SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! PRISMOLOGIST

Prismologist is a 8 Mana Epic unit from the Life splinter. Below is its full stats from Level 1 to 8.

At level 1, it has a speed of 2 with 3 range attack, 2 armor and 4 health points. It also has the Blast ability allowing her to do additional damage to enemies that are adjacent to the enemy she hit.

By the time it reached level 4, it will gain another ability, Forcefield. Forcefield reduce the damage Prismologist took to 1 if it is attack by an enemy with 5 or more power.

At its max level, level 8, Prismologist will have 4 range damage, 2 speed, 2 armor and 5 health and gain the final ability Silence. Silence will reduce all enemy units' magic damage as long as it is more than 1 magic damage.

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

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

Rulesets	Prismologist Level 1
	🔮 Mana: 8,💗 Health: 4,🛡️ Armor: 2,⏩ Speed: 2
	👍Good as Prismologist is slow and can miss frequently against fast enemies.
	👍Extra protection is always good as Prismologist has a low base health.
	👎It will lose its Blast and other abilities.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👍Allow her to hit from first position.
	👎It will suffer 2 damage from Earthquake per round.
	👍Good as Prismologist has a low health and would thus likely to have higher health in this ruleset.
	👍Great ruleset for Prismologist as she not only can pick off low health enemy units but also damage enemy units adjacent to the low health enemy units.
	👍Can be deployed.
	No effect.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	No effect. It doesn't have sneak or snipe in the first place.
	👎Means she can't be healed.
	Useful only if the lineup also has a unit that can stunned.
	👍Extra protection is always good.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👍Can be deployed.
	No effect
	👎Prismologist has low health and Noxious Fumes will kill it off fast.
	👍Prismologist is slow so this ruleset actually helps her.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	Not much effect as most of the time Prismologist's health point is too low to survive to get enraged.
	No effect.
	No effect.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👍Allow Prismologist to hit enemy backline ranged and magic units and also damage the adjacent units of the targeted unit.
	👎Prismologist will lose its armor.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	No effect.

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Finally lets take a look at a wild ranked match I had using Prismologist as one of the unit in the setup. The battle restrictions are:
Melee Mayhem plus Lost Magic with a max mana limit of 38. The Video for the Full Battle can be seen here:
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_cac98ef95eb2c24a3a58ba1dff21d253&ref=genming

TEAM SETUP:

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
General Sloan	4	Summoner	I chose General Sloan as the summoner for this battle because I wanted to use a Life team with Jared Scar. Jared Scar with its Bloodlust ability can turn into a scary monster in a Melee Mayhem ruleset.
Pelacor Conjurer	2	1st	Pelacor Conjurer is a very good and cheap tank. It can also deflect magic attack back to opponent magic units.
Arkemis the Bear	12	2nd	My real tank hiding in 2nd position. It not only gives everyone in my lineup +2 armor but it also able to halves the damage of enemy unit it hits.
Jared Scar	7	3rd	My damage dealing unit. Jared Scar has a big attack and when it kill an enemy units, it will gain +1 damage, +1 speed, +1 health and +1 armor. Its only problem is it is too vulnerable to be put as a tank but in this Melee Mayhem ruleset, it can be hidden at the back.
Scavo Hireling	3	4th	Use for repairing damaged armor that is provided to everyone from Arkemis the Bear.
Prismologist	8	5th	My 2nd damage dealing unit. I wanted to use Prismologist's blast damage to destroy enemy units armor so Jared Scar can get the kill.
Celestial Harpy	2	6th	My last tank. I have only 2 mana left so decided to put Harpy here since it has flight and hopefully can tank against Sneak units for a while.
Total Mana:	38

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Battle Lineup:

My opponent went with a Life splinter as well but has Chaos Knight as the tank while a very heavy ranged lineup at the back. This goes well with General Sloan's +1 Range damage ability.

End of Round 1:

Chaos Knight was a tough tank to crack especially if it was given extra armor. I took the entire 1st round just to remove its 5 armor. Meanwhile my small little Pelacor Conjurer wasn't doing too bad too. It managed to dodge a few attacks and survived the round.

End of Round 2:

My Pelacor Conjurer managed to dodge one more attack before getting killed. Meanwhile my Prismologist also killed off the enemy Chaos Knight and damage the enemy Venari Crystalsmith. Jared Scar followed up killing off the Crystalsmith and gained +1 attack, speed, armor and health! Perfect!

End of Round 3:

The opponent Herbalist was easily taken out by my tank and Prismologist followed up by also eliminating the enemy Truthspeaker. With the Truthspeaker dead, the enemy remaining units lost their armor. At this point it is game over for my opponent.

KEY STRATEGY
My strategy in this match was to keep my hard hitting units alive as long as possible at the back while having decent tank at the front holding the fort.

CONCLUSION ON Prismologist
Prismologist main weakness is its low low health and speed. Because of this, it is very vulnerable to being targeted by enemy Snipe, Opportunity or Sneak units.

Best position to put Prismologist is the 2nd last position with a decent back tank to help against enemy Sneak units.

Prismologist blast is extremely powerful if it can hit right in the middle of your opponent lineup so ruleset like Equal Opportunity and Target Practice are very good for Prismologist. Worse ruleset to use Prismologist is probably Noxious Fumes.

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