Strategy Corner #25 - Holy Protection Ruleset - Is Immo still the king ?

I hope you are still not bored with another episode of our Strategy Corner Article Cycle. Recently we got a discussion about tournaments, a small reminder you can check it here, and of course we will continue it on my Tuesday Splinterlands.tv stream, I try to find a way to make some limited (draft ?) tournament and I really hope to got some brainstorm session when we can find some solutions :). Ok, let's jump to our today's ruleset.

Description:

All units gain the Divine Shield ability which reduces the damage of the first attack received to 0.
Divine Shield will be re-applied when a unit is Resurrected.
Blast damage will remove Divine Shield.

Firstly, the description of the ruleset in the game is not perfect, sometimes you got just general information which not giving you all information you need. Best way to read the full description as above from the game documentation at least once. You can check all here.

Holy protection, maybe not be the most battle-defining ruleset, but I think one of the more interesting. There is some nice strategy to get an advantage in the battle, recently I watched Hive account@bulldog1205 video when he presents one of them with Waka as a summoner, I think it is worth watching. Another thing you need to pay more attention to is the resurrection ability which re-applied Divine Shield ability. It could be more efficient to use as many monsters as you can to get better efficiency of the ruleset, but it still depends on the amount of mana available.

For today's battle we have from one side quite new interesting strategy with Lily, martyr, and resurrection team and for second side quite standard Immortalis team with some tweaks for the specific ruleset.

As I mentioned above resurrection ability is a nice combo with Divine Protection, additionally, martyr cards are even more broken. From my side, I try to utilize as many double-attack units as I can. Another nice trick that I think could be mandatory is Monster with Dispel. Let's see how it goes.

Round 2, seems like nothing happened, but overall it was a very intensive round. We manage to kill a rat, which was resurrected. Fortunately, we could completely remove the buff with dispel. Fortunately so far with void ability from Immortalis, our taunt monster is in good shape.

Round 3, still battlefield looks almost the same :), another death of Marksrat, another displed buff.

Round 4, finally we got the first permanent victims, we lost our taunt monster, and we only managed to kill martyr card. Fortunately we "used" all the resurrection abilities out of our opponent's monster and managed to dispel all buff that he get from martyr.

Round 5 , I have to say Immortalis abilities are so powerful in the current meta (lower league), we manage to kill Agur quite fast and shatter worked even when we cannot get any damage because of Holy Protection.

Round 6, is quite a long fight, but finally, we are in a good way to end it. Our Quora is the main target now, and it's quite crucial to keep her alive.

Round 7, we made it, our quora attacked before Katie, because according to the rules epic monster attacks before rare. Now it seems just a question of time.

Round 8, finally final blow :) It was a very long and interesting battle, but we managed to defeat the opponent. Let's jump to the analysis section.

You have to admit that it was a crazy fight. At first glance, it seems that the opponent team is so powerful. But now you can see how important is Dispel ability, that small Venari Spellsmith stopped completely the whole opponent's strategy. Today we try to concentrate on monsters, which is helpful in Holy Protection ruleset, but for sure we will discuss deeper the importance of support cards which dispel ability. Our strategy was to use as many monsters with more than 1 attack, it helps a lot to drop the Divine Protection, additionally, it's a great combo with Immortalis, when even without doing any damage we could in one hit crush protection and armor :).

IMMORTALIS, it was already some time that we guest Immortalis the king in our Core Section. It's high time to fix it. Everyone who follows me knows that Immortalis is the king. It's my favorite summoner now and for this specific ruleset - Holy Protection, it shines even more. Shatter is a powerful ability and it works even without doing any damage. The really important thing to remember.

RUNEMANCER FLORRE it is very high mana cost card, but if you can fit her to your line-up it does her job - a lot of damage, nice speed. Of course, is most important that it does double damage and even better that those are two types of damage. It's more difficult to opponent to counter her, and with Divine Protection it give opponent less chance to avoid any damage at all.

QUORA TOWERSHEAD, last but not least Quora the OP Queen. I still think that card should be nerfed. It is just too powerful, we talked about her many times, for the lower league if any strategy is involved Quora is available it is usually playing her or trying to counter her. As we could see in the battle now Dispel ability could be mandatory in almost every battle, but that will be another topic for discussion.

For sure I cannot say that Holy protection is a boring ruleset. There are some nice strategies that could you give many advantages versus an unprepared opponent. You have to remember about some tricks, which could easily ruin your strategy as Venari Spellsmith for example :).

But back to the question at the beginning of the article, I hope you are still not bored with that kind of presentation. I usually try to focus on one strategy, give you some tips and point out what to pay attention to. There are of course many other strategy articles when you get a deeper comprehensive ruleset analysis. It's already the 25th article of that cycle, and I'm wondering if maybe it's time for some changes. What do you think ? Waiting for your feedback in the comment section.

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