Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Summoner matters

The Ruleset

• Rulesets - Keep Your Distance
• Mana Cap - 30
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Immortalis

• With the ruleset and element pick that I got I knew I needed to play someone who counters either magic or ranged monsters
• But that meant I needed to guess which one my enemy was going to play
• For this battle I though it was going to be magic comp I was going to face so I picked Immortalis and his Void
• Void - Reduced damage from Magic attacks by 50%
• Shatter - Successful attacks destroy the target's armor

1st Position: Mycelic Slipspawn

• Mycelic Slipspawn was my main tanks for this battle
• Main reason I like Mycelic Slipspawn here a lot is his Taunt ability
• Even tho the mana cap was not that huge Mycelic Slipspawn also had Forcefield which meant if my enemy should play a heavy damage monster it also would be countered
• Taunt - Every time this Unit defeats an opponent, it gets +1 to all stats
• Forcefield - Magic attacks hit this Unit's armor before its Health

2nd Position: Goblin Psychic

• Goblin Psychic was my first healer for this team
• Goblin Psychic is possible my favorite healer as he also has the Affliction ability which would totally counter my enemy playing any healer
• Tank Heal - Each round, restores 1/3 of max health (rounded down) to the allied unit in the first position
• Affliction - 50% chance to apply Afflicted after a successful attack. Afflicted units cannot be healed

3rd Position: Furious Chicken

• You just can not forget about Furious Chicken when you have 0 mana and room for one more monster
• He he basically just a free 1 attack tank

4th Position: Mushroom Seer

• Next up in line is my main monster that was going to make my summoner pick totally amazing
• As Mushroom Seer lowers my enemies magic damage by 1 my summoners Void was going to be so huge
• Silence - -1 magic power to all enemy units

5th Position: Wood Nymph

• For last but not least was my second healer for this team
• Even tho his stats are worse and he does not have the Affliction ability I still picked him was the Tank Heal ability was more important and also he only costs 4 mana
• Tank Heal - Each round, restores 1/3 of max health (rounded down) to the allied unit in the first position

Starting board

• Already after seeing the starting board I was confident I would win just because how hard my summoner counters his
• Also my team was perfectly set up for this battle with the double heal and Silence
• But lets start the battle and have a look how I did

Here's how the battle went

1st, 2nd & 3rd Round

• After first three rounds the board was finally starting to take shape for me
• it took me 3 rounds to take down his first tank and his Venari Spellsmith right after that
• The battle was totally over but lets keep it rolling

4th Round

• After 4th Round my enemies board was looking quite empty already while my one was still at full hp and was going to stay like this till the end
• Now I just needed to wait for the start of the next and hopefully final round and then face my victory

5th Round

• It took me 2 attacks to kill my enemies last standing monster
• After his Ujurak Elder and Djinn Biljka 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 is the basic guessing what is you opponent going to play based on the rulesets and mana cap and then trying your best to counter it
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