Battle Mage Weekly Secrets Challenge:: Armored Up
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This week's battle mage secrets challenge is βarmor upβ , one of the rules that is very easy for me to defeat. Well! Armored up rule can be tricky sometimes which depends on the other rules attached to it.
I have played several battles of βarmor upβ with other rules. The one I played last two weeks was armored Up with lost magic, up close and personal,
We all know that the two rules I stated above do not have magic attacks. It is always difficult to eliminate monsters because of the armor attached to the monsters. It is only very easy when a player has summoner piercing ability. This ability makes it easy for melee and ranged monsters to damage the health of a target if the damage is in excess of the target's armor.
This is the reason I love magic ability in this type of battle; my first option in armored up battle is to look for monsters with powerful magical attacks.
Last two weeks I came across armor up and lost magic in a battle; I was too quick in making decisions if the monsters I used. The whole summary of the battle was that I could not defeat a monster with the smallest health. There was Furious Chicken π in the battle; I attacked Furious chicken ππ twice in the battle before it was eliminated in the battle. In a battle where there was no armor, I destroyed Furious Chicken ππ with just one attack. Therefore, a monster π has to attack twice by melee and range monsters twice before it is eliminated unless a summoner or monster with piercing ability is in the battle.
This is the reason I love magic monsters β£οΈπ€© in this type of battle since the magic monsters attack the health directly without damaging armor. There are circumstances when magic monsters attack armor first before health; in this kind of situation l love πβ€ οΈ to use all the attack abilities- magic, melee and range.
Battle Rulesets
In this battle, there are three rules given, they are fire and regret, aimless and up to eleven.
Reverse Speed: Monsters with the lower speed attack first and have the highest chance of evading attacks.
The reason I used π©π monsters with lowest speed in this battle was the reverse speed. The only way to attack faster in this battle was to use monsters with lowest health.
If there was no reverse speed in this battle, I would have used monsters with the highest speed; this is because one of the aims of the battles in splinterlands is to attack faster. Then, I realized that if I used monsters with the highest health, I wouldn't be able to attack faster and have a higher chance of losing the battle to my opponent. You could see that the ππ¦ Water Elemental missed the attack because it was a monster with highest speed in my lineup.
Therefore, monsters with lower speed have the highest chance of evading attack.
Heavy Hitters: All monsters have the knockout ability.
This is a battle that is good for a π©π monster with stun ability
Armored Up: All π©π monsters have 2 armor in addition to their normal armor stats.
In this battle, ππ all monsters in this battle had 2 armor to their normal stats.
That was the reason my opponentβs monsters had 2 armor; because my opponent used Noa the just, the 2 armor from my end was removed due to the rust ability of Noa the just.
The best way to remove the armor in a battle was to use Noa the Just; and that was exactly what my opponent did.
Monsters Arrangements
Torhilo The Frozen
Splinter: Water π¦π¦π¦
Level: 2ββ
Speed: 1π€
Ability: Void
Health: 9 β€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ή
Armor: 5 βοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈ
Attack: Melee
Mana: 9
I was confident of Torhilo the Frozen; and one of the reasons I was confident about the π©π monster was the void ability.
I thought my opponent think like me that fun of using magic π©π monsters when reverse speed is used. I thought all my opponent's monsters would be magic monsters except first π©π monster in his lineup.
He was very smart, he knew that I would use a magic monster; and he used Torhilo the frozen to reduce my magic attacks.
That was the reason it was eliminated in the battle.
Captain Ghost
Splinter: Water π¦π¦π¦
Level: 3βββ
Speed: 2π€ π€
Ability: Affliction
Health: 8β€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ή
Attack: Magic
Mana: 7
I knew that if Torhilo the Frozen is eliminated, Captain Ghost was the second monster that could delay opponent monsters. If I mistakenly used Riverboat Captain as the second, it would have been eliminated in this battle. Hence, Captain Ghost was the best monster in the second position due to its health.
Riverboat Captain
Splinter: Water π¦π¦π¦
Level: 1β
Speed: 2π€ π€
Ability: Blast
Health: 4β€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ή
Attack: Magic
Mana: 6
Riverboat Captainβs speed was the major reason I selected it. It was the third monster that attack in this battle π²π. This was possible to achieve because of its lower speed. The blast ability was also incredible, damaging the health of opponentβs adjacent π©π monster.
Merdaali Guardian
Splinter: Water π¦π¦π¦
Level: 2ββ
Speed: 3π€π€π€
Ability: Healing
Health: 3β€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ή
Attack: None
Mana: 3
I was sure that my opponent would use Noa the just; that was the reason I thought if any monster π©π would be destroyed in my lineup, it would be in the second round of the battle.
Unfortunately, it didn't work like that; Noa the just removed the armor of all my monsters; that was the reason the Merdaali Guardian was very vulnerable. Since Merdaali Guardian was the monster π©π with smallest health, it was attacked and destroyed by Deeplurker.
Therefore, Merdaali Guardian was the first monster that was eliminated.
Doctor Blight
Splinter: Water π¦π¦π¦
Level: 2ββ
Speed: 1π€π€
Ability: Camouflage, Poison and Affliction
Health: 4β€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ή
Attack: Magic
Mana: 4
I was very confident that Doctor Blight would be the second to the last monster π©π that would be eliminated in this battle. This was because of its camouflage ability. I knew all the three abilities would be useful in this battle. Doctor Blight abilities were the biggest opportunity for me in this battle; it poisoned Torhilo the Frozen which made the monster π©π to be eliminated very fast. Without Doctor Blight, it wouldn't have easy to eliminate opponent's Torhilo the Frozen.
Water Elemental
Splinter: Water π¦π¦π¦
Level: 4ββββ
Speed: 5π€π€π€π€ π€
Ability: Heal
Health: 6β€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ή
Attack: Range
Mana: 5
I was thinking that my opponent might use more sneak monsters than any other monster in this battle. That was the reason I placed Water Elemental behind to keep.
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