Splinterlands Battle Of The Week: The Kraken tanks it all

The Ruleset

• Rulesets - Four's a Crowd & Broken Arrows
• Mana Cap - 29
• Active Elements -

Here's my starting lineup

Summoner: Kelya Frendul

• With the ruleset and element pick that was available to me kind of forced me to play melee water
• Melee because the mana cap was a bit to low to craft a great magic team
• And water because Life is possible my worst element of them all
• So in my case I went with a Kelya Frendul as he was my only level 4 summoner in water and also I actually really like his +1 speed and +1 armor combo

1st Position: The Kraken

• The Kraken was my main tanks for this battle
• Kraken is possible my favorite monster I rent from others as I do not own any myself
• Main reason I like The Kraken here a lot is his Taunt ability
• Taunt - Draws the attacks of enemy units. Does not affect Reach, Scattershot, Wingbreak, or enemy units in the first position

2nd Position: Uraeus

• As The Kraken costed almost half of my total mana I needed to go cheap
• For that I had Uraeus who I really like just because how many stats you get for only 3 mana
• Sneak - Targets the enemy unit in the last position

3rd Position: Pelacor Bandit

• Next one was also a cheap Sneak monster called Pelacor Bandit
• Even tho Pelacor Bandit did not have any armor like Uraeus did Pelacor Bandit had the Flying ability which can turn the battle totally on to its head
• Sneak - Targets the enemy unit in the last position
• Flying - +25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake

4th Position: Deeplurker

• For last but not least is a bit bigger boy than the last two were
• Deeplurker was acting as a backline tanker and also huge damage dealer for my team
• Opportunity - Targets the enemy unit with the least health

Starting board

• Already after seeing the starting board I was confident I would win because I had better tank and more total damage on my team + most of my damage was faster than my enemies
• But my predictions could still be off by a mile so lets start the battle and have a look

Here's how the battle went

1st Round

• After first round I had already taken down my enemies backline Uraeus
• The Kraken lost only 3 armor and 2 hp which meant that I was sitting in a very good place
• But anything could still happen so lets keep watching

2nd Round

• In the 2nd Round my Deeplurker decided to change targets and together with The Kraken they took down my enemies only tank
• At this point the battle was far over and if I managed to hit all of my attacks the battle should be over with the next round, lets see

3rd Round

• The battle was indeed to over yet as my Kraken managed to miss his attack leaving my enemy with 3 hp Pelacor Bandit
• Now I just needed to wait for the start of the next round and then face my victory as I was not going to miss again

4th Round

• It took me 1 attack to kill my enemies last standing monster
• After his Pelacor Bandit had fallen I took the victory
• Battle Replay Link

Summary

• This battle was definitely heavily one sided but still fun to watch
• This battle is a great example how useful a Taunt monsters can be as the battle could have had a totally different ending if his Sneak and Opportunity monsters were able to attack my backline
• So if you still have 0 Taunt monsters in your lineup make sure to buy or rent some
• If you also would like to hop on the Splinterlands train feel free to use my Referral

Thanks for reading and thanks for all the upvotes, reblogs, comments and follows. And till the next challenge, KEEP BATTLING!