Watching great players

If you want to make the most out of your Splinterlands collection, you have to play it yourself and win! That's what's going to make the most bang for your buck. But if you want to win, you have to study the game, otherwise you'll do nothing but waste your time, all while not earning as much as you could.

That's what we're doing in Bronze TOP BATTLES Studies: we analyze three battles from the highest MMR players, learn their strategies and try improving upon them. That's how we're going to become great players that make more money. We begin after our giveaways!

Djinn Oshannus delegation

The most upvoted comment by value in this post wins a regular foil Djinn Oshannus for the rest of the season! This is only valid until my next post is up, so participate as soon as possible.

Random common card giveaway

Additionally, a random comment is awarded a common card, which is sent to your account before my next post is created. This is only valid until my next post is up, so participate as soon as possible.

Winners from my last post

• delegation: Hive account@nietokilll
• common: Hive account@amaillo-m

Thank you for participating and I hope you join again!

Hive account@yaiza111 vs Hive account@jabeloveth (link)

This battle was mostly pointless to an undesirable degree. If you watch it before reading my description, you'll realize why: despite using somewhat different monster compositions, it all ended up as Kron vs Kron as if it were a mirror match.

Things went this way because both players used Llama, Flesh Golem and Kron. Everything else except these pair of monsters was consumed by poison. Even though one of the Flesh Golems did die one entire round in advance, the other Flesh Golem also ended up dead.

Krons were the only ones left standing, but they didn't even have enough damage to kill each other through their self-healing. Players ended up relying on luck. Hive account@vaiza111 won due to turn other killing Hive account@jabeloveth's Kron first through post turn 20 fatigue damage.

Hive account@jabeloveth vs Hive account@yaiza111 (link)

Same players as in the first battle, but an entirely different scenario: we see Tarsa being able to triumph over Lorna Shine in a Little League match, which is a very impressive feat.

Both players had a bit of luck connecting and avoiding attacks, so that evens out. However, Hive account@yaiza111's Ant Miners really did a number on this one, progressively staying alive as the rest of the team gets kills from sneak and opportunity strikes.

I'll add some salt on top of Crystal Werewolf and Stitch Leech, though. Crystal Werewolf might be tanky and debuff magic, but it was a really risky choice. On top of that, most of Hive account@jabeloveth's team attacked Hive account@yaiza111's frontliner, so Stitch Leech felt really out of place.

Hive account@jabeloveth vs Hive account@juanello88 (link)

Both teams consisted of three sneak attackers and a Brighton Bloom summoner in an Earthquake match, but from different splinters. Hive account@jabeloveth surprises us by winning using life splinter against the classic aggressive fire splinter used by Hive account@juanello88.

We see Venari Heatsmith frontlining for Hive account@juanello88, which is a very interesting and unusual choice. Because Venari Heatsmith is backed up by Fineas Rage, he can safely tank for a round or two even if their opponent used plenty of magic attacks.

However, ingenuity was not enough, because Hive account@jabeloveth's sneak attackers were simply more enduring. Silvershield Assassin's double strike allowed her to devastate everything in her path thanks to Silvershield Knight's melee damage buff.

Image sources: https://splinterlands.com/ and @nane-qts/free-splinterlands-graphic-resources-20