Splinterlands Weekly Battle Challenge

Kulu Swimhunter

This week's challenge recruits a water card: Kulu Swimhunter.

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The Setup:

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Unprotected : Monsters do not have any Armor and do not get Armor from Abilities or Summoner Buffs

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A closer look at my Water line-up...

(-----1st-----)

Pros:

• moderate attack/speed with Trample ability
• significant resilience with combined Health+Armor pools
• Enrage ability increases Speed and attack potency greatly

Cons:

• Slightly vulnerable to magic attacks

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TRAMPLE : when a monster with Trample hits and kills its target, it will perform another attack on the next Monster on the enemy team

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ENRAGE : Has increased Melee attack and Speed when damaged

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(-----2nd-----)

Hardy Stonefish is a cheap, 1 mana cost card that can be great for soaking up extra damage in areas that may need protection. In this line-up it's intended use was as an emergency, last-resort 2nd-position tank.

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(-----3rd-----)

Pros:

• High attack
• Opportunity picks off the weakest monster
• Great Health pool for survivability

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Opportunity : Monsters with the Opportunity ability may attack from any position and will target the enemy Monster with the lowest Health

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(-----4th-----)

The Kulu Swimhunter is a great card that isn't widely used. Whenever I want to send a bit more damage to the frontline with only a few mana, this is a great choice. It has great Speed, and a high Health pool which increases its chance of surviving a few hits; can be used with decent success as Sneak defense

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(-----5th-----)

Pros

• Awesomely balanced ranger with moderate Speed, damage and Health
• Extra Team-Speed from Swiftness ability

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Swiftness : All friendly Monsters have increased Speed

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(-----6th-----)

Amazing card for providing backline support, and can even act as additional sneak defense

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Triage : Heals the friendly back-line Monster that has taken the most damage

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Round 2 Start

In the first round...

• Enemy Opportunity monster takes out our extra defense (Hardy Stonefish)
• Diemonshark gets enraged and dodges 3 attacks
• Enemy tank is severely damaged

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Round 3 Start

• Enemy tank and back-up tank destroyed
• Friendly tank suffers significant damage, but dodges attacks to stay alive

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Victory!

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Extremely satisfying victory after more dodges, and trample-kills from our Diemonshark. The game-strategy worked amazingly well, and we were able to receive the win in this Silver Ranked battle.

I love fast/Water teams, and this one proved victorious. I hope you enjoyed the post and I appreciate your time and attention!

Until the next one! Cheers!