Hey Splintermates, how are you doing? Here in Spain is saturday night, but we don´t care, we keep pushing on PeakD our favourite game called Splinterlands😎.
The Splinterlands team has prepared a new challenge where we have been asked to share with the community some Tutorials and Tips from the Community.
Before starting with my tutorial on one legendary summoner, I would like to share with you that I have finally created my alt account called ESTEBAM02. My friend and guild mate @nozem01 was asking for it, so I found some spare Euros and have bought a Spellbook.
So you will see more and more content from Estebam in the Splinterlands universe. Isn´t that nice🤣?
AKANE - I GOT THE POWER
The Rebellion card set was released on December 5th 2023. The Rebellion set consists on 95 cards. There were the CORE cards and progressively, through Conflicts, additional legendary summoners have been released.
However, with the CORE set, the team released a legendary dragon summoner called AKANE. If you are actively playing Splinterlands, you will note that Risqruel Drath, Cryptic, Elias Max Pruitt, Nidhoggr and specially Lorkus and Eternal Tofu are being played in all kind of leagues. But what happens with AKANE? Is there no use for this card? Just for your information, I bought 1 BCX of this card early 2024, so I have special feelings for her😅.
TACTICS SUMMONER
The first thing you need to know is that AKANE belongs to the family of the TACTICS SUMMONERS. This means, that you will need to choose between the different abilities she has:
LOOKOUT: Adjacent unit takes 1 less damage from Sneak, Snipe and Opportunity damage. Reduces damage from all enemy Ambush attacks by 50% (rounded down). It gives Lookout to 1 unit.
AMBUSH: Takes an extra turn prior the first round of battle. It gives Ambush to 2 units.
Both abilities are really nice, but I always go for the AMBUSH ability. Why? You will see that in the battle I am going to share with you right now.
AKANE - UNLEASH THE POWER
**Strategy: **
The Splinterlands meta currently consists on speed. You want to hit your enemy before he hits you. So with AKANE, what you get is basically an early extra round, so your monsters can hit first. Be sure that you choose two monsters with the highest damage.
To explain exactly how AKANE works, I am going to share with you a recent battle that I have fought. Please click on the link so you can follow the explanation with more details.
Ruleset of the battle:
- Maneuvers: All units have Reach ability. This means, any melee unit can attack from the second position.
- Need for Speed: Only units with +3 speed can be summoned.
- Unprotected: Units will have no shield.
- 12 Mana
In low mana battles and specially with no shield, you will be looking for speed, because there shouldn´t be too many monsters. You should also be focusing one unit (front or back), so all damage goes just to one unit.
ROUND 0 - AMBUSH ROUND
In this ROUND 0 or the AMBUSH ROUND, I need to choose between the 2 abilities I have described above. In my case, I have chosen to give AMBUSH to:
- EXPLODING RATS: 2 melee damage with blast and 5 Speed.
- KHA´ZI CONJURER: 4 ranged damage and 3 speed with Piercing.
This means, that in the AMBUSH ROUND, I will be hitting his monsters with: 2 melee + 4 ranged damage the unit and 1 melee damage his 2nd unit.
ROUND 1
As per above, my opponent has already received a big amount of damage and he just couldn´t do anything to stop that.
His main tank has lost 6 health and the Halfling Refugee 1 health. But the crazy thing of using AKANE comes also now. As my units have more speed:
- EXPLODING RATS have 5 Speed --> He will attack first.
- KHA´ZI CONJURER has 3 Speed, but attacks prior to his units.
So again, I can do 2 melee damage with blast and 4 ranged damage before he can hit me. After Round 0 and start of Round 1, I have hit my enemy with 14 units of damage in total.
ROUND 2 - SAYONARA BABY
As you can see, his main tank, the PELACOR MERCENARY is gone and only a damaged Halfling Refugee is left. And because a new round is starting, my Exploding Rats and the KHA´ZI Conjurer are going to hit first, so another 6 units of damage is he going to get.
@rarbf Nice match technically, your line up was nice with flying + heal ability of the main tank. GG mate and see you on the Battlefield very soon🤠!
As you can see, AKANE is such a powerful legendary tactics summoner that you need to know how and when to use her. She is a powerhouse that you need to have also available, she can provide a big amount of damage for your advantage. I love using her!
Thank you if you have read until the end and let me know if and/ or how you use AKANE. I would love to see some battles!
If you would like to be my second referral, please use the following link and we will all see the 3Ws! You WIN, Splinterlands WINS and I WIN!
VONAK🤠💪!
OMG he was dead before he could do anything 😂that was a perfect line-up and very nasty strategy mate!
Thanks for sharing! - @yonilkar
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