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~ 😘 Hello My Splinterlands family around the world 😘 ~
Welcome back to my blog,
Hive account@queen-silvia. In today post, I am going to share to all of you epic battle strategies when I was participating in
Hive account@crypto-zard tournament which was showed live in his stream. Thanks Zard for conducting the tournament. Well, the tournament was a single elimination tournament at silver league and modern format. I had a great final match with my guild mate at Summoner's Tribe,
Hive account@bjyshadow. The score was 2-2 and then I lost 2-4 at the end, maybe because I felt so sleepy as the final was at 11 PM in my local time 😆. Well, anyway we have some cool battle strategies which I hope it can be useful for all readers, so let's get started :

Alright, The top Tier 5 Silver battle strategies that we are going to discuss in depth are :
- Keep in mind that Lorna Shine is very strong at low mana battle
- Always anticipate sneak attack in low mana match
- Magic attack is always better than ranged attack in "Armored Up" ruleset
- Use Ranged attack to counter Mylor
- Strengthen Melee damage in "Broken Armor" ruleset
At the beginning of this article, I will share the final result of the tournament and... at the end, there will be a giveaway #62 to grab so Let's get started !

- TOURNAMENT RESULT -

My Guild mate,
Hive account@bjyshadow, became the champion after tough battle at the final with 2-4 for his win, There are some epic battle strategies between I and him which I will share to all of you in the next chapter. For the third place, we have
Hive account@weeareus. I beat him in the semifinal. Thank you very much for playing with me 🙏.
Hive account@crypto-zard is conducting many tournaments with the prize reward 2000 - 2300 DEC plus Chaos Legion Pack, so If you guys want to increase your battle skill, the tournaments will be very good place for you to meet many strong players, and... If you are playing with rental cards, those prize can be used to cover the rental costs which makes you playing for free. 😊
Alright, Here are the top battle strategies throughout the tournaments. I hope these strategies can give more insight for the better gameplay. Enjoy~ :

- LORNA SHINE IS VERY STRONG AT LOW MANA BATTLE -
| Ruleset | Mana | Element |
| Melee Mayhem, Counter spell, Back to Basics | 17 | Fire, Water, Life, Death |

BATTLE LINK
Lorna Shine is very strong in low mana because she can give divine shield ability to all of friendly monsters which can make them negate the first attack by the opponent. In low mana battle, negating 1 attack is very important because it can determine the outcome of the battle. I lost in this match and another reason why I lost is because
Hive account@bjyshadow put many monsters who have armor from the highest to the lowest and that strategy really works well to protect monsters in the last position. Great job!.

- ALWAYS ANTICIPATE SNEAK ATTACK IN LOW MANA BATTLE -
| Ruleset | Mana | Element |
| Melee Mayhem, Target Practice, Silenced Summoner | 24 | Fire, Earth, Life, Death, Dragon |

BATTLE LINK
24 is a good mana to build a sneaky team but unfortunately my opponent line-up is better since he put Djinn Chwala who has Thorn ability as a tank and then supported by Shadowy Presence to give additional +1 health to all of friendly monsters. If we are looking at his sneaky team, it's better then mine, the total melee damage is 7 and Silence Sha-Vi in the fifth position will hold some of my sneak attack so low HP monsters like Undead badger can be protected. Pretty sweet line up.

- MAGIC ATTACK IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN RANGED IN ARMORED UP RULESET -
| Ruleset | Mana | Element |
| Armored Up, Back to Basics, Equalizer | 17 | Fire, Water, Life |

BATTLE LINK
Well, I think it's a basic gameplay that ranged attack can not penetrate the opponent monsters when they have armor. The armor should be broken first so that we can reduce the opponent's HP. So, Obviously, It's much better to use magic attack in the above battle as there's no way to use magic reflect also since all of monsters lost their ability due to Back to Basics ruleset. My Ilthain has only increased the speed and return fire has no use case in the battle. Lorna is again the better choice since the battle mana is low.

