Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Great minds think alike

The Ruleset

• Rulesets - Heavy Metal & Equalizer
• Mana Cap - 30
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Helios Matriarch

• My summoner pick for this battle was actually based on only one monster really and that was Aves Sturgis
• To pair Aves Sturgis with Gladius monster I needed the Conscript ability
• The reason I played dragon Conscript summoner and not the Light one was that I just prefer speed over armor and also speed is useful in almost any battle versus armor which is totally useless in battles where your enemy plays a lot of magic damage
• Conscript - One extra gladiator card may be used in battle

1st Position: Imperial Knight

• Imperial Knight was my main tanks for this battle
• Main reason I like Imperial Knight here a lot is his Heal ability
• Also he has some great stats for being a 7 mana monster
• Void Armor - Magic attacks hit this Unit's armor before its Health
• Heal - Each round, restores 1/3 of max health (rounded down)

2nd Position: Sunkai Harvester

• From now on almost the entire team was low mana monsters as the mana cap was not that high
• So Sunkai Harvester is just a simple great damage light tank monster with Reach
• Reach - Can use melee attacks from the second position

3rd Position: Uraeus

• Uraeus is possible one of my most played and most liked monster in the entire game
• He is just so simple but useful
• A lot of great stats and great ability to go with them for only 3 mana
• Sneak - Targets the enemy unit in the last position

4th Position: Helmet Kharafax

• Next up in line is this amazing Gladius monsters
• At first sight his placement might seem a little of but the next monster will tell the whole story
• On his own he might not be the best monster as without any damaging aspects his Bloodlust is totally useless
• So if we could give him some attacks for damaging abilities he would be an amazing monster for only 2 mana
• Bloodlust - +1 to all stats after dealing a killing blow
• Scavenger - +1 health and max health each time any unit is defeated
• Void - 50% less damage (rounded up) from magic attacks or 0 damage from magic attacks of 1 power

5th Position: Aves Sturgis

• Aves Sturgis is my staple piece of this team
• Thanks to his amazing ability both adjacent no-attack units grant his damage and make them much stronger
• His own stats are not the greatest but I did not really mind as his ability was the only thing I was after
• Weapons Training - Gives attack type and power to adjacent no-attack units (max of 3 power)

6th Position: Albahoo Forester

• Albahoo Forester was the last monster I picked for my team
• Main reason for him was that I only had 2 mana left and I needed someone with no attacks so he would grant the Weapons Training
• Also the reason I did not but him in front of Aves Sturgis was that if my enemy decided to play any Sneak monsters he would tank it not the monster with Bloodlust
• Return Fire - Returns 50% of damage to attacker (rounded up) when hit by a ranged attack

Starting board

• At first look the teams looked quite similar
• Then I realized I was 1 level up on the summoner, higher level monster, I had more damage and because I had one more monster I also had more hp on my team
• All of that combined I was quite sure the battle was quite heavily in my favor
• But my predictions could still be off by a mile so lets start the battle and have a look

Here's how the battle went

1st & 2nd Round

• After first two rounds the board was still looking quite the same as in the start
• We both had lost only our first tanks but I also manage to bring his next monster to half hp
• The start was looking quite good already lets see if I managed to hold my lead

3rd & 4th Round

• In the 3rd round my enemy Bloodlust monster managed to get a take down so he got buffed and that scared me for a second
• Then I saw that he was only level 3 and did not have Void like my one did, that calmed my nerves and after that I know 100% that I had won the battle
• But that said lets still keeps watching as the battle is only half done

5th & 6th Round

• After the next 2 rounds there was nothing really to look at anymore
• I had taken down his Bloodlust monster and damaged his Aves Sturgis to half hp
• As I had Void he was only doing 2 damage per round and that meant I had so much time to take down the last 2 enemy monsters
• Now I just needed to wait for the last couple of rounds and the enjoy my victory screen

7th & 8th Round

• It took me 2 turns to kill my enemies last two standing monsters
• After both of them had fallen I took the victory
• Battle Replay Link

Summary

• This battle was definitely heavily one sided but still fun to watch
• The strategy to take away from this battle has to be the amazing Weapons Training and Bloodlust combo
• Even tho in this battle I failed to get any takedowns with the buffed Bloodlust monster I still think this shows how powerful this battle could be
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