Hello there, welcome back to my weekly Splinterlands Social Media Challenge. This week official image thumb is Venari Bonesmith, a death monster with a poison and life leech ability. This makes me want talk about poison ruleset which called Noxious Fume.

This is what Splintercards says about Noxious Fume:

The explanation is very clear, use High HP monsters and Cleanse ability. Another way is to go for big offensive attack before poison kills you. The fact why I want to talk about this is because I keep finding many players on Bronze-Silver League still struggle with this one.

So for new players, please read that one above over and over, then I hope you all can understand. Ok that's all for this post and please give a big upvote. Thanks.....

Just Kidding... This Post is about an alternative way beside those recommendation. It's about doing the passive way on during Noxious Fume, a very defensive way, challenging your opponent on a survival contest

So we won't discuss any detail strategy here, just another case study on Noxious Fume so new players can learn and enrich their gameplay.

PASSIVE WAY: Hold Opponent Attacks Until They Die First

On Bronze-Silver league,this approach is very useful because mos't of the monsters haven't got some abilities and the battle mostly decided on how much you can withstand taking damages.

Every turn all monsters will take 2 damages. On the third turn they all will have accumulated 6 damages and theoretically most of the backline monsters should have been dead. So this is the goal of the approach I want to share here, hold on for the first 3 round, get into a situation that most of the monsters died of poison. Then let the battle starts from that point.

How to do that? There are 3 main points that you need to set before this approach works.

• You need a monster with Immunity Ability. There are any strong monsters which have Immunity, my favorite are Harklaw and Forgotten One. You can get these two easily, either from renting or buying.

• Set a wall in front. You do not need a strong tank, any tank who could hold opponent attacks for 2-3 round should do. You might need cleanse and healing to help your frontline survive longer.

• Be aware of sneak attackers. put 1-2 monsters on backline as wall meat.

Thats all, Our strategy talk finishs here. No need more mambo jambo, let everyone dies and your Forgotten One or Harklaw comes out to kill the survivalist.

Let us see some battle references then

BATTLE REFERENCE #1

battle link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_752e3896df0e8b85a0bd2468c78c4a01&ref=s18-metanomy

This was an interesting battle between two scholarship accounts. I was playing S18-Metanomy here. Here's our the line up:

I put Forgotten One in the middle and I hoped Tenyii Striker and Lava Launcher could hold any backline attacks. Fortunately opponents came without any sneak attacks. He focused primarily onto the frontline.

Round 1-2

• The game started as both party buffing and debuffing their monsters and opponent's monsters.
• nobody died during the first round, we were exchanging damages but it seemed both party prepared well by having a high health monsters in proper positions
• On Round 2 I lost two of my frontline, and opponent lost his Slipspawn and Goblin Psychic. Everything seemed to work as both party planned before the battle began..

This was the line up condition when Round 3 started. My plan was worked because as you can see, Forgotten One was on his prime without any wound... He was meant to show up later to wipe out remaining opponents.

Round 3-4

• Round 3 started with my opponent lost their Mustang and Goblin Tower due to poison damage.
• Nothing much they could do because my Forgotten One was still on his top condition
• Round 4 started and ended by poison killed all my opponent.

I won this battle because my tactic worked well, wait till everything near death condition then unleash the kraken Forgotten One to wipe them all.

BATTLE REFERENCE #2

battle link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_138cd77eb3180c327e4545be7c5ce68f&ref=s18-metanomy

The second battle was a lot tougher, I was taking on an opponent with higher level. Here's our the line up:

My opponent came with a great line up. Lvl 2 Oshannuss and Lvl 2 Nerissa. High HP monsters with high magic damage. He had River Nymph too who would cleanse his tank from poison. Let see how this would work.

Round 1-2

• The game started as both party buffing and debuffing their monsters and opponent's monsters.
• My decision to use Teddy as the main tank was a great one, else I would have been wiped out by their duo strong mages.
• Round 2 ended without anyone got killed.

This was the line up condition when Round 3 started. Things did not look good for me, it's still a 50:50 chance for any side to win this battle.

Round 3-4

• On these rounds, Oshannus and Nerissa managed to show how superbly they were terrorizing my team

Round 5-7

• Round 5 started with me having Forgotten One as the sole survivor.
• Unfortunately their mage failed to killed my Forgotten One and I won this battle because Forgotten One managed to overpowered Diemonshark in one on one dog fight.

I like the second battle better than the first one because it is more even between both side. Each side came with a solid tactic. However my passive way of waiting opponent to die first from poison worked better than opponent having massive HP monsters.

POSTFACE

I hope this reference could help enrich your game play and please do not hesitate to drop any comment below. I am upvoting any good comments in this post, including constructive critics

Thank you for visiting my Social Media Challenge, don't forget to leave your comments and feedback below. There are credits in this post for these people:

• splinterlands : for holding weekly battle challenge events
• carrieallen : for ultimate markdown tutorial
• kyo-gaming : for wonderful divider arts