Social Media Challenge | How to battle against a pretty strong team? 😊

This week I brought a **Ranked** battle, where I will try to use a very important **Gladiator** monster of my choice, because I wanted to take advantage of his **Bloodlust** ability, which will increase all of his stats by one, but only if he kills his target. 😅

The mana cap was 34, which is not that much to use a lot of big monsters, so I had to come up with a crazy strategy to capitalise the fact that the **Bloodlust** ability might be able to empower him in order to beat all the enemy monsters. My opponent monsters were much stronger than mine and their overall damage was wy higher as well, so it was important to do a trick here. Their will be no rulesets to modify the battlefield, which is pretty rare, so I need a strategy to only use monsters to create advantage over my opponent. 😉

The **Pembrook Nymph** cost 6 mana, which means that she is quite expensive compared to some of the cheaper **Summoners**, but her ability is to give +1 **Health** to all of her friendly monsters, which is also not that strong. On the otherhand her last ability is to bring one additional **Gladiator** monster into this battle which is quite amazing, because that would be a huge advantage over my opponent if I pick that monster carefully. 💪

The **Djinn Oshannus** is my main tank for this battle, because he has quite a lot of **Health** with very good **Speed** to dodge the enemy attacks. He has the **Void** ability, which will effectively halves all the incoming **Magic** attacks. His **Phase** ability is very good to dodge even **Magic** attacks and the **Forcefield** ability will reduce all the attacks with five or more to only one. 😊

**Noa the Just** will be my off-tank who doesn't have any attack, but his high **Speed**, **Armor** and his **Dodge** ability will ensure that he will give enough time to my **Isgald Vorst** to do his killing. He also has the **Rust** ability, which will decrease the **Armor** to all of the enemy monsters by two. 😇

The **Merdaali Guardian** is my main suppoert monster for this battle, because she has the **Tank Heal** ability, which means that she will restore some of the **Health** of my **Djinn Oshannus** or whoever is front of her. She doesn't have any attack, but her help is very important to outsustain the enemy damages. 🤗

**Isgald Vorst** will be my key **Gladiator** monster in this battle and that is why I brought Pembrook Nymph as my Summoner. He is a **Melee** attack monster and he has the **Opportunity** ability, which means that he will be able to attack the lowest **Health** monster from the enemy team and on top of that if he manages to kill them he will increase his own stat by one using his **Bloodlust** ability. 😉

The **Clockwork Aide** doesn't have any attack on its own, so he is just my backline protector against any enemy **Sneak** or **Opportunity** attack monster. He has only one **Health**, but a lot of **Armor**, so he is a perfect monster to sustain a lot of damage. He also has the **Rust** ability to remove the enemy armors by two and also the **Swiftness** ability, which will increase the **Speed** of all of his friendly monsters by one. 😌

The **Pelacor Bandit** is a very nice budget monster who doesn't cost a lot of mana, but offers great **Melee** attack damage with very high **Speed**. His most important feature is his **Sneak** attack, which means that he will always target the last monster from the enemy team. 😋

My opponent brought **Octavia Shadowmeld** who is a **Death** Summoenr and her ability is quite similar to my Summoner, because she will also be able to bring one additional **Gladiator** monster on her side. On top of that she will decrease the **Health** of all of my monsters by one as well. 😜 My team had two monsters with the **Rust** ability, so even though my opponent used the **Ravenhood Warden** to get +2 **Armor** my team removed four **Armor** from them, which made their monsters more vulnerable to my team. In the first round my **Pelacor Bandit** attacked their **Warden** and damaged him down to two, which was perfect for my **Isgald** to kill him and activate his **Bloodlust** ability. 😁 Just before the first round finished I almost lost my **Oshannus** who had only one **Health** left and soom after my **Guardian** healed him up a little bit to sustain a bit more damage in the next round. 😉 The second round started the same like the first, because my **Bandit** opened up the way front of my **Isgald**, which made him to be able to kill his target again and this time my opponent lost a very high damage dealer while he increased his own stats by one again. 🤗 Losing two of their damage dealers already my opponent didn't have enough damage to finish off my tank who also received some **Heal** before the second round finished. In the third round the same thing happened again and my opponent lost another monster thanks to the perfect combination of my **Bandit** and **Isgald**. 😁 By the fourth and fifth round my **Isgald** was so powerful that none of the remaining enemy monsters had any chance to defeat him, so my strategy worked perfectly and my team won this battle for me. 😇