with the lowest health can change during the battle so sometimes opportunity monsters start attacking one monster then change targets. It's more technical than a simple sneak play. It brings more variety, I love it too 😄

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Interesting use of opportunity. I have used 2 copies a bit but not the three. I will have to try it out and see how it works. Read from Listnerds.
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Glad I could help!
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for the Pizza 😉

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@donpapy - glad to see you sharing this post on ListNerds. I know with the popularity of the game and folks always wanting to learn especially a person like me who can never figure this stuff out, I still read these type of posts to see if maybe I get the AHA moment lol.

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Thanks for kind words, Jimmy 😉
The splinterlands team are going to make other small little games inside the game so at some point, you're gonna find one that fits you 😄

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Merci pour cette explication et pour la traduction en fr
je t'upvote sur Listned "opportunity"

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Merci à toi pour l'upvote, c'est super sympa 😉

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Merci à toi pour le tip, j'espère que ton mail sera validé 👀

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J'ai eu 20 upvotes mais quelqu'un m'as mis un downvote donc il me faut encore 1 upvote. On croise les doigts 🤞

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I am a big fan of opportunity monsters because they can attack from anywhere. Whenever I can, I try to have as many cards able to attack from anywhere on the field because I don't want the matches to take too long.

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Totally agree with you! I'm a big fan too 😉

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Hi from ListNerds!
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I love to play Fire deck in battles with Equal Opportunity

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Thanks for the upvote and the pizza 😉

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Opportunity is one of my favorite abilities in the game. I can't just stop looking for this ability during the team composition.

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I do the exact same thing 😄
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