A dozen generations sandwiched between the hammer of the Khans' cruelty and the anvil of the icy foothills of Kurguzd forged the Tenyii into reclusive deadly foes. Brought to the training creche from birth, taught to steal for food, beaten when caught and trained daily with the sword and spear as soon as they were strong enough for their hands to lift steel, the Tenyii clan were hard as iron and as fierce and silent as midnight on the mountain glacier.
When the Legion's heralds demanded a sacrifice of flesh and gold to open the rifts to the ways beyond, the Khan sent five hundred waadin berserkers to bring the tribe to heel. When a single horse returned bearing a sack of fifty skulls, the Khan threatened to burn the entire mountain to the ground. A dozen Tenyii Strikers were sent as tribute to spare the tribes and to satisfy the herald's call.
- from Splinterlands official monster lore
Monster Introduction
TENYII STRIKER is a monster from the Fire Splinter who specializes with Sneak attacks and uses its high agility to evade and punish attackers. It has high melee damage capable of delivering heavy blows to enemy monsters.
For Modern format, TENYII STRIKER will always be at the line-up when you are going for a Fire Splinter. The only time you wont use this monster is if melee is not allowed or with the ruleset Fog of War due to its Sneak ability being neutralize.
Stats & Abilities
TENYII STRIKER has a melee damage of 2 at its initial level and can reach upto 5 at max level. It's health ranged from 6 to 7 as well, while its speed can go from 2 to 4. It's a 5 mana monster and a Rare type card which means it will mostly be available anytime especially with Tarsa as the main Summoner for Fire Splinter.
At its initial level, it has SNEAK ability while gaining DODGE ability at level 4 (Silver league) and also gains BACKFIRE at level 7 (Diamond league but can also be open at Gold league using level 5 Epic Summoner which has very few options at the moment).
| Ability | |
|---|---|
 | SNEAK - Targets the last Monster on the enemy Team instead of the first Monster This ability is good when you want to target backline monsters. Usually, monsters place at the back are those with low health, low armor, or support monsters you want to protect. Having a monsters with Sneak ability can increase your chances of winning by eliminating those backline monsters like range or magic monsters with high damage but low health, or sometimes support monsters with abilities like Tank Heal or Repair. Sneak will always target the monster at the last position, unless there is a monster with Taunt ability. |
 | DODGE - Has an increased chance of evading Melee or Ranged attacks. This ability allows Tenyii Striker to last longer by evading melee or ranged attacks. The Dodge ability alone provides a 25% chance to evade attacks. Partnered it with having high speed will greatly increase the chance of evading attacks as one speed difference gives 10% evasion rate on top of the 25%. |
 | BACKFIRE - If an enemy misses this Monster with an attack, the attacker takes 2 damage This is one of the best ability to partnered with DODGE ability. It gives Tenyii Striker a way to deal damage when it successfully evaded an attack. |
Summoner Compatibility
TARSA is the go to Summoner when selecting FIRE Splinter. Tarsa increases the melee damage and health of allied monsters.
As Tenyii Striker and Tarsa comes from both Chaos Legion release, you can say that they are both the default combo for Fire Splinter with melee line-up.
Daria Dragonscale is a Dragon Splinter which provides additional melee damage to all friendly monsters.
The only advantage of Daria Dragonscale from Tarsa is that you gain access to Dragon monsters in addition to the based splinter you choose. With Dragon and Fire combo, there are a lot of monsters with Sneak ability you can choose and combine to build the strongest backline hitters.
Monster Compatibility
Monsters which can increase the fire power of melee monsters are the best to partner with Tenyii Striker.
These are the monsters from Fire splinter with INSPIRE ability.
Aside from increasing the melee damage, we can also give Tenyii Striker speed boost to allow him to strike faster and gives additional chance to evade attacks.
These are the monsters with SWIFTNESS ability.
Increasing the chance for Tenyii Striker to evade physical or melee attacks can increase the chance for Tenyii Striker to trigger the Backfire ability. With the BLIND ability, it gives additional 15% chance to evade attacks.
These are the monsters with BLIND ability.
Featured Battle
No armor to protect your backline monsters
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_db51071e79154303ba7c622bdec16d1b&ref=jpleron
| Battle Condition | |
|---|---|
| Rule #1 | Unprotected: Monsters do not have any armor and do not get armor from Abilities or Summoner Buffs. |
| Rule #2 | Lost Legendaries: Legendary Monsters may not be used in battles. |
| Mana Cap | 24 |
| Allowed Splinter | Fire, Life, Earth, Death |
MY LINE-UP
Since Legendary monsters are not allowed for this match, we need to create a line-up with only Common, Rare and Epic monsters. Also, since we do have Unprotected ruleset, monster's armor will be remove making them more vulnerable.
