I was thinking really hard whether I should break my pocket to get this "Powerful" ever summoner since its sale is reaching the end on the official website.
Picture source: https://splinterlands.com/?p=shop&tab=special
After past one month consideration from the experience of battled with it or use it for battle. Unfortunately, I decided not to invest on it as my pocket is pretty shallow.
Let's look at some data on how much we should pay to own it, rent it. and how it performed in my recent daily quest battles. then you can draw your own conclusion with your pocket situation.
Currently, we can get it via 3 channels: AtomicHub, Peakmonsters, as well as the in-game market
Current price of one card varies from $1290(On PeakMonsters) to $49K (on AtomicHub). this definitely is scary price for the new player or the shallow pocket investors.
Picture source: https://wax.atomichub.io/market?collection_name=splintrlands&match=waka&order=desc&schema_name=cards&sort=created&symbol=WAX#sales
Picture source: https://peakmonsters.com/market
It's too expensive to own it? then let's look at the rental market, how it costs to temporarily own it for gaming?
Right now, it's around 6 days before the season end(usually where we are in the season also affects the rental price). After checking in the PeakMonsters rental market, Waka price is from 38 DEC/day to 40 DEC/day. This is actually a pretty affordable rental price without eating too much for your battle earning.
Picture source:https://peakmonsters.com/rentals
Today, I rented one for my death daily quest and would like to see how powerful it is. let's see 5 consequent battles that I had with it.
Battle #1
Result: Loss
Battle #2
Result: Loss
Battle #3
Result: Loss
Battle #4
Result: Win
Battle #5
Result: Loss
Battle #6
Result: Win
Let's put all 6 results together
Battle #1 - #3, #5 Loss.
Battle #4, #6 win.
In overall, I would say Waka is a good Summoner in general. but it could be outstanding in certain circumstances especially his 3 mana and poison ability. a little bit downside of the skill is that its probability to get opponent poisoned is a bit low which you can see from these battle. a lot chances, it does not poison the monster at the first attack. with such characteristic, here i understand in the way that it probably will perform well at the high mana battle where we can pick the high health monsters to give a chance for poison work. .This we can see from the battle #6.
with the low health monsters, poison is seems not really outstanding while the monster already dead before the poison start to work.
When back to its price and the functionality, my understanding is right now it's a bit over advertised. with the affordable rental price, it significantly degrades the motivation of own one Waka.
what do you think about it?
Thanks for reading.