SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! REGAL PERYTON

Regal Peryton is a 5 Mana Earth rare unit. Below is its full stats from Level 1 to 10.

At level 1, it has a speed of 5 with 1 magic attack and 6 health points. It also has a Flying ability that allow it has a 25% chance to evade ranged or melee attack. Its super fast speed and flight makes this unit a very frustrating unit to hit at with ranged or melee units.

By the time it reached level 3, it will have 2 magic attack and 5 speed. At this level, it is a very good back tank as most sneak units are melee and it is very hard to hit this unit with melee units.

At its max level, Regal Peryton magic attack would reach 3 with 7 speed. At this point, it will have a 85% chance to dodge any melee/ranged unit that has only 1 speed.

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

Rulesets	DiemonShark
	🔮 Mana: 8,💗 Health: 7,🛡️ Armor: 6,⏩ Speed: 4
	👎Not very helpful as Regal Peryton attack is magic and wouldn't miss. Even if opponent used Phase, Peryton's high speed would still make it hard to miss any attack. On the contrary, Regal Peryton would be vulnerable now to getting hit in this ruleset.
	👍Extra protection is always good.
	👎Not good as Regal Peryton would lose its Flying ability in this ruleset.
	👍Can be deployed.
	No effect.
	👍It will not suffer any damage from Earthquake as it is a Flying unit.
	Neutral on this. Its health is already average.
	👍It can target and kill off low hp units very fast.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👍Magic attack with blast is deadly.
	👍Can be deployed.
	No effect on him. He doesn't have sneak or snipe in the first place.
	👎Means it can't be healed.
	👍Good if you got a unit with stun in your lineup.
	👍Extra protection is always good.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	No effect
	👎Will suffer 2 damage from poison every round.
	👎This is bad for Regal Peryton. Will render its high speed to become a liability.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👍Good for Regal Peryton. Its speed will get 1.5 times multiplied which makes it even harder to hit.
	No effect.
	No effect.
	👍Can be deployed.
	👍It can now hit opposing ranged or magic units at the back. This would means itself can be hit as well but with its speed, it can evade ranged attack frequently. The only issue is facing opposing magic attacking units.
	No effect it doesn't have armor in the first place.
	👎Cannot be deployed.
	👎Means its attack cannot bypass armor.

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Finally lets take a look at a wild ranked match I had using Regal Peryton as one of the unit in the setup. The battle restrictions are:
Holy Protection and Close Range with a max mana limit of 36. The Video for the Full Battle can be seen here:
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_252000a0dc3c6243795371d5a18c6eef&ref=genming

TEAM SETUP:

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Quix the Devious	4	Summoner	Quix can debuff opposing ranged attack by 1 and since this is a close range battle, I am expecting opponent to use some powerful ranged units.
Regal Peryton	5	1st	It is a big risk putting Regal Peryton at the first position cause if the opponent set up a magic lineup, Peryton will die pretty fast. But I was expecting mostly opposing ranged units so decided to put it up and see if it can hold the line.
Runic Skyclaw	9	2nd	Runic Skyclaw is another crazily fast unit with Flying ability. But again it is also vulnerable to magic attack.
Dhampir Infiltrator	4	3rd	My sneak attacker which has Double Strike. Very powerful unit once you get it at level 4 and above.
Wood Nymph	4	4th	My healer to heal the tank in case they get hit. I am not expecting many hits on my front tank though.
Doctor Blight	4	5th	Doctor Blight with Poison is very powerful. I usually rent it at level 1 but now that I have used a level 2 Blight, I can't get enough of how good it is.
Supply Runner	6	6th	Added Supply Runner because its Swift ability gives another 1 speed to the whole team. This will makes my front 2 tanks even harder to hit.
Total Mana:	36

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Battle Lineup:

My opponent went with a Fire team lineup with Tarsa as the summoner. There weren't any magic units in the opposing team so we should see how Regal Peryton performed in its best environment. Tarsa do add +1 melee damage so getting hit would be very painful for me. My opponent intended to use sneak units to take out my backline.

End of Round 1:

My Regal Peryton survived round 1 without losing any health. It got hit by the opposing range unit, Fire Elemental, but the damage was absorbed by Holy Protection. It then managed to dodge the Living Lava attack which is expected as Living Lava is way too slow and had a low chance of hitting a fast flying unit like Regal Peryton.

Meanwhile my back unit was getting hit.

End of Round 2:

If round 1 was uneventful, round 2 was full of actions. First the opponent Fire Elemental was taken out by my Runic Skyclaw. Then my Dhampir Infiltrator followed that up by killing off the opponent Uraeus with its Double Strike. The Living Lava was the next to go and suddenly the opponent lost 3 units in quick succession. The opponent counter attacked and took out my Supply Runner and Dhampir Infiltrator plus my Regal Peryton ended up getting hit as well.

End of Round 3:

Not much action this round except I lost my healer to the opponent remaining sneaker. But from here onwards the opponent would find it very hard to hit my remaining units as they were much faster and with Flying ability. Meanwhile my Regal Peryton dodge another attack.

End of Round 4:

The opponent remaining tank was taken out and I also managed to dodge all attacks threw at me this turn. Regal Peryton remained standing even though the opponent 2 strong tanks with superior health had died.

End of Round 5:

The opponent managed to hit my Regal Peryton in this round but it was too late. Only 1 opposing unit standing now and it was poisoned by my Doctor Blight.

End of Round 6:

Regal Peryton survived the entire battle during the match. Speed is king!

KEY STRATEGY
My key strategy was to rely on speed to hit first and dodge opponent attacks. Thankfully the opposing team didn't use any magic units or it would ruined the strategy.

CONCLUSION ON REGAL PERYTON
Regal Peryton do has its weakness as it is vulnerable to magic attack. In most cases where the opponent is likely to use magic units, do not put Regal Peryton as a front tank. It is frequently better to put Regal Peryton in the last position instead as most sneak units use melee attack.

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