Summoner's Week: Prophet Rosa

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^{The tips and possible advises in this article are designed for Bronze, Silver and Gold League, in which I am in right now.}

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Introduction

The long wait is over. In only a few days, less than a week, the Rebellion will be released. They would have a slew of new monsters and summoners that would change the game.

The biggest change would probably be the Summoner tactics giving you freedom to choose a summoner ability AFTER the team has been revealed.

Now, you can focus more on developing your own team instead of predicting what your opponent might do.

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Prophet Rosa is one of the newest summoners in the game starting Rebellion on December 5th. The new "Summoner Tactics" will be applied where you can have a choice of what your summoner's abilities will apply after your opponent reveal their team.

She has 2 abilities that you can use. You can either increase the range damage of monsters or apply a Shield ability on them.

These choices can also be either applied to your monsters or your opponents giving you a lot of flexibility.

^Abilities:

+2 Range Damage: Increase the range damage by 2.

Shield: Halves all melee and range damage to the monster. Any damage of 1 before the effect applies are negated.

Pros

Flexible - Can be used on opponent or your team because of Summoner Tactics mechanics. You can use his abilities to support your team or become a nuisance on your opponent's depending on your monster's abilities.
Good Combo with Forcefield - Damage becomes 1 if damage is 5 or higher. This is a good combo for the higher league, maybe starting Gold, since the higher the level of the cards, the higher the chances they have increased damage from leveling up.
Good Combo with Taunt - Taunt redirects all the damage and Shield halves it. This combo is a good counter against Sneaks and Opportunity in which there are a lot of melee monsters.

Cons

Limited Taunt Monsters
- Water has Taunt monsters but it's not as good as others. For example, Life Splinter has Iziar that has Taunt and Void ability at level 1. While he has Void ability starting at level 4, your choices are limited and isn't good in lower league.
Expensive to Buy
- Since Prophet Rosa will be a new addition to the game, I expect her to be a bit expensive to be bought for singles. Her rentals will probably be expensive as well due to the Summoner Tactics mechanics.
Higher Mana Cost
- With only 1 ability at a time active, she has significantly higher mana cost than the Chaos Legion counterparts.

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Rank	Rules of Combat	Description
	^{Up Close and Personal}	Only monsters with melee damage can be used during this battle: Melee damage are halved by Shield ability which you can abuse.
	^{Going the Distance}	Only monsters with range damage can be used during this battle: You can use both of the summoner's ability to either improve your own monster's attack or use the shield ability to halve theirs.
	^{Lost Magic}	Monsters with Magic Damage cannot be used in this battle: Since there's no magic damage, opponents will be forced to play melee and range monsters. The shield ability can halve the damage for this.

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Rank	Rules of Combat	Description
	^{Wands Out}	Only monsters with magic damage can be used during this battle: Both the abilities of the summoners cannot help you since you are not allowed to use range monsters. The Shield ability also doesn't have any effect against magic damage.
	^{Silenced Summoners}	Summoners loses their effect during this battle: With summoners at 5 mana cost, it would be best to use a lower mana cost summoner since their effects and abilities cannot be used.
	^{Broken Arrows}	Range monsters cannot be used during this battle: While your enemy can still use melee monsters, it increases the usage of magic damage monsters which your Shield ability will be unusable of. It also eliminates the Summoner Tactics where you have the option to use increased range damage instead since no range monsters can be used.

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Rank	Rules of Combat	Description
	^{Wave Brood}	Wave Brood's Taunt is really strong when combo'ed with Shield. This decreases the overall damage of Sneak melees while protecting your back row. You can also increase Wave Brood's range damage instead and use him in 1st position. His Close Range ability allows him to attack while in first position.
	^{Djinn Oshannus}	You can use the extra damage on your opponent as well. While this looks like bad, Djinn Oshannus has a Forcefield ability at level 3. This ability changes all damage he gets to 1 if the damage is 5 or more. So, if your opponent has 3 range damage with Close Range, placing him in first position, you can have Djinn Oshannus placed in first, increase their attack by 2 going from 3 to 5. This makes their monster's damage to Djinn Oshannus 1 due to forcefield instead of 3 (without the summoner effect).
	^{Tatiana Blayde}	Units with Bloodlust gains a lot of benefit from increased damage. The higher their damage, the higher the chance they can inflict the last hit making their Bloodlust ability activate.

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This is a very flexible build that can handle your opponent's strategy even if they tried to counter your own. You have an out to a lot of opponent's strategies as long as you play a calm game.

Lineup

^{Prophet Rosa}

One of the newest summoners. Have the option to pick either increasing monster's range damage or adding Shield ability to one of the monsters on the board.

This choice is only available from Rebellion onwards due to the Summoner Tactics mechanics.

^{Djinn Oshannus}

Can be combo'ed with Shield for a Shield-Void combo halving all the damage your opponent gives you. It's just a flexible pick in case your opponent prepared for the Taunt-Shield combo.

^{Nerissa Tridawn}

High damage and high health in case Djinn Oshannus falls.

^Deeplurker

I added Deeplurker to target monsters from the back, hopefully any Heal or Repair monsters.

^{Riverboat Captain}

I added him for the additional damage. The Blast ability can be destructive at times since opponent doesn't expect the 2nd monster to be damaged.

^{Spirit Hoarder}

I combo this with a Taunt at the back row. His Triage will heal Wave Brood from some of the damage he gets.

^{Wave Brood}

Picked for his Taunt ability. There's not a lot of Taunt option for Water. But a Taunt monster with Shield is still pretty strong, in my opinion.

I like the new Summoner Tactics. This is one of the things in my Splinterlands wish list, while the other being the spells/items.

Before they announced this, I was deeply disappointed with Splinterlands since to me, I think they missed a huge portion of possibilities. While the team battler idea is good, it gets quite repetitive over time especially since there's no user input after the team making part.

Now, it's a different era. Now, I am confident that this Summoner Tactics can be a battle of skills rather than wallet. If you can make a good flexible team where you can use the Summoner tactics effectively, I think this would be a game that focuses on skill more than who has the best wallet to spend in the game.

The more fun the game becomes, the better the marketing will be for new players. Now, even the world tournament they were planning before, I think it's more achievable and believable because of this summoner tactics mechanic.

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