Welcome back to my blog, @queen-silvia. In this week, The current theme for BATTLE MAGE SECRETS Weekly Challenge is Counterspell
. It's one of the new ruleset introduced by Splinterlands team along with the Briar Patch & Fire and Regret as all of those ruleset are returning the specific damage back to the attacker. Briar Patch has the same effect as Thorn which giving -2 damage when melee monsters 👊 attack their target, Fire and Regret is returning any ranged 🎯 attack back to the attacker while Counterspell has the same concept as Fire and Regret, It's returning magic 🔮 attack back to magic monsters. The damage returned is proportional to the attack and it can even higher with the help of amplify . Alright, before we are talking more about Counterspell , let's discuss about the basic concept of this ability first :
Fundamental Concept of Counterspell
Counterspell : All monsters receive the Magic Reflect ability at the start of the battle. Enemy monsters that attack with magic receive damage back.
Alright, so all monsters are able to reflect
the magic 🔮 damage back to the attacker. If we are thinking simple logic, all magic monsters should not be used right? since the damage will be reflected 🛡 back, so there are 2 kind of attacks left to be anticipated, the first one is melee 👊 damage and the second one is ranged 🎯 damage.
The decision to counter melee or ranged attack is depend on the ruleset a lot. Here is an example, if we have Counterspell combined with Fog of War ⚔️ where all melee monsters could not attack 🗡 unless they are in the first position then we have to anticipate ranged 🎯 attack, the same way if we have counterspell
along with Broken Arrow ruleset for example, than we have to anticipate melee attack from the opponent.
Here are summoners that can be used to counter melee and ranged attack :
Summoners to counter melee attack | Summoners to counter ranged attack |
---|---|
Mylor Crowling | Lir Deepswimmer |
Zintar Mortalis | Ilthain |
Camila Sungazer | Contessa L'ament |
Crypt Mancer | Quix The Devious |
Mimmosa Nightshade | |
The Peakrider |
Based on my experience playing at ranked battle and tournament, The most used summoner to counter melee attack is Mylor Crowling
because we can increase the Thorn effect using amplify ability while other summoners are just reducing the melee 👊 damage. Meanwhile the most used summoners to counter ranged attack is between Lir Deepswimmer 💦 and Ilthain 🏵. The choice is depend on the mana, If the mana is high, good players tend to use Lir Deepswimmer 💦 and if the mana is low, people like to use Ilthain 🏵 because of their mana cost.
Well, In this article we'll discuss about how to build up strong 💪 team
to counter the enemy attack using Ilthain effectively in a Gold League ranked battle ⚔️. All of the battle aspects within the game 🎮 like Mana, Rulesets, Team line up and battle strategies will be explained in the next subtopics. I hope it can be useful for the community 👨👩👧👦. Let's start the discussion with Rulesets and mana first.
Rulesets
There are 3 rulesets in this battle, Here they are :
Well, there are 2 dominant ruleset in the battle. The first one is Fog of War
and the second one is Counterspell
. Fog of war eliminates the possibility of the opponent to use melee 👊 monsters since sneak and opportunity are disabled in this ruleset. Long time ago, when Fog of War was being introduced, opportunity was still active but several weeks later the Splinterlands team disable it and it completely makes the ruleset removed melee 👊 attack unless at the first position, That means we can remove melee attack at this point.
Second ruleset is Counterspell
. Well As we have discussed earlier. this ruleset eliminate the possibility of the opponent to use magic 🔮 monsters because if they use magic, the attack will be reflected back and they could die with their own attack. We have removed melee 👊 and now we are removing magic 🔮 monsters, that means the most possible monsters to be used in the battle ⚔️ will be ranged attack only. This kind of logic is really useful to help us arranging the best team to counter the enemy attack 🗡.
The last ruleset is Close Range
. It give us guidance that all of ranged 🎯 monsters could attack in the first position. the ruleset increase the possibility for ranged monsters and summoners related to ranged attack to come out into the battle. Alright as the conclusion, ranged attack 🎯 has the highest possibility to be used in the battle, that's why Ilthain is the summoner I used in this battle.
