Ruleset: Equal Opportunity.
Equal Opportunity: All units gain the Opportunity ability which allows them to attack the unit with the lowest health on the enemy team.
Basics
For this ruleset your are looking for some key abilities and special units, first of all you should look for a decoy or a Taunt ability, the taunt will give time to your units to do the damage while it takes the damage, for the decoy the first target your opponent will attack , you can use something with the Martyr in the middle of 2 of your best damage dealers or something that could get big benefits from the stats increases like a unit with Double Strike or 2 different attacks, others good decoys is anything with low health but not so easy to kill, like something with high armor or Divine Shield you also want some speed and armor in all your units , so Kelya is a pretty good chose for summoner as it is in almost any ruleset.
My Battle:
Battle Link: https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_1f95b58e26c7371b3bc18254e5d83447
Others Rulesets:
Lost Legendary: legendary monsters can not be used for this match.
UP close & Personal: Only melee monsters can be played.
With the current options: Water, Earth, Life, Dragon the best option by far is Water: with Kelya as summoner, I did not have Kelya my higher level up summoner was General Sloan, his ability do not help at all on an only melee match but with my strategy I beat the strongest summoner kelya Frendul.
My Cards:
Level 7 Dumacke Orc
My Decoy and the star of my team, he has only 1 health and 7 armor on level 7 , have the shield ability that reduce Melee and Range damage in half , his only enemies are Magic damage that will kill him instantly , Poison and Shatter abilities, since it was only melee match, there is no magic so he will be safe, unfortunately the opponent has one unit with poison but it toke some turn to make effect so he end absorbing an insane amount of damage, he also has the Retaliate ability what normally make him broken with this rulesets but I was facing Kelya so mostly of his retaliation damage was evaded, he still was the star of the team, the Decoy and Tank.
Level 6 Disintegrator
He reduce all opponent monsters melee damage by 1 an excellent choice in any only melee match, he also have good damage when he reach level 6 and together with the units with shield he made an outstanding job mitigating the damage.
Level 8 Chaos Knight
Another unit with shield, specking to be the second target in case Dumake Orc die as long a Vulguine has build enough health by that time.
Level 6 Vulguine
A low mana cost card pretty good for any ruleset that allows melee attacking from any position, he is great for this ruleset as long as you give him time to build some health.
I normally try to fill all 6 spots with cards but this time I run out of mana and Disintegrator and the 2 monsters with shield was by far the best choices I have at the moment, them with 2 last mana Vulguine was a better choice than put 2 1 mana cost monsters.
Round 2
Killed his 1 mana cost monster and star to miss lots of attacks against his Pelacor.
Round 3
Here I star to worry my Orc was almost Dying and his Pelacor keep dodging every attack.
Round 4
Finally manage to kill his Pelacor after he evaded like 20 attacks but my orc got poison and die, Now the of taking the damage suppose to be my Chaos Knight with Shield since Vulguine has build enough health as it was planned but he has one unit with Sneak ability that will ignore the Opportunity ability and attack the one in the back.
Round 5
Here is almost Done for my opponent once he lose the poison , his only hope is that I keep missing attacks because of his Blind ability and his higher speed.
Round 9
His last round.
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