Hello splinterlands folks

it's been so long since I have written a post on hive.blog, but Finally, after 8 months of struggling with life I'm here with an entry for the BATTLE MAGE SECRETS Weekly Challenge! So let's explore the details of what I have to share today with you guys!

This week's battle mage secrets focus is RULESET: Up Close and Personal

Up Close And personal rules mean only monsters with melee attacks may be used in battles so other than melee monsters get an automatic by from this battle and here is the fun begins of this ruleset

The ruleset of my battle -

Up Close and Personal - monsters with melee attacks may be used in battles
Briar Patch - All units receive the Thorns ability at the start of the battle. Enemy units that use melee attacks receive damage back
Silenced Summoners - Summoners do not give any buffs/debuffs or grant/use abilities

My team

• Element - Water + Xia Seachan
• Team - The Kraken, Tide Biter, Venator Kinjo, Tortisian Fighter, Deeplurker, RUNI

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About my team

well, I think I got lucky this time on this battle because I had almost the same team and line-up as taug brought with but after thinking 2 minutes of time I finally, came up with the water team to make it easier, the reason for too much thinking was to win this battle, because it's really difficult to get specific ruleset like this one, So If I get lose the battle I had to wait a bit longer for the next one, and this battle was on Champions League Tournament where we try our best to win every battle.

Analysis of this battle

The Kraken

One of the reason I brought Kraken into this battle was to reduce the -1 melee attack from the opponent team with its demoralize ability, + The Kraken as tank since all the units was getting thorns from the rule-set itself. so I had to make sure that my Kraken was alone enough to survive til the end of the battle but it did pretty well as I planned.

Tide Biter

Since every unit get the thorns ability from the rule set itself I had to make sure that I brought at least one of the monster with Reflection Shield so I could kill the opponent team without getting damage from the thorns and Tide Biter was one of the perfect monsters with reach ability that can attack from the second position and he has done a good job in this battle.

VENATOR KINJO

Venator Kinjo is one of my favorite legendary from the Chaos Legion Rewards edition, he only takes 2 mana to use but he gives more than what you expected from a melee monster including a group of abilities, but my main target of using Kinjo in this battle was to get that Amplify ability so the enemy monsters could get 1+ extra damage from thorns, also his speed helped The Kraken to attack first which was plus point for the entire team.

TORTISIAN FIGHTER

Although I rarely use Tortisian Fighter in big mana battles because of his speed and lower life, but when I get low mana battle he is one of my favorite monster and he gets the highest priority when I get the Weak Magic rule-set but in this battle, I used him as an Armore Repair, since The Kraken alone was doing all the job I was prepared with my slow Tortisian to heal the Kraken armor in every round. and there was a second option too, If somehow my Kraken got killed and the enemy had monsters with opportunity ability so he could take that responsibility with his strong armor but at the end of the battle this slow strong tortoise became the hero of this battle.

DEEPLURKER

Deeplurker is the most used card from Water Element these days, and I always use it as a killer, it has poison and demoralizing ability is the main reason I have used it all the team I got a chance and it worked very well, in this battle my focus was on monsters with opportunity ability instead of sneaky so the deeplurker was the perfect one besides runi to minus enemy units -1 melee attacks with the Kraken.

RUNI

RUNI as a back tank (no idea what it is called), but runi was the second monster with opportunity ability in this battle and I decided to put it in the last position because I thought the enemy would come up with the sneaky monsters so its rebirth ability will give me one more round to survive in the battle and runi was the main monster that had Reflection Shield that doesn't get damage from the thorns ability and that is how win this battle with the hard work of slow tortoise and runi the slow king.

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