Splinterlands - SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge - Theme: Exploding Dwarf

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I guess the season end rewards were good for you for the just concluded Splinterlands Season. Well, I wasn't that fortunate this time, but got couple of epic monsters and a few hundred DEC from the 80 chests I received for finishing in Champions III league.

Here is my blog for this week's SHARE YOUR BATTLE Splinterlands Weekly Challenge with featured monster being Exploding Dwarf.

Exploding Dwarf is a Common Rewards card monster from Fire Splinter and comes with 4 useful abilities which makes it a powerful monster even with just 1 health as it can be a dangerous monster when used in certain rulesets such as Equalizer, Melee Mayhem and Super Sneak battles.

This melee attack monster starts with 3 attack (which can be a minimum of 4 with Malric Inferno summoner) and that increases to 4 at level 4 and to 5 at level 7 and ultimately to 6 at maximum level i.e. level 10.

The speed as well goes up as it levels up with starting speed of 2 and increases to a speed of 6 from level 8.

The health being constant throughout it's 10 levels with health of just 1.

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Best part of this monster being it's abilities.

It has Four awesome abilities viz. Blast, Pierce, Retaliate and Trample.

Blast(Attack 2 monsters at a time) ability is available from level One itself and that makes it a good one even at level one when used in the rulesets mentioned above.

Pierce(Attack thru armors and reduce the main health as well) ability is available from level 3 and this ability means, even the Life splinter monsters can be pierced thru the armors and their main health can be reduced after the armors are reduced in single attack.

Retaliate(have a chance of attacking back when a melee monster attacks it) ability is available from level 6 and this makes it even powerful as this means, when it attacks first and attacks back, there are chances of taking out 1 or 2 monsters in 1 round.

Last but not the least, Trample (when it removes a monster, it attacks the next monster in the same round) ability is available from level 9 and each of these abilities makes it the most fearsome with just 1 health.

Battle and Lineup:

https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=806358ea1aa9e7a5af3cc028a4c7cbf5a515bd5b

Here we are to witness the details of the battle and this battle was one of the very less MANA cost battles with just 12 MANA cap, but the Equalizer ruleset made me to go for the Fire splinter usage with Exploding Dwarf as the most used one by me for Equalizer battles and there was also Healed Out ruleset and that made me to go for the battle with below lineup.

Lineup:

1. Exploding Dwarf:

Used this knowing that there will be very less attack since this battle is for just 12 MANA cost and this monster being with Blast, Pierce and Retaliate abilities, I felt this is the most suitable monster at front position for this battle.

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2. Kobold Miner:

Kobold Miner is used as most of the ranged and magic attack will be at the backend in this low MANA battle and this monster can check that.

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3. Ant Miner:

I used this monster as 2 MANA cost was left for me as I was battling it out for neutral quest and this monster wasn't used at all as Exploding Dwarf did the job.

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Opponent used monsters Animated Corpse, Cursed Slimeball, Creeping Ooze, Furious Chicken and Haunted Spider and that looked a good lineup but Exploding Dwarf and Kobold Miner I used had different plans.

Battle:

Round 1:

Animated Corpse and Haunted Spider failed to attack the Exploding Dwarf and that means, there was no harm to the monsters I used and Animated Corpse and Cursed Slimeball received the blow.

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Round 2:

Animated Corpse was the first to go, but Haunted Spider was able to attack and pour poison as well on Exploding Dwarf.

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Round 3:

Haunted Spider was taken down by Kobold Miner and Cursed Slimeball lost out due to the attack by Exploding Dwarf and then, the Creeping Ooze lost because of retaliate from Exploding Dwarf which itself died just before the beginning of next round.

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Round 4 and 5:

Round 4 saw end of Exploding Dwarf and last monster on opponent's side, Furious Chicken got removed in round 5.

Questions and Answers:

Did my strategy work? What will I try differently next time?

Yes, 12 MANA cost battles are always tricky but, the Exploding Dwarf makes my job bit easier unless there is a monster with armor or thorn ability at the front.

What I could have used differently? I guess I should have placed Ant Miner at second position with Kobold Miner in Third to let Ant Miner attack from front., but since all the monsters used by opponent were of low profile except for Animated Corpse and Haunted Spider, the battle went in my way rather easily.

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Do I like the EXPLODING DWARF? Why or why not?

I like it a lot, infact, whenever I see an Equalizer battle, I always check whether Fire Splinter is active or not, so that, I can use this monster and try for a win.

That was a bit of an one sided battle or Exploding Dwarf made it look like that with it's blasting attack and lack of a quality front monster by opponent also made it easy for me.

Thanks for reading about this short battle, I hope it was a good one for you to read and I once again hope you had nice season end rewards :)

Wishing you wonderful day and good luck for this new season :)

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