It's HAMMER TIME! 🔨💪🏻
We've always seen in fantasy shows how Dwarven warriors forge the best weapons and fight using their Mighty Hammers. This particular character isn't a Dwarf, but utilises a hammer very similar to them nonetheless.
The theme of this week's Share Your Battle Challenge - I give you the ARMORSMITH! 🔨💪🏻
Raised hauling stones in the Quarries of Korlax, the Armorsmiths of Khymeria are considerably tougher than they appear. Even the burly Boatmen who work the shipyards can barely lift the hammer of a Khymian Armorsmith. Much to the dismay of the Order of the Silver Shield, their hammers are used more for repair than destruction. When summoned to battle, the Armorsmiths do plenty of damage, even without formal fighting skills.
🔨💪🏻From Splinterlands Lore on ARMORSMITH🔨💪🏻
The Armorsmith is a Promo card released way back in the day. It has definitely found it's place in many Life decks given its availability and usefulness. At LEVEL 1, it has 0 ⚔️ATTACK⚔️ and 2 🏃🏻SPEED🏃🏻, with 0 🛡️ARMOR🛡️ and 2 ❤️HEALTH❤️. It has the REPAIR ability. It's summoning cost is also on the low range at just 2 🧪MANA🧪.
These stats does make the Armorsmith is some weakling with no ability to attack and barely any HP to take a hit.
The Armosmith's true strength lies in it's ability REPAIR. It allows the unit to repair the armor of any other unit in your team! 😱 All of a sudden, all you units have suddenly gained a huge increase in their durability against physical damage. This could make all the difference if the battle comes down to the wire where the slightest advantage is the fine line between victory or defeat! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The release of Promo cards from ESSENCE ORBS has given the Life splinter a really unique card in the Armorsmith. It is the FIRST ranged unit in the entire LIFE lineup in the game to get the REPAIR ability.
Of course, since then, quite a few other cards available to LIFE have this REPAIR skill now. The most recent Chaos Legion expansion has it's most recent "competitors" in the Scavo Hireling and Adelade Brightwing. However, they both cost MORE than the Armorsmith and in the case of the Scavo Hireling, it is even more fragile! This ensures that the Pelacor Arbalest will definitely have it's own place here in all Life decks. This is definitely what I'd consider game changing! 😱😱😱
📊Card Stats by Level📊
As we can see here, the main purpose of the Armorsmith is simply it's REPAIR ability. It's stats improve slightly across the board as it levels up. At lv 3 onwards, it even gains the ability to deal some melee damage. This isn't anything game changing, but every little bit adds up over the length of a battle.
📝Important Rulesets Rundown📝
Here, I detail the list of combat rulesets that may affect the Armorsmith.
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👍🏻 It's attack will never miss | |
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👍🏻 Gives itself more protection. Always good, especially for such a fragile unit. | |
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👎🏻 Loses all it's abilities. | |
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👍🏻 Ranged units can't be used. | |
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👍🏻 Ranged units can attack from the front. | |
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👎🏻 will be able to last slightly longer by repairing armor though. | |
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👍🏻 Will likely benefit as it has low HP. | |
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👍🏻 Able to lend it's attack from any slot. | |
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👍🏻 Even summoning cost | |
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👎🏻 Blast damage will probably kill it very quickly. | |
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N.A | |
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N.A | |
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Situational. Could add more damage if the opponent's front unit is stunned | |
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👍🏻 Improve it's own survivability | |
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👍🏻 Melee units are affected. | |
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👍🏻 Only units which cost 4 or less mana can be used. | |
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👍🏻 No Legendary units can be used. | |
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👍🏻 Magic units cannot be used | |
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👍🏻 Gives melee the positional attack advantage enjoyed by ranged/magic | |
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👎🏻 Will die to poison. | |
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👎🏻 Only odd summoning cost units can be used. | |
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👍🏻 It's slow speed makes it fast | |
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👍🏻 Only common/rare cards can be used. | |
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👍🏻 Doesn't really depend on Summoner abilities | |
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👎🏻 Enrage works out well for units who can take a few hits | |
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N.A | |
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👍🏻 All units abilities stay intact | |
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👍🏻 Allows melee to attack even if it's not in the first slot. | |
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👍🏻 It is NOT a Neutral unit. | |
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N.A. All ranged/magic units have the Snipe ability. | |
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👎🏻 All units lose all their armor. | |
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👎🏻 Only Melee units can be used | |
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👍🏻 More Armor against Magic DPS. |
⚔️🛡My Battle Showcase🛡⚔️
Let me present a battle I fought recently in which I used the Armorsmith. My opponent used the FIRE splinter while I went for the LIFE splinter. 🔥 VS 👼🏻
At first glance, this would seem like I was doomed. In terms of Summoner and unit levels, it was as lopsided as any game could ever be.
The opponent was using a level 4 Tarsa as his Summoner! 🤯😱😵
Most of his units were maxed out for the League level we were fighting in (Silver) whereas my units were all at level 1 except for the Arsmith, which was slightly higher at level 3 😅. (but since the Armorsmith's role isn't to attack, his level is a moot point anyway 🤣)
This put ALL my units at an enormous level disparity.
Clearly, in terms of card rarity and card strength, this looked like a lost cause 😜🤣. Would I be able to turn the tide of battle against such an opponent then? Victory or defeat would lie in the small details.
