Splinterland: Yodin Zaku in Mana Scare Situations

about 3 years ago (Edited)

Evening

My this week's Social Media Challenge is gonna be a bit orthodox. I am gonna do Yodin Zaku in a low mana scenario.
Battles can be easily classified mana wise; low mana battle(mana cap < 15), low mana battles(15 < mana cap < 27), medium mana(27 < mana cap < 35), high mana (35 < mana cap < 50) and very high mana (mana cap > 50+). Whereas people usually prefer legendary untamed summoners in high and very high mana battles but using most costly summoners in medium and low mana encounters is the real trick.

Some legendary summoners can work more nicely even in medium and low mana encounters. Yodin Zaku and Scarred Llama Mage are two best high mana summoner choices in medium and low mana battles. Since Fire Splinter have many low mana ranged monsters making it feasible choice in low mana battles. And Scarred Llama Mage's Last Stand makes it a real threat in low mana cases.

Yodin Zaku

Yodin Zaku was the second untamed legendary summoner introduced and to day it remains fighters top choice wherever possible.
Zaku as we all know grants all friendlies blast ability, +1 health and +1 attack to all ranged monsters. To be honest Yodin's Blast ability perk is what makes this guy worth it. To date it remains the most in demand untamed legendary summoner as evident from it's market price.

I usually use Yodin Zaku in low mana battle to surprise the enemy. But there are few scenarios in which Yodin Zaku usage can back fire or may not be sufficient.

Avoiding heavy magic scenarios as heavy magic attacks are difficult to defend with fire splinter especially in medium and low mana battles.
Lir Deepswimmer's Return Fire can quickly kill all the low health ranged monsters.

Monster Choices

In low and medium mana battles low mana monsters are the real asset e.g. Imp Bowmam, Fire Beetle, Spark Pixies, Fire Demon and Highland Archer etc.

Demo Battle

This was a 27 mana battle with two battle rules Heavy Hitters and Close ranged. All splinters were allowed except Water and Earth. I took a gamble using Yodin Zaku with Shield ability tank as I wasn't expecting heavy magic attack and the gamble worked.
Enemy used Life Splinter(Peak Rider) loaded mostly with Melee and Ranged attack. And even though the enemy Peak Rider cancelled out +1 ranged attack perk but still Blast was too much for him.

Battle Link

That was fun using Yodin Zaku in Mana Scare conditions...May be I should try this with other legendary untamed summoners too. It's fun exploring new ideas; isn't it?