SPLINTERLANDS BATTLE CHALLENGE - HOW TO BEAT LV.2 GRUM IN REVERSE SPEED RULESET
Introduction
Hello everyone,
This is my 1st participation in the Splinterlands weekly battle challenge. Although the theme is Deeplurker, but I would rather to write about Grum Flameblade. Why? because this is the only monster in ranked battle who has the Bloodlust ability (Previously, the bloodlust is only available in Brawl).
How strong is that ability? Check the table below :
Ability | Name | Explanation |
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Bloodlust | Every time it defeats an opponent, it gets +1 to all stats. In the Reverse Speed ruleset, -1 to Speed |
What makes me really excited to share my battle is because I have won against Grum (which has 1 speed) at the reverse speed rule set. the rule set makes Grum even much more stronger because monster with speed 1 will attack first.
Rule Set | Name | Explanation |
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Reverse Speed | Slower monsters attack first. A monster with a speed of 1 now will attack first. A speed of 1 will also have the best chance of dodging if paired with evade and flying as well. |
Monster Stats
Grum Flameblade has mostly been placed as a tank because of high health and armor. Another reason is he can add his stats whenever he kills the enemy one by one from the upfront. Here is the link of the battle along with the videos I have uploaded on youtube, Check this out:
https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_8a10d7dc0d267b07e80a692d09332b9e
Mana and Rule Set
Rule Set | Name | Explanation |
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Heavy Hitters | All monsters do double damage when attacking an enemy that is stunned. | |
Reverse Speed | Slower monsters attack first. |
Line Up
Monster | Name | Reason to pick up |
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Yodin Zaku | I want to add blast ability to all of my monster, additional health 1 and ranged attack by 1, since i have some ranged attack monsters with low speed. Besides, the mana is high (32) so it would be fine to set him as summoner. | |
Living Lava | High attack (3), low speed (1), fair armor (2) and high health, and having Shield ability which can reduce melee and ranged attack make him very appropriate monster as a Tank. | |
Lava Spider | The reason I put it in the 2nd position is because it has the 2nd highest health among ranged attack (under Ettin Spearman), so it will buy some time to withstand enemy attack in case of Living lava falling down. Its snipe ability is good fit combined with blast. | |
Halfling Alchemist | Low speed (1), armor (1) and Halfling ability. Whenever this Monster hits a target, the target's attack is cut in half (rounded down). | |
Xenith Monk | She has low speed (1) which makes her one of the best monster to be included in the line up. additional ranged attack by Yodin will increase her attack by 2. | |
Ettin Spearman | I put him in the last position because he has the highest health (in case the opponent uses sneak ability). Besides, he has the highest ranged attack (4) so he is the most important monster in the line-up. |
Match Preview
Round 1
We are using the same summoner (Yodin Zaku), the difference is the opponent was using the Lv2 Summoner. So he can use the higher monster level than me. As we can see, he was putting Ettin Spearman Lv.5 while I can only summon Lv3 as the limit of my summoner.
Round 2
Both our 2nd position monster were killed, me (Living lava) and him (fire beetle) due to the blast effect. Another interesting view here is my halfling alchemist was successfully halving the Grum attack into 2 only (5 divided by 2 and rounded down). this makes Grum weak.
Round 3
Since my monster attack are lower than the enemy, my monsters attack first and that makes Grum Flameblade, Ettin Spearman and Imp bowman were killed in just 1 round. easy battle 🤣. At this point, we all know who will win the battle 😎.
Opinion about Grum Flameblade
In the beginning, people get shocked by the presence of Bloodlust monster in the ranked battle. However, as time goes by, there will always ways to defeat very strong monster. Although having Bloodlust ability, Grum Flameblade is still weak against halving ability which can halve his attack. it makes Grum fragile and get easily defeated by opponent who has very high attack. In this case, cleanse ability from friendly monster is needed to remove halving effect.
Well that's all about my sharing guys. If you are interested to start playing Splinterlands and don't have any referral yet, you can use my referral link. If you use this link I will give you free card and DEC to start renting strong cards :
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Alright then...
Stay Safe, Keep Grinding DEC plus Daily chest and Bye~
CREDIT
- @splinterlands : for making the best NFT game in the world.
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