Testing Rebellion monster - Lioceros

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The Rebellion edition is the latest edition of cards in splinterlands and there are a lot of new summoners and monsters which came out with this one. Each week I focus on different monsters and talk about them in detail with strategies that best fit them. This week, we have a Rare Earth unit, Lioceros, a powerful striker that works perfectly as a tank in your battle.

Let's start by looking at its stats in detail.

Lioceros

CARD
RARITY	Rare
ELEMENT	Earth
LEVEL	4
MANA COST	7 POINTS
ABILITIES/BUFFS	Thorns

Lioceros is a Rare Earth unit that came out during the recent Rebellion edition. It is a high mana cost unit costing 7 mana to use but it comes with some impressive stats. It deals significant melee attack damage and comes with a huge amount of armour of its own. Its 'Thorns' ability helps deal extra damage back to melee attacker which makes it an impressive tank that one can use at the front of the lineup.

Let me show you how it performs using a battle as an example.

My Lineup

This is my lineup for the battle

Position	Summoner/Monsters
Summoner	Underboss Fabino
Position 1	Lioceros
Position 2	Pallus
Position 3	Regal Peryton
Position 4	Goblin Psychic
Position 5	Magi of Chaos
Position 6	Mycelic Slipspawn

It was a 48-mana cap battle with the "Armored Up" ruleset which gives all the monsters 2 extra armour in addition to their normal armour stat.

All except Fire and Water elements were active during this battle. I went with Underboss Fabino which gives two options during the tactic stage: +2 melee attack to two units or give one opponent unit 'poison'.

It should not be a surprise that Lioceros was my tank for this battle as it came with 6 armour and a 'thorns' ability along with 3 melee attack damage and a lot of health. It costs only 7 mana and having all these impressive stats at this cost is worth a lot.

The next one in my lineup was Pallus. I used it in the second position as it can attack even from there because of its 'reach' ability. Moreover, it comes with the 'flying' ability so it would have more missed chances too. It also costs 8 mana but is worth that as it deals 3 melee attack damage and has good health with a shield too!

Regal Peryton was placed in the third position, which costs 5 mana and deals 2 magic attack damage with incredible speed. It's a 'flying' ability for him it dodges more attacks. So, it was a no-brainer for me to choose in this battle.

The next one was Goblin Psychic, a healer that supports my tank as it comes with a 'tank heal' ability. It costs only 6 mana and deals 2 magic attack damage.

Magi of Chaos was placed in the next position in my lineup. As you can see I focused more on magic attackers because of the extra armour that the units were going to get from the ruleset. It also costs 6 mana and deals heavy magic attack damage with relatively lower health, and that's why I put it at the back of the lineup.

Last but not least was Mycelic Slipspawn. It was another mage that had a lot of health and an interesting ability, taunt, which made all the units attack this unit first. Not only that, but it also had the 'forcefield' ability. So, it takes a lot of time to eliminate this unit.

Now that my lineup was set, it was time for battle.

I will share my battle here, which I have uploaded to YouTube.