Making My Team Less Vulnerable Using Abilities when they are Unprotected

Hello there! @Saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday!

I'm here for this week's Battle Mage Secrets with the featured ruleset Unprotected. It is a ruleset were all monsters lose their armors and do not get armor from abilities and summoners.

The Battle that I will show to you this week was from my Hive account@agonyaccepted which is one of my alternate account that uses NFTY Arcade deck delegation to play manually both in Modern and Wild. Before I show you the battle, let us learn more about this ruleset.

With Unprotected, abilities such as Protect, Piercing, Repair, Rust are technically useless but as an alternative you can have abilities that reduces the opponents damage such as Shield, Void and Forcefield or monster debuffs such as Silence, Headwinds and Demoralize.

Monsters with abilities that could reduce damage

Ruleset

Conditions	Description
Diamond League Modern Format	38 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire, Water, Earth
Tis But Scratches	All monsters have the Cripple ability.
Reverse Speed	Monsters with the lowest Speed attack first and have the highest chance of evading attacks.
Unprotected	Monsters do not have any armor and do not get armor from Abilities or Summoner Buffs.

Opponent's Line- up

Summoner	1st	2nd	3nd	4th	5th	6th

My Team

Summoner	1st	2nd	3nd	4th	5th	6th

For this battle, we have the featured rule set target PracticeUnprotected where all monsters have no armor along with Tis But Scratches that reduce the max health and Reverse Speed where slower monsters get to attack first. With this in consideration, my lineup was consist of:

• Summoner: Obsidian - Gives +1 magic damage on all allied monsters and does not either increase or decrease my monsters while earth has many slow monsters to choose.
  
  

• 1^st Position: Mycelic Infantry - has Shield which reduces damage from both melee and range damage together with Giant Killer that allows it to inflict double damage on monsters with more than 10 mana. It also has Enrage which increases its speed and damage when it was damage.
  
  

• 2^nd Position: Runi - With Opportunity, it can attack the monster with the lowest health without ever missing because it has Aim True and it has the immunity against indirect damage with Reflection Shield together with the ability to self- resurrect with Rebirth.
  
  

• 3^rd Position: Goblin Psychic - Heals the frontline monster with Tank Heal while preventing the opponent to heal with Affliction. It also has Silence that reduces the magic damage of all opponent monsters and Dispel that removes buffs on the target.
  
  

• 4^th Position: Goblin Tower - Has the Blast ability which inflicts damage on adjacent monsters so with Snipe, it can deal damage on up to 5 opponents each round.
  
  

• 5^th Position: Acid Shooter - Scattershot makes the attack of this monsters to hit random target while at the same time, it can inflict them with Poison which will deal 2 damage to the target each round.
  
  

• 6^th Position: Venari Seesmith - Also has Poison to deal damage to the opponent for each round and can also gain health every time a monster dies with Scavenger.

Round 1:

^9-10/36 Mycelic Infantry inflicts 5 damage on Hill Giant.

^11-19/36 Runi deals 4 damage on Myclic Slipspawn followed by another 1 damage from Goblin Tower which defeats Spirit Hoarder and deals 3 damage on Goblin Psychic trough Blast.

^20-21/36 Goblin Psychic deals 1 damage on Mycelic Slipspawn.

^22-25/36 The opponents Goblin Psychic heals Hill Giant and deals 1 damage on Mycelic Infantry.

^26/36 Uloth Dhampir restores the health of Goblin Psychic with Triage.

^27-28/36 Acid Shooter deals 2 damage on Uloth Dhampir.

^29-30/36 Venari Seedsmith deals 4 damage on Mycelic Slipspawn.

^31-34/36 The opponents Acid Shooter deals 2 damage on Goblin Tower and afflicted it with Poison.

^35-36/36 Mycelic Slipspawn deals 2 damage on Mycelic Infantry.

Round 2:

^1-2/26 Goblin Tower dies because of Poison.

^3-7/26 Runi defeats Mycelic Slipspawn.

^8-11/26 Goblin Psychic deals 1 damage on Mycelic Infantry and heals Hill Giant.

^12-17/26 Mycelic Infantry defeats Hill Giant.

^18-20/26 Uloth Dhampir deals 2 damage on Mycelic Infantry and afflicts it with Stun.

^21-24/26 Both Acid Shooter Attacks each other but it was my Acid Shooter that was afflicted with Poison.

^25-26/26 Venari Seedsmith. deals 4 damage on Goblin Psychic and afflicts it with Poison.

Round 3 and 4:

^1-5/16 My Acid Shooter and the opponent's Goblin Psychic both dies because of Poison.

^6-11/16 Runi defeats Acid Shooter.

^12-13/16 Goblin Psychic deals 2 damage on Uloth Dhampir and afflicts it with Affliction.

With round 4, Uloth Dhampir cannot attack anymore so the combined attack of Runi and Goblin Pyschic was enough to reduce its life to 0 ending the match with my victory.

With Unprotected Every monster is vulnerable to attack regardless of its type and one of the ways that you can save yourself from the damage is to reduce them. At the same time, I also diversify the attack type of my monsters so that even though the opponent also use find ways to reduce my damage which on this case was my magic, I was still able to deal more damage because the damage of my melee and range monsters are left untouched.

That was it for this post. Thank you and see you at the next one.