This week's featured monster in Splinterlands Share Your Battle is none other than CRUEL SETHROPOD. A lot of you may think this is not the usual monster that you would want in your deck or in your line-up. You rarely see this monster being used because it does not have abilities nor has a high damage for a tank. But here, I will share some of the things for you to consider getting in using this card.
CRUEL SETHROPOD is known for its strong pincers and teeth as sharps as spears. This monsters attack anything that gets near it. Once Cruel Sethropod's pincers or teeth locked on your body, it will be impossible to remove it. A lot of sailors feared to encounter this monsters on seas.
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Since CRUEL SETHROPOD will most like shine in the low mana cap battles or ruleset like Little League, I will only select monsters that can also be use in this battle conditions. Other than this, you can also include higher zero mana monster but we will not include it for now since 0 mana monster can be literally place anywhere.
KELYA FRENDUL is the one of the most common Summoner for Water Splinter especially with the new meta High Speed Water. And in Modern format, it will be the most picked Summoner for Water as well specially if we are taking about Little League ruleset.
Kelya can increase both Speed and Armor of all friendly monsters. This is perfect especially if we are using Merdaali Guardian or Scavo Hireling's armor repair ability.
BORTUS is my old favorite summoner from Water during those times that Water Magic dominates the league. Bortus is an anti-magic summoner which reduces the magic damage of enemy monsters by 1. Cruel Sethropod may have a high armor but that won't save him from magic damage.
| Rules | |
|---|---|
| Little League - Only Monsters & Summoners that cost 4 Mana or less may be used in battles. | Cruel Sethropod only requires 3 mana. This is the perfect ruleset for Cruel Sethropod as it will be match to lower mana monsters as well. Against monster with higher mana, it will most likely be at disadvantage when place as a tank. |
| Melee Mayhem - Melee attack monsters can attack from any position. Equal Opportunity - All Monsters have the Opportunity ability. Super Sneak - All Melee attack Monsters have the Sneak ability. | This allows Cruel Sethropod to attack even from the backline. This monster doesn't have enough health if match against higher mana monster so it is best if you can use it as a pseudo tank rather than the main tank. |
| Weak Magic - Magic attacks hit Armor before reducing Health. Lost Magic - Monsters with Magic attack may not be used in battles. | Cruel Sethropod has high armor which can help him survive longer if magic will hit the armor first. Combine with support monsters that can repair armor will be good as well. Totally banning magic monster will also be good for Cruel Sethropod as both melee and ranged attacks will hit the armor first. |
To be honest, this is one of least monster you will think about countering. Compare with the Llama+Kron or Llama+Golem combination, it will be very rare to encounter this monster especially in medium or high mana battle. But just to give you some idea on how to counter this kind of monster, I will be sharing some tips you might not know or just did not even consider thinking about.
As I always mentioned, one of the most worthy stats Cruel Sethropod has is the high armor. With this, having a monster with SHATTER ability. Target's armor is destroyed when hit by an attack from Monsters with Shatter ability.
This is the direct counter to its high armor stats.
Magic attacks! Plain and simple. Even with high armor, Cruel Sethropod is still susceptible to damage with magic attacks.
THORNS and RETALIATE ability to return melee damage when hit by Cruel Sethropod.
For me, it will always be better to strategized depending on the battle conditions. Which ruleset is applicable and the available Splinter to play with it.
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_4ee0590400dfadc76259fdcde6ad28ab&ref=jpleron
| Battle Condition | |
|---|---|
| Rule #1 | |
| Mana Cap | 16 |
| Allowed Splinter | Water, Life, Death, Dragon, and Earth |
In this match, Legendary monsters are banned and we are limited to Common, Rare and Epic monsters only. This will limit our choices to few monsters so we must choose wisely and create a line-up with very good compatibility with each other.
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