Splinterlands - Chaos Legions New Abilities....

With new Splinterlands series cards Chaos Legions comes new abilities. Today we will look at some of those new abilities that are in both the Chaos Legions series and the current in print Chaos Legions Rewards cards.

Phase

Magic attack can miss this Monster (using the same hit/miss calculation as for Melee and Ranged attacks)

Reading the Phase ability reminds me of what Void can do with magic attacks. However with Phase it seems that is potential to nullifying the magic attack all together.

Some of the most notable monsters with Phase ability is Almo Cambio and Djinn Oshannus. Djinn Oshannus especially as it also stacks with Void and another new Chaos Legion ability in Force Field making it offense and defense when it comes to Magic.

Force Field

This Monster takes only 1 damage from attacks with power 5+

Force Field basically mitigates damage from a strong opponent. It will make a strong monster look like a weak one. It makes sense that only Legendaries would have such an ability.

Recharge

This Monster attacks every other round but does 3x damage

Facing a monster with Recharge a couple things can be done to counter. One would be have monsters quickly knock out the Recharge monster or make the monster miss. If its unavoidable the Recharge monster most likely will deal with heavy damage.

Death Blow

This Monster does 2x damage if their is the only Monster left on the enemy team

Death Blow reminds me of Last Stand. The last monster doing more damage than normal. Desperate time calls for desperate measures.

Giant Killer

Does double damage against targets that cost 10 or more mana

Another ability that limits monsters that are high in mana count is the Giant Killer. So which monsters would be venerable against Giant Killer?

Rewards we have:

Untamed we have:

Dice we have:

Chaos we have:

For a total of (15) monsters in the game that has 10 or more mana. A lot of familiar names on this list of monsters that potentially can be effected by Giant Killer ability.

Back Fire

If an enemy misses this Monster with an attack, the attacker takes 2 damage.

With Back Fire it makes it beneficial to have opponent attacks miss. Interesting enough the Chaos Monsters that have Back Fire also have a speed at 4 or higher at base level 1. This leads me to believe the monsters will have one of the highest speed if max level.

Camouflage

This Monster cannot be targeted for attacks unless it's in the first position

In a passive aggressive ability this is perfect for Camouflage. As long as the monster is not in first position they would be untouchable against direct attacks.

Amplify

Increases Magic Reflect, Return Fire, and Thorns damage to all enemy monsters by 1.

Monsters with passive aggressive attacks that are magnified is Amplify.

Cripple

Each time an enemy is hit by a Monster with Cripple it loses one max health

Cripple reduces health stat which on the surface does not look like a lot of use. Even taking only 1 health from the max health, but some monsters are 1 health at base level 1. Those monsters would be valuable against Cripple.

Dispel

When this monster hit an enemy, it clears all positive status effects on that enemy

Nullifying a monster's abilities with Dispel will help taking out the opponent. This is a stacked ability.

Scattershot

This Monster's attacks hit a random enemy target

How interesting to introduce an ability that would result in random attack against monsters. Sometimes with luck one may win?

Conclusions

A lot of the new abilities in the Chaos Legion set. There is a lot of mix and match with abilities in this set with pass abilities. With some abilities that are very specific in user case such as Giant Killer and Forcefield to broad random attacks such as Scattershot. With new abilities will be new combos in formations. Exciting to see how these abilities play out in future battles.

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