- USE RANGED ATTACK TO COUNTER MYLOR -
| Ruleset | Mana | Element |
| Armored Up, lost Magic, Up to Eleven | 12 | Fire, Water, Earth, Dragon |

BATTLE LINK
We have had so many low mana battle in the final and most of the win were decided by who was building better strategy to counter sneaky team and when I thought he was going to use sneak, I am totally wrong. He went 3 ranged attack units and they really counter my Mylor team. The summoner is made to counter melee monsters not ranged attack monsters. They way he put Naga Assassin in the last position is very good since she has backfire to inflict 2 damage if my sneak attack missed the target. Cool line up from
Hive account@bjyshadow, hats off.

- STRENGHTEN MELEE DAMAGE IN BROKEN ARMOR RULESET -
| Ruleset | Mana | Element |
| Heavy Hitters, Broken Armors | 32 | Fire, Water, Dragon |

BATTLE LINK
Well, I lost in this battle and the big reason is the inspire ability from River Hellondale which makes all of the melee monsters gain +1 melee damage, including the sneaky monsters (Uraeus and Pelacor Bandit). Both monsters have really destroyed my monsters in the backline and I couldn't hold their attack since 1 triage wasn't enough. In the first position, we can see Demented Shark is still a better tank with 4 base melee damage and Enrage ability compared to Chain Golem.

- ANNOUNCEMENT OF GIVEAWAY #60 WINNER -
Alright guys, now it's time for the giveaway. We have 30 participants for the Giveaway #60. I'd like to say Thank you very much for visiting my blog and joined the giveaway. Here are the list of participants :
Hive account@pero82,
Hive account@michupa,
Hive account@iamgem005,
Hive account@pirulito.zoado,
Hive account@pulubengdugs,
Hive account@willendorfia,
Hive account@olaf.gui,
Hive account@candnpg,
Hive account@rayius,
Hive account@henruc,
Hive account@jdike,
Hive account@flummi97,
Hive account@vaynard86,
Hive account@blitzzzz,
Hive account@syel25,
Hive account@jdike,
Hive account@emeraldtiger,
Hive account@ianballantine,
Hive account@ladymisa,
Hive account@amaari,
Hive account@unitmaster,
Hive account@arveno,
Hive account@pansoup,
Hive account@mizukii,
Hive account@amaari,
Hive account@ianballantine,
Hive account@pero82,
Hive account@pulubengdugs,
Hive account@russia-btc,
Hive account@treefrognada.
(Amaari, Ianballantine, Pero82, Pulubengdugs, Russia-btc and Treefrognada got additional 1 ticket as they re-blogged the post)
I hope I don't miss out any names there. Regardless you win or not, I hope you guys keep supporting me by participating in my upcoming giveaways because sharing to the community is fun. Here is the snapshot of the winner :

Congratulations to
Hive account@mizukii for winning Chaos Knight. This card has Shield, Giant Killer and Inspire at maximum level which are very powerful in the battle.


1 BCX of Chaos Knight has been sent to IGN :
Hive account@mizukii, enjoy that Chaos Knight 👍. For other participants who didn't win, you can try your luck taking a part in the next giveaway below (Giveaway #62).

- GIVEAWAY #62 -
Alright, in the previous post we had a Chaos Legion card for the giveaway. In this giveaway post, there will be 1 Chaos Legion card that you could possibly win, Here is the card :
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| Venari Knifer |
I will use Wheel of Names for the drawing and the name picked out will be given the card prize.
How to participate :
- Please put your IGN (In-Game Name) in the comment section.
- If you feel like the post is useful feel free to follow me for more battle tips and tricks and 2 weekly giveaways continuously. I'll make sure we will be good friends :)
- Upvote is not a requirement but it will be greatly appreciated to increase the quality and the quantity of the next giveaway.
- Re-blogging this post will give you 2 tickets, higher tickets, higher chance to win the rewards 😉

Notes :
- The cut off time is the pay-out of this post (7 days). I will put a comment "TIME'S UP" when the time is up.
- The winner will be announced in the next giveaways.
- If you want to give feedback or critics, feel free to leave any comments. As long they are constructive and not offensive, they will be appreciated.
- Started from now, I will tag all of the participants who have joined (in the previous giveaway) in case you want to join the giveaway again, if you want me to stop tagging your IGN, feel free to comment STOP in the comment section.
- Every time I posted blogs whether Battle Challenge or Social Media Challenge, there will be 1 card be rewarded for the giveaway winner.

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Alright, that's the end of this article guys, Thank you for visiting my blog. See you in the next article and giveaway. Take care~
