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The Newb's Guide to Splinterlands Abilities

Splinterlands is a game that's both entertaining and challenging. It's made even more difficult by the game's seemingly infinite number of abilities that your Summoners and Monsters bring into the fight.

It's difficult to keep track of them all, remember how they all work, and pick the perfect abilities that will help you score the win and earn some sweet DEC... especially while you're on the edge of your seat picking your line-up.

Well fret no more! This article groups the current 62 Spliniterlands abilities into 14 categories based on what type of ability they are or how they function in combat (e.g., damage, healing, buffs). By organizing these abilities into categories we can more easily remember what each one does and put them to use effectively during battle!

Without further adieu, enjoy, and Good Luck!

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Stat Buffing Abilities

These abilities increase key stats on all your friendly monster cards in play.

Symbol	Ability Name	Description
	Protect	Increase all friendly Armor +2
	Inspire	Increase all friendly melee attack +1
	Strengthen	Increase all friendly health +1
	Swiftness	Increase all friendly speed +1

Stat Debuffing Abilities

Like the Stat Buffing Abilities but the Opposite. These abilities will debuff your enemy reducing key stats on their monster's cards.

Symbol	Ability Name	Description
	Rust	Reduce all enemy Armor -1
	Slow	Reduce all enemy Speed -1
	Weaken	Reduce all enemy Health -1
	Blind	Increase chance to for enemy melee & ranged attacks to miss, 15% Chance to Evade

Reduce Attack Power

This specific subset of the stat debuffing abilities will reduce the power of specific attack stats on your enemy's cards.

Symbol	Ability Name	Description
	Demoralize	Reduce all enemy melee attack -1
	Headwinds	Reduce all enemy ranged attack -1
	Silence	Reduce all enemy magic attack -1

Attack Effect Modifiers

These abilities all play around with the effects that your monsters' attacks will have.

Debuffing Effects on Hit

These attack effect abilities will apply a debuff effect on the enemy monster's whenever you successfully land a hit.

Symbol	Ability Name	Description
	Affliction	Each hit, 50% chance to remove ability to heal
	Halving	Each hit, reduces target’s attack in half
	Cripple	Each hit, monster loses 1 max health
	Dispel	Each hit, removes all positive status effects
	Snare	Each hit against Flying, removes flying ability and cannot miss
	Stun	Each hit, 50% chance to stun which skips targets next turn
Extra Damage
	Blast	Additional damage to adjacent monsters on hit
	Poison	Each hit, 50% chance to poison which deals automatic damage at the beginning of each round after poisoned, not affected by shield or void

Buffed Attacks

These attack effect abilities increase the effectiveness of your attacks against tough opponents and help keep your monsters alive.

Symbol	Ability Name	Description
	Double Strike	Monster attacks twice each round
	True Strike	Cannot Miss
Deal with Armor
	Piercing	Attacks hit armor and health in one hit when total damage is greater than total armor
	Shatter	Destroys enemy armor on hit
Healing Attacks
	Life Leach	Health Increases on each hit in proportion to damage dealt

Circumstantial Effects

These abilities only come into play in certain situations depending on enemy or friendly conditions present.

Symbol	Ability Name	Description
	Knock Out	2x damage when enemy is stunned
	Oppress	2x damage when attacking an enemy that has no attacks
	Deathblow	2x damage if the target is the only Monster left on the enemy team
	Trample	When a Monster with Trample hits and kills its target, it will perform another attack on the next Monster on the enemy Team
	Bloodlust	Every time it defeats an opponent, it gets +1 to all stats, In the Reverse Speed ruleset, -1 to Speed
	Enrage	Increased melee attack and speed when damaged
	Redemption	1 damage to all enemy monsters on death
	Last Stand	Gains increased stats if it's the only Monster on the team alive. Multiplier x1.5 rounded up.

Attack Position Modifiers

These abilities help you use cards outside of the normal placement requirements for Melee or Ranged attacks.

