Splinterlands challenge - Dragons
Hello everyone, today I will show you a battle with a dragon, this week's challenge. The dragon that I´m going to use is the Chaos Dragon!!
https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_a4b9ea839324b57bc37761dd4618b902
So, in this battle I used Cursed Windeku as a tank, because he has a lot of health and because of his thorn ability (which deals 2 damage, to opponent, when hit by a melee monsters).
For the second position I used Carrion Shade for it to receive damage after the Cursed Windeku dies.
For the third position I used Chaos Dragon so that it can be tank after the Cursed Windeku and Carrion Shade dies. Also, I used him at third position and not first or second position because of his ability, the scattershot ability (the monster´s attack hit a random enemy target).
For the fourth and last place I used Venari Bonesmith, hoping that if all the first 3 monsters dies, it can at least increased it´s health, through it´s life leech ability (monster´s health increases each time it damages an enemy monster´s health in proportion to the damage dealt), to 10 or more health to be tank and kill the enemy.
My strategy did worked. For the first round, Serpent of Eld attacked Cursed Windeku, but didn´t damage it´s health since it has a shield, the with Cursed Windeku´s thorn, it did 2 damage to Serpent of Eld. Then, the Ice Pixies threw 1 magic to my Cursed Windeku and left him with 8 health. After that my Choas Dragon attacked 3 magic to Ice Pixie and killed her. Then, my Cursed Windeku attacked Serpent of Eld, it damaged his shield and left him with only 5 health. Then Scavo Hireling gave Serpent of Eld 2 shield. After that, Deeplurker attack Carrion Shade, it didn´t die because it has a shield. Then, my Venari Bonesmith attack 1 to Serpent of Eld, and increased it´s health by 1. After that, Feasting Seaweed attack Carrion Shade and killed him. Now, for the second round, Serpent of Eld attacked first and dealt 3 damage to Cursed Windeku, then Cursed Windeku, with it´s thorn ability, dealt 2 damage back. Then Chaos Dragon threw 3 magic damage to Serpent of Eld, but Merdaali Guardian heal Serpent of Eld, and now he has 3 health. Then Cursed Windeku attacked 2 melee damage to Serpent of Eld and left him with only 1 health, but Scavo Hireling gave Serpent of Eld 2 shield, and now it have 1 health with 2 shield. Then Deeplurker attacked Venari Bonesmith, but it only damaged his shield and not his health. After that Venari Bonesmith attack 1 magic to Serpent of Eld, killed him and increased his health by 1. Then Feasting Seaweed attack Cursed Windeku by 2 and left him with only 3 health , then Cursed Windeku, with his thorn ability attacked Feasting Seaweed by 2, but didn´t killed it since it has 1 shield. Then, for the third round, my Chaos Dragon, attacked 3 magic to Scavo Hireling and killed him. After that Deeplurker attacked Cursed Windeku and killed him, but with the thorn ability, Cursed Windeku did 2 damage to Deeplurker and left him with 4 health. After that, Venari Bonesmith attacked Deeplurker by 1 magic, left him with 3 health and increased it´s health by 1. After that Feasting Seaweed attacked Venari Bonesmith by 2 and left him with 4 health. For the fourth round, Chaos Dragon attacked 3 magic to Deeplurker and killed him. Then, Venari Bonesmith attacked 1 magic to Merdaali Guardian, left her with 2 health and increased it´s health by one, but was then hit by Feasting Seaweed and left with 3 health. For round five, Chaos Dragon attacked 3 magic to Merdaali Guardian and killed her. Then, my Venari Bonesmith attacked 1 magic to Feasting Seaweed, left him with only 1 health and increased it´s health by 1, now it has 4 health. Then, Feasting Seaweed attacked Chaos Dragon by 2, but since he has shield, it only attacked his shield and not his life. And for the sixth and last round, Chaos Dragon attacked 3 magic to Feasting Seaweed and killed him. So I did win. I think that for the next time I will use the same strategy since I haven´t lost, but when I lose, I´ll see how I lose and will change the monsters or the position.
I like Chaos Dragon, because it has a lot of health, plus it has some shield, also because it attacks 3 and has 3 speed, plus it has the flying ability that makes it hard for nonflying monster to hut him. But the problem is that it uses 14 mana, which is a lot, so I like to use it only when the max mana cap of the battle is 30 or more. When it is at lower than 30 I don´t like to use him since he uses a lot of mana.