Overcome Weird Ruleset By Exploiting Abilities

Greetings Everyone

Welcome to my weekly Splinterlands post, that I write during my weekends. Today I want to share another tips during some ruleset that are very unfavorable towards everyone, which mean both you and your opponent are actually put into bad situation.

There are some combination for this ruleset, for example a ruleset of magic units only with a magic reflect rulest. So everyone will have to use magic units and they get countered by their own attacks until they get killed.

However I am not talking about magic here, I pick the worst, Melee...

A combination of Upclose and Personal and Briar Patch, which make us have to use melee and they will die from the thorn attack. This is a troublesome ruleset, which many set wrong mindset for this battle.

So let see our battle then...

Ok this is the battle I will use for the reference. The ruleset is clear, Melee and Thorn, so this is a fuck up condition that we bound to lose in this battle. I do not think there is a melee unit with heal or triage, so we can not use healing to gain an advantage here.

Both of us using different approaches and I think it is better to talk why each of the approach is good rather than saying which one is the best. So let see in detail what my opponent and I have planned for this battle.

My Opponent Tactic:

1. Using Eternal Tofu to get an extra +2 health point. In general this is a great move, however for a 44 mana battle and there is already a Briar Patch ruleset, I do not think this is a great move from him.
2. He uses negative approach, a similar with my tactic actually, which many of the units are actually sit idle, waiting opponent to hit them first and get damage from the thorn ability. Overall this is great, because I use it too, but I have Commander Slade with deflect ability which negates thorn effect.
3. Most of his units have thick armor, and I believe this is an excellent move. This is the point where I lose to him.
4. He use two dual attack units, one with range and another one with magic. This is a great move, I lost on this part too.

now let see my team tactic:

1. I use 3 mana summoner because she is the only summoner I have that time lol. Well to be honest, it gives me more mana for other units. In general, I think my units are better than his team units because of this factor.
2. I use two tanks with shield ability. One in the front, the Giant Alphine Skink, another one is Grimbardun Fighter for the back line tank. I am shutting down their sneak attacker too, so this is the point I think I win over him.
3. I have commander Slade, his deflect ability will be a treat to him.
4. I have a unit with repair ability, Tidal Tsunamist. I do not know whether this is a good move or not, but I hope it is a good one.

I do not know which one will be better at this point so let see how this battle would go

I fast forward this battle to round 3. In the first two rounds only one unit was killed, the Taye lorswift. I do not know why they put her in front, maybe they really wanted to play super defensively which it was true. My units are mostly damaged here, while he has several units at max health. They really do not attack at all.

At round 5, we were back on equal footing, 4 vs 4. Leolin Sifu was the right unit for this kind of weird ruleset, she withstood all the damage and revived at max health. Having her against my commander Slade would be an epic slugfest, but I doubted it would happened in this battle.

We were still on equal footing up to round 7, this was the round which I lost all except my ace, the commander slade.

See what happened in round 8, they changed the tide, now they had 2 and I had only a single unit. I looked like on the losing side, didn't I? However the last unit was my ace, and their ace the Leolin Sifu already felt off!

Ok that's for today post and Thank you for your visit here. See you in Splinterlands Battles!!!

Round 10 was the last, and my Commander Slade came out as the last one standing.

So I won, but it was not a big margin. I could say they had some good approaches, whilst I had more good ones which decided the victory of the side.

If I can say one point, about what differs between our approaches, it is the abilities. My line up is more focused on the abilities needed to exploit the ruleset. Repair ability, shield ability and deflect ability, those three created the gap and got the win to my side.

Their meta was great, their units were good, and they had stronger units. However they did not exploit using abilities. They only boosted attributes.

So that's the point I would share here. I hope my battle and the story I share here could explain my opinion.

Thank you for your visit here, and have some great Splinterlands battles!

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