This is not about my winning match rather I'm about to talk about a battle where I actually lost and still I felt proud for using a good strategy.
I totally get it. You guys may not be familiar with peoples talking about their losing battle or maybe you're familiar. Well, I'm not gonna talk here as a loser but as a good thinker.
I'll be joining a battle challenge hosted by 
Splinterlands Social Media Challenge!
This time I got a battle with 60 mana and I went for it using Scarred Llama Mage as the earth summoner.
Here you can see both team where I've found a opponent with 5 cards against my 6 cards.
Battle Ruleset:
| The battle ruleset has 60 mana cap. | |
|---|---|
| Earthquake: Non-flying monsters take 2 melee damage at the end of each round. | |
| Reverse Speed: Monsters with the lowest speed attack first and have the highest chance of evading attacks. | |
| Up to Eleven: All monsters have the amplify ability. |
Arena Tactics:
| Host guild always wins when there's a draw. Host guild unites attack first in ties. | |
|---|---|
| Kelya Frendul was banished from the visiting battle mage's roster. They could not use this character when creating a team. |
Fray Limits:
I played in bronze league level caps where I could use all cards according to bronze league level caps.
My chosen cards.
I chose earth splinter with 5 earth cards and 1 neutral card and I used Scarred Llama Mage as summoner.
| Scarred Llama Mage | Minotaur Warlord | Quora Towershead | Gargoya Devil | Runemancer Florre | Kron the Undying | Regal Peryton |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scarred Llama Mage offers +2 health, last stand and cleanse abilities to all friendly monsters. Minotaur Warlord does reduced magic damage back to the attacker when gets hit with magic damage for magic reflect ability. Quora Towershead gets +1 to all stats every time this monster defeats an opponent for having bloodlast ability and it restores a portion of its health each round for having heal ability. Gargoya Devil has an increased chance of evading melee or ranged attacks from monsters who do not have the flying ability and this monster can perform ranged attacks from the first position for having close range ability.
Runemancer Florre does double attack when its away from the first position as it has both magic and ranged attacks and it doesn't have any extra abilities in any level. Kron the Undying restores a portion of its health for having heal ability. Regal Peryton has an increased chance of evading melee or ranged attacks from monsters who do not have the flying ability but it'll not be able to evade magic attacks.
Enemy's chosen cards.
The enemy also chose earth splinter with 5 earth cards using the same summoner that I used.
| Scarred Llama Mage | Kron the Undying | Oaken Behemoth | Runemancer Florre | Mycelic Slipspawn | Quora Towershead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oaken Behemoth offers double attack (melee+magic) where the melee attack should be worked when the monster is at the first position only as normally melee attack don't attack from any other position but this monster offers the reach ability as well which allows this monster to attack from the second position and it activates the melee attack as well and it offers another ability that taunts magic enemy monsters to hit this monsters armor before its health. Mycelic Slipspawn will taunt all enemy monsters to attack this monster for having the taunt ability.
The Battle
For the earthquake ruleset, every non-flying monsters should take 2 melee damage at the end of each round and I used two flying monsters in thinking about that where as the enemy team didn't use any flying monsters. Both team didn't think of the reverse speed ruleset when choosing monsters as both team has higher mana monsters and there I did the first mistake although I looked for the best monster with best stats.
Summoners from both team gave +2 health, last stand ability and cleanse ability to all the monsters.
Friendly teams Gargoya Devil started attacking first and Mycelic Slipspawn lost two health. Then Mycelic Slipspawn attacked Minotaur Warlord and after losing two health, the friendly monster returned fire and the enemy monster lost 2 health as well. Now after Kron the Undying of friendly team attacked and Mycelic Slipspawn lost 3 health, Kron the Undying of enemy team attacked as well and Minotaur Warlord lost 3 health and the enemy monster there lost 7 health all together from Minotaur Warlord's melee and return fire.
Then Quora Towershead form both team attacked specific opponents and then Oaken Behemoth did a double attack and almost killed Minotaur Warlord. At last Mycelic Slipspawn of enemy team died by the attack of Runemancer Florre. And the Runemancer Florre of enemy team gave a counter response and killed Minotaur Warlord.
And at the beginning of the new round, all monsters lost 2 health each except Gargoya Devil and Regal Peryton of friendly team. Gargoya Devil then attacked and killed Kron the Undying of enemy team and now the enemy team had only 3 monsters left where the friendly team had 5 monsters left. Now both Kron the Undying and Quora Towershead of friendly team used the heal ability to heal themself and then attacked Oaken Behemoth and this is the first time that Quora Towershead of friendly team did a double attack after reaching the first position.
Then after Oaken Behemoth did a double attack, it died by Runemancer Florre. Then Runemancer Florre of enemy team reached the first position and lost the ability to do double attack and also took the first damage from its rival. There was another round where another earthquake took place and then Quora Towershead and Kron the Undying of friendly team attacked and killed Runemancer Florre of enemy team and the enemy team was left with a single monster when the friendly team had still had 5 monsters alive with good stats.
Now for killing the enemy monster, Quora Towershead of friendly team got +1 to all stats for having bloodlast ability and for being only monster on the enemy team alive, Quora Towershead of enemy team gained increased stats for having last stand ability from the summoner and this was the crucial moment for the friendly team. WHY? Let's go a little further and I'll tell you why.
Now every single friendly monsters attacked the only enemy monster alive but the enemy monster still had good health stats and then it did a double attack on Quora Towershead of friendly team leaving it with only 2 health and the friendly monster died on the next earthquake. Then there was another round where all friendly monsters first attacked Quora Towershead and still the enemy monster didn't die and then it healed itself again.
Another earthquake happened and at the new round, after the friendly monsters attacked the enemy monster, the monster had a single health at the end and it kept fighting with it and healed big time (with +7 health). Then the enemy monster killed Gargoya Devil and got +1 to all stats for having bloodlast ability.
After another earthquake, the enemy monster was down to 1 health again and the friendly team was too unfortunate that they couldn't take another health. Now the enemy monster needed a single turn to kill an opponent as it had 5 melee and 5 magic attacks with it and there was the earthquake ability as well and healing itself with 7 health.
At this point, Regal Peryton became the only monster alive on the friendly team so it got increased stats for having last stand ability but its not match to the enemy monster in any way as I already said that the enemy monster needs a single turn to kill an enemy. AND it took the next single turn and killed the last friendly monster and defeated the friendly team.
Quora Towershead of enemy team gained increased stats for having last stand ability from the summoner and this was the crucial moment for the friendly team. WHY? Let's go a little further and I'll tell you why.
Now you understand why? If it didn't get the increased stats then it'd die long back as it came down to 1 health for twice and then 2 health for once. And I'm proud even after losing the battle cause I believe I used the right strategy just the luck was crucial this time otherwise I'd get a great win.
NEXT TIME.
The next post about splinterlands will be coming soon.
Screenshots are my take from the game website.
Stupid icons created by iconixar - Flaticon - The smiley face on the thumbnail.
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