Hello Battle Mages, it’s an exciting new week and I am thrilled to share a battle I fought this week
I think it was about a week ago when I was doing summoner window shopping and Immortalis caught my eye. So, I rented him then and have experimented with it a bit. But given that fire is my favorite element, I haven’t really used the summoner that much until last night. Let’s take a look at the battle.
My opponent’s Line Up
| Summoner | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
My line up and strategy
| Summoner | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Before picking my lineup, I glanced through my opponent’s line up and realized there were either fond of using heavy magic strategies or heavy melee attacking strategy. I put my money on them using a magic heavy strategy for this battle, and so I selected Immortalis as my summoner for the void magic ability, and little bit also for the shatter.
In position 1, I placed Lioceros, a monster with thorns, just in case melee attack is what my opponent leans on instead. It also had considerable health and armor, and a not terrible melee attack power, so that was okay.
Next, I put In Mycelic Slipspawn as my taunt, to draw away attacks from my low health tank heal and triage. I followed mycelic slipspawn with Goblin Psychic, my tank heal, to provide support to my tank, and I placed Spirit Hoarder right next to it Goblin, so it could continuously heal mycelic slipspawn which will be taking most of the hits.
Then in last position, I put Mad Ogre Anarchist for the opportunity ability. I noticed that whenever my opponent chose a magic focus, they put their low health tank heal somewhere in their lineup, so opportunity would’ve been a great way to take it out early, giving me a competitive advantage.
The Battle
The battle started with summoner ability grants taking effects on friendly monsters
This round saw a good 22 attacks from both teams combined! My opponent had some very scary powerful melee cards, so his round of attack was scary. Putting a thorny monster first helped a lot because I was dealing back at least half the damage I was receiving even though I didn’t start attacking yet myself.
Magic Void ability also proved real handy as I evaded all the magic blasts from my opponent’s two monsters with 1 magic attacks.
I was also able to completely destroy the enemy tank’s armor. This is good news until you find out the monster I just stripped of armor is an enraged monster. So of course, I enraged it, buffing up to a powerful melee attack of 8, and with this buff, it knocked out Liceros. What was going through my mind when I saw it enraged was, “Damn, I’m fucked”. W
Thanks to Scavo, I was able to restore my tank’s armor, basically cancelling out the possible terrible damage of my enemy’s 4 melee attack which would’ve knocked my tank straight out.
Despite my opponent having two tank heals, I was able to kill his tank in this round, and this calmed my nerves down a bit. But the battle wasn’t over. Far from it!
If it wasn’t for the void ability, I’m very sure Mycelic Slipspawn (which was now in first position) would’ve been killed in this round. Missing two magic attacks each round was a very significant part of my victory. Oh did I just tell I won? Yes I did.
Anyways, I managed to take out my opponent’s tank and second most potent card (could even argue it's the most potent since it's a bloodlust) in the battle, and it was pretty much smooth sailing from there.
In this round, I killed one of my opponent’s magic monsters. It wasn’t really contributing much aside slowing me down anyways, so good riddance if you ask me. In round 5, I had both enemy healers on their last health and…
…finished them off in round 6.
With 5 monsters (4 attacking, one non) against one, my opponent’s last man just wasn’t a match against them, so I blasted the last man into oblivion and won the battle!
Cover image belongs to @ splinterlands
All other images are from splinterlands.com
