Hello Splinterlands Community,
This is Entry #4 of the soulbound reward cards under the Chaos Legion Edition. Last week I have shared my insight about Fungus Flinger and Terraceous Grunt from the earth splinter. In this post, I will be sharing my insight and thought for Drybone Barbarian and Imperial Knight from the Life Splinter, both having a common rarity and both are animal human.
For those who are new to my post, I usually post information which is related in the Silver League Modern Format.
🐂 Drybone Barbarian
Drybone Barbarian is a heavy melee damage monster from the Life Splinter.
Looking at the stats, Drybone Barbarian is a powerful melee monster with a high melee attack from 4 to 6, a high health of 10 to 12 and an average speed of 2 to 4.
In terms of ability, the enrage ability which is available starting from ★1 further boost Drybone Barbarian stats making it dangerous melee attacker.
One good thing is that at ★5 which is available starting from Silver league unlocks the retalliate ability which give Drybone Barbarian the chance to launch a counter attack to melee monsters.
Moving up to Diamond league, Drybone Barbarian deals a double damage to the stunned opponents.
In my case, Drybone Barbarian is a very powerful card especially in the low league because of its powerful attack and combination of skills.
The mana cost of this card is 9 which means this card is not affected by giant killer ability but is affected by forcefield ability.
My personal rating for this card is : 4/5
Combo Cards
In terms of summoner, it seems that there is no direct impact expect for Ilthain and Grandmaster Rathe as these two provides additional abilities for Drybone Barbarian. With Ilthain, it gives extra damage against range unit and boosting up the speed of Drybone Barbarian while Rathe provides an armor against magic.
In terms of monsters, my personal choice to have with Drybone Barbarian are monster with reach ability to support it in the frontline as well as those monsters with something to do with speed.
Below are my personal choice of monsters that can be paired with Drybone Barbarian
Counter Cards
In terms of counter cards, monsters with forcefield ability are the great cards against Drybone Barbarian to reduce its attack to 1.
Here are the cards with forcefield ability:
🦁 Imperial Knight
Imperial Knight is a great card in the frontline position dealing against magic monsters especially if the likes of Legionnaire Alvar is not available to play in the match (no legendary, no neutral)
Looking at the stats, Imperial Knight is an above average monster but is much focus in defending than attacking. In terms of attack, Imperial Knight melee attack ranges from 2 to 4 with a slow speed of 1 to 3. In terms of defense, Imperial Knight do have a high armor ranging from 6 to 7 and a high health ranging from 7 to 9.
In terms of ability, the void armor is pretty good as this card do have a high armor. It means that this card can deal massive magic damage using its armor. At the same time, a ★5 Imperial Knight do have a heal ability which is very compatible with its high health.
Moving to Diamond league, Imperial Knight unlocks the magic reflect ability which further improves its effectiveness against magic monsters. This provide extra damage to magic monsters.
My personal rating for this card is : 4.5/5
Combo Cards
In terms of summoner, there seems to be a pretty good use of Mother Khala for additional health, Ilthain to provide additional defense against range and Chanseus The Great for the resurect and repair.
Grandmaster Rathe amplify is great for a high league to improve the magic reflect and additional armor. Th Void armor is redundant though.
 Mother Khala |
With Mother Khala as a summoner, Imperial Knight health increases. This means that an increase of health improves the healing ability of Imperial Knight. |
 Chanseus the Great |
Chanseus provides a repair ability especially that Imperial Knight armor deals a pretty great defense against magic monsters. With the resurect ability, Imperial Knight is a pretty good defense monster. |
In terms of monster synergy, there are a lot of monsters in my mind that can be use with Imperial Knight. Those monsters are with the repair, protect, cleanse,amplify resurect and strengthen ability.
Repair which supports the Imperial Knight armor, protect to increase the armor, amplify to improve magic reflect which is only for diamond league, a cleanse which is a counter against affliction so that Imperial Knight can continue to use heal ability, resurect which gives Imperial Knight another chance and strengthen ability to improve Imperial Knight healing.
Below are the list with these abilities that can be use with Imperial Knight
Counter Cards
In terms of counter cards, monsters with shatter is a great enemy of Imperial Knight as well as those with affliction especially if you don't have cleanse which disable Imperial Knight main abilities the void armor and heal.
Immortalis gives the shatter ability and Mimosa Nightshade gives the affliction ability which is very dangerous to this monster.
For monsters with those abilities are as follows:
✨ Closing Remarks
In my opinion, both Drybone Barbarian and Imperial Knight are two great addition to the life splinter which both focus on being a frontline monsters.
Drybone Barbarian focus much on the offensive part which is why it does have a high attack, a retalliate, and enrage. This card provides a great damage in the frontline.
On the other hand, Imperial Knight focus on the defensive part which is all of its abilities are really anti magic. This card attack may not be that high but with its defense and healing power, it may stay longer than Drybone Barbarian in the battle.
Are you guys maxing up those Soulbound cards?
How do you think Drybone Barbarian and Imperial Knight is?
Thank you for reading! See you next week for the Entry #5 which will be covering Possessed Puppet and Wily Coyotian from the Death Splinter.
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