Hello Everyone, still play Splinterlands? This week i want to write blog about Social Media Challenge held by splinterlands. This battle theme is about Dhampir Stalker, monster from Death element with 7 mana cost, have high damage and can't miss because the skills it have. I play in Gold league Modern Format using my Scholar account from Balthazar. I brought max Chaos Legion card, some neutral card max and several reward card max.
Battle Link
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Ruleset
From left to right :
- Heavy Hitters, all monsters do double damage when attacking an enemy that is stunned.
- Briar Patch, all monster have thorns skill (will give damage back if attack by melee monster)
- Mana Cap 36.
- Can Use element Fire, Death and Dragon.
My Lineup and strategy
In this battle, because the ruleset is that all monsters have Thorns so we can guess that the enemy will use magic / range type attacks monsters.
I decided to use Summoner Quick from the Dragon element to reduce the damage from the arrows and bring the magic and range attack type monsters to avoid the effects of thorns. To deal with magic attacks I use Djinn Muirat which can reflect magic. Also Void Dragon and Chaos Agent who can dodge all types of attacks (melee, range and magic). As the main attacker I use range type monsters. I don't bring monster with stun ability like revealer who benefit from Briar Patch Ruleset, because i don't have that card in my scholar account.
Let's discuss in more depth about the formation that I use:
The summoner
This is our summoner Quix The Devious, although this summoner rarity is legendary but it's skill is not good as other legendary as Yodin, Byzantinne Kitty, Llama. But i don't have that other legendary summoner in my scholar 😀, so i will used Quix to decreased Range and speed of the enemy by 1.
First Position Monster - Tanker
I choose Chaos Agent as our first tanker because the ruleset Thorns, this monster can't attack so it is safe from thorns damage. Have Dodge skill which increase the chance to evade the enemy attack 25%. Because Phase skills it have chance to dodge all type of enemy attack.
Second Position Monster - Attacker and Tanker
I'm using Djinn Muirat as The First attacker. It have Magic Type attack with good damage. The skills suitable for battle with monster with magic type attack. Void Armor, Magic Reflect is good skill to fighting against magic type monster. But not suitable against range attack because of the low speed it have.
Third Position Monster - Attacker and Tanker
This is our last Defend against range and magic attack, have good HP, high speed and skill flying increase the chance to dodge the enemy attack by 25%. With void skill it reduce magic damage by half. I think this is the best tanker to evade range and magic attack from the three element we can choose. It only have low magic damage thought, so more suitable as tanker than attacker.
Fourth Position Monster - Attacker
Soul Strangler have Range type attack, have low mana cost only 3, have high damage of 4. But easy to die because of low HP and speed. This monster not have any skills. Put it here because i think this is the safest position from the enemy attack.
Fifth Position Monster - Attacker
Dhampir Stalker our second range attacker after Soul Strangler.
Strength :
- Have high Damage of 4
- This monster attack can't miss because the skill true strike.
Weakness :
- No Armor
- slow speed
This monster because of the weakness it's easy to die. So i put it here to protect the monster, sometimes the enemy still bring sneak team event though in Briar Patch ruleset.
Sixth Position Monster - Attacker and Tanker
This is our last attacker and tanker, Have high speed of 6, decent range Attack. The skill can give +1 speed to all friendly monster. Hope with high speed can evade 1-2 hit if the enemy bring monster with sneak team.
Did your strategy work?
Yes, the strategy I used to counter magic-type and ranger-type attacks almost went perfectly, it's just that there was something unexpected, the enemy still using melee-type monsters Harklaw.
so this enemy and I actually have almost the same way of thinking, that is, we both think the enemy will use range / magic type monsters. The enemy decrease my magic monster by bring the summoner Thaddius Brood and used Riftwings to decrease my range attack monster.
The enemy uses a different method by utilizing the Heavy hitters ruleset. He brings the Revealer stun monster and as a tanker he uses Harklaw which is anti-stun. It seems the enemy thought I was going to take advantage of the Heavy Hitters ruleset too.
Whereas I prefer high speed and also defense against magic attacks, because i don't have the revealer card. Fortunately in this battle enemy stun never hit my monster.
In round 2-5 you start to see how the Dhampir Stalker attack Riftwing without miss although it have high speed and flying skill and finally in round 6 the Void Dragon can kill him. If Void Dragon die first then we will lost.
Without True strike skill and high damage of Dhampir Stalker i don't think we can kill riftwing that easy.
What will you try differently next time?
Nothing, i think this strategy good enough. I don't have many card in this scholar account.
It can be cheap solution too if you want to reach at least Diamond League with minimal card you can look at my card and rent it 😇.
Do you like Dhampir Stalker? Why or why not??
Yes I like it and often use it in the middle of mana cost battle (30 or more mana battle). It has high damage and can't miss, decent HP, can take 2-3 hits from enemy sneak team before dying. Suitable for fighting hard to hit monsters like pelacor Conjurer, Coeurl Lurker, Chaos Agent, etc. In high mana cost battle there are monsters that are stronger and have better skills than Dhampir Stalker, so I rarely use it in high mana cost battles.
Thanks for reading. What do you think about my battle review ? If i make mistake please let me know and leave your comment.
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