Hello Everyone, today I will make a blog again about the battle which I think is interesting, using a new unit from Soulbound Card. You can read more about this Splinterlands contest here Social Media Challenge.

Before the Soulbound card came out in the Death element to deal with the Noxious Fumes ruleset we usually used the following 3 attacking monsters which were immune to poison and also had the Heal ability:

With the release of the Soulbound card Usut we have a new strategy that we will discuss in this battle.

I play in the Modern Format Diamond League, using my scholar account from Balthazar I only use cheap cards like Chaos, Reward, and some Neutral.

Battle Link

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Ruleset

• Armored Up, All Monsters have 2 Armor in addition to their normal Armor stat.
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  Heavy Hitters, all monsters have the Knock Out ability.
  • Knock Out ability, does double damage when attacking a stunned enemy.
• Noxious Fumes: All monsters have started a battle with poison status, starting at round 2 the HP will decrease -2 each round.
• mana cap.
• can use element Fire, Earth, and Death.

My Lineup and strategy

Some guidelines we can use :

• Noxious Fumes ruleset we can use monsters with the abilities:

  • Immunity, (immune to negative status including poison) several examples of units with this ability:
  • Heal, monsters that can heal other monsters or can heal themselves:
  • Cleanse, removes all negative/poison effects on monsters in position 1:.
    
  • Scavenger (every time a monster/unit dies, its HP will increase by 1) :
  • Martyr, if this monster dies it will increase all the base stats of the surrounding monsters.
    
  • Another ability that we can use but may not be suitable for this battle Life Leech (every time a monster attacks, it will increase its HP depending on the damage it produces) or Redemption (every time this monster dies will damage armor / HP the enemy monster by -1 :

• Armored Up ruleset it's good to have some armor but it means our range and melee attack will need to attack at least twice to destroy the armor and decrease their HP, perfect time to use some magic. which ignores armor and damages the HP immediately.

• For the ruleset Heavy Hitters we do not pay attention because to me the result to much random, better to use good formation depending on the Armored Up and Noxious Fumes rulesets. But we do bring a monster with Stun ability the Revealer not because of this ruleset but because have Immunity ability.

we can use monsters with the Immunity, Heal, and Martyr abilities. Our Line up:

Summoner or monster	Abilities	Description
	Astral Entity, Summoner. Can decrease the enemy armor by -2, Give Dodge ability to ally monsters, and have Resurrect ability.	We used this Death summoner because have Resurrect ability (brings back friendly monsters who die with 1 HP and full armor if have it) to boost the effect of our Martyr monster in the 1st position. It has Dodge ability (increases chance to evade the enemy melee and range attack by 25%) The decrease in the enemy armor will cancel the effect of the Armored Up ruleset.
	Venari Marksrat, 1st position, Support, has the ability Martyr and Ensnare.	We used this monster to boost the stats of the Usut in the 2nd position. we put it here to make sure that this monster dies first before any monster, so the Resurrect ability from the summoner and monster we bring will affect this monster.. If this monster dies all the stats of the monster adjacent to it will increase because of the Martyr ability. The Ensnare ability will disable the Flying ability from the enemy monster who got attacked by this monster, but in this battle is useless because we put this range unit in the first position so it can't attack.
	Usut, 2nd position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability Flying, Bloodlust, Oppress, and Heal.	This will become our main tanker and attacker after receiving a boost from the Venari Marksrat. With the Heal ability, this monster can handle the effect of Noxious Fume ruleset. Flying ability will increase this monster's chance by 25% to evade the enemy melee/range attack. **Oppress **will double damage against the enemy who doesn't have any attack. Bloodlust ability will increase all basic stats of this monster by +1 (like Martyr ability but trigger when this monster kills the enemy).
	Harklaw,3rd position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability Shield, Immunity, and Demoralize.	This is our second main tanker for this Ruleset Noxious Fumres , With Immunity this monster is immune to all negative statuses, like Poison Blind, Demoralize, etc. With the ability Shield will decrease the melee/range damage by 50%, if the enemy only has 1 melee damage this monster will ignore the damage. This monster has Demoralize ability to further decrease all enemy melee monster damage by -1.
	Revealer, 4th position, attacker. Has the ability Stun, Immunity, and Reflection Shield.	This is our 2nd monster who has an Immunity ability like Harklaw. This monster is weak against attack and easy to die so we put it here to be safe from attack. Hope can stun the enemy and activate the Heavy Hitters ruleset. Have Reflection Shield ability to nullify the effect of the Blast/Magic Reflect.	.
![](	Skok Dustblight, 5th position, attacker and support. Has the ability Weapons Training, Fury, and Resurrection.	We use this unit because has Resurrection ability to further increase the effect of the Martyr ability from Venari Marksrat. We don't use the Fury and Weapons Training ability in this battle.
	Curse Windeku, last position, tanker. Has the ability Thorn, Heal, and Slow.	Kita meletakkan monster ini di bagian belakang untuk berjaga jaga bila musuh membawa monster melee dengan Sneak ability yang bisa menyerang monster di posisi terakhir. Walaupun di posisi ini Windeku tidak bisa menyerang tapi dengan Thorns ability make the melee monster hits this monster will get damaged by -2 HP. If the attacker monster has Shield ability only gets damage -1 HP. Slow is another good support ability, it will decrease all enemy monsters' speed by -1 giving our monster more chance to attack first and kill the enemy monster. And the most important thing is that this monster has the Heal ability so that if no monster attacks it, even if Windeku is affected by the poison, it can survive until it advances to first place.

Our Formation is finished and we are ready to battle :

The Battle

• Round 1

• Round 2

• Round 3

• Round 4

• Round 5

• Round 6

Did your Strategy Work?

Yes, our strategy worked well by using the double Resurrect ability to Usut. Our Usut had a lot of damage, HP, and armor so that when Usut advanced to first position we were able to withstand attacks from many enemy monsters. We can see in the following animated image more clearly when Venari Marksrat dies the second time. Usut who advanced to first place already has excellent stats as a tanker:

With the additional stats from the Martyr ability Usut has the opportunity to kill enemy monsters and then activate the Bloodlust ability, so that its stats increase again and enemy units are no longer able to kill it. These are the final Usut stats before killing the last enemy unit :

How To Increase Win Rate Using This Strategy?

I think in this battle we already have an ideal element to use. Just to summarize :

• Make sure Baakjira in the Water Element can't be used. Better if water element can't be used many monsters there can handle the magic attack, like Djinn Oshannus or monsters with the Taunt ability Wave Brood.
  
• Life has very good monsters against our strategy, usually, they will bring this monster, this is the main core to handle the Noxious Fumes ruleset, you can add more monsters if still have mana :
  
  The Summoner Grandmaster Rather will give +1 armor and change the armor so every magic attack will hit the armor first, then Uriel The Purifier can heal with a very big base HP and armor. Iziar will decrease our magic attack by half and force our monster to attack this monster with the Taunt ability, while Djinn Renova will keep healing the Iziar. The Adelade Brightwingmain job is to restore the armor of their monster and activate the Resurrect ability so Martyr ability from Iziar can have a double effect, and the Adelade Brightwing is immune to poison effect.
• Dragon element has monsters with large magic damage Chaos Dragon with Blast effect (the attack will give damage to the monster adjacent to it) that make it difficult to predict the direction of the attack because of the Scattershot ability they attack random monsters, so if we are unlucky then our monsters at the back will be dealt with first. Also, our attackers have difficulty hitting their tankers Void Dragon who can dodge all attacks including magic:
  

This section is just my personal opinion based on the limited cards I have as a scholar and the limited knowledge I have.

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