This Splinterlands Guide deals with Armored Up Ruleset. This Ruleset gives to all monsters on the battlefield +2 Armor in addition to their normal Armor stat. Which monsters should you use to win the battle? What is the best lineup? I going to show you my favorite strategies to take up against it.
Before going to full list of strategies, let's start with the basic knowledge about Armor Up Ruleset. All monsters start the game with additional +2 Armor in addition to their normal Armor stat. As a result all physical melee and ranged attacks need to hit armor first and then can damage you opponent. The easiest way to increase your win rate is use of magic attackers. If your opponent doesn't know this trick it should be enought.
Remember! Your opponent may also be smart and use magic attackers. As a result you need to be prepared for magic spam. The best option is to place magic counter tank with Void, Void Shield or Phase ability. Off course high amount of HP is always very helpful.
This strategy is to use as many magic attackers as it possible. If you face opponent without magic protect then victory is yours. The best summoner from Chaos Legion edition is Obsidian that gives +1 magic buff to all of your monsters. In addtion Armor protect your monster from all physical attacks.
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Lots of players know that magic is very good in this Ruleset. You can suprise your opponent by placing monsters with mix attack: magic and melee. High amount of attack can even kill Baakjira as a tank. If you use double Sneak monsters then they can kill one monster by another each round. Why this strategu is sometimes good? Mainly, your opponent doesn't expect this lineup.
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As you can see on the picture below, there are two standard tanks in this Ruleset: Djinn Oshanuss with Phase and Lobsdradmus with Magic Reflect. Both of them work very good in this Ruleset. You can easly put them in front position, then rest of the support team in the middle (slow, clean, heal etc.) to keep them alive for long time. If you have more mana to spend, then additional attack is very healpful.
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This is more advanced combo. When you combine all necessary abilities, then you get more advantage to win the battle. I used CHaos agent with Phase as a tank. On the second spot, there is Ooze with slow to make ma tank more effective (higher chance to dodge). At the backline there are two monster with magic and scavenger ability to increase they survability. My summoner is Thadius Brute wich debuff Health and Magic by 1. This is very effective lineup in low mana battles.
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Rust reduces the Armor of all enemy Monsters by 2. It is opposite to Armor Up ability. You opponent usually want to take advantage from Armor, as a result he doesn't protect his team. You can use Rust ability and easly hit all his monsters directly. You can find full list of all Modern cards with Rust ability below. One of them has Rust at level 1, so you can use it even at bronze or silver league.
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