Since Earth is open, there's a high chance that my opponent will go for a heavy magic line-up. I opted to go for Fire with monsters that has high or average speed and high damage to be able to kill those backline monsters easily
Summoner:
- Tarsa: I opted to used Tarsa since it gives additional melee damage and health to all monsters. I wanted to capitalize with high dealing damage monsters regardless of melee, ranged, or magic. But with the ruleset that removes the armor, we do not have to worry about the armor blocking our melee attacks.
Monster:
Gargoya Lion - is a 6 mana monsters from Neutral Splinter. I opted to go for this one since this monster has Flying ability, which increase the chance to evade attacks, and Void ability, which reduces the damage from magic monsters. Since there is a high probability that the enemy will go for a magic line-up since Earth is open, I chose this one to reduce their damage. My opponent did not use Earth but still has a lot of magic monsters in the line-up.
Radiated Brute - is a five mana monsters from Fire Splinter with Reach ability allowing him to attack at second position. This is one of the go-to monsters when choosing Fire splinter as well.
Tenyii Striker - our featured monsters has the Sneak and Dodge abilities. Attacking the backline monsters with Sneaks greatly helps as we were able to execute their backline attacking monsters as well.
Uraeus - is a 3 mana monster with Sneak ability from Neutral splinter. This is a great monster since you can always use it together with other Sneak attackers from other Splinter family.
Chaos Agent - is a 1 mana monster with Dodge ability from Neutral splinter. This monster doesn't have attack stats but it is good to place at the backline or frontline depending on what you think the enemy will focus their attacks. With its Dodge ability, it has a higher chance to evade attacks same as with Tenyii Striker.
Missed Chances
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_f27333d67b1d49b914aeae13dd3bbfb0&ref=jpleron
| Battle Condition | |
|---|---|
| Rule #1 | Spreading Fury: All Monsters have the Enrage ability. |
| Rule #2 | Holy Protection: All Monsters have the Divine Shield ability. |
| Mana Cap | 34 |
| Allowed Splinter | Fire, Death, Earth, Dragon |
MY LINE-UP
Since both ruleset gives additional abilities to our monsters, we can utilized use it to our advantage. Enrage abilities increases the melee damage and speed when the monter receive a damage from enemy attacks. I deployed monsters with high speed and high melee damage in order to optimized the additional stats from Enrage status effects.
Summoner:
- Quix the Devious: I opted to used Quix the Devious in order to have access to Dragon splinter. Also, it can reduce the ranged damage and speed of enemy monsters. The speed is crucial in this match given we have Enrage ability.
Monster:
Void Dragon - is a magic monsters from Dragon Splinter with Void and Flying abilities. It is a great pseudo tank since the Void ability reduces the damage receive from magic while the Flying ability helps in evading melee or ranged attacks. As you can notice, after Void Dragon received a damage, its speed increases from 5 to 8. Monsters with 1 Speed will have a 95% chance to missed their attack (25% from Flying plus the 10% chance per speed difference, assuming enemy has 1 speed while Void Dragon has 8) Void Dragon evades most of the attacks from enemy giving our monsters some room to breath.
Carnage Titan - is a Dragon monster with Reach and Double Strike abilities. The Enrage effect will boost the damage of Carnage Titan, plus it can attack twice due to its ability. This is a disaster to our enemy.
Dhampir Infiltrator - is a Dragon monster with Sneak and Double Strike abilities. This monster together with Tenyii Striker will dealt damage to enemy's backline monster
Tenyii Striker - our featured monsters has the Sneak and Dodge abilities. In this line-up, Tenyii Striker's partner is Dhampir Infiltrator from Dragon Splinter
Lava Spider - is a ranged Fire monster with Snipe ability. It is always good to diversify your attacks so I used this monster to attack backline monsters as well but with using Snipe.
Naga Assassin - is a high speed ranged monster from Dragon splinter. I choose this monster since it has high speed since it will attack first, removing the Diving Shield effect of the enemy monster.
Take Away:
Tenyii Striker is a great monster card to have. It has a high usage rate especially when using Fire Splinter. With the Sneak ability, it can eliminate backline monsters easily. It can also be used as a counter against Sneak monsters with the help of comb abilities Dodge and Backfire.
When place at the back,Backfire can counter those Sneak attacks when they miss the attacks to Tenyii Striker.
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