Hello everyone! This is my second entry for this week's Splinterlands Social Media Challenge. Today I'm sharing a battle of mine in Modern Diamond Ranked.
I fought an interesting battle in Modern Diamond ranked. Kelya Frendul is the best rare Chaos Legion summoner. Possibilus the Wise is not the best legendary Chaos Legion summoner but it is certainly better than it looks. Usually, summoner abilities are or can be useful for most or even the whole team (excluding Tactics). Reach is only useful for the second unit. You can put more melee units behind the second but that just means they'll be there doing nothing until some of your units are killed. Trample can be useful for back melee units with Sneak or Opportunity, but it's likely to be better for the first 2 units. +2 HP isn't that impressive. This is all in theory. In practice, Reach and Trample work very well together. Water has some massive monsters like Diemonshark, Coastal Sentry, and Commander Slade. Neutral has Arkemis the Bear and Mantaroth. They work very well, especially when put together. It's good to place the one you want to survive longer in the second spot. Kelya is simpler but great. +1 Speed and +1 Armor. Speed is always good, except for Reverse Speed. The first armor stat is the most important one. Having said all of this, it's often a difficult choice between the 2 summoners, especially in higher mana battles. In low mana, Kelya is usually better but, at a certain point, the 2 mana don't matter much. The choice often comes to choosing between the extra speed or wanting the Reach.
Here's the battle: https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_63d880523f86b5e8408d4c20df23e0bf
This game has the following rule sets: Beefcakes, Armored Up, and Noxious Fumes. I went with Kelya and put Mantaroth in front. I followed it with a trio of Weapons Training consisting of Grimbardun Smith being trained by Kulu Mastermind in front and Daarg Deadblast in the back. For the last 2, I used Anasth Soothsayer and Deeplurker. They opted for Possibilus and used the classic Arkemis the Bear plus Mantaroth combo. They placed Anasth Soothsayer, Supply Runner, and Swamp Spitter next. They finished the team with the Taunt unit Wave Brood.
We had to wait for round 2 to see a unit die: Wave Brood. My Mantaroth went down to 1 HP, though. In round 3, they finished my Mantaroth but I was able to kill Supply Runner with Deeplurker. They killed my Kulu, in round 4. After the Poison, I lost Deeplurker. In the following round, I was able to deal with the Bear, but their Mantaroth eliminated my Daarg with the Blast damage. After the Poiso, they were down to only Mantaroth at 4 HP. Since both my units attacked first and they had exactly 4 magic damage total, the game ended in round 6, in my favor.
It was a very close game. I think what gave me the win was Grimbardun Smith's Immunity and my magic damage. It's difficult to say which was the better summoner choice though.
What do you all think about this game? Would you have done anything different? Let me know in the comments! Thank you for reading!!
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@themarkymark again downvoting me. Stop it, I have nothing to do with any of your issues with bdvoter.
@olaf.gui
Same here, he downvoted my latest blog for no reason and without leaving any feedback...
From what I understood a few months ago basically he has some personal beef with Zaku (the owner of bdvoter account) because he votes out posts and since Splinterlands takes longer to vote, they get more of the rewards and Splinterlands gets less. However, that hurts the poster more than anyone else and it also hurts every other voter including Splinterlands. Furthermore this is a Hive witness with this behavior. When we wonder why Hive doesn't grow it's because of things like this.
Sad story, if it's true as you say...
And as you mentioned, I also find it crass that such a person is a Hive Witness.
Is there any way to contact him? Or do something about it?
I don't know. I tried tagging him another time here no response, will probably be the same again. I know he has responded in the Splinterlands discord before several months ago but not sure if he's still there. I don't remember the username.
Thanks for sharing! - @mango-juice