Symbol	Ability Name	Description
	Close Range	Ranged can attack from any position
	Opportunity	Target enemy with lowest health from any position
	Sneak	Target monster in last position
	Snipe	Target monster with ranged, magic, or no attack that isn’t in first position
	Reach	Melee monster can attack from second position with this ability

Draw/Repel Attacks

Sometimes it's useful to force the enemy to concentrate their attack in one place or have them ignore a monster entirely - these abilities will help you do so.

Symbol	Ability Name	Description
	Taunt	Must attack this monster if able to
	Camouflage	This Monster cannot be targeted for attacks unless it's in the first position

Revenge Abilities

Revenge is a dish best served with a severe beating. These abilities will help you punish any monsters that have the nerve to hurt your team.

Symbol	Ability Name	Description
	Return Fire	If hit by ranged, will return reduced damage back
	Magic Reflect	If hit by magic, will return reduced damage back
	Thorns	If hit by melee, will return damage back
	Amplify	Increases Magic Reflect, Return Fire, and Thorns damage to all enemy monsters by 1
	Retaliate	If hit by melee, 50% chance to revenge attack, possible to chain

Defense Abilities

The following abilities tend to lean more toward a defensive play style. They help your monsters avoid taking too much damage or recover when they get hit.

Evasion Abilities

Your monsters will be able to slip by your opponents when they come swinging thanks to these abilities. Your monsters will be able to avoid being struck by an enemy attack and continue fighting another day.

Symbol	Ability Name	Description
	Dodge	Increased chance of evading melee or ranged attacks, +25%
	Flying	Increased chance of evading melee or ranged attacks from non flying monsters, +25%
	Phase	Magic attacks can miss this Monster (using the same hit/miss calculation as for Melee and Ranged attacks)
	Blind	Increase chance to for enemy melee & ranged attacks to miss, 15% Chance to Evade

Damage Reduction Abilities

Can't avoid getting hit? No worries. These abilities will help your monsters take a punch but remove the sting by reducing the damage they receive.

Symbol	Ability Name	Description
	Shield	Melee & Ranged reduced damage, Damage is Halved (rounded up) except attack 1 which deals 0 damage, cancels redemption damage
	Void	Reduce magic damage, Damage is Halved (rounded up) except attack 1 which deals 0 damage
	Void Armor	Magic hits armor before health
	Divine Shield	first attack ignored
	Forcefield	This Monster takes only 1 damage from attacks with power 5+

Healing Abilities

Now, at the end of it all, sometimes you're left with a mess that just needs to be fixed. That's where healing abilities come in. These abilities will fix your monsters right up and get them all shiny and new so they can keep fighting for you.

Symbol	Ability Name	Description
	Heal	Restores a portion of the Monster's health each round, Restores 1/3 of the max health, rounded up. Affliction & Stun prevent healing.
	Tank Heal	Restores a portion of the Monster in the first position's health each round, Restores 1/3 of the max health, rounded up
	Triage	Heals the friendly back-line Monster that has taken the most damage. Heal is max health divided by 3, rounded down. Minimum is 2.
	Scavenger	Gains 1 max health each time any monster dies.
	Life Leach	Monster's health increases each time it damages an enemy Monster's health in proportion to the damage dealt.
	Resurrect	When a friendly Monster dies it is brought back to life with 1 Health. This ability can only trigger once per battle. Doesn't work on self. Armor is brought back to original amount.
	Repair	Restores some armor to the friendly Monster whose armor has taken the most damage.
	Cleanse	Removes all negative effects on the Monster in the first position on the friendly team.

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Wrap-Up

As you can see, the Splinterlands game has a number of abilities that are difficult to keep track of and remember. By organizing these abilities into categories we can more easily remember what each one does and put them to use effectively during battle! This article is up-to date with all new releases so bookmark it for future reference or share this page with friends who may find value in this helpful list.

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