I would say that the Armorsmith was DEFINITELY the MVP of this match, having played it's role in turning the tide of battle. It showcased it amazing ability to REPAIR the Armor of any unit that was targeted by the opponent and in doing so, gave them an amazing amount of lasting power that was unmatched. In fact, the Armorsmith did it's job so well that the opponent did not even manage to reduce the health of ANY of my units at all!!! 💯❤️
This ensured that the other units could eventually wear down the opponent until victory was achieved! 🏆🏆🏆
LINK TO FIGHT WITH MY ARMORSMITH
👯♀️👯👯♂️LINEUP CHOICES👯♀️👯👯♂️
1st CARD SLOT
The Hero of Beyond takes the role of the Main Tank in the first slot here. It will be the most important role since the backline will fall if the Main Tank goes.
His CLOSE RANGE ability, in tandem with General Sloan as my Summoner pick, allows him to deal his Ranged attacks even though he is at the front of the lineup.
2nd CARD SLOT
The Creeping Ooze fills this slot. It's role is simply to debuff the opponents with it's SLOW ability. Since it has only 1 HP, should the main tank fall, it is just a sacrificial unit to buy some time by taking 1 hit.
3rd CARD SLOT
The Truthspeaker takes this slot. Protected in the middle, it's job is to give all the units a +2 Armor buff with it's PROTECT ability. This works out perfectly in tandem with the Armorsmith's REPAIR.
4th CARD SLOT
The Armorsmith occupies the 4th slot. It's job is to REPAIR the Armor of any unit which takes a physical damage hit. Putting it in the middle here also keeps it safe.
5th CARD SLOT
The Halfling Alchemist occupies this slot. It's role is deal a bit of DPS from the backline. However, the more important skill it brings to the battlefield is it's HALVING ability which halves the attacks of any unit it hits.
6th CARD SLOT
The Air Elemental occupies the last slot. It's role is to deal it's Ranged DPS from the backline. It's very high speed and HP will also allow it to provide some form of anti-sneak defense.
⚔️🛡Battle Action Report🛡⚔️
As you can see, both of us fielded very different decks from different splinters. It's a battle of Holy warriors against Fiery Barbarians! 😜
👼🏻 LIFE 👼🏻 VS 🔥 FIRE 🔥.
My opponent used the Antoid Platoon as his main tank in the 1st slot which is an AMAZING choice, given how suitable it is as a tank especially with it's SHIELD ability. His Scavo Hireling was placed in the 2nd slot, where it would serve as a backup tank whilst also using it's REPAIR ability to increase the tanking ability of the Main Tank. The 3rd and 4th slots were occupied by his Uraeus and Tenyii Striker, both of which were SNEAK DPS units meant to devastate my backline. A Scorch Fiend and Furious Chicken filled up his last 2 slots, ostensibly as an anti sneak defense too.
My choice of the Main Tank was the Hero from Beyond which would make a great Tank with it's stats and CLOSE RANGE ability. It was followed by the Creeping Ooze in the 2nd slot who would be my sacrificial 1 hit backup tank whilst also debuffing the opponent with it's SLOW ability. The 3rd and 4th slots were occupied by the Truthspeaker and Armorsmith. Their abilities complemented each other with one providing the armor and the other repairing it. The next 2 slots were filled out with my Ranged DPS units.
The battle started out with all our units just duking it out pound for pound. It was a pretty low mana ruleset with 24 mana as the limit.
The first wave ended up with no units dying! Although, this shouldn't really come as a surprise seeing as how defensive minded both our teams were set up to be.
The 2nd round was again a stalemate with both sides unable to actually penetrate past each other's constantly repaired armor.
Round 3 finally saw a breakthrough when I managed to grind down the opponent's Antoid Platoon Main Tank. All my focused DPS on the front unit had paid off. Whereas, the opponent's split damage with his SNEAK attacks failed to deal enough meaningful damage before my Armorsmith activated his REPAIR.
The next few rounds were the beginning of the end for my opponent. With his main tank down, his units were simply destroyed one after the other. Ever bit of DPS he lost also reduced the pressure on my Armorsmith who was more than able of "over healing" the armor loss each round.
Talk about doing WAY MORE than it was supposed to!!! 😱🤯🥳 All I expected was for the Armorsmith to play it's part in repairing and prolonging the durability of my units. Yet it did more than that and completely shut down ALL the DPS capabilities of the opponent's team! 💪🏻
The battle ended up being an amazing UNDERDOG VICTORY with my vastly outmatched team somehow managing to score an upset win! And it wasn't just a minor upset, but a PERFECT victory with not even a single HP lost with ALL my Armor also FULLY RESTORED by the end! Surely that made it the Man of the Match for this battle, punching way above it's weight! 💯
Well as you can see here in this GIF of my battle, the results were pretty good! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
This was truly an eye opener! 😁🏆
Slowly, but surely, I wore down the opponent's team and the match was won dominantly! My team selection proved to be the edge I needed to eventually overpower my opponent. 💪🏻
🔮🔮🔮Hindsight is 20/20🔮🔮🔮
Would I have done anything differently? 🤔 This might have seemed like a match that would prove to be a challenge at the start because of the vast disparity in levels. However, with my completely unexpected underdog upset win, IF I had to use the same cards again, there would be no better lineup than what I had already used for the match. Any other combination MIGHT have resulted in a loss for me. I'm really satisfied with the results against such a worthy opponent. 🏆🥇
💭🧐💭Ending Thoughts💭🧐💭
I definitely can appreciate the Armorsmith and it's strengths. This is one of those cards which are very strong if surrounded with the proper team. The role it brings to the battlefield will give a player the edge in squeezing out every tiny advantage to get the win. 👍🏻
For any players looking to try out the Armorsmith, I hope this article has given you some insight into its potential. 😉
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