How to beat Llama + Kron combo at 17 mana cap battles with each splinter? Here are some examples!

Greetings,

We have all been there, It's 17 mana cap, earth splinter is available and opponent's history shows tendency to abuse Llama-Kron combination.

We have only few moments to pick our team and solve the puzzle that has been causing sleepless nights to countless members of our community. What to do?

The easy formula to kill this combo is to pick Void armor, repair and 7 damage.

For water splinter example team you will need 3 mana summoner and L3 axe master, rest can be L1. Kron breaks the armor each turn but doesn't touch the health due to void armor and Scavo Hireling will repair that armor for the next turn to start. Axemaster at L3 deals 6 damage and 1 remaining damage can come for example from water pixie who is in your starter deck:

Let move to our life Splinter example This team you can play also in Bronze, but it's not a 100% win rate as Pelacorn Mercenary only has 2 speed at lower levels, which might cause him to miss last stan Kron so often, that you every once in a while will lose the match on fatigue. The formula is exactly the same as with water splinter, Void armor, repair and 7 or more damage. Once you level up your Pelacorn Mercenary the chances of this happening will grow marginal. However as at bronze level there is little to counter llama kron, I think this is definitely worthy option to keep up your sleeve.

As you see from the percentages, at silver level, you can play this team without having to sweat too much (regardless of the screenshot, your Armor smith can be L1 and Chain spinner can be L2 when he gets his second speed to reduce misses):

Fire team example uses the same formula. There are multiple ways to get the required damage due to Tarsa increasing your melee damage but here is one of them:

I use our Dragon team example to show that you can play the water deck also without L3 axe master. Naga assassin use in our example team only does 1 damage at L4 so there are plenty of alternatives for her within the water splinter or neural family (battering ram comes to mind as a neural alternative)

In the death example I'm still using Kretch as a summoner just to give him some love, but any 3 mana death splinter would do (Owster would give extra damage too!).

And then for the nightmare scenario! It's 17 mana.. Opponent's history shows Llama-Kron and it's EARTH only! Wait what, earth doesn't have cheap void armor monster! What to do. I'll be honest this team does require some investment to be put into the game as you will need Khmer Princess at L4 when she gets her tank heal.

If you can come up with an alternative, I'm all ears but this took me some work to figure out as it is!
Here are two teams - one utilising Lyanna Natura(+1hp), Failed summoner and two healers and with other you can use any 3 mana earth summoner (or Kretch <3) and three(!) healers.

I believe that is all splinters covered at 17 mana cap. I hope you found this helpful! :) Be safe!