Holy Protection gives an extra level of protection to your monsters in a battle and can make them harder to get rid of. With this ruleset, you do not need to use the awesome Lorna Shine summoner who bestows this ability onto your monsters.
To combat the holy protection ruleset, what I like to use is a combination of monsters that can help quickly remove this ability on my opponent. Some good ones to use are monsters with blast,double strike or redemption. Redemption can remove Holy Protection against your opponent's entire team in one sweep. This can get you some holy protection removed without losing any extra attacking strength.
In today's battle, I utilise the powerful double-strike ability to deadly effect.
My Team
This is a mid-level battle with also equal opportunity, so there is some extra way to deal some blows to your opponent.
| Summoner/ Monster | Reason |
|---|---|
| Possibilus the Wise | Reach ability |
| Diemonshark | Speed and shield |
| Coastal Sentry | Double-Strike ability |
| Uraeus | Sneak and poison abilities |
| Pelacor Bandit | Sneak ability |
| Hardy Stonefish | Extra attack to utilise equal opportunity |
| Torrent Fiend | Cannon Fodder |
My opponents
| Summoner/ Monster | |
|---|---|
| Tarsa | |
| Ferox Defender | |
| Antoid Platoon | |
| Exploding Rats | |
| Scavo Hireling | |
| Clockwork Aide | |
| Xenith Monk |
The rules for the battle are:
| Equal Opportunity | All monsters have the opportunity ability. |
| Holy Protection | All monsters have the divine shield ability. |
| Aim True | Attacks always hit their target. |
Battle
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ROUND 1 - Diemonshark vs. Ferox Defender
Today Diemonshark faces off against Ferox Defender. Not a monster that I would normally face in the tank position, it must be a bot? Can I overcome him?
With the reach ability of Possibilus, I had expected her to attack Ferox Defender, but instead the opportunity game rule has taken precidence. Exploding Rats uses the redemption ability to remove holy protection from my team. Damn!
ROUND 2 & 3
However, Coastal Sentry goes on the rampage again! This time taking out Clockwork Aide and Xenith Monk.
ROUND 4 & 5
It is the turn of Ferox Defender in round 4 as Diemonshark and Coastal Sentry team up to take him out.
ROUND 6-8
By round 6, things are looking bleak for my opponent as the Diemonshark/Coastal Sentry combo are proving very lethal, but Antoid Platoon manages to remove Diemonshark first and Coastal Sentry finishes off Antoid Platoon next. That leaves just Scavo Hireling as easy pickings in round 8.
Summary:
Holy Protection requires some extra attacking ideas to try and get around this defense in your opponent. My goto is double-strike attacks and redemption if you have it.
Failing that, a good monster with blast can also be very good to spread the damage and remove the protection from more monsters at a time.
How do you play the Holy Protection ruleset?
Thanks for reading.
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