Giant Killing Chronicles: Chapter 11

Hi! @Saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday.

I come up with a new content which I called "Giant Killing Chronicles" where I share battles but unlike my Weekly battle challenge, it does not have a featured monster but instead show battles that I at first seems to be at disadvantage due to the level gap between my team and the opponent but still prevail at the end just like in sport where an underdog team wins over a powerful opponent.

As we know, Splinterlands is a card game where in we can level cards and as we level- up this cards, their stats increases and they also gained some abilities which will give it more chance to win the game but it also comes down for one to have the skills to counter your opponent's line- up and luck so there are times that even if you have a low level team as long as it was takes opportunity of the rule set and completely counters your opponent, then even an underdog line- up has the possibility of winning. Of course it does not happen every time but it's very satisfying when they do.

Common

Rare

Epic

Legendary

As you can see, each summoner type has different levels of monster that you can play defending on their level cap and defending on the type of the summoner your opponent has, there are times that even if we play the same level of summoner, there will be a difference on the level of monsters due to the summoners rarity. The accounts that I will be using for this content are mainly playing at between silver and gold on the modern league with bronze cap level deck. This means that the monster I can use is cap at level 3 for common, level 2 for rare (level 3 for epic summoners), level 2 for epic and level 1 for legendary and I can only use level 2 rare and epic summoners and level 1 legendary summoner.

Rule Set

Conditions	Description
Gold League Modern Format	40 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire, Earth, Death, Dragon
Explosive Weaponry	All Monsters have the Blast ability.
Little League	Only Monsters & Summoners that cost 4 Mana or less may be used in battles.

For this battle, I am using the Death summoner Thaddius Brood which gives - 1 magic damage and -1 health de- buff to all opponent monsters while my opponent is using a level 4 Obsidian that gives +1 magic damage to all ally monsters. Level 4 is the max level cap for Silver league.

With the Little League rule set, even if we have 40 mana, we won't be able to use most of it as the summoners and monsters that we can use is limited at level 4 and wit the Explosive Weaponry rule set, every attack damages the monster adjacent to the target with the exception of those with the Reflection Shield ability like Venator Kinjo that we both have. My line- up was composed of 4 magic monsters and 2 melee monsters for the tank and secondary tank while my opponent has 3 magic monsters and 3 melee monsters which was supposed to have a magic boost from their summoner but was negated by mine and instead give them a -1 health de- buff. If you look at it, the opponent has clearly more damage that what was mine and he also have monsters with Heal and Triage so having multiple cannon fodders to absorb the damage is a also a strategy but I have Life Sapper and Venari Bonesmith with the Life Leach ability that allows it to gain health every time it damage the opponent and due to the Blast, they gain twice the health for every attack and that allows me to eventually defeat 90% of the monsters from the opponent but they were also able to defeat my tanks so I was left with only the 4 magic monsters and this has become a problem for Djinn Biljka has Void ability that reduce magic damage to half and so it won't received damage to my remaining monsters no matter how hard they try but thanks to the Stun ability of Revealer, if prevented the opponent to attack continuously which is the reason that I wa able to win this battle.

That was a close match that last until round 21. We were only both down with only one monster but thanks to the Stun ability of Revealer, the invulnerable Djinn Biljka dies with the fatigue and I was left with only 1 health.

And that is all for now for this battle. Thank you for reading.