Watching great players

Today, we're looking at yet another three Splinterlands battles from the top of the bronze leaderboard. Cost-effective strategies and great combos might turn up, so read up!

@viborah29 vs @komachida (link)

Generally speaking, there's nothing you can do against Llamma combined with Grund. You can try, but you aren't getting far. Grund gets a total of 20 health and 10 attack power (considering he strikes twice).

In bronze league, it doesn't get any better than this. Grund also beats Flesh Golem with ease. I've never seen a battle where this "team", if you can call it like that, is defeated. But I imagine the only opposing team that could win against Grund would use Valnamor.

Those are really simple ways to climb from Bronze to Silver, too. Just spam Llama and Flesh Golem or Llama and Grund with no other monsters. Okay, now you're silver without even having to think!

It's particularly true because battles in Bronze league usually have a very low max mana cap for team selection.

@kjchemical vs @yaiza111 (link)

In this match, @kjchemical ends up winning, but they do sort of struggle. However, I don't think straight up melee attacks are ever a strong choice. When you're not facing super-high-heals from Flesh Golem or Kron, Yodin is there to easily squeeze multiple squishies in one go.

Or in this case, Mylor Crowling shows up in your face to use your attacks against you. But that's very obviously a good tactic because this match is using the Up Close & Personal rule set, which allows only melee monsters.

Point of the story is, if you don't build your team from a summoner that's very strong in your match's rule sets and mana cap, you shouldn't win. Not at a high level. A good attempt isn't good enough.

@patternroot vs @kjchemical (link)

@patternroot, someone who's currently 100 MMR higher than @kjchemical. A mighty adversary. Both players picked the Earth Splinter. This is so exciting! Let's compare differences.

Most monsters in this battle are there to stall. Particularly noteworthy are Epona from @kjchemical and Fallen Summoner from @patternroot. The first thing that comes to mind is that both teams should have those two monsters.

Sure, they'd end up with a 5 monsters selection instead of 6, but you can't go wrong with Fallen Summoner and Epona together. That's just stronger. In this specific battle, Kron hurting himself while attacking Fallen Summoner proves my point.

Now that we mention Kron, we can see the rest of their teams are just stalling until Lamma's Last Stand is triggered. Funnily enough, it ends up happening exactly as if this battle had no other monsters involved: Last Stand Kron loses to Last Stand Grund.

Fallen Summoner being an obstacle to Kron actually makes things worse for the Kron player, though. Of course, using Grund is only possible because of the Equal Opportunity rule set, so maybe @kjchemical chose Kron out of habit. @patternroot didn't fall for this trap, netting them a win.

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