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Despite having some experience in Splinterlands, I still find myself coming accross abilities I'm unfamiliar with. Particularly as certain cards with abilities don't begin to appear until you hit Silver/Gold where more advanced strategies and abilities come into play. In particular with limitations brought on by the battle types. As such, I thought it might be helpful to outline all the abilities, and what they do:
Please note the below descriptions are taken from Splinterlands.io as is:
Weaken: Reduces the health of all enemy monsters
Flying: Has an increased chance of evading melee or ranged attacks from monsters who do not have the flying ability. (25% chance of evasion)
Reach: Melee attack monsters with the reach ability may attack from the second position of the team.
Sneak: Targets the last monster on the enemy team instead of the first monster.
Snipe: Targets enemy monsters with ranged, magic, or no attack that are not in the first position. The Sniper will look for the first ranged/magic champion from the front.
Opportunity: Monsters with the opportunity ability may attack from any position and will target the enemy monster with the lowest health.
Shatter: Target's armor is destroyed when hit by an attack from monsters with shatter. - This is incredibly useful for exposing high armor opponents
Shield: Reduced damage from melee and ranged attacks.
Stun: When a monster with stun hits a target, it has a chance to stun the target causing it to skip its next turn.
Heal: Restores a portion of it's own health each round.
Blast: Deals additional damage to monsters adjacent to the target monster.
Last Stand: gains increased stats if it's the only monster on the team alive.
Tank Heal: Restores a portion of the monster in the first position's health each round.
Void Armor: Magic attacks hit this monster's armor before its health.
Inspire: Gives all friendly monsters +1 melee attack.
Headwinds: Reduces the ranged attack of all enemy monsters.
Dodge: Has an increase chance of evading melee or ranged attacks. (25%)
Void: Reduces damage from magic attacks.
Magic Reflect: When hit with magic damage, does reduced magic damage back to the attacker.
Retaliate: When hit with a melee attack, monsters with retaliate have a chance of attacking their attacker.
Silence: Reduces the magic attack of all enemy monsters. - I've yet to experience this in Bronze/Silver
Return Fire: When hit with a ranged attack, monsters with return fire will return reduced damage back to their attacker.
Swiftness: All friendly monsters have increased speed.
Demoralize: Reduces the melee attack of all enemy monsters.
Protect: All friendly monsters gain +2 armor.
Taunt: All enemy monsters target this monster
Snare: When attacking enemies with flying, removes the flying ability and cannot miss.
Immunity: The monster is immune to negative status effects.
Thorns: When hit with a melee attack, does damage back to the attacker.
Scavenge: Gains 1 mas health each time any monster dies.
Halving: Each time this monster hits a target, the target's attack is cut in half (rounded down). - I've yet to experience this in Bronze/Silver
Slow: Reduces the speed of all enemy monsters.
Double Strike: Monster attacks twice each round.
Resurrect: When a friendly monster dies it is brought back to life with 1 health. This can only trigger once per battle.
Strengthen: All friendly monsters have increased health.
Close Range: Monsters with close range ability can perform ranged attacks from the first position.
Life Leech: Monsters health increases each time it damages an enemy monster's health in proportion to the damage dealt.
Divine Shield: The first time the monster takes damage it is ignored.
Piercing: If melee or ranged attack damage is in excess of the target's armor, the remainder will damage the target's health.
Affliction: When a monster with affliction hits a target, it has a chance of applying affliction on the target causing it to be unable to be healed.
True Strike: This monster's attacks cannot miss.
Cleanse: Removes all negative effects on the monster in the first position on the friendly team.
Repair: Restores some armor to the friendly monster whose armor has taken the most damage.
Enrage: Has increased melee attack and speed when damaged.
Cripple: Each time an enemy is hit by a monster with cripple it loses one max health.
Oppress: Does double damage when attacking an enemy that has no attack.
I hope this helps as many of you as it does me! I often have this list handy when I hit a new rank and start to see new abilities! If you want to know more about how to play around certain abilities, team comps or strategies that make use of these abilities please let me know and i'll do my best to research and put out content around that!