Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: Prepare your Gas Masks

With the ruleset and element pick that I got the most important thing was to counter Noxious Fumes as best as I could as the mana cap was high enough the battle was going to take some time to end and by then Noxious Fumes damage makes a huge difference
So in my case I went with fire element as I had a great team there

Grum Flameblade was one of my main tanks for this battle
Main reason I like Grum Flameblade here a lot is his Bloodlust ability
Even tho Grum Flameblade would get damaged by Noxious Fumes I still played him because I was going to Cleanse him
Bloodlust - Every time this Unit defeats an opponent, it gets +1 to all stats
Void Armor - Magic attacks hit this Unit's armor before its Health
Void - Reduced damage from Magic attacks by 50%

Venari Marksrat was here just to get killed by Noxious Fumes and buff adjacent units
Martyr - When this Unit dies, adjacent Units get +1 to all stats

Forgotten One was the next tank for my team
Forgotten One was played here mostly because his Immunity ability and high stats
Immunity - This Unit is immune to negative status effects

Next up in line is my cleansing monster
His entire reason in this battle was to Cleanse my Grum Flameblade
Cleanse - Removes all negative effects on the Unit in the first position on the friendly team

I picked Furious Chicken for mainly one reason only
And it was that I had 0 mana left and open slots to fill
Not the reason I put him in the back not the front was that my Scavo Chemist had 4 speed and might cleanse him not my Grum Flameblade which would end with him getting one Noxious Fumes damage
Placing him in the last position gave me a one attack tank in the best case and nothing in the worst case but at least my Grum Flameblade would not get un needed damage

Already after seeing the starting board I was confident I would win because even tho my enemy played quite tanky team with two healers mine still felt a lot stronger because mine was not getting damaged by Noxious Fumes
But my predictions could still be off by a mile so lets start the battle and have a look

After first two rounds the board was still looking quite the same as in the start
I had lost my backline Furious Chicken but my enemies lost his first frontline tank and also half of his second tanks hp
But anything could still happen so lets keep watching

In the start of the 3rd round my Venari Marksrat finally died and buffed both of my tanks
My enemy in the mean time lost two of his backline monsters and also was about to lose his Arachne Weaver (healer) in the start of the next round which also meant his Cursed Windeku was about to fall as well
Lets hope for the best and keep watching

After four rounds the battle board was looking amazing for me
My enemy had only one monster on his side with great hp but very bad damage which meant the battle was totally confirmed at this point
Also my Grum Flameblade managed to get a takedown and therefore stacked his Bloodlust ability
Now I just needed to wait for the last rounds and then face my victory

This battle was definitely heavily one sided but still fun to watch
The strategy to take away from this battle is the basic Cleanse and Immunity abilities in Noxious Fumes ruleset battles
Also Bloodlust monsters are great in Noxious Fumes battles as long as they get takedowns as it is basically same as healing
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