Mana and Splinters
The mana for the battle is rather high (45), good enough to build strong 💪 team with various monsters. What makes the battle interesting is that there are only 2 splinters available, it makes us easier to predict 👀 what kind of summoner that the opponent would like to use for the battle. I played Gold league at Modern format so the most possible summoner to use is either Ilthain
or Immortalis
. Why Immortalis? since he gives void ability to all friendly monsters to reduce the damage taken by reflected magic 🔮. Grandmaster Rathe is also protecting 🛡 the friendly monster from reflected magic but it's temporarily since only +1 void armor given.
If the opponent like total-attack
⚔️ strategy, General Sloan might be chosen since the additional damage +1 for ranged 🎯 attack is good enough to kill the enemy faster. Mylor Crowling 🍃 will not likely to be chosen since Fog of War eliminate the possibility for melee monsters 👊 to be used. Fernheart is also pointless since the ruleset is already giving ranged monsters capability to attack from the first place. As the conclusion, I think Ilthain is the best summoner to be used in this ruleset because she is the only summoner who can counter ranged 🎯 attack at modern format.
Summoner
Level 5 Ilthain
Tips 💡
Ilthain and Lir Deepswimmer are great summoner to counter ranged attack.
First Monster
Level 5 Shieldbearer
Attributes
"Tips 💡 : Always use tank monster with shield ability to hold melee and ranged attack"
Second Monster
Level 6 Corsair Bosun
Attributes
"Tips 💡 : At Gold league, cleanse is very important because there are many negative effect given to the tank monster"
Third Monster
Level 5 Evangelist
Attributes
"Tips 💡 : In the battle where magic monsters is unlikely to be used, ranged attack monster with high HP is the best choice"
Forth Monster
Level 7 Venari Crystalsmith
Attributes
"Tips 💡 : Cleanse and tank heal can keep tank monster's health point restored in each round"
Fifth Monster
Level 8 Lone Boatman
Attributes
"Tips 💡 : Lone Boatman is a meta life monster with his repair and snipe abilities"
Sixth Monster
Level 3 Dr. Blight
Attributes
"Tips 💡 : Although the ruleset is counterspell, Dr. Blight will still have enough health point as any monsters died will increase his health point by +1 due to his scavenger ability"
Alright, all the line up has been explained, Now let's move to the battlefield and see how to build strong counter using Ilthain at Counterspell ruleset.
Here is the battle looks like in the first round :
The opponent used many magic 🔮 monsters and Immortalis as the summoner because the reflected magic would not give any damage when all monsters have void
ability. Unfortunately, they are using level 2 Immortalis so the respective monsters are also at silver league. It gives me more advantage in the battle ⚔️ as gold level monsters will always stronger than silver level monsters because they are definitely having higher stats (attack, speed, armor and health points), higher level monsters are also have more abilities. As we can see in the battle 🗡, both players used monster with shield ability to deal with the physical attack.
Close range ruleset is a game changer
This is how the end of battle looks like. Both players have gotten so much damage 😵, me too as I didn't expect the oppoennt will use lots of magic 🔮 monsters. My Shieldbearer is not designed to deal with magic monsters (unless GrandmasterRathe is used as the summmoner). I have to say, Close Range
ruleset really helps me a lot as all of my ranged attack monsters can still attack in the first position. I would 100% lose the battle if the ruleset was not Close Range since all of my ranged attack monsters have to fight against many magic 🔮 monsters in the first position. At the end of match, Supply Runner 🏃 attack has no impact since My Venari Crystalsmith healed herself with her tank heal ability.
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Thank you for giving your take on counterspell, and of course for the giveaway! I always like to use Djinn Oshannus if water splinter is available, since his void ability keeps him from taking damage back from his attacks. Pairing him with a healer and a armor-repairer even makes him a good tank (at least at my Bronze level of play)
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