Weekly Battle Challenge (2) - Pelacor Arbalest

Here we are with a brand new battle of Pelacor Arbalest. This monster is one of the most popular Ranged attackers of Life element. As it has Double Strike ability to attack the rival monsters 2 times, it fights like 2 monsters in a body 🔥

When Pelacor Arbalest is supported with other ranged attackers, their total ranged attack power is enough to destroy an army of tanks! As it is a real trouble maker, you also need to make sure that it is in a good shape in terms of the sneak, opportunity and snipe attacks!

On SummonerLabs, the card is said to have 51.3% win rate in around 72k battles. I believe the rate could be above 70 if a secure environment would be created for this serial killer!

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I would name this battle as the crash of Melee Attackers vs Ranged Monsters. The rival had a solid team that had 2 opportunity and 1 sneak ability monsters but the strategy of rival was not good enough to beat my strategy.

If you check my team set up, you will see that I had a Tank with Taunt ability + 1 Melee Attacker then 3 ranged and 1 support monster. +2 Armor coming from Truthseeker made it much easier for Shieldbearer to resist against the damage from the rival melee attackers. In the end, 6 armor + 9 HP ShieldBearer made it 🔥

My team had 2+2+(3x2 Arbalest's double strike) = 10 Ranged Attack points + 3 melee attack for 27 mana. Actually, it is too hard to deal with if the rival does not have solid tank, healing and repairing abilities together. So, eventually, the monsters were hunted down with focused 10 Ranged attack rounds!

Basically, 2 mana spent on Xenith Archer and Herbalist turned as 4 Ranged attack points per round! Though Arbalest is a solid hunter, it needs to be supported to eliminate 1-2 monsters each round. As I had Taunt skill on my tank, they did what they do best 😌

This team set up is one of the most basic set ups for ranged focused strategies. Support the tank with repair, heal and additional armor (if it also has Taunt), and feed your hunters with +1 Ranged attack from General Sloan. As I did not have extra mana cap, I was not able to use one off-tank with second hand ability. In this case, your front line would be like the gate of a castle 🏰

Enough Protection + Focused attack made it possible to win. Actually, the rival should have diversified its type of attack options rather thank relying on opportunity and sneak abilities. Too risky...

My team set up seems perfect against ranged and melee attackers but, on the other hand, it is weak against magic focused strategies. Imagine the case when Shieldbearer is eliminated after 9 magic attack points. The rest of my monsters have 2-2-2-1-2 HP that is nothing for magic monsters 😂

I did not prepare my team for a solid magic team to be honest. Luckily, rival had a different strategy, either.

I was able to win the battle thanks to a well-organized ranged focus strategy. As you keep these guys secure and strenghten them with General Sloan, they have nice buch of power to wipe the rivals out.

In addition, when you secure your combined power with extra armor, it is even more advantageous for you in the long run. Your 10 attack points may hit the rival Really hard 🙃

I disregarded a possible magic attack team set up. If it had happened, I would be in trouble, indeed. Please tell me what other risks that I had with this set up?

If you were my rival, would you use any other team set up rather than magic team?

Watch the battle and challenge me with your deep Splinterlands experience 😉

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