Splinterlands Challenge of the Week: Defending against Octopider!

This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Octopider from the Death Splinter.

The Octopider is an awesome rare card, and one of the best reward cards out there. While expensive at 8 mana, he does a huge 5 damage at max level and has good health and two useful buffs: demoralise and blind.

His speed is reasonable too.

I decided to take a different tack in this challenge and showcase a decent defence against the Octopider. The battle below features me defending against a deck with a maxed out Octopider

The Rule Set and Line Up

• mana 29:
• Melee monsters can attack from any position
• Silence Summoners

Summoner - Selena

1. Lord A - just a great tank for these mid mana battles!
2. The Chicken - bit low on mana!
3. Centauri mage - for repair of shields and return fire (very useful against high ranged attacks)
4. Khmer princes - heal and triage
5. Scale Doctor - repair 2 and triage 2.
6. Spirt of the Forest - for shields and heal.

Did my strategy work?

Beautifully, to see it in action click here!

• Round 1 - We exchange blows, and shields work wonderfully against my opponent's attack with the Centauri mage repairing half way through the round then the Scale Doctor repairing at the end, my heals are staggered too. I take out his chicken.
• Round 2 - Lord A retains full health, and my Spirit of the Forest and REFLECT whittle down his Phantom Solider
• Round 3 - I take out his Phantom Solider.
• Round 4 - Spirit takes out his Flying Vampire.
• Round 5 - my combined non snipe attacks take ou his Haunted Spirit
• Round 6 - Now it's just a matter of finishing off that Octopider!

Analysis: Shields and Double Repair = a great defence against Octopider

My opponent wasn't underpowered compared to me, he just picked unfortunate cards against my defence.

Two heavy damage ranges and one melee attack and one heavy magic, that combo simply couldn't touch Lord A with Void, reflect, and double repair and double heal.

Meanwhile my snipe and reflect carved their way through his magic and ranged attacks.

I was also covered for snipe and sneak, with double repair and triage.

All in all sometimes it pays off to really focus on defence rather than attack, and this strategy certainly works agains the Octopider!

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