Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Predicting my Enemy

With the ruleset, mana cap and element pick that I got I really did not have a lot of options to pick from
I knew I had to play some Flying monsters but as the mana cap was super low I really did not have any so I was quite lost at this point
I decided to play one strong Flying monster and couple of low mana damage dealers in the back
So in my case I went with fire element and Tarsa as my summoner just because I knew my whole team was going to be melee based and Tarsa with his +1 melee damage and +1 hp was best suit for it

Gargoya Lion was my main tank for this battle
Main reason I like Gargoya Lion here a lot is his Flying ability
Even tho Gargoya Lion was quite high mana cost I still played him as I knew I needed someone strong with Flying in front of my team
Also he had the Void ability which hopefully would come handy when it comes to play enemies team
Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake
Void - Reduced damage from Magic attacks by 50%

Parasitic Growth was my first non Flying monster for this team
The idea for the rest of my team was that if my enemy decided to play Flying monsters to the backline they could take them down before they themselves fall to Earthquake damage
And if my enemy should go with non Flying monsters to the backline they just needed to damage them enough so Earthquake could end them off
Opportunity - Targets the enemy unit with the least health

Next up was another backline attacking low mana cost monster
The same applies to him as Parasitic Growth
And the reason why I played two non Flying monsters to Earthquake battle was that I simple did not have low mana cost Flying monsters
And with 4hp they both would get two 3 melee damage attacks off which was hopefully going to be enough to take down my enemies backline
Sneak - Targets the last Unit on the enemy Team instead of the first Unit

And for last but not least was one scary chicken of course
The simple idea for him was that he could tank a single hit if my enemies decides to play backline attacking monsters
And the reason why I did not play him in front was that if my enemy played a Gladius monster he would possible get an easy takedown/stack from me making the battle much harder

After seeing the starting board I was confident I would win because I managed to get so many of my picks right when it comes to the matchup I was facing
Firstly my enemy played 3 magic monsters and I had Void in the front
Secondly I played two backline attacking monsters to take down his only Flying monster
And for last I placed my Furious Chicken in the back so my enemy could not get an easy takedown with his Bloodlust monster
But my predictions could still be off by a mile so lets start the battle and have a look

After the first round my board was still looking as strong as in the start
While my enemy had lost 2 of his monsters already
The only scary thing was that his gladius monster was racking up some serious hp
Anything could still happen so lets keep watching

After 2nd Round the board was looking quite promising but then I realized that the Earthquake damage was still coming
That meant everyone except my Flying monster was going to take 2 damage
Ending off both of my low mana monsters and my enemies gladius monster
So now I just needed to wait for the start of the 3rd round and let the Earthquake damage take down my enemies last standing monster

It only took the Earthquake damage to kill my enemies last standing monster
After his Helmet Kharafax had fallen I took the victory
Battle Replay Link

This battle was definitely closer than I would have wanted but still fun to watch
Not really a strategy to take away from this battle because I really did get lucky with my picks and what my enemy played
But thats how Splinterlands sometimes goes, you try to predict what your enemy might play and hope it works out in your favor
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