Hiya Splinterlanders :)
Let's first talk about rulesets in general, not concentrating on the specific line-up. There weren't any good occasions before, and the rulesets are the main catalyst that determines what setup you would like to play.
Ruleset definition:
Aim True: Melee and ranged attacks will always hit their target.
Note: This applies to magic attacks as well even if there is a phase monster.
Firstly, the description of the ruleset in the game is not perfect, sometimes you got just general information which not giving you all information you need. Best way to read the full description as above from the game documentation at least once. You can check all here.
Overall rulesets define battle, now with new changes to the rulesets system where usually you have 3 of them, there are even more important.
Aim True is maybe not be the most impactful, for sure you need to be aware of all dodge strategy that will not work.
You still need to take into consideration the speed, of course, even the slowest monster will hit his target, but it needs to be alive till that moment. So for sure taking low-speed monster is less risky for Aim True ruleset, but as in the battle below speed is the king. :)
Today's battle is unusual. I rather present how not to play from my side, and an almost perfect line-up from opponent's side.
I'm not a very experience fire splinter player, I think in lower league silver and below fire splinter overall is one of the weakest and quite situational. (without Yodin of course :D ). I still need to play and learn more about it. In a higher league as I always say you need to rely on patterns and there are a few effective from fire splinter, but still I usually don't even rent any fire cards. But today I wanted to present you one of the best setup of Fire splinter and the battle was with one of the best players in Splinterlands - @schnapoon.
As I mentioned Aim True is the perfect opportunity for the Yodin team, I couldn't find any good counter, maybe the Ilthain team, but it still feels underperforming. I risk one of the best setups with Immortalis and Mycelic Slipspawn, hoping to block some of the high damage with forcefield. As you can see it failed.
Round 2, the situation doesn't look great, my only hope is that Quora will start snowballing and grow monstrously. I'm still standing, but how long? :D
Round 3, as you can see not too long, I have just lost two of my most beefy monsters on the battlefield, good thing Quora get one kill and bloodlust buff. Unfortunately, because of the divine shield from the Holy protection ruleset, she couldn't get a second one. Blast is so useful here :).
Round 4, there is a still small hope with Quora on the battlefield, but we are running out of firepower :) We need a miracle here :), oh no it's true strike :)
Yep, true strike means no miracle, we haven't survived to 5th round, Quora wasn't enough, let's jump to summary to get full picture.
As I mentioned I haven't got a lot of experience of fire splinter, but we got great opponent with very effective line-up, so let's do some post-mortem analysis ;).
The battle was far from perfect, it was challenging match during the stream and is very good opponent, so maybe I got a little stress :D. I have tried to check other line-up using the cards which were available to me, and I couldn't find any which could even barely compete.
I think one good lesson which you can learn from it, is how important are rulesets. As you can see my opponents perfectly use all the rulesets in his favor. True strike is so important for any ranged unit. One of the best counters to Yodin is high speed and trying to avoid hitting at all costs, we couldn't use this tactic here.
Yodin Zaku is not a cheap card, even for rent, so I usually don't see him quite often. But on higher level tournament you should always have in mind that opponent could use him. One of the hint is rulesets, if you see Aim True, probability is much higher, I haven't do my lesson in presented battle, and took nice beating :).
I hope you like this kind of battle and strategy presentation. More strategy analysis, discussion, and prediction games you can find on my Wednesday Splinterlands.tv stream. You can check the schedule here
If you have any comments, please do not hesitate. Do you think I could improve anything just tell me :)
If you wish to try out Splinterlands you can use my reference link.
Thumbnails and other pictures borrowed with permission from the Splinterlands team or made in Cooltext
We continue our game from the previous week, today new battle, new card to win :).
I come to some idea, I hope you will like it and participate. Every week I will publish one battle, and your goal is to point out first victim of the battle and who will be the winner. This game is exactly the same as my prediction game which I run on my Wednesday Splinterlands.tv stream. I know that not everyone can attend the stream, so I hope you will still have fun in that way. More about rules you can read here.
Among all participants who get correct answer I will randomly (probably on my Wednesday stream) choose one winner.
The prize of first blog prediction game for lucky winner will be the epic card:
Here we got the battle, of course with our today's hero: Yodin Zaku
Game instruction:
Try to point out which monster will die first on the battlefield and who win the battle
- t - top player
- b - bottom player
- number - order counting from the first position
Examples:
t2b = monster on second position of top player die first, bottom player wins
b6t = monster on sixth position of bottom player die first, top player wins
t3t = monster on thiird position of top player die first, top player wins
Thank you for the challenge. And thank you for the article.
It is useful to be able to destroy two Holy Protection because of the blast. Aim True so I don't have to worry about being evaded even if it's Jacek. I was afraid of Ilthain, DeepSwimmer, Varnamor.
Thanks for the post. My prediction is t1b. Ign: caminomechilles.
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t1b
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t1b
b6t
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my guess is b2t
IGN: Dtam
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t1b
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t1b
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b2t
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t1b
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