When we play Splinterlands, there are 2 rulesets that keep draining your health. The first one is Noxious Fumes or we call it the poison for easier relate to the condition where everyone get poisoned... And the second one is Earthquake.
Earthquake is more simple one, because all you have to do is to put Brighton Bloom and he will make all your units fly... free from those nasty earthquake damage.
Ok case close, simple isn't it? Well now is the big question... What if you can not fly...
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Although this sounds silly but sometime it does happen. There is no Brighton Bloom to pick. Then all you have to do is to choose an element which has the most flying units. However this won't be as simple like this for everyone... How about a newbie? they do not know or can't recall quickly who are flying and who are not... How about casual players like me, who just log in to have fun.. We do not care about high win rate, because we do not have plenty of cards..
Shall we click surrender... ???
There are other approaches we can take. So let me list down what are they or maybe you want to dig more about these things...
- Big Fat Health Point units. Because there will be damage every turns, having more health means you can go longer without worrying of dying.
- Getting Thicker Armor. Earthquake is a physical damage, so it will attack armor first before it can start killing your units' health. So thicker armor means more turn your unit can endure the earthquake.
- Divine Shield. Divine shield means it will negate the first damage your unit receive. So it means it will negate the first damage from earthquake, if they don't get attacked first.
- Hit as Hard as You Can. Because I am talking about taking in non flying units, their life will be limited as they keep getting hurt each turn. So we need to hit as hard as we can, kill your opponent first before earthquake killing your units.
Ok easy to talk, how we implement this is not as easy as its said. let see our battle then...
THE BATTLE PREPARATION
I pick a battle with these rulesets below...
It's a Silver League Rank Battle but, Man.... No Dragon, No Brighton Bloom here... Do you know what comes first in my mind?
It is USUT... big flying monster with bloodlust ability. A perfect fit for earthquake without that flying summoner. However I do not have Usut in my main account. I admit I have been playing more on my Scholarship account than my main account, this has made my main account is lacking of many great soulbound cards.
Ok but the show must go on. I have to anticipate my opponent who can also come with USUT... so I won't use Pelacor Conjurer... By saying that It means I have chosen Life Element as my main.
So let see how I set my line up here.
Get Big Hitters
I bring 4 big hitters in my team. They are:
The first main tank is Drybone Barbarian. 5 Melee damage, its definitely HARD as ROCK!!!
The second is my backup tank with reach ability, Corsair Bosun. 4 Melee Damage, its almost as hard as Drybone Barbarian. The most important thing is that he has 5 armors... He should be able to withstand 2 first rounds of earthquake damage.
The third is sneak attacker, Silvershield Assassin. New players should not be familiar with this unit but it is one of the best sneak attacker in this game. With doublestrike ability, he will deliver minimum 4 damage per turn.
The last one is Sand Worm. It is my all time favorite. Super heavy hitter however its a gamble to bring this unit in regarding it doesn't have armor. So it will be a contest who dies first, Sand worm or my oppponent
ok let see how this would go
THE BATTLE PROGRESS
What did we get here, both of us were using the life element. My approach was using Lorna so the divine shield would take away the first earthquake damage. Their approach was a bit similar but It seemed he did not have Lorna so he used Franz Ruffmane. Well Franz gave 1 armor so it should have the same effect for some unit as Lorna buff.
- The battle started with both of us buffing up our team and debuffing our opponents. My opponent brought 2 flying units, and that made them had better defensive stance.
- My opponent had 5 melee damge, and 7 range damage. It's a combined 12 damage per round.
- My team had 24 melee damage per round. Yes, we were a melee only team.
- There were some similarities between our meta, for example we both used double tank and our main tank was the same Drybone Barbarian. But how we would build up attack was completely different
- Wow, my team was losing on the first round. Their War Pegasus kept dodging my sneak attacks.
- Their War Pegasus dodged a couple more, but finally my Uraeus killed it. Once it gone, everything could be easily killed by my Sneak Attackers.
- My team came back to catch up the gap
- With massive damage from Sand Worm and Silvershield Assassin, finally we managed to killed them all in this 4th round
- Good Game
CLOSURE AND DISCUSSION
Overall I can say my team won that battle because my tactics were right.
- Get Big Health Units
- Put Some Armor to help holding the earthquake damage
- Get Lorna, she gives Divine Shield
- Hit as harder as you can
Simple isn't it? Well for sure this is not the best tactic you can come up with. Still having a USUT or Uriel The Purifier definitely better choice than having this type of line up. However the question is... Do you have them in your line up?
I like to set up meta like this because it is a solid prove that Splinterlands is not a game which only rich guy can win. Even you don't have many cards, you are not a big investor, or you just want to have fun with limited fund here... Guess what? You still can win!!
This meta proves that even you don't have the right cards, if you want to win, there will be a way... ok that's for today, Thank you for reading my Splinterlands Battle Mage Secret post and please and don't forget to leave your comment or feedback below. thank you.
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