SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! LIFE SAPPER

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Life Sapper is a 3 Mana Death rare unit whose strength lies in its ability Life Leech ability. Below is her full stats from Level 1 to 10.

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At level 1, it has a speed of 2 with 1 magic attack and 2 HP. Its weakness is its speed and low health but if you are able to keep it protected, it will becomes a strong tank because it is gaining health every time it damage the enemy health.

By the time it reached level 4, it will have 2 magic attack and 3 speed which makes it more deadly.

At its max level, Life Sapper will also gain the Redemption ability which means when Life Sapper died, it will does 1 damage to every opposing enemy units.


Next lets take a look at how Life Sapper will perform in the various rulesets:

This table is generated using Koodies's Splintertools #3, created by @koodies
RulesetsLife Sapper
limitation🔮 Mana: 3,💗 Health: 2,🛡️ Armor: 0,⏩ Speed: 2
aim-true.png👍Generally not very helpful unless facing an opponent with Phase.
armored-up.png👍Good for Life Sapper as it needs whatever protection it can get to keep it alive in the early rounds.
back-to-basics.png👎Life Sapper is useless without Life Leech ...
broken-arrows.png👍Can be deployed.
close-range.pngNo effect.
earthquake.png👎Very bad as Life Sapper as it will die fast from Earthquake damage.
equalizer.png👍Now Life Sapper has the same health as everyone while able to gain more health later.
equal-opportunity.png👎Bad. Life Sapper will be targeted early on due to low health.
even-stevens.png👎Cannot be deployed.
explosive-weaponry.png👍Great if you can keep it alive early. Life Sapper is able to leech more health due to blast damage.
odd-ones-out.png👍Can be deployed.
fog-of-war.png👍Remove one of the bigger threat, Snipe, that usually can kill off Life Sapper fast.
healed-out.png👍Means Life Leech is more valuable in battle.
heavy-hitters.pngNo effect.
holy-protection.png👍Needed whatever protection it can get.
keep-your-distance.png👍Can be deployed.
little-league.png👍Can be deployed.
lost-legendaries.png👍Can be deployed.
lost-magic.png👎Cannot be deployed.
melee-mayhem.pngNo effect.
noxious-fumes.png👎Will die fast from poison damage.
reverse-speed.png👍Life Sapper has low speed so it actually help in reverse speed battle.
rise-of-the-commons.png👍Can be deployed.
spreading-fury.pngNo effect.
stampede.png👎Life Sapper health is too low and can be killed by trampling units.
super-sneak.pngNo effect.
taking-sides.png👍Can be deployed.
target-practice.png👎Added danger to Life Sapper as it can be quickly taken out in a Snipe ruleset.
unprotected.pngNo effect as Life Sapper has no armor in the first place.
up-close-&-personal.png👎Cannot be deployed.
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Finally lets take a look at a modern ranked match I had using Life Sapper as one of the unit in the setup. The battle restrictions are:
Fog of War and Keep Your Distance with a max mana limit of 34. The Video for the Full Battle can be seen here:
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_8b07e674cf63bc8628dae6af9b6f8ab3&ref=genming

TEAM SETUP:

SplinterMana CostPositionReason
Quix the Devious4SummonerChose Quix because it is my highest summoner and is suited for a non-melee battle.
Djinn Muirat91stThere is only magic or ranged attack in this battle. Since Quix has taken care of reducing ranged damage, I need to worry more on magic. Djinn Muirat has void armor that will block magic attack for a while.
Void Dragon52ndVoid Dragon is my 2nd tank and again it was to prevent against magic attack as Void Dragon has Void ability to reduce magic damage.
Venari Bonesmith43rdBonesmith is used here as a potential 3rd tank if needed. It has Life Leech and will gain in health if battle is a long one.
Life Sapper34thLife Sapper is here to serve as the same function as Bonesmith. It also has life leech.
Soul Strangler35thDPS ranged unit with very low health but it is well protected except against opportunity unit.
Supply Runner66thAdded Supply Runner at the back to add more DPS and also give +1 speed to the entire team.
Total Mana:34

Battle Lineup:

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My opponent went with Life with Mother Khala as the summoner. It is strange that General Sloan wasn't the summoner because the entire lineup is almost all ranged.

End of Round 1:

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The opponent didn't stand a chance. After the first round, the opponent has lost 2 units while my entire team still have full health.

End of Round 2:

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By the end of round 2, the opponent lost another 2 units while I only lost 1 health. But I also gain back 2 hp from Bonesmith and Life Sapper so its game over for the opponent.

It was pretty obvious though who would win before the match start. For one, I have a level 2 Epic summoner against a level 1 rare summoner. But even if it is both level 1, I would have won because my summoner countered his entire ranged lineup by reducing the ranged damage by 1.

KEY STRATEGY
Since melee cannot be used in this battle, I only need to defend against Ranged and Magic. I used Quix to reduce ranged damage and put tanks with magic defense in front.

CONCLUSION ON LIFE SAPPER
I be frank that I don't use Life Sapper much. This is because most of the time I prefer to use Venari Bonesmith instead just because it has a slightly higher health and poison later. However in certain rulesets like Explosive Weaponry, Life Sapper is great as it can gain more health very quickly and it costs 1 less mana to summon than Bonesmith.

So keep it around for low mana matches.

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