Shieldbearer is a life splinter and immensely loves soaking himself with enemies' attacks because of his "Taunt" ability, and without a doubt, Shieldbearer is the best tank you could find on the battlefield. After the Chaos legion and Riftwatcher series were released, Life's "Shieldbearer" was rarely encountered in the silver league battles (well, I don't know about higher league).
**Simplified Lore **
The Silver Shield of legend is locked securely away on Khymian holy ground, but expert Khymian Armorsmiths have made many replicas of the great Shield throughout the years. The Khymian soldiers called to carry these shields are known as Shieldbearers. Ironically, the Shieldbearers are trained to sacrifice their bodies before their shields.
The Battle Challange
Battle Link : https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_0c204fa0fbda1627f8ee3ede54c4761d&ref=lagnarok
This battle happened in Wild format Silver league, and the reason to use Shieldbearer is due to "Counter Spell" and 'Heavy Hitter" rulesets.
With those rulesets, my enemy's probability of using magic is very small. While I don't have an Ilthain summoner to create perfect defence with his "Return Fire" ability, I can't use Fire or Earth, where I mainly only play with Range and Magic. I decided to choose Dragon as my splinter.
I have 4 out of 5 options to use Quix the Devious, Camila Sungazer, Byzantine Kitty, or Brighton Bloom. Since the mana cap is quite big, I decide to use Byzantine Kitty, which gives me +2 Speed, True Strike, and Tank Healer for my deck.
| Post | Card | Ability | Plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summoner | Byzantine Kitty | +2 speed, True Strike, Tank Healer | Byzantine Kitty is the best of the best legendary summoner you could find within Splinterlands, with +2 speed buff for your monsters, and you will hit the target because its true strike ability and its will heal your first position. |
| Main Tank | Robo-Dragon Knight | Void, Divine Shield, Piercing | With 8 armour, 9 health, divine shield, and great damage with those benefits, this monster becomes the perfect Tank and Main damage dealer. Enemy monsters will have much trouble tearing down his defence and wasting their turn. |
| Second | Carnage Titan | Reach, Double Strike | I love to use this monster with reach and double strike ability; he could be dealt so much damage to the enemy tanks, and he also got decent armour, speed and health points too. |
| Third | Dragon Jumper | Flying, Opportunity, Snare | Dragon Jumper is another my favourite too, this monster can fly and catch flying monsters, even without Byzantine Kitty speed buff, this monster already have 5 speed, 6 health points, and 4 damage with these advantages makes this monster become very dangerous and able to strike monsters with lowest hp. |
| Fourth | Oshuur Constantia | Resurect, Reflection Shield | This is a Promo card of the rift watcher expansion pack. It brought the dead back to life and feared no counter-attack. The reason I use this because to anticipate my enemy killing one of my tanks and bringing him back to waste an enemy turn. |
| Fifth | Silvershield Assasin | Sneak, Double Strike | my Another damage dealer specialized on the sneak attack. With his double strike and 2 damage, this guy will cut down the enemy from behind by dealing 4 damage every turn. |
| 2nd Tank | Shieldbearer | Taunt | My key strategy is this guy. I decided to use Shieldbearer after considering my enemy would use no magic and mostly range and melee attack. I put this guy in the last position because I want to divide my enemy monsters' damage between the main tank and my second tank. |
My deck relied heavily on double strike, and Dragon Jumper will end wounded enemies quickly. This strategy can work perfectly against Yodin Zaku because I divide enemies' damage by 2 with my tank setup.
Round 1
- After the series, buff from both summoners and monsters.
- The battle started his Air Elemental hit my Shieldbearer, and my Dragon Jumper dealt 4 damage to the Supply runner, then his Runeslinger broke my Shieldbearer armour and stunned it.
- With Heavy Hitter Rule, The Supply Runner dealt Shieldbearer 4 Damage; later, my Silvershield Assasin dealt 4 damage to his Air Elemental, and following that, my Robo-Dragon Knight and Carnage Titan dealt 6 damage in total to the enemy Tank. His Corsair Bosun responded with dealt 5 damage but was nullified by my tank Divine Shield.
- My Oshuur Constantia dealt 1 magic damage to his tank, and the enemy Pristmologist dealt 8 damage to my Shieldbearer, it died and was resurrected by Oshuur later on.
Round 2
- Round 2, started by Air Elemental, dealt 3 damage to my Shieldbearer armour. Next, my Dragon Jumper jumped on his Main tank and killed it.
- Enemy Runeslinger tried to kill Shieldbearer and was not successful but later on, assisted by Runeslinger, and enemy Supply Runner killed Shieldbearer.
- After Shieldbearer died, Silvershield Assasin avenged him by killing Air Elemental and hitting Pristmologiest's armour.
- Don't want to waste a chance to win, Carnage Titan tried to kill Corsair Bosun but was unfortunately only able to break his armour in response; Corsair Bosun dealt 5 armour damage to Robo Dragon Knight, and Robo-Dragon Knight countered it with 4 body slams, and Oshuur dealt 2 magic damage to Corsair Bosun left it with 2 health points.
Round 3: Finale
- Round 3 battle opened by Dragon Jumper killed Supply Runner. Silvershield Assasin tried to kill Prismologist but failed. In anger, Runeslinger tried to stun Robo-Dragon Knight but failed and did not want to waste the opportunity Carnage Titan killed Corsair Bosun and wounded Runeslinger.
- Following the momentum, Robo-Dragon Knight sealed Runeslinger's fate, and Oshuur Constantia killed Prismologist later.
Did my Strategy Work?
My Strategy work perfectly by dividing their damage dealers into 2. If I were not using Shieldbearer, maybe my Main Tank would be stunned by Rune Slinger and die very fast since the Heavy Hitter rule would be dealt 2 times as much damage to stunned Monsters.
Thank You
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this post. I hope you can enjoy this article and give you more ideas to set up your lineup.
my Reff: https://splinterlands.com?ref=lagnarok
*Credits
@Kyo-gaming for a very beautiful divider.