CHALLANGE: TRAINING GROUNDS | Splinterlands Community Engagement Challenge

Hello Summoners, in this week's challenge, we're going to discover the new Training Mode together. This new feature allows us to perfect and test our strategies at any time outside of competitive play, without having to worry about anything other than learning from each battle.

We have already practised challenging our friends and organising our own battles. Now we can take it a step further and create our own custom opponent, even modifying our own deck.

You have probably come up against robots many times in your games.

It's much the same with the training dummies, although here it's up to you to decide how hard they can hit back.

I can assure you that so far they seem well balanced and have not disappointed me in terms of the power or level of their cards, which makes for some really exciting challenges.

TRAINING GROUNDS

Training is now available from the main game page.

Select this option to view and customise the decision tree, where you can select the difficulty level, game mode, card type and summoner level.

You can configure everything from how difficult our opponent will be to the league or level we will be facing in this battle.

Once you've tried out the challenges, you'll notice a lot of similarities. It almost feels like you're starting one, but this time instead of choosing a player to face, you're facing the game.

Basically, as in all games, the first thing we do is choose the difficulty.

This depends on the challenge you are looking for at the time, although my personal recommendation is to increase the difficulty gradually.

Especially if you want to test strategies or teams using only cards from your collection to see how far you can go.

Then, as with any practice, you just have to try to improve and push those limits.

Since we're talking about practice, it wouldn't make much sense to stick to the cards in our collection.

It's as much about getting better as it is about being able to try new things in our games.

That's why you can choose Ghost Mode, which gives you access to all the cards and collections available for the game mode you choose.

An important detail is that the maximum level of these ghost cards will be appropriate to the difficulty level chosen.

If you are used to playing tournaments, terms such as novice or adept will be familiar to you.

If you've been playing for a while, you'll also recognise the levels of the old leagues.

For me, one of the most fun parts of trying out this game mode was discovering which league I could climb up the ladder in matches.

Currently, I can say that the level of my cards and my gameplay is at its hardest at the silver level.

Although I have found that at gold levels both summoners and cards are almost maxed out, so defeating them is more a matter of pure luck.

For this duel, I decided to test a Legendary Summoner that I had recently added to my collection. I'm just starting to hone my skills with it in competitive play.

To my surprise, the challenge pitted me against the same summoner, but at a higher level, in a true sea dragon duel.