Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Team of Abilities
2025-04-17T15:46:00
The Ruleset
Rulesets - Super Sneak
Mana Cap - 41
Active Elements -
Here's my starting lineup
Summoner: Octavia Shadowmeld
With the element pick that I got I sadly did not have a large variety to choose from and as I do not have the greatest teams in light I settled for death
Octavia Shadowmeld was choice of poison as I really wanted to play my Gladius legendary this battle
1st Position: Xulax Nightwind
Xulax Nightwind was my main tanks for this battle
Main reason I like Xulax Nightwind here a lot is his Bloodlust and Thorns abilities
Even tho Xulax Nightwind costs a huge 9 mana I still played him as I also had a plan to play other lower mana costs monsters anyway
Void Armor - Magic attacks hit this Unit's armor before its Health
Bloodlust - Every time this Unit defeats an opponent, it gets +1 to all stats
Thorns - Returns 2 physical damage to attacker when hit by a melee attack
2nd Position: Usut
Usut was my second Bloodlust monster
Also a high mana cost monster but two Bloodlust monster in a single team was too good do say no to
Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake
Bloodlust - Every time this Unit defeats an opponent, it gets +1 to all stats
3rd Position: Corpse Fiend
Corpse Fiend was here just to tank a single hit when it should come to him tanking
The only reason I picked him was that I just had 0 mana and 1 spot open
4th Position: Revealer
Next up in line is one of my newer favorites
For only 4 mana you get a decent magic monster with an amazing Stun ability
Stun - 50% chance to apply Stunned for one round after a successful attack. Stunned units skip their turn and cannot Retaliate
5th Position: Ravenhood Warden
Ravenhood Warden is possible my favorite low mana death monster
Not that much because of his stats but more because of his Protect ability
But his stats are also not the worst for 4 mana the only thing I that he is sadly ranged monster who I usually do not really like
Protect - +2 armor to all allied units
6th Position: Octopider
Octopider was my backline tank for this battle
Also he has some quite amazing tank stats being 3 speed and 8 hp
Alongside the amazing stats is his Demoralize ability which I really liked for this battle was Super Sneak was active
Demoralize - -1 melee power to all enemy units
Starting board
After seeing the starting board I was quite on the fence about the outcome of the battle
My enemy had better summoner in higher level and also therefor his entire team was higher level than mine was
But his entire team was setup and ordered quite badly in my opinion which came me a little hope
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 Round
After first round the board had changed a lot
I had already taken down his Cursed Windeku and damaged his Undead Minotaur to 1hp
Meanwhile only my Octopider had taken some damage and was possible going to fall in the next round
But anything could still happen so lets keep watching
2nd Round
After 2nd Round my team was starting to fall fast too
I lost two of my backline monsters while I only managed to take down two of his 1hp monsters
But up to this point my Usut had already gotten two Bloodlust take downs
Lets hope for the best and keep watching
3rd & 4th Round
3rd and 4th Round were super great for me
Now only two monsters were standing on the battleground
With my Usut getting another takedown I had so much more stats the battle was 100% won
Now I just needed to wait for the last two rounds and then face my victory
5th & 6th Round
It took me 2 turns to kill my enemies last standing monster