Social Media Challenge | Melee monsters are the true kings and queens! 😜

Overview

Today I brought a Wild battle, where will try to take advantage of an interesting ruleset and against a pretty strong Summoner, so I need to be well prepared against it. 😊

My upcoming Battle ruleset(s)

Ruleset	Description
Melee Mayhem	Melee attack Monsters can attack from any position.
Healed Out	All healing abilities are removed from Monsters and Summoners.

The mana cap for my next battle is 35, which is not that much to pick anything that I would like, but at least the **Melee Mayhem** ruleset helps me a little bit, because it will allows all the **melee** attack monsters to attack from any position they are, so it is important to bring few big hitters as long as my opponent is not going to de-buff them. The **Healed Out** ruleset means that none of the monsters were able to **Heal** others or themselves, so it is pointless to bring any of them and just focus more on defensive abilities. 😇

My lineup

|Octavia Shadowmeld is a special Summoner, because she gives -1 health to all of her enemies, but most importantly she is able to bring one additional Gladiator monster into this battle, which is pretty insane. 😊| |I picked the Harklaw who is my favorite tank in the game, because he has amazing abilities. The first and most important is the Shield ability, so he will halves all the incoming melee and ranged attacks and that is why he is my main tank. The second is his Immunity ability, so no one can affect him with any magic debuffs and the third is the Demoralize, so he will decrease the melee attack of all the enemy monsters by one. 🤗|

|The Wily Coyotian cost only two mana, which is nice, but his stats is not that good as well. At least he has armor on its own, which is good to block few attacks and to protect my backline. 😅| |The Possessed Puppet is a very strong melee attack monster, because she has +4 melee attack damage and the Double Strike ability, which will enable her to attack twice in each round targeting the enemy tank. 😉|

|Trapp Falloway was the whole reason I picked Octavia for this battle, because his defense is quite weak to use him in the first round, but as as a melee attacker in the Melee Mayhem ruleset he is perfect, because he has huge amount of damage and speed and on top of that he has the Bloodlust ability as a Gladiator monster, which means that if he manages to kill his target he will increase his own stat by one permanently. 👍| |The Ravenhood Warden is a ranged attack monster and I had to bring him with a very good reason! He has +2 ranged attack damage two very powerful ability, which is the Protect and the Inspire abilities. This is just too good to miss out, because he will give +2 armor and +1 melee attack to his friendly monsters as long as he is alive! 😁|

|Even thought the Clockwork Aide doesn't have any attack on its own he has the Swiftness ability, which will increase the speed of all of his friendly monsters by one, but more importantly he has the Rust ability as well, so if my opponent would also bring the Ravenhood Warden like me to get some protection my Aide will step in and remove that easily with his ability. 😅|

The Battle

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My opponent brought **Waka Spiritblade**, who is a quite powerful **Summoner** from the **Death** Splinter and he always comes in level 4, because there was no potion to buy him from packs and that is why he is always at maximum level. His ability is to give the **Poison** ability to all of his monsters, so if they hit their target they will have 50% chance to apply poison on them. 😇 Thanks to the **Melee Mayhem** ruleset all of my monsters were able to attack from any position, so in the first round they quickly killed my opponent tank and the **armor** on them protected them from the **Thorns** damage. In the second round my monsters also killed their **Pelacor** who became their new tank where my **Trapp Falloway** managed to kill him and activate his **Bloodlust** ability. Still in the same round my **Possessed Puppet** killed their **Silent Sha-vi** using her **Double Strike** ability and soon after even their **Ravenhood Warden** died, because he had only one **health** and no **armor** thanks to my two monsters who had the **Rust** abilities. In the beginning of the third round it was very easy to kill their last two monsters and my monsters managed to acquire the victory for me. 😌

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Battle Result

Did your strategy work? What will you try differently next time?

My strategy was to try to build a solid front and use two monsters with the **Rust** ability, so even if my opponent would use the same **Warden** like me who gives +2 **armor** the **Rust** will remove that completely. Luckily my strategy worked very well and my opponent couldn't kill even one monster from my backline. 😋

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