A Powerful Lineup, But One Monster Ruined My Strategy! | Splinterlands

Todays 46 Mana battle was very interesting. There were no special rule sets but the battle was quite interesting. I have already watched the replay twice and I have watched my battle again and again because I really liked it.

In this battle I selected five monsters along with one Archon and positioned them well for the battlefield. As a result I got to see a very good and interesting battle.

First lets talk about the monsters I selected. What was my strategy and how I understand about the rulesets.

First of all I selected an Archon monster with the Plus One Health ability. This means that all my Light units will receive a Plus One Health bonus at the beginning of the battle making their health even stronger. And because this is a medium-to-high Mana battle having an extra health bonus is very important.

MY STRATEGY AND MONSTER SELECTION FOR THIS BATTLE

After that keeping both defensive and aggressive stances in mind I adopted this strategy. I placed a front line tank monster with very good health and Magic attack power in the first position.

In the second position I again selected a monster with good health and Magic attack power allowing it to attack while staying in the second position.

Similarly I selected very strong attackers for the third and fourth positions. Their attack powers are 1 and 3 and this is a mixed combination of Ranged and Magic attackers. They would continue attacking while staying in the backline.

Finally I selected a Magic attacker because if any monster with Sneak or Opportunity ability attacked my backline it could destroy that enemy monster before my heavy attackers suffered any damage.

This was my monster selection for this battle.

ENEMY LINEUP WAS MUCH STRONGER

When I saw my lineup and the enemys lineup in the battle my lineup looked quite strong. It seemed like I was going to win this battle. MY monster selection was much stronger then the opponent but enemy one monster choice was the real upset in this battle.

As usual just like always both sides continued making strong attacks in the first round. The good thing was that the enemy's front-line monster was destroyed in the very first round.

But after that the threats I faced confused me quite a lot. The main reason was an enemy monster named Nim Guard Captain. It stopped almost six to seven of my heavy attacks.

In Round One and Round Two my position was very strong. However after Round Two the enemys monster with the Dodge ability continuously caused my attacks to miss and stopped my attacks. Because of this my position was disturbed.

The enemys backline monsters took full advantage of this opportunity and eliminated my monsters one by one.

In Round Four that same enemy monster was finally eliminated but by that time the battle had already slipped out of my hands. The situation had become three versus two.

As soon as Round Five started only one of my monsters was alive while the enemy still had three monsters alive. For me this battle had already turned into a defeat.

The main point of this battle is that even a single monster can become a game changer. If you select and position it correctly it can completely change the outcome of a battle.

The enemys monster selection was very strong and it disturbed my entire battle lineup.

Although I lost this battle my monster selection and strategy were quite strong considering these two rule sets.

RULESET 1: HEAL OUT

The first rule set was Heal Out. Under this rule set all units and Archons lose their Health restoring abilities. This means that no unit whether it is an Archon monster or a normal unit can use its healing ability.

Under this rule set no unit can be healed which means its health cannot be restored.

According to this rule set my main focus was not to select any unit that had a healing ability because that ability would be disabled making that monster useless in terms of healing.

RULESET 2: OUTSIDER

The second rule set was Outsider. Under this rule set you are allowed to summon only one Wild unit. All the other Wild units will be disabled.

According to this rule set I adopted the strategy of selecting the strongest Wild card from my deck one that had good health and attack power so that it could give a good performance in this battle.

Keeping these rule sets in mind I selected my best monsters and adopted a good strategy. But because the enemy's selection was stronger I suffered a defeat in this battle.

What would your strategy be under these types of rule sets and which monsters would you prefer to select? will be glad to see your answers in the comment section.

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