SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! LEGIONNAIRE ALVAR

Legionnaire Alvar is a neutral 9 Mana Legendary unit. Below is its full stats from Level 1 to 4.

At level 1, it has a speed of 2 with 2 melee attack, 8 armor and 6 health points. It also has the Void Armor ability meaning any magic attack has to go through its armor first before hitting its health.

At level 2, it will gain 1 more melee damage while also getting the Giant Killer ability. Giant Killer means Alvar will deal double damage to any enemy unit that cost 10 or more mana.

At level 3, it will gain the Demoralize ability meaning it will reduce the melee attack of all enemy units.

Finally at its max level 4, it will gain Deathblow mean if there is only one enemy unit left, it will deal double damage to it. At this point, Alvar has 3 melee damage, 2 speed, 9 armor and 7 health points.

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Next lets take a look at how Legionnaire Alvar will perform in the various rulesets:

This table is generated using Koodies's Splintertools #3, created by @koodies

Rulesets	Legionnaire Alvar Level 1
	🔮 Mana: 9,💗 Health: 6,🛡️ Armor: 8,⏩ Speed: 2
	👍Good as Alvar is slow and can miss frequently against fast enemies.
	👍Extra protection is always good plus this extra protection will block magic attack as well.
	👎It will lose its Void Armor and other abilities.
	No effect.
	No effect.
	👎It will suffer 2 damage from Earthquake per round.
	👎Bad in low mana matches as Alvar's health isn't low.
	👍Allow Alvar to target enemy unit with low health.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👍Allow it to deal blast damage.
	👍Can be deployed.
	No effect. It doesn't have sneak or snipe in the first place.
	👎Means it can't be healed.
	Useful only if the lineup also has a unit that can stunned.
	👍Extra protection is always good.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👍Can be deployed.
	No effect
	👎Poison will skip its armor protection and go direct for its health.
	👍Alvar is slow so this ruleset actually helps her.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👍An enraged Alvar is dangerous.
	No effect.
	👍Allow it to hit enemy back unit only if it is not in the first position.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	No effect.
	👎Horrible ruleset for Alvar. Should never use Alvar in a no armor ruleset.
	👍Can be deployed.
	No effect.

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Finally lets take a look at a wild ranked match I had using Legionnaire Alvar as one of the unit in the setup. The battle restrictions are:
Briar Patch plus Explosive Weaponry with a max mana limit of 50. The Video for the Full Battle can be seen here:
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_a03378c4b66517fc5c650ce3a18ad85d&ref=genming

TEAM SETUP:

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Possibilus the Wise	6	Summoner	It is hard to predict what the opponent will bring in a wild ranked match. The best I can do is to go with a lineup I feel is my strongest I can filled. I went with Possibilus as I felt I have a strong water team for a Thorn ruleset.
Legionnaire Alvar	9	1st	As this is a Briar Patch ruleset (meaing Thorn for everyone), I am expecting to face mostly magic or range enemy units. With Alvar as the tank, magic attack have to hit its armor to go through him.
Tide Biter	3	2nd	Tide Biter is in the 2nd position because it has Reflection Shield and will help protect against blast damage from Explosive Weaponry ruleset.
River Hellondale	7	3rd	River Hellondale's 2 abilities are very useful here. Firstly its Inspire ability will give Alvar and Tide Biter extra 1 melee damage. Then its Resurrect ability will do one revive when my unit die.
Venari Wavesmith	5	4th	Venari Wavesmith will give 2 extra armor to all my units. This will make Alvar last longer.
Djinn Oshannus	8	5th	Oshannus is here for some DPS from my backline.
Arkemis the Bear	12	6th	Usually I would put Arkemis near the front but because it is an Explosive Weaponry ruleset, I decide to put it at the back to tank Sneak unit and also to give another 2 extra armor to all my units.
Total Mana:	50

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Battle Lineup:

My opponent went with Prince Rennyn, a legendary Earth splinter summoner. I hardly ever came across this summoner before but it is power. It gives +1 ranged damage, +1 speed and +1 health to all friendly units.

My opponent went with a full ranged lineup and because of this summoner, the DPS output of the whole lineup was crazy. My opponent put 2 tanks in front and lineup the rest of the backline with ranged units. In comparison, my offensive output is pathetic. In fact I think I have less than half the offensive output of my opponent.

End of Round 1:

My Alvar started with 12 armors but was devastated by the terrifying ranged damage from my opponent. The 4 enemy ranged units had at least 4 damage each. Thankfully my Tide Biter was there to defend my backline from any blast damage. Meanwhile the opponent tanks are getting hammered as well from my weaker attack. The difference though was even with a much weaker attack, I can still dealt significant damage due to the Explosive Weaponry ruleset.

End of Round 2:

I lost my Alvar early in the round 2 but it was straight away revive back up by my River Hellondale. My revived Alvar has 12 armor and 1 health point. This is what I loved about Alvar and its Void Armor. Together with River Hellondale, they are an awesome combo. Even with such an awesome fire power, my opponent had huge problem breaking through my Legionnaire Alvar. It doesn't even matter if my Alvar got stunned.

Meanwhile my opponent had lost the 2 tanks to my weaker attack.

End of Round 3:

I finally lost my Alvar for good here but it doesn't matter anymore. My opponent lost another 2 more units and the match was as good as over at this point.

KEY STRATEGY
My strategy in this match was very simple, used Legionnaire Alvar and River Hellondale to hold the frontline while the rest will attack the enemy frontline and see who can outlast who. I also up the armor of Alvar as much as possible with Arkemis and Venari Wavesmith. This way a revived Alvar would also have more armor.

CONCLUSION ON LEGIONNAIRE ALVAR
Legionnaire Alvar is one of my most commonly used unit in high mana battle. I absolutely love this unit.

Best position to put Legionnaire Alvar is the 1st position. Can't imagine putting it elsewhere.

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