Hello everyone, how are you doing? This weekly battle challenge is very interesting. It gives every player an opportunity to participate, creating amazing articles and earn tokens. When I saw the theme, my thought was that there was a monster called 'Dragon'. I think it was like, last week battle challenge that I did not have DARK HA'ON of wished I used Living Lava instead. But after I read the whole article, I understood that, 'players are to used dragon summoner and share the battle. This is my first time I used summoner as 'weekly battle challenge'.
I will talk about 'DELWNY DRAGONSCALE', this is the dragon summoner I have. This is one of the Summoners in splinterlands, it is powerful and instrumental.
For me, DELWNY DRAGONSCALE is one of the cheapest summoners in splinterlands you can get. It does not cost at all compared to other summoners.
Dragonscale is a common summoner from beta reward card edition. I used dragonscale to complete my daily quest whenever it is given. Dragonscale is not my favorite summoner because of the high Mana cap and I don't have enough dragon monsters. I used dragonscale whenever higher number of Mana is given in a battle. If I am battling for high rank/point, I don't use this monster.
Imagine you are given 20 Mana, and dragonscale summoner has already taken 5 out of it. It simply means, you are left with 15 Mana to choose your monsters; whereas there are summoners that will only take 3 Mana. This is my biggest disadvantage.
There was a day I called my friend, I told him that I need more summoners with cheap price; he said, 'how much did I have?', I said, I have $2. He told me to buy 'dragonscale' because it was one of the cheapest summoners in the market at that time. I bought level 4 of dragonscale worths $2. Today, one dragonscale worth $4.95 when I checked it in the market.
BATTLE RULES
Up Close and Personal: Only monsters with melee attack may be used in Battles.
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BATTLE ARRANGEMENTS
Summoner
Delwny Dragonscale: it is clear here why I don't like using summoner Delwny Dragonscale in battles. I was given 24 Mana to battle, I selected dragonscale and I was left with just 19 Mana. I need to make wise decision to chose monsters to use in the battle; otherwise, I would have suffered defeat. I was very clinical and strategic in selection, that was the reason I chose two opportunity monsters.
MONSTERS
• Living Lava: This is the suitable monster to lead the battle. Without considering itt speed, I selected living lava as my first monster because of the shield ability. This monster is one of my best monsters to block and defend. I understood that magic monsters was not allowed in the battle according to battle rules; hence, it was an opportunity for me to utilize it and win my battle. I knew living lava does not have resistance against magic monsters, I was very happy when I read that 'no magic monsters'.
I knew it would be difficult for melee and range monsters to destroy living lava, the absence of magic gave me joy.
Assuming I used monsters with no ability at first Position. I would have been defeated, but the shield Ability gave me victory.
Another thing that made me to choose living lava was the health and armor. The best monsters to start the battle need to have 'high number' of health and armor.
Dragon Jumper: The speed was the major priority I choose it. It was Giant Roc I selected initially but later changed to dragon Jumper with serious consideration and critical thinking. I have a thought in my mind that, Dragon Jumper would first attack and it would attack in any position. Giant Roc will only attacks enemy's first monster; that was the reason I preferred Dragon Jumper to Giant Roc.
You could see that my plan worked out. My plan was to attack first, it does by attacking Exploding Dwarf. Assuming I did not selected Dragon Jumper, Exploding dwarf would have attacked first, if it does it would have affected my second monster.
Serpentine Spy: Third position was a little bit safer than last position in the battles. Serpentine Spy has short lifespan, very easy to eliminate. Placing serpentine at the last position may cut short its life due to presence of sneaky monsters in splinterlands. Sneaky Monster is every corner of splinterlands, therefore, there is need to hide most of your monsters that are fragile and instrumental away from them by placing them in the middle, that was the reason I placed serpentine spy as the third monster.
My Serpentine attacks my opponent serpentine because mine was more faster than his own. I am showing you the reason you need 'high speed monsters' in the majority of the battles in splinterlands.
Kobold Miner: well! Battles in one direction is dangerous; if strong monster is in that direction, you might lose the battle. Fighting in battles have to be multi-directional, you need to think of how to win by strategizing in different directions to fight.
Furious Chicken: sometimes we see furious chicken as a monster to just fill the space. If you are Football fan, you will understand that all the players in the field habe responsibilities. Though, any player can score but responsibility of goalscoring is on forward players- striker, wingers and midfielders.
If you understand the battle rules very well, you will know that the best position to use Furious Chicken monster. In this battle, I used it to delay from reaching Kobold miner.
In conclusion, the best Battles I used dragonscale was the battles with high number of Mana.
When my other summoners was in level 1, it was dragonscale I was using to battle. After I upgraded my Summoners from level one to 3 and four, I stopped using dragonscale.
To enjoy dragonscale, you need to upgrade it to level 6 upward.
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