Welcome back to my Splinterlands Weekly Battle Challenge. This Week we have Dhampir Stalker as our theme, he is a rare rarity Death Element Monsters from Chaos Legion Edition.

How good is this Dhampir Stalker? Let's find out shall we?

DHAMPIR STALKER QUICK REVIEW

Shorten lore: Half-vampire, the Dhampir are faster and stronger than normal humans. Most have taken to a mercenary lifestyle, never quite welcome with vampires or humans.

There were up and down about this monsters, and I believe in future there will be more up and down on him too. The first time Chaos Legion Edition released, Dhampir Stalker had his worst time. He was a good damage dealer, with true aim ability, however 7 Mana was too much for any team on Bronze-Silver League. For your informaton, in past we mostly only had 20-35 mana cap for a silver league battle rank, so having a Dhampir Stalker was a bad decision. And that time, the separation between Modern Format and Wild Format had not been settled.

Then on a mid year of 2022 we had the Wild and Modern separation and some additional mana cap too like we have nowadays... We can get 35-55 mana cap on Silver League Rank, which in past we would not have that many. This allows us to have more chance in using monsters which require 6+ mana, including Dhampir Stalker.

Ok, let's we just skip all and resume his pros and cons.

DHAMPIR STALKER STRENGTH

THE TRUE AIM. His True Aim Ability is his unique selling point. He won't miss his attack. With more new monsters who are fast and hard to hit, such as Coerl Lurker, having a true aim (sniper) sometime become a necessity. A regular magic attack won't be useful against this kind of monsters.

DAMAGE DEALER. Undeniable, Dhampir Stalker hits hard. he starts with 3 range damage, and ends at 5 damage. Not something that amazing, however it is hard enough to kill any monsters.

RISE OF COMMON RULESET. Dhampir Stalker is a Rare rarity monster, so it means we can use him during Rise of Common Ruleset (common and rare only monsters). We always have some spot left for hard hitters.

DHAMPIR STALKER WEAKESS

I will try to put this simple. He is strong but somehow he plays one dimensional only. I mean we have him to kill opponents, no buff or debuffing like Lira The Dark, and of course no support to other team mate. So most of the time, we end up building a team to support him, not he supports the team.

BATTLE CHALLENGE

This time I try to be different. I am taking one of the battle from my Modern Format Tournament as the battle challenge

We can only have Riftwatcher edition and Chaos Legion edition in the team selection, and we have bronze league level cap too.

battle link : https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sm_fA34yw8pJLLfiaJ4yubH&ref=dewabrata

There ruleset were HEALED OUT (All healing abilities are removed from Monsters and Summoners.) and CLOSED (Ranged attacks may be used in the first position in battles.). I think these two rulesets are good for me to use Thaddius Brood to lead the Death Element team. I need no healers, and I can bring some Range Attackers with a permanent debuff to opponent magic attacks.

Mana cap 36 is good for Dhampir Stalker too, plenty enough but not higher. Higher than 40, I might not be able to use Dhampir Stalker, because I will be forced to bring a bigger mana monsters such as RAA.

ok back to our formation, here they are:

Position	Card	Ability	Plan and Strategy
Summoner		-1 magic, -1 health	One of my favorite summoner, Always a good choice if you think you are going to meet Obsidian team from Earth Element
Main Tank		Thorn	Undeniable cursed windeku is everyone's favorite tank on Death Element Chaos Legion Edition. High Health, Fast,good Melee Attack and a defensive ability of THORN
Second		Reach	Riftwatcher monster who blends well with Chaos Legion team. I think he is a great Reach Melee Monsters, 3 Melee attack and 3 speed.
Third		Life Leech	A filler monster who is very annoying. In general having 1 magic attack and 2 health is not something that threating, however due to his Life Leech, as the rounds progressed, he will get bigger and bigger up to a size that is not easy to be killed
Fourth		Sneak	One of the trademark monsters from Chaos Legion monster. The strongest Sneak Melee Attacker of Chaos Legion edition, alongside with Tenyii Striker
Fifth		Blast	Another Rift watcher, Technomancer Rat is not powerful, low magic damage and very slow.... however with blast attacks he will be dangerous.
The Last		True Aim	Our Main theme for this week. Let's hope he will perform well

My biggest concern was if I met Tarsa Team, because Fire Element Team would mostlikely using sneak attacks and opportunity attacks. My line up was not good to defend againts sneak attacks. It's very relieving seeing opponent came using Obsidian.

Round 1

• This battle started by each parties buffed and debuffed monsters. I was very curious why my opponent dared himself using 5 monsters only.
• My opponent came with 3 Melee Damage and 6 magic damage. a combined 9 damage per turn. It seemed my Thaddeus ruined his Obsidian buffs
• My team had 8 Melee damage, 2 magic damage and 3 range damage. combined all became 13 damage per turn. Based on damage per turn, my team had the upper hand.

• First move made by opponent Regal Peryton and Venari Knifer. both of them have ridiculous speed.
• We traded damages, of course it's pretty equal because they had Queen Mycelia who had Protect Ability. those armor guarded their monsters.
• Finally, My Arachne Thug made a big step on this round by killing their Venari Knifer

Round 2

• As predicted, his Regal Peryton made the first move and killed my Cursed windeku
• My Dhampir Stalker kept the gap by killing their Mycelic Slipspawn
• This round closed by Thug getting blasted by their Suidae Shaman. recharge ability was quite useless, however when it worked, the monster capable to kill opponent with a single attack.

Round 3

• This round was a fierce one. We exchanged damages but none of us got killed. It seemed my Life Sapper finally got to a stage where his health became big enough to be strong enough absorbing those damage

Round 4-5

• Round 4 was started by Dhampir Stalker sniped Regal Peryton.
• Again their Suidae Shaman Recharge attack killed one of my monster.This time my Life Sapper gone
• Round 5 last very quickly, because Suidae Shaman Alone couldnt fight my last 3 monsters.

Battle Discussion:

Is Dhampir Stalker Good? of course he is, here some fact we can find how good he is from this battle:

1. My Dhampir Stalker killed two opponents in this battle. It means he killed a monsters very two turns. It make sense regarding he does 3 damage per turn.
2. He killed Regal Peryton. It's a 6 speed target with a fly ability. Without any magic attacks, sometime this bird can become formidable tank by avoiding many attacks.
3. Better than Suidae Shaman. Suidae Shaman recharge attacks were great, 2 attacks he could get 2 kills, however Dhampir did the same damage per turn and he kept firing every turn so my team would not lose any momentum.

Thank you for visiting my Weekly Battle Challenge, don't forget to leave your comments and feedback below. There are credits in this post for these people:

• splinterlands : for holding weekly social media challenge events
• carrieallen : for ultimate markdown tutorial
• kyo-gaming : for wonderful divider arts