STUN + KNOCK OUT ABILITIES BEAT SCARRED LLAMA & KRON THE UNDYING

Welcome back to my channel, @queen-silvia, In this Social Media Weekly Challenge, I am going to share to all of you an epic strategy which I do believe most of players didn't know this yet. A very cheap strategy which can beat the expensive combo card (Kron The Undying and Scarred Llama Mage). The strategy is the combination between Stun and Knock Out ability. Where the Stun and Knock Out comes from Medusa and Wave Runner respectively.

Alright, the first skill that we want to deliver is Stun. This is a very powerful ability to skip the enemies turn in the next round. The way we make the opponent's monster skip their turn is such an awesome skill which protect our monster from being attacked by stunned monster.

The second skill is knock out. This skill will give double damage to the opponent's monster who is being stunned. for example if our monster is successfully stunned monster, and we have another ranged attack monster with 2 attack and Knock Out ability, If the ranged attack successfully hits the opponent, the enemy will received 4 attack instead of 2 (since it's doubled).

Alright, Here is the battle link about How the Stun and Knock Out ability could defeat the great Combo, Kron The Undying and Scarred Llama Mage. There will be more discussion regarding battle in every round in the next chapter, this link is provided for those who want to see the full match. Enjoy~

The main reason why I used this summoner is because she gives snare ability to all of friendly monsters. This ability will remove the flying ability from the monsters who have been being targeted. Therefore, the chance to hit the opponent's monster is higher. This summoner will be very useful in earthquake ruleset since the snare ability will detach flying skill and earthquake will give 2 damage to the opponent's monster.

Since I used Lv. 4 Vera Salacia so I am able to use the maximum level of cards in silver league, therefore I was using Lv.3 Lobstradamus. At this stage, He has 2 great abilities, Shield and magic reflect. Shield ability will reduced damage from Melee and Ranged attacks. Attack damage gets halved (rounded up), except attack 1 which deals 0 damage. Attack damage gets halved (rounded up), except attack 1 which deals 0 damage. Reduces the Thorns damage to 1 and cancel Redemption damage.

This monster is belong to one of key monsters in the battle since he has the knock out ability. As it was mentioned earlier the Knock Out ability will inflict double damage to the stunned monster. This ability can only being activated when the opponent's monster is stunned only so we need to set him along with the monster who have stun ability like Medusa. This monster is set at 2^nd position since he has range ability. This is intended to protect Wave Runner from getting lots of attack.

In the third position, we have Deeplurker. The melee monster who have Opportunity ability so he can attack monster who have the lowest health point. I put him in the 3^rd position in case of Lobstradamus and Wave runner died, Deeplurker will take position as a tank monster since he is the Melee monster. As an opportunity monster, he has 6 health point in Lv.1 which is high enough. His 3 melee attack is also powerful to take the enemy down shortly.

I used Lv.4 Venari Wavesmith who has 2 magic monster and protect ability. So not only attacking monsters with magic attack but she also gives protection to all friendly monster with 2 Armour. We need to protect her from being attacked because if she died, the 2 Armour will be disappear so we put her in 4^th position which is in the center of the line-up. She has 3 speed which makes her attack early in the battlefield. her health point is 4 which is vulnerable to die quickly.

The next monster is Medusa who is the key monster in the battle along with Wave Runner because she could stun the enemy. The stun effect will skip the opponent's turn in the next round. I used the maximum level of Medusa since we utilize Lv.4 Vera Salacia. At Maximum level, Medusa has 1 magic attack, 2 speed and 5 health point, so we can say that this monster is slow but she will attack early in the reverse speed ruleset.

The last monster that we are going to deliver is Merdaali Guardian. She has no attack but she has tank heal ability. That ability allows him to restore a portion of the Monster in the first position's health each round. The restoration is 1/3 of the max health, rounded up. so for example if the tank monster has 12 health point, so Merdaali Guardian will restore 4 health point in each round. Her health point is 3 only but with the help of Venari Wavesmith, she gets additional 2 Armour.

In the first round, Vera Salacia started the battle with 6 monsters and all are equipped with 2 armour thanks to Venari Wavesmith while the opponent monster was using Scarred Llama Mage along with Lv. 3 Flesh Golem who have Heal ability and Kron The Undying who has the Heal ability as well. Scarred Llama Mage gives Last stand ability to all monsters. In this round, Goblin Sorcerer died after received magic reflect attack from Lobstradamus.

In the second round, Flesh Golem of the opponent monster got stunned and it allows monster with Knock Out ability to double his attack. As we can see in the gif above Wave Runner normal attack is 3 but when he attacks monster who is stunned, his attack will be doubled and Flesh Golem received 6 attack. This attack combo (Stun and Knock Out ability) will make the opponent's tank monster die faster.

In round 3, The stun is not activated so the "Stun - Knock Out" combo could not be done in this round. The stun effect has 50% chance to get activated so there is no guarantee that the opponent get stun whenever they received attack from monster who have stun ability.

In this Round, Goblin Psychic died after receiving magic reflection from Lobstradamus. Flesh Golem keep receiving attacks from Vera Salacia team and he died after getting attacked by Wave Runner. So only Kron the Undying left in Scarred Llama team which activates his Last Stand ability.

Kron the Undying get stunned in this round after Medusa attacks him with magic attack and it allows Wave Runner to double his attack. As we can see in the picture above, Wave Runner inflicts 6 damage to Kron The Undying and it makes his health point become 3 only.

Alright guys, now it's time for giveaway. We have 21 participants for the Giveaway #8. I'd like to say Thank you very much for visiting my blog and joined the giveaway. Here are the list of participants :

I hope I don't miss out any names there. Regardless you win or not, I hope you guys keep supporting me by participating in my upcoming giveaways because sharing to the community is fun.

Congratulations to @mauriciolimax for winning the Venari Bonesmith, this card has Life Leech ability which increase health point each time it damages an enemy Monster's health in proportion to the damage dealt.

1 BCX of Venari Bonesmith has been sent to IGN : @mauriciolimax, enjoy and take care of her 👍. For other participants who didn't win, you can try your luck taking a part in the next giveaway below (Giveaway #10).

- GIVEAWAY #10 -

Vulguine	Venari Wavesmith	Vampiric Blossom

I will use Wheel of Names for the drawing and the name picked out will be given any card you want on the comment section.

How to participate :

1. Please put any card you want (1 card) and your IGN (In-Game Name).
2. Since I just started joining Hive community this month, I do hope I could get new friends as many as I could, so If you don't mind, please follow me guys, I'll be following you back (but it's not mandatory though). I do hope we can discuss a lot about any ideas regarding battle strategy, card stats, etc at the comment section in the future.
3. Upvote is not a requirement but it will be greatly appreciated to increase the quality and the quantity of the next giveaway.
4. Only 1 person could win once a week.

Notes :

1. The cut off time is the pay-out of this post. I will put a comment "TIME'S UP" when the time is up.
2. The winner will be announced in the next giveaways.
3. If you want to give feedback or critics, feel free to leave any comments. As long they are constructive and not offensive, they will be appreciated.
4. I will tag all of the participants in the post where the winner of giveaway is announced to let you know the result. If you want me to not tagging you anymore, please let me know in the comment section.
5. Every time I posted blogs whether Art Challenge, Battle Challenge or Social Media Challenge, there will be 1 card (rare card) will be rewarded for the giveaway winner.

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