Hello all, Welcome to my Splinterlands Weekly Battle Challenge. This Week we have TEMPORAL MASTER as our theme, however I do not have that card nor rent it from someone else, so as the replacement I pick this VULGUINE. VULGUINE is a Rare Rarity Life Element Monster from Reward Edition. It's a free card you can get from loot chest.
Shorten lore: Vulguine are foxes cursed with vampirism. Vampires who denied to feast on humanoid flesh stalked the forests to find fresh meals.
Vulguine is a 2 mana monsters so as you see the stats above, he won't offer you something that is great. For me his fox is great, because it only needs 2 mana, it means you can save up more mana to pick other monsters. Any monsters which have 2 mana or lower should be considered special.
VULGUINE STRENGTH
VULGUINE HAS DECENT ATTACK. For 2 mana monsters, his attacks is good. on silver league he has 2 melee damage and 3 speed. Not a good in general, but for low mana monsters, it's great.
VULGUNE IS GROWING WELL. I know this sounds silly, but it's true. most monsters below 3 mana cap are not growing well. Vulguine is growing well, on silver league he has 2 melee damage and 3 speed, on gold league he gets dodge ability, and on his peak he gets enrage ability.
VULGUINE WEAKESS
In general, Vulguine is not special, even he is bad one. He becomes very strong during certain rulesets only. These are the rulesets that help him becomes a strong one:
Without this rulesets, or during general one, Vulguine is kind of useless.
battle link : https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_19601dae302122d26c6ee43ed63a1f83
This was a modern format silver league battle rank. This battle is kind of one sided to me, because I was using low Silver League Cap, meanwhile my opponent was looked like a level 1 bot army. With this Equalizer Ruleset, I wanted to test how strong Vulguine was.
| Position | Card | Ability | Plan and Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summoner | +1 range attack | Default Life Summoner from Chaos Legion Edition | |
| Main Tank | Scavenger | Our main theme this week. We will see if he can be a good tank on this ruleset | |
| Second | Life Leech | Bila is one of my all time favorite Life ELement monster. She hits hard, and leeches opponent's health | |
| Third | Slow | Most versatile and useful Chaos Legion Mage. | |
| Fourth | Tank Heal | The only healer in my team. I hope she will keep Vulguine alive | |
| Fifth | Double Strike | My second damage dealer after Bila. | |
| Last | Blast | My third damage dealer and my backline tank. I like her a lot better than Pelacor Arbalest due to her armor, she could withstand a couple hit from Sneak Attackers |
Battle Discussion:
This was a complete perfect victory for my team. We had full team member at full health, except Vulguine who got higher than his original health. The reason my team won this battle was very simple, We were faster than opponent team. Only their Fineas Rage who could keep up with our speed.
However we are not discussiong about how I won that battle, our focus is on our main theme, VULGUINE. This 2 mana monster has survived until the end of the battle, having higher health, and keep up with his team speed. I could pick other tanks which require higher mana, however I believe they would die from opponent 16 melee damage per round, not like this Vulgune. Exception for Chaos Knight due to her Shield Ability and Uriel due to his heal.
Bottom line is that Vulguine proves himself capable to compete and perform excellently against bigger opponents during specific rulesets.
Have you got yourself a good level Vulguine?
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