Not knowing your opponent
With one on the most recent change in the @splinterlands game rules we no longer see the user name of our opponents but we do see there most recent lineups, this new rule never bothered me in the past but i understand the reason for it. The team want to discourage the farming behaviour known as win trading, a form of Collusion between teams of player or bot army's.
In this case it turned out to be a positive for me, (not knowing my opponent) that is, what I mean is that when you move up the ranks in a particular league, in my case the Bronze League the matching engine will pair you up with other high level players and if you know who they are it can give a bit of anxiety, as you remember them from previous battles, and this can make you second guess your team selection.
Alway's Pick Your Best Ever Team
So I always go into a new battle with the thought process of picking my best team for the ruleset, mana count and what I see from the opponent recent matches. Only after the battle plays out do you see who you matched up against.
Number Two (at time of battle) Player @patternroot
Battle Breakdown
With most of the splinters available, this make predicting your opponents selection more difficult, as it was commons and rares only I wanted to Legendary summoner to try and again an edge.
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My opponent strategy was obvious and usually highly effective, Full Powered Sneak Attack. To add to this an Inspire monster add +1 melee to all sneakers, It might be luck of just good planning but my Flesh Golem at the back soaked up every hit and was healing +4 health every round thanks to the Summoner boast of plus 2 health to all team members.
This allowed my Venari Knifer and Mushroom Seer to reduce his front line monsters just enough so that Last stand activated on the Flesh Golem and at that point it's game over. But for me the +36 ranking points is the most valuable reward that came out from this battle.
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