SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! PELACOR ARBALEST

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PELACOR ARBALEST


Arbalests are armed with powerful crossbows enchanted to fire bolts at extremely long distances. They are trained to wield a crossbow in each hand and can fire both simultaneously with deadly accuracy. Compounded with the Pelacor's excellent eyesight and nimble dexterity, these sharpshooters are extremely useful as snipers on the battlefield. The Silver Shield Knight backpedaled, parrying blow after blow as the two Venari snarled and swung their swords at him in a savage and ruthless onslaught. He stumbled. Another blow sent him reeling. He fell onto his back. The Venari leaped upon him, swords raised. He struggled to lift his own sword, but he couldn't fight them both. He was going to die. The feathered shaft of a bolt slammed into center of each Venaris' chest simultaneously. The pair crumpled in a heap, unseeing eyes staring at the sky. The Silver Shield Knight squinted into the sun. Above him, a Pelacor Arbalest hovered, his large white wings beating at the air. In each hand, he held an empty crossbow, still aimed at the fallen Venari.

OVERVIEW AND STATS

In my point of view, Pelacor Arbalest is a great range attack monster to have because of the Double Strike abilities which is can be obtain from level 1. The only downside is its low HP which is only 2 HP. But if you upgrade it to level 2 it would have 3 HP which is decent assuming you have level 2 General Sloan summoner. When Pelacor Arbalest reach max level, it will have 3 range attack, 3 speed, 5 HP and obtain Flying abilities. With Flying abilities, it would be more annoying to kill it since in most strategy, range monster located at the back row.
  • LEVEL 1 - DOUBLE STRIKE
    Monster attacks twice each round.
  • LEVEL 5 - FLYING
    Has an increased chance of evading Melee or Ranged attacks from Monsters who do not have the Flying ability which is +25% chance of evading. Combine with Dodge and Blind, it will get up to + 65% chance of evading Melee or Ranged attacks. But Snare can remove Flying. It does not work against enemies that have Flying itself and it does not affect magic attacks

    • RULES AND STRATEGIES

    1. The rules is Holy Protection (All Monsters have the Divine Shield ability) monsters that normally have this ability do not get it twice. The trick to win in this ruleset is to fill all 6 slots of your line up and use monsters with Blast and Double Strike. Use a monster or summoner that has Resurrect to use this ruleset at its maximum potential.
    2. The mana cap is 20 which is quite low making it tougher since I needed to select card carefully by selecting its mana consumption.
    3. Splinter are also limited to three only which are fire, life and dragon splinter. Since the mana cap is low, it does help to choose from fewer option than many. I choose to went with life splinter since it have tank heal ability. Dragon splinter is not an option since the summoner does not offer much boost and I also have few monster to choose from dragon splinter.

    LINE UP

    My team at bottom
    GENERAL SLOAN
    General Sloan is a new summoner from life splinter. It give +1 range attack boost to range monster. I pick Sloan since life team have numerous range monster that actual pretty good and General Sloan also is an underrated summoner from the new set (Chaos Legion) so openent ususual less prepare when against General Sloan team.
    XENITH MONK
    Xenith Monk stats are 1 melee attack, 3 speed , 6 HP and only cost 4 mana. I pick due to its high HP and the mana cost is also quit low so it will give my team more HP for enemy to deal with.
    GARGOYA SCRAPPER
    Gargoya Scrapper stats are 1 melee attack, 2 speed , 2 HP and cost 1 mana. I pick Gargoya Scrapper because it offer 2 HP for 1 mana. I took mana count into consideration since this match is a low mana match. Also Gargoya Scrapper will help my archer by protecting it.
    CHAOS AGENT
    Chaos Agent does not deal any damage, it have 2 speed, 1 HP and cost 1 mana. I pick Chaos Agent since I am running out of low mana monster since I have to stick on my decision on what range monster that I wanted to use.
    PELACOR ARBALEST
    Pelacor Arbalest stats are 2 range attack, 2 speed, 2 HP and cost 6 mana. I pick Pelacor Arbalest because Double Strike ability is quite overpowered in Bronze league. I placed Pelacor Arbalest on the 4th position since it have low HP so if enemy team have a sneak monster, Pelacor Arbalest would not survive much long.
    VENARI CRYSTALSMITH
    Venari Crystalsmith stats are 1 ranged attack,3 speed, 4 HP and cost 4 mana. In case you are wondering, mine is in gold foil version, so the stats are different. I pick Venari Crystalsmith since it have Tank Heal ability , since most of my tank have low HP it is a wise move to pick any healer to prolong my tanks life on the battlefield. Also, it could dealt damage while healing other monster is a great bonus.

