Riverboat Captain determinant of the Victory, Doctor Blight Replacement ?

Greetings to all Splinterlands players! this is my entry for Social Media Challenge it is a popular event held by Splinterlands every week. The theme today is Riverboat Captain, New Monster from Soulbound reward card. I only have it at level 4, it has a rarity rare, in this battle I can bring monsters with a rarity rare at level 8. This card has 2 magic damage, 2 speed, and 5 HP. Has Blast and Affliction Abilities.

The battle happen in the Modern Format Diamond League, I played with my scholar account from Balthazar.

The guide presents a strategy on how to advance through the ranks by utilizing reasonably priced or cheap-to-rent monsters that can still prove effective. Soulbound card is the reward card from Splinterlands chest. We got it free, it can't be sold, burn or rented.

Battle Link

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For the video you can watch it here :

Ruleset

From left to right :

  • For of War, Monsters lose the Sneak, opportunity, and Snipe abilities.
  • Have mana cap 35.
  • We can choose the element Fire, Water, Earth, and Life.

My Lineup and strategy

We will first talk a bit about the monster theme in this battle Riverboat Captain :

At level 4 this monster has the ability Blast, and Affliction at level 8 max level he got the ability Fury (does double damage if the attacked monster has the taunt ability), increased attack becomes 3 and HP become 6 at max level.
Strength :

  • Affliction ability, make the target inflicted by this status unable to heal. The chance for this monster to inflict the affliction status every attack is 50%.
  • Blast ability, Does additional damage to Monsters adjacent to the target Monster, Additional damage is equivalent to main damage divided by 2, rounded up.

Weakness :

  • For 6 mana cost and only having 5 HP is too small
  • Magic damage only 2
  • Speed only 2
  • No armor
  • Not having any defensive abilities like void, shield, etc. Easy to die if attacked by an enemy monster

Based on the ruleset for this battle we have something to think off :

  1. Bring a good tanker if possible can handle 3 types of attack magic, range, and melee, the enemy will use focus fire in the first position monster, if we do not bring monsters with taunt ability.
  2. Bring a monster with a taunt ability so we can split the damage between the first and last position monster.
  3. If possible bring the monster with Heal ability because Fog of War we can predict that the enemy will focus fire attack and we can prolong the life of the monster by using heal ability.

Based on that guideline In this battle we choose to use water elements because they have a very good tanker and a monster with a taunt ability, I think the enemy will bring a monster with a healing ability, so to prevent that we need a monster with Affliction, usually water element not have that monster with ability Affliction but now with new Soulbound reward card we have it, the new monster namely Riverboat Captain.

This is our lineup from left (first position) to right (last position) :

Summoner/monster and AbilitiesDescription
Kelya Frendul (summoner), make all friendly monster have +1 speed and armorVery good summoner for this battle the shield will prolong the life of our monster, and the speed increase the chance every attack will hit the enemy and we have a higher chance to evade the enemy attack. With high speed, we can attack first before our enemy attacks, if lucky we can kill the enemy before they can attack.
Baakjira, 1st position, tanker. Has the ability Void, Slow, Strengthen, and Heal.With big HP, Void, and Heal abilities this monster is very strong against magic and can handle attacks from melee and ranger monsters too. The strengthen ability gives +1 HP to all monsters and a slow decrease the speed of all enemy by 1. I think this is the best tanker for non attacker monsters, this monster can't attack.
Merdhampir, 2nd position, 2nd tanker and attacker. Has the ability Life leech, Cripple, and Snare abilities.Placed in second place as a second tanker because have Life leech in case the Baakjira died, at that time I think this monster may have big HP already, Cripple is a very useful ability in case the enemy brings Baakjira too, it can decrease the maks HP by 1 every attack.
Riverboat Captain, 3rd position, attacker. Has the ability Blast and AfflcitionPlaced in 3rd position because it has useful support ability which is an affliction to stop the enemy Heal ability. so we want this monster to safe from attack as long as possible, so I put it in the third position
Igor Darkspear. 4th position, attacker. Has stun abilityIt has a very useful skill too, the stun ability will make the enemy like Baakjira can't heal for 1 round. for 2 mana 3 damage is very good.
Angelic Mandarin, 5th position, attacker, and support. Has Triage and Silence abilityThis is the best couple for monsters with taunt ability in the water element, Triage which can heal monsters, not in the first position, and silence ability will decrease enemy magic attack by 1.
Wave Brood, 6th position, attacker and TankerPlaced in the last position so the enemy damage can be split with our monster in the first position, another reason is that Triage ability (heal) needs the monster not in the first position to work, This monster has Taunt ability, this makes all enemy magic monster will hit this monster except the enemy monster in the first position. We depend on Void ability (decrease the enemy magic attack by half) to make this monster survive longer. We just hope that the enemy will bring many monsters with magic attacks.

The Battle

Round 1-3

  • As usual, the battle starts with buffs and debuffs.
  • The enemy makes mistakes by using Deeplurker because he can't attack, in the Fog of War Ruleset.
  • The enemy brings double triage monsters to heal Wave Brood.
  • Our Angelic Mandarin Triage is not enough to fully heal our Wave Brood.
  • Until round 3 No monster Dies yet.
  • In this round finally, Riverboat Captain Affliction abilities are inflicted in enemy Wave Brood, so he can't get healed from Triage ability anymore.


Round 4

  • Enemy side :

    • Wave Brood died killed by Merdhampir.
  • Our side :

    • Our monsters start attacking the enemy Baakjira.

Round 5 :

  • Enemy Side :

    • No monsters die
    • Baakjira got inflicted by Igor Darkspear Stun so can't heal next round, Baakjira HP remains 9 now.
  • Our Side :

    • Wave Brood killed by Medhampir.
    • Our tanker Baakjira still got 14 HP.


Round 6 :

  • Enemy side :

    • Baakjira got stunned again and inflicted by Riverboat Captain Affliction so can't heal anymore, only 1 hp left in this round.
  • Our side :

    • No monsters die.


Round 7 :

  • Enemy Side :
    • Baakjira Killed by Angelic Mandarin.
  • Our Side :
    • No monsters Die.

Round 8 :

  • Enemy Side :

    • Deeplurker killed by Angelic Mandarin.
    • Spirit Hoarder killed by Igor Darkspear.
  • Our Side :

    • No monsters Die.

At this round we can already say that the winner is us, The enemy doesn't have enough attack to kill Baakjira and doesn't have any good tanker anymore.



Round 9-11 :
We skip to round 11 because the battle isn't interesting anymore, the enemy can't do anything anymore.
With the death of enemy Angelic Mandarin killed by our Igor Darkspear the victory became ours.

Did your strategy work?

Our guess was right that the enemy would bring a monster that could heal, unfortunately only in round 3 did Affliction from Riverboard Captain manage to hit the enemy monster.
Fortunately, the enemy also made a mistake by bringing Deeplurker. If only the enemy replaced him with arrow monsters like Igor darkspear we would have a tough battle.

Here I will show you another, more exciting battle, the enemy brings several expensive cards:

We fight him using Riverboat Captain. this is The Battle Link, this battle just happened after I almost finished making this post. The enemy brings monsters that are very difficult to fight like Runi and Doctor Blight. Thanks to Affliction from Riverboat Captain we managed to win this battle.

This is the video for the battle above :

Thank you, my friend, for taking the time to review my battle report. I appreciate your efforts and would be grateful if you could provide me with feedback on any mistakes you find by leaving a comment.

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