First attempt at the Flying Squid share your battle challenge, One of the most used water monsters in my lineup due to its nice stats and reach ability allowing it to be the sub tank easily.
Link to the Battle: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_fc6a8e2c3127c7a7cdbce7c9e27451a9&ref=dotz132
Card Background Information
| Edition | Chaos Legion |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Common |
| Element | Water |
| Attack | Melee |
| Abilities | Reach(level 1)/ Blind (Level 6)/ Backfire (Level 10) |
Card level & stats
Bronze max | LV3 - +1 Damage
Sliver max | LV5 - +1 Speed & +1 Health
Gold max | LV8 - +1 Speed & Gains Blind
Diamond and above | LV MAX - +1 Health & Gains Backfire
Pros & Cons
Pros:
- High base hp
- Has reach so able to attack from the 2nd position
- Decent speed
Cons:
- High cost at 7, unable to use in low mana battles
- No Armor
Battle rules
| Symbol | Rule Effect |
|---|---|
| All Monsters have the Enrage ability. |
Total Mana : 60
Usable elements : Fire, Water, Earth, Life and Dragon
A High mana match that favors melee units due to the ruleset giving enrage to all units allowing them to hit harder and faster once they take damage.
Team Composition
| Card | Role | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Summoner | kelya%20Frendul with its armor and speed boost it give the team additional points of life against melee and range units and the speed buff allows them to attack first | |
| Main tank | Diemonshark its high speed and decent amount of HP and armor its the prefect main tank for this lineup with the addition of the enrage ability it make the Diemonshark even faster. | |
| Reach, Subtank, Star of the challenge | Flying Squid with its reach its able to attack from the second position on the team also being a melee unit it benefits from the additional enrage ability if it get damage | |
| Magic Damage, Phase, Void | Djinn Oshannus with its void and phase its one of the better magic tanks since it both reduces and has the chance to dodge magic attacks. | |
| Magic Damage | /Nerissa Tridawn just in case they bring a unit with void having more magic damage does help, as well as magic attacks cant be dodged so if they play a high speed unit that can fly it can be taken out. | |
| Range Damage, Double Strike | Axemaster with its double strike and additonal speed buff from the summoner it will help it taking out those troublesome units that have armor since double strike counts as 2 different attacks | |
| Opportunity | Deeplurker the last one in this lineup with its opportunity ability its allowed to attack from anywhere and it will benefit from the enrage effect when damage becoming more powerful |
Now on to the Battle
Round 1
The additional point of armor gained from the summoner helped in reducing the damage gained since they stopped the attack from touching the hp of my units.
in this first round of this battle my team managed to remove 2 of their units while they only managed to heavily damage my main tank.
Round 2 to The End
In the end of the battle all the opponent team was able to do was take out my main tank while the rest of my team was pretty healthy.
Strategy Talk
The strategy involved relied on the high speed of my units to do the first strike to try and remove as many enemy units as possible to reduce the amount of damage they can do, the speed buff and armor buff from the summoner does help since the armor does act as an extra life.
Flying Squid is a good unit to use in the second position of the team since it has reach and is able to attack from there as well as have a good HP pool to let it tank the damage to allow the backline attacks to have more time.
Good ruleset to use in:
| Ruleset | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Spreading Fury | since it has a decent speed and HP pool and is a melee unit it greatly benefits from the enrage buff |
| Odd Ones Out | Since its an odd can it works in this ruleset |
| Unprotected | Removes Armor since it does not start with armor its not affected and this allows it to damage the opponent faster since no armor is protecting them |
| Noxious Fumes | Its HP its quite high so it will last for a while making it a good choice |
| Weak Magic | Armor protect against magic well gives its a longer life so it works |
Thanks for the battle challenge curation team
If you are interested in the game, here's my referral link: https://splinterlands.com?ref=dotz132