    THE MATCH

    ROUND 1


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    In three turn of round 1, all monster receive boost from each team summoner. Since all monster have Divine Shield ability, not much action happen during first round. All attack on tanks are ignored (mostly).

    ROUND 2


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    On the first turn of round 2, Xenith Monk dealt 1 melee damage to enemy tank, Living Lava.


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    Next turn, my Chaos Agent is being knock down by enemy Serpentine Spy with only hit. Chaos Agent being attack first since it does not dealt any damage since Serpentine Spy is an Opportunity monster.


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    On the 8th turn of round 2, enemy Living Lava is being eliminate by Pelacor Arbalest with 6 range damage being dealt since it have Double Strike ability. Also, Chaos Agent of enemy team is being eliminate since it is a weak monster on low level. Unfortunately, Venari Crystalsmith receive 3 melee damage from Tenyii Striker.

    ROUND 3


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    On the first turn in round 3, Xenith Monk dealt 1 melee damage to Chaos Agent of enemy team but being canceled by Divine Shield ability.


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    Serpentine Spy able to finish off Venari Crystalsmith with one hit, but Venari Crystalsmith able to give more endurance to Xenith Monk and help it to survive to round 3.


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    It is 3 vs 3 right now, seem promising since my Pelacor Arbalest still survive.


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    Pelacor Arbalest able to bring down enemy Chaos Agent.

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    After attacking Chaos Agent on first strike, Pelacor Arbalest continue to dealt second strike to Tenyii Stiker with 3 range attack damage dealt but it is also being canceled by Divine Shield ability.

    ROUND 4


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    Xenith Monk strike first with only 1 melee attack damage dealt. Then, Tenyii Striker retaliate back with 3 melee attack damage dealt.


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    My team have speed advantage, so Pelacor Arbalest able to eliminate Tenyii Striker with 2 continuos strike, dealing 6 range attack damage. The speed advantage is really crucial to my team.

    ROUND 5


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    Xenith Monk is being eliminate by Serpentine Spy since the enemy team strike first dealing 3 melee attack damage. But, luck is on my side which is Gargoya Scrapper still alive to tank my archer, so Pelacor Arbalest strike with 3 range damage dealt and landing the final blow.

    WATCH THE FULL MATCH HERE

    RESULT


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    This match bring me too Bronze 1 last season while on 6 win streak

    MY FINAL THOUGHT

    DID YOUR STRATEGY WORK?

    Yes , my strategy did work but to be honest I am quite lucky since I got speed advantage and have an extra tank (during the final round). Pelacor Arbalest does what is should and most importantly it land the final blow which is pretty cool.

    WHAT WILL YOU TRY DIFFERENTLY NEXT TIME?

    Next time I would pick Prismologist into my strategy since it have Blast ability, but I am able to do so only on high mana match such 30 mana and above.

    DO YOU LIKE PELACOR ARBALEST? WHY OR WHY NOT?

    I do like Pelacor Arbalest especialy when it get to slightly higher level, so it will have more HP which is the biggest downside for Pelacor Arbalest.

    CONCLUSION
    I really like combination of Pelacor Arbalest, General Sloan and Venari Crystalsmith. Probably, I will do more of this strategy since most player does not have a proper team counter range monster team. Thank you for reading my battle post.

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I was wondering, would you mind telling me what did you use to make your first image? It looks great with the animation, and I'd love to try something like that.

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Oh, that's great, then. I've also been using Canva for my thumbnails, but I didn't know I could do gifs as well. Thanks for the help!

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