Introduction

After a 15 day vacation I'm here again to post an analysis of one of my battles.

In the silver league, before starting to face Yodin and Llama, there is a Splinter Life combo that appears in several matches, today a little replaced by the combo of Splinter Water with the new Summoner Kelya Frendul. It's about using several monsters with the Sneak or Opportunity skills combined with a monster with the Inspire skill, which provides 01 melee attack damage to all monsters and a Summoner that provides Shield or Divine Shield to increase the longevity of the team. I myself am a fan of this composition and I use it in several games (Greengineer, 2022-a).

In this post I bring a combination that can counter these users without using Summoner Mylor Crownling or Demoralize skill combos with summoners that reduce melee attack, taking advantage of the Amplify skill that became more accessible after the launch of the Chaos Legion set.

The strategy before the battle

The battle did not allow the use of legendary monsters and healing abilities were disabled. My opponent had a history full of battles using the summoner Tyrus Paladium with monsters with the Sneak ability and the amount of 28 MP available was enough to assemble a good team along this line.

I usually counter users of this combo with Summoner Mylor Crownling, but it wasn't available in my deck, so I needed to think of a way to fight my opponent with what I had available.

There were 02 monsters with the Thorns skill in my Life deck, the Enchanted Defender and the Crystal Jaguar. However, they weren't enough to eliminate the entire enemy backline, so I needed to make every hit from Thorns that my opponent took more painful and for that I had the help of Dax Paragon, with the Amplify ability:

- Amplify: Increases the damage of Magic Reflect, Return Fire, and Thorns by 1.

To increase the hits needed to eliminate my two monsters with Thorns I used Summoner Lorna Shine combined with Truthspeaker. To speed up the elimination of my opponent I selected the Silvershield Assassin and with the 05 MP left I put the Silvershield Paladin as a tank.

Once assembled, the team was hoping that my enemy would continue in the same line of his history, which luckily for me happened:

The battle

My opponent came with Tyrus Paladium using 03 monsters with the Sneak skill (Silvershield Assassin, Feral Spirit and Stitch Leech) buffed with the Inspire of the Silvershield Knight and protected by the Defender of Truth. As a tank he selected the Pelacor Conjurer with its low MP consumption.

At the end of the first round all the monsters were still alive in the arena, my Enchanted Defender had lost all his shield, but the 03 Sneak monsters also lost.

At the end of the second round I lost my first monster, which took my opponent's Feral Spirit with it. His Silvershield Assassin was also eliminated by hitting my Crystal Jaguar. My opponent's Defender of Truth was exposed and about to die.

At the end of the third round my Silvershield Assassin eliminated 02 enemies and my Dax Paragon was about to kill himself by hitting Pelacor with Magic Reflect.

At the end of the fourth round I lost an ally and removed the shield of the Silvershield Knight from my opponent.

After a fifth round with no kills, in the sixth round there was the elimination of the last 02 monsters of my opponent.

Leaving your strategy exposed makes unlikely teams appear that can destroy you, as happened in Greengineer (2022-b, 2022-c, 2022-d and 2022-e). This happens quite often in the lower rated leagues due to the presence of many users who completely depend on rental cards to have competitive decks, causing them to focus on few Splinters.

I hope you liked the strategy to counterattack teams that abuse the Sneak skill. Follow the battle link if you want to follow in detail: Greengineer (2022-f).

PS: Sorry if there is any error in the above writing, as English is not my mother language.

References

@greengineer (2022-a, January 18). SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! Feral Spirit EN-US/PT-BR. PEAKD. @greengineer/share-your-battle-weekly-challenge-feral-spirit-en-uspt-br

@greengineer (2022-b, January 04). SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! SPINEBACK TURTLE. PEAKD. @greengineer/share-your-battle-weekly-challenge-spineback-turtle

@greengineer (2022-c, January 22). Battle analysis: A llama in trouble. PEAKD. @greengineer/battle-analysis-a-llama-in-trouble

@greengineer (2022-d, January 29). Battle analysis: Prince Rennyn hunted a Llama EN-US/PT-BR. PEAKD. @greengineer/battle-analysis-prince-rennyn-hunted-a-llama-en-uspt-br

@greengineer (2022-e, February 04). Battle analysis: Earthquake destroy a Yodin EN-US/PT-BR. PEAKD. @greengineer/battle-analysis-earthquake-destroy-a-yodin-en-uspt-br

@greengineer (2022-f, February 02). Battle Link. Splinterlands - Collect, Trade, Battle!. https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_e0d6510ade42ca2bcafa9a05e8248f2a&ref=greengineer

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Introdução

Depois de uma férias de 15 dias estou aqui novamente para postar algumas análises de minhas batalhas.

Na liga prata, antes de começar a enfrentar o Yodin e a Llama, há um combo do Splinter Life que aparece em várias partidas, hoje um pouco substituído pelo combo do Splinter Water com a nova Summoner Kelya Frendul. Se trata de utilizar vários monstros com as habilidades Sneak ou Opportunity combinados com um monstro com a habilidade Inspire, que fornece um de ataque melee para todos os monstros e um Summoner que forneça Shield ou Divine Shield para aumentar a longevidade do time. Eu mesmo sou um fã desta composição e utilizo em várias partidas (Greengineer, 2022-a).

