Splinterland Weekly Battle Challenge Banner

Welcome to Koodies's battle weekly post, whereby I try to challenge myself to write a post to understand more about splinterlands tactics and sprinkle the wonders of splinterlands to all my readers! Game On ~

Battle Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sm_KGSdIy88OKb6VuQ4NSco&ref=koodies

Battle Overview

Lineup

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Kelya Frendul	4	Summoner	+ 1 🛡️ Armor , +1 ⏩ Speed
Diemonshark	8	1st	💗 Health: 6,🛡️ Armor: 1,⏩ Speed: 2
Cruel Sethropod	3	2nd	💗 Health: 4,🛡️ Armor: 3,⏩ Speed: 1
Angelic Mandarin	3	3rd	💗 Health: 5,🛡️ Armor: 0,⏩ Speed: 2
Deeplurker	6	4th	💗 Health: 6,🛡️ Armor: 0,⏩ Speed: 2
Ice Pixie	2	5th	💗 Health: 1,🛡️ Armor: 0,⏩ Speed: 3
Igor Darkspear	2	6th	💗 Health: 4,🛡️ Armor: 0,⏩ Speed: 3
Total Mana:	28

Summoner

Chosen Kelya as the summoner because I wanted to use water splinters as most of them have higher speeds than the other splinters. One of the main reasons is this is a Back Basics match therefore nothing else matters other than the splinter speed. The faster it is, the likely chance of dodging is higher.

Why no Earth or Death which I have a higher level summoner? Their speed is lower and most of their melee comes with ability without those abilities there is kind of a softy or requires too much mana to be cost-effective.

One of the best tanks the water splinter team has. It has a total of Effective Health Points at 13 against non-magic damage splinter. It has an average of 2 melee damage.

Well choose this because number 1 I need a filler with low mana, number 2 it has a very effective health points of 7.

With the leftover 7 mana and 3 empty slots for a splinter, I choose Angelic Mandarin because it has a high amount of health compared to the other Chaos card.

Having Angelic Mandarin tank some damage for deep lurker and the backline to deal more damage is a pretty nice strategy.

The second chosen card is right after the diemonshark. Deeplurker has high damage of 3, with 2 being the average and 1 being the lowest, he considers a stable in most of the melee matches but sadly this tournament is a Chaos Only battlefield and also back to basic match.

We are unable to get select demented shark to boost his melee damage by 1.

With the leftover 7 mana and 3 empty slots for splinter out of the 3 slots, I choose Ice Pixie for its low mana cost and ability well it is just a higher chance to dodge melee damage.

With the left over of 7 mana and 3 empty slots for splinter. Last but not least, I choose Igor Darkspear who only require 2 mana. One of cheap chaos unit for water splinter!

Round 1

Okay so my opponent is using a level 2 Kelya oh no ... this isn't great he has a level 3 Cruel Sethropod and Kulu Swimhunter.

In terms of speed, most of his card out speed mine and him having Serpent of Eld allow him to have a higher ground than me.

Round 2

Okay sure I took down his Serpent of Eld before the start of round 2 but my diemonshark is already down by half of his effective health points

Round 3

Well I did manage to make his diemonshark down by half of its effective health points. Hopefully my strategy of having Angelic Mandarin to tank some damage works.

Round 4

And there goes my Cruel Lobster.

# Round 5

Well, that was fast ... Angelic Mandarin was gone in a round before his Cruel Sethropod. I guess the Angelic Mandarin didn't really do very well but heh it's better than nothing. Doesn't look good at this point.

Round 6

Okay, my deeplurker manages to tank a number of damage, but he definitely will not survive this round. With the armor on his remaining splinters, I just pray that my Igor will knock down the armor first before deeplurker do big damage.

Round 7

Okay at this point I knew I cock up. Face Palm oh great.

My battle in a nutshell

What I should have done

Splinter	Mana Cost	Position	Reason
Kelya Frendul	4	Summoner	+ 1 🛡️ Armor , +1 ⏩ Speed
Diemonshark	8	1st	💗 Health: 6,🛡️ Armor: 1,⏩ Speed: 2
Cruel Sethropod	3	2nd	💗 Health: 4,🛡️ Armor: 3,⏩ Speed: 1
Angelic Mandarin	3	3rd	💗 Health: 5,🛡️ Armor: 0,⏩ Speed: 2
Deeplurker	6	4th	💗 Health: 6,🛡️ Armor: 0,⏩ Speed: 2
Igor Darkspear	2	5th	💗 Health: 4,🛡️ Armor: 0,⏩ Speed: 3
Ice Pixie	2	6th	💗 Health: 1,🛡️ Armor: 0,⏩ Speed: 3
Total Mana:	28

With this, I will have won this match ... Wasted. 😭

What so great about this lobster?

This table is generated using Koodies's Splintertools #3, created by

Hive account@koodies

Rulesets	Cruel Sethropod
Stats	🔮 Mana: 3,💗 Health: 4,🛡️ Armor: 3,⏩ Speed: 1
	👍 Nice to have
	👍 More Armor why not
	➖ Not affected
	➖ Not affected
	➖ Not affected
	👍 At least 4 rounds. Not bad
	👍 It's probably has the lower chance of having Cruel Sethropod having the highest life.
	👍 Nice to have
	👎 It's an odd mana card
	👍 Nice to have
	👍 It's an odd mana card
	➖ Not affected
	➖ Not affected
	➖ Not affected
	👎 Can't use
	👍 Can be use
	➖ Not affected
	➖ Not affected
	👍👍 Now it can attack from any position
	👎 Only 2 rounds
	👍👍👍 Speeeed 1 Power
	👍 Can be use
	👍 Nice to have
	➖ Not affected
	👍 Nice to have
	➖ Not affected
	➖ Not affected
	👎 Boooo going to drop effective health points
	👍 Can be use

PIZZA is an active gaming and creative arts crypto community on the HIVE blockchain. Popular games on HIVE like SPLINTERLANDS, RISING STAR, EXODE, HASHKINGS have their PIZZA communities here.

Don't miss out on more events that are always being organized. Join the PIZZA DISCORD. Even if you aren't interested in the 💰🍕🎁GIVEAWAYS & AIRDROPS💰🍕🎁, there is a vibrant and friendly community there awaiting you.

If you will like to try out the game, here’s my referral: https://splinterlands.com/?ref=koodies
Link to my slight tweak for kiokizz splinter tool: https://koodies.github.io/splinterlands-tools/

Sharing my weekly Battle Challenge! Cruel Sethropod, how cruel can he be?