Splinterlands Amazing Battles – Didactic Analysis #5


Welcome, Splinter people! I am pleased to present yet another fiery battle you should study in a didactic way to get better at playing to earn!


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Here we have a gold league battle with the following rulesets:

  • Holy Protection: All Monsters have the Divine Shield Ability

  • Close Range: Ranged attacks may be used in the first position in battles.


Click on the image to watch the fight:

Divine Shield means that the first damage taken by each monster will be ignored. Also, the ranged monster can attack from the first position.


One of the most obvious choices is playing Yodin Zaku, taking advantage of the Close Range ruleset, so the attack of ranged monsters is not wasted when they are in the first position.

Blast is instrumental here because this ability will help to remove Divine Shield from the opponent's monsters faster.

And @zaku played the summoner mentioned above - Yodin Zaku.

All monsters:

  • Chaos Agent: cheap one mana tank, which has Dodge and Backfire ability, so the attacker will get two damage if he misses Chaos Agent
  • Ant Miners: 2 mana secondary tank, solid because he has Shield and Scavenger ability
  • Scavo Chemist: support card with Cleanse and Slow abilities
  • Goblin Fireballer: 2 ranged attack for 2 mana and Snare ability
  • Xenith Archer: 2 ranged attack for 2 mana
  • Lava Spider: 2 ranged attack, Snipe and Snare ability

All the ranged monsters have attacked increased +1 by the summoner.

This looks like a pretty good lineup. The only weaknesses are the Magic attack and attack from the back (Sneak).

@marianaemilia decided to play Kelya Frendul summoner and 2 Sneak monsters.

All monsters:

  • Angelic Mandarin: a monster with 2 ranged attack and Triage that took advantage of the Close Range ruleset so that it can attack from the first position
  • Crustacean King: Protect and Tank Heal
  • Merdaali Guardian: Repair and Tank Heal
  • Sabre Shark: fast Sneak monster having 3 Melee attack
  • Pelacor Bandit: fast Sneak monster having 3 Melee attack and Flying
  • Torrent Fiend: 0 mana card to fill the last position

There is a powerful synergy between the first 3 cards and the summoner:

  • +1 Armor from the summoner
  • +2 Armor from Crustacean King
  • double Tank Heal: Crustacean King and Merdaali Guardian
  • Triage: Angelic Mandarin
  • Repair: Merdaali Guardian

This means that these cards will be able to absorb a lot of attacks. But will it be enough to defend from all the blasts? Let's find out.

In the first round, Sabre Shark and Pelacor Bandit attacked Lava Spider, but it wasn't enough damage yet to kill it.

Angelic Mandarin lost Divine Shield and armor, but it still has full HP. Crustacean King and Merdaali Guardian also lost Divine Shield.

Pelacor Bandit killed Lava Spider in the second round. Also Chaos Agent was killed. Water team lost its tank - Angelic Mandarin.

The battle doesn't look good for zaku, he already lost 2 monsters and he may not have enough attack at this point, taking into account double Tank Heal and Repair.

Also it looks like Xenith Archer will be killed in the next round.

As expected - Xenith Archer was killed in the 3rd round. It looks like the battle is already over.

Goblin Fireballer was killed in the 5th round, Scavo Chemist in the 6th round, and the battle ended in the 9th round when Ant Miners died.

Yodin Zaku's team looked strong at first but could not defeat the double sneak team. Overall the idea was perfect, but there were some issues:

  • not enough damage was taken into account by double Tank Heal and Repair in the opponent's team. When the battle started, only 3 monsters were attacking (Chaos Agent blocked ant Miners).

  • unprotected backline, of course, it's not easy to protect everything when it's a low mana battle, but this was another reason why the double sneak attack was successful.

How to modify the Fire team to increase the chances of a win in this scenario of a Double Sneak attack?

  • another Ranged monster instead of Scavo Chemist.

  • play Ant Miners in the first position so that it can attack too.

  • Tower Griffin to give Protect to all friendly monsters.

See this amazing battle again: @marianaemilia versus @zaku


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!1UP É muito interessante ver que a Kelya apesar de ser uma invocadora rara fornece dois buffs extremamente poderosos contra o Yodin. Parabéns pela ótima batalha!


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