Neste post trago uma combinação que pode contra-atacar estes usuários sem o uso do Summoner Mylor Crownling ou combos da habilidade Demoralize com summoners que reduzem o ataque melee, aproveitando a habilidade Amplify que ficou mais acessível após o lançamento do set Chaos Legion.

A estratégia antes da batalha

A batalha não permitia o uso de monstros lendários e as habilidades de cura estavam desabilitadas. Meu oponente estava com o histórico repleto de batalhas utilizando o summoner Tyrus Paladium com monstros com a habilidade Sneak e a quantia de 28 MP disponível era suficiente para montar um bom time seguindo esta linha.

Geralmente contra-ataco usuários deste combo com o Summoner Mylor Crownling, mas estava sem ele disponível no meu deck, logo precisava pensar em uma forma de combater meu oponente com o que tinha disponível.

Haviam 02 monstros com a habilidade Thorns no meu deck Life, o Enchanted Defender e o Crystal Jaguar. Porém eles não eram suficientes para eliminar toda a backline inimiga, logo precisava fazer com que cada hit de Thorns que meu oponente levasse fosse mais dolorido e pra isso contei com a ajuda do Dax Paragon, com a habilidade Amplify:

- Amplify: Aumenta o dano das habilidades Magic Reflect, Return Fire e Thorns em 1.

Para aumentar os hits necessários para eliminar meus dois monstros com Thorns utilizei a Summoner Lorna Shine combinada com Truthspeaker. Para agilizar a eliminação de meu oponente selecionei a Silvershield Assassin e com os 05 de MP que sobraram coloquei o Silvershield Paladin como tanque.

Uma vez montado o time era torcer para que meu inimigo continuasse na mesma linha de seu histórico, o que pra minha sorte ocorreu:

A batalha

Meu oponente veio com o Tyrus Paladium utilizando 03 monstros com a habilidade Sneak (Silvershield Assassin, Feral Spirit e Stitch Leech) buffados com o inspire do Silvershield Knight e protegidos pelo Defender of Truth. Como tanque ele selecionou o Pelacor Conjurer com seu baixo consumo de MP.

No final do primeiro round todos os monstros permaneciam vivos na arena, o meu Enchanted Defender havia perdido todo o seu escudo, mas os 03 monstros Sneak também.

No final do segundo round eu perdi meu primeiro monstro, que levou junto o Feral Spirit de meu oponente. Sua Silvershield Assassin também foi eliminada batendo no meu Crystal Jaguar. O Defender of Truth de meu oponente ficou exposto e prestes a morrer.

No final do terceiro round minha Silvershield Assassin eliminou 02 inimigos e meu Dax Paragon estava prestes a se matar batendo no Pelacor com Magic Reflect.

No final do quarto round perdi um aliado e retirei o escudo do Silvershield Knight de meu oponente.

Depois de um quinto round sem abates, no sexto round houve a eliminação dos 02 últimos monstros de meu oponente.

Deixar sua estratégia exposta faz aparecer times improváveis que podem destruí-la, como ocorrido em Greengineer (2022-b, 2022-c, 2022-d e 2022-e). Isto acontece com bastante frequência nas ligas de menor rating devido a presença de muitos usuários que dependem totalmente do aluguel de cartas para terem decks competitivos, fazendo com que foquem em poucos Splinters.

Espero que tenham gostado da estratégia para contra-atacar times que abusam da habilidade Sneak. Segue o link da batalha caso queiram acompanhar em detalhes: Greengineer (2022-f).

Referências

@greengineer (2022-a, 18 de Janeiro). SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! Feral Spirit EN-US/PT-BR. PEAKD. @greengineer/share-your-battle-weekly-challenge-feral-spirit-en-uspt-br

@greengineer (2022-b, 04 de Janeiro). SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! SPINEBACK TURTLE. PEAKD. @greengineer/share-your-battle-weekly-challenge-spineback-turtle

@greengineer (2022-c, 22 de Janeiro). Battle analysis: A llama in trouble. PEAKD. @greengineer/battle-analysis-a-llama-in-trouble

@greengineer (2022-d, 29 de Janeiro). Battle analysis: Prince Rennyn hunted a Llama EN-US/PT-BR. PEAKD. @greengineer/battle-analysis-prince-rennyn-hunted-a-llama-en-uspt-br

@greengineer (2022-e, 04 de Fevereiro). Battle analysis: Earthquake destroy a Yodin EN-US/PT-BR. PEAKD. @greengineer/battle-analysis-earthquake-destroy-a-yodin-en-uspt-br

@greengineer (2022-f, 02 de Fevereiro). Link de Batalha. Splinterlands - Collect, Trade, Battle!. https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_e0d6510ade42ca2bcafa9a05e8248f2a&ref=greengineer