Summoner's Week: Conqueror Jacek

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^{The tips and possible advises in this article are designed for Silver League, in which I am in right now.}

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This is the first time I am trying Immolation and when I saw his first released, I thought that he was a strong monster. This battle proved it otherwise though.

While Immolation seems strong stat-wise, unfortunately, the summoners in Fire Splinter cannot support him properly and this becomes a problem if you constantly use him. To fix that problem, I tried to use the best Fire Summoner for Modern Ranked Format, Conqueror Jacek.

It's just a matter of testing whether this combination is the missing piece I am looking for to boost Immolation from being a good monster to great.

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Conqueror Jacek is a legendary summoner. I am a bit biased on legendary summoners due to how easy for you to level up them and it makes it more efficient to level them up than a rare or common summoner.

Conqueror Jacek is a niche pick. Alone, he's not actually strong unless you pair his abilities with other corresponding abilities.

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+2 Speed: [Stat Modifier] [Negative Status] All friendly monsters has their Speed increased by 1.

Scattershot: [Target Modifier] The attack priority of this monster's attack is changed to "Random monster on the opponent's side."

Piercing: [Attack Modifer] Any excess Melee and Range damage on the opponent's armor are passed through their health.

Pros

1. Best pairing with Blast and Poison. Scattershot ability with Blast ability gives you the highest chance to inflict damage to multiple monsters at the same time. For Poison ability, it would be best to spread them out instead of just one monster at a time since Poison damage does not stack.
2. Piercing ability is a good counter to Protect. Normally, players use just one layer of Protect ability in case the opponents use abilities that can damage their precious back row. Having Piercing ability and high damage gives you a huge advantage to get past this defense.
3. Complementing abilities. Piercing ability works best with melee and range damage types. The problem is that these two can miss if the monsters have low speed in which the +2 Speed fixes.

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Cons

1. Has high mana cost.
   Since he has 6 mana cost, it would take a bit of the mana from the monsters and may be the difference between you having a high monster on the board or less monster as well.
2. Very limited selection for Fire Splinters.
   Fire splinters excel in melee combat. While the Piercing ability can help on that, melee monsters does not get benefit from Scattershot as the ability only affects range and magic damage.
3. Reliant on monsters.
   The reason I said this is because his abilities are quite complicated to use. You need strong monsters to use as a base to make it effective unlike summoners like Kelya Frendul where you can use any monsters and she makes them strong.

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Rank	Rules of Combat	Description
	Briar Patch	All monsters on the board gains the Thorns ability that inflicts 2 melee damage to monster with melee damage attacking this monster: With Briar Patch, since everyone has Thorns, it would reduce your opponent's usage of Opportunity and Sneak abilities. On the other hand, you can use range and magic damage like Immolation which utilizes Conqueror Jacek's abilities.
	Armored Up	All monsters gain +2 armor for this battle: Since Conqueror Jacek has Piercing ability, you can use that to counteract the effect of Armored Up.
	Explosive Weaponry	All monsters on the board gains the Blast ability that inflicts half the damage to the monsters beside the target: The best combination with Scattershot ability is Blast. Since everyone will have the Blast ability and you will have +2 Speed on top of that making you act earlier, this combo can eliminate most of your opponent's back row \even before they can move.

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Rank	Rules of Combat	Description
	Counterspell	All monsters on the board gains the Magic Reflect ability that inflicts half the damage to any monsters with magic damage attacking this monster: Counterspell is the same as Briar Patch but for magic damage. This would limit your compatible monsters that you can use with Conqueror Jacek.
	Reverse Speed	The effects of speed becomes the opposite. Monsters with the least Speed also attack first and has highest chance to evade an attack: Conqueror Jacek gives an extra 2 Speed. The higher the speed, the earlier they act and less chance your monsters will miss. Your opponent's melee and range will also have a hard time hitting your monsters with higher speed. However, Reverse Speed flip the effects and makes your monsters more vulnerable.
	Unprotected	All armor and effects that involve armor are disabled during this battle: With Briar Patch, since everyone has Thorns, it would reduce your opponent's usage of Opportunity and Sneak abilities. On the other hand, you can use range and magic damage like Immolation which utilizes Conqueror Jacek's abilities.

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Rank	Monsters	Description
	Immolation	If you combine the Conqueror Jacek and Immolation, you can have an effective defense against Sneak that can also deal with opponent's back lane.
	Lava Spider	Lava Spider has Poison at max level. Poison is especially effective if multiple opponents have it. Without Conqueror Jacek's Scattershot ability, Lava Spider will only attack one target at a time until it dies unlike with Scattershot ability, where he can attack a random opponent each round and apply Poison to random opponents each round as well.
	Scavo Technomancer	Conqueror Jacek and Blast ability goes hand in hand. Scattershot gives the monster higher chance to apply the Blast ability to a center monster on their lineup able to hit 3 opponents each round.

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While this lineup seems not the best, the idea is that I have Immolation as a Sneak Blocker while trying to maximize his Scavenger ability. Even though the Piercing ability is not as useful, a magic damage monster with Scattershot is actually pretty strong.

Lineup

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^{Conqueror Jacek}

Gives higher speed and Scattershot for Immolation to pick up the back row every round.

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^{Scorch Fiend}

He's a 0 mana cost monster that can add value to Immolation's Scavenger ability.

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^{Venari Heatsmith}

He's a 3 mana cost monster with Void Armor ability as a blocker.

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^{Doctor Blight}

I added Doctor Blight in case the opponent has heals. I should've got a higher level Doctor Blight to unlock Poison ability which complements well with Conqueror Jacek's Scattershot ability.

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^Immolation

I placed it at the last position in case the opponents focused on Sneak strategy. Immolation's Shield ability allows me to halve those Melee Sneak damages while also abuse the Scavenger ability by allowing my opponent to kill my first 3 monsters first giving my Immolation an extra 3 Health.

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My Immolation's Scattershot attack eliminating the opponent's Katrelba Gobson as early as the first hit is all I needed to dominate the game. The rest is just a simple waiting game for me until I win.

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Conqueror Jacek is a tricky summoner that I don't really suggest to new players. Unlike other summoners, he only has a select number of monsters that complement his abilities and not choosing these monsters can decrease your win rate a lot.

Actually, even with this lineup with Immolation, I think I had a negative win rate due to how rare I can pull up this combo. Immolation and Conqueror Jacek alone requires you 18 mana to use which decreases the amount of monsters you can use for that battle. The lower the amount of monsters you use, the lower the max Health you can get from Scavenger ability.

To make matters worse, Scattershot ability does not even work if your monsters are in 1st position making it a useless ability for Immolation once he gets to the 1st position.

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