Hello Splinterloverst today I will make a post again about the Splinterlands contest Battle Mage Secrets Challenge. This Week's Theme is Keep Your Distance ruleset.
I was battled in the Modern Format Diamond League using my Balthazar scholar account.
Battle Link
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Ruleset
Blood and Sunder ruleset, all units gain Corrosive Ward, when hit with a melee attack, unit does 2 armor damage to the attacker, and max armor of the attacker is reduced by 2
Earthquake, starting from round 2 each monster who not have Flying ability will take 2 melee damage at the end of each round.
Keep Your Distance, only magic and range monsters can be used.
mana cap.
can use all element except Earth.
My Lineup and strategy
Some of my thinking :
- In the Earthquake ruleset, we can survive better if bring a monster with High HP, armor or a Heal ability, and better if have a Flying ability.
- Keep the Distance ruleset, we focus on dealing with range or magic damage in this battle. We need a good tanker to deal with range and magic damage.
- Blood and Sunder ruleset, we don't pay any attention to this ruleset because we can't use the melee unit.
We decided to use the Dragon element and the second element is Water because have a great unit that can handle range and magic damage well enough. This is my lineup :
| Summoner or monster | Abilities | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Lily Shieldpaw, summoner. Has the buff of +1 HP, and gives the Camouflage ability to all monsters. have a support ability Triage | With a +1 HP boost our survival capability, with the Camouflage ability makes all enemy melee monsters can only attack our tanker in the first position, Scattershot ability will ignore this Camouflage ability. Triage ability will heal the ally monster whose HP has the most decrease and is not in the first position. We use this monster to make sure all enemy unit attacking our tanker in the first position. | |
 | Baakjira, 1st position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability Void, Slow, Strengthen, and Heal. | This monster can defend against melee, ranged, and magical attacks. It has a high amount of health points, with good defense and support abilities such as Void (reducing magic damage by 50%), Strengthen (increasing the HP of all allied monsters by 1), and Slow (reducing enemy speed by 1). And this unit can Heal (restoring some HP every round). This is a strong tanker we use this monster to defend against the enemy attack to give time for our attacker to kill the enemy units from behind. |
 | Oshuur constantia, 2nd position, attacker and support. Has the ability Resurrect, Reflection Shield, and Heal. | We use this unit to support our Baakjira with Heal ability. In case the enemy brings a unit with high damage than Baakjira heal can handle this unit will help Baakjira stay alive. It has the Resurrect ability to revive 1 unit who die in the battle. It can only trigger once per battle. Another ability Reflection Shield will ignore the damage from Blast/Reflect magic ability. |
 | Venari Wavesmith, 4th position, Attacker and Support. Has the ability Protect and Dispel | Protect ability will add +2 armor to all of our monsters this will help to fight against range monsters in case the enemy brings it, and Dispel will disable all positive buff from the enemy in the first position, this will weaken the enemy attacker and tanker in the first position. This is another support unit for Baakjira to give more defense against range attack. |
 | Angelic Mandarin, 4th position, attacker and support. Has Triage and Silence abilities | We use this monster especially because of the Triage ability which is the same as our summoner ability. In case the enemy brings a unit with Scattershot ability (range/magic unit will attack random enemy unit) this unit will help to restore our unit HP. Other ability Silence will decrease the enemy magic attack by -1. |
 | Merdaali Guardian, 5th position, support, has the ability Tank Heal, Repair, and Strengthen. | Another support for our Baakjira, this unit will Heal our Baakjira (monster in the first position) and restore the monster armor that has the highest damage. The Strengthen ability will increase the allied monster's HP to +1. I put this unit here to protect our main attacker in the last position. |
 | Chaos Dragon, 6th position, attacker. Has Flying, Scattershot, Blast, and Blind Abilities | This is our main attacker who has a great attack dealing a significant amount of 4 magic damage. We use this monster because of the Blast ability (every time this monster attacks the enemy monsters it will damage the enemy monster adjacent to it). Another reason because it has a Scattershot ability so in case the enemy brings a strong tanker like us this unit can randomly attack the enemy unit behind. The Blind ability increases the dodge capability of all ally monsters by 15% and The Flying ability helps to evade the enemy range attack by 25%. |
Our Formation is finished and we are ready to battle :
Did your Strategy Work?
Yes, the strategy is working :
Adding The armor by using Venari Wavesmith help defense against Earthquake, almost all our units got damaged from the Earthquake except Chaos Dragon who has Flying ability :
The enemy uses the same main attacker Chaos Dragon. They try to increase the damage of the Chaos Dragon by using the Martyr ability (every time the enemy Iziar dies it will increase all unit base stats adjacent to it by +1) but it not working because :
- We have double Triage ability (from our summoner and Angelic Mandarin),
- We decrease the enemy magic attack with the Silence ability,
- The last reason may be because the enemy is not lucky enough to hit our unit weak against magic behind. Many times (rounds 1, 4, 5, and 6) the enemy Chaos Dragon keeps hitting our Baakjira and gives Blast damage to our Oshuur Constantia which does not give damage to it due to Reflection Shield ability like this example :
Our Chaos Dragon Scattershoot successfully killing many enemy behind :
Thank you, my friend, for taking the time to review my battle report. I appreciate your efforts and would be grateful if you could provide me with feedback on any mistakes you find by leaving a comment.
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