Social Media Challenge | When everyone is sick! 🤢

Overview

Today I brought a Ranked battle, where two of my favorite ruleset are in play, so it will be very important to pay attention to them otherwise you can easily lose this battle. 😏

My upcoming Battle ruleset(s)

Ruleset	Description

Noxious Fumes	All Monsters start the battle Poisoned.
Melee Mayhem	Melee attack Monsters can attack from any position.

The mana cap for my next battle was only 29, which not much at least it is not my liking, so I might use only one ore two high mana cost monster or try to build a budget team to support each other. 😊 The **Noxious Fumes** ruleset will **Poison** all the monsters on the battlefield, which means that every start of the round it will damage all the monsters by two unless they have the **Immunity** or **Cleanse** ability, which will make them ignore this ruleset completely. Usually I like the **Melee Mayhem** ruleset (*which allows all the **melee** attack monsters to attack from any position*), but only if the mana cap is higher and in this case I need to focus on the **Noxious Fumes** ruleset more, because it is quite dangerous. 😅

My lineup

|My plan was to use Franz Ruffmane as my Summoner, becasuse he gives +1 armor to his monsters therefore they will be able to block one incoming melee or ranged attack completely. He is also one of the highest levelled Summoner that I have, which made my choice picking him more easier even though he cost six mana. He is also has teh ability to bring one additional Gladiator monster into this battle, which is always a very good addition to any team😊| |The Halfling Refugee cost almost nothing and it works really well in low mana battles, such as this one. His stats quite high compared to his mana cost, but he has a weakness, because his only ability will make him to skip his turn gradually whenever he comes to do anything. 😎|

|Usually the Pelacor Conjurer is not the strongest monster within the Life Splinter and he also doesn't have any attack, but many times his high speed and his Flying ability means a lot to dodge the enemy melee and ranged attacks. Luckily in this battle he will get +2 magic attack from Aves behind him, so for only two mana he evolves into a perfect off-tank. 😆| |Aves Sturges doesn't have too much stats apart from his +2 magic attack, but he has the Weapon Trainings ability, which will give his own magic attack to his adjacent non-attack monsters making them damage dealers, which is quite powerful. 💪|

|Helmet Kharafax doesn't have any kind of attack on its own, that is why he has such a good passive abilities plus with the magic attack buff from Aves he would be able to attack and try to take advantage of his Bloodlust ability, which means if he kills his target he will increase all of his stat by one. 😌| |The Venari Marksrat is a Martyr monster and apart from that he doesn't have too much stats. He doesn't need to be strong at all, because he has one important ability, which means that he will increase the stats of the monsters next to him by one if he dies and in the Noxious Fumes ruleset that is going to happen very quickly. 🤗|

|The Djinn Renova is an excellent magic attack damage dealer and supporter, because she has +3 attack damage and the Fortify ability, which will increase the health of all of her friendly monsters. She also has the Triage ability, which is amazing, because she will be able to Heal one of her backline monster who took the most damage once in every round. This two powerful ability would means a lot in the Noxious Fumes ruleset. 😁|

The Battle

Please click on the picture if you want to see the replay of the battle.

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My opponent brought the **Kelya** who is an **Water** Summoner and his main power is to give +1 **speed** and **armor** to all of his monsters, so they will be able to block one full **melee** or **ranged** attack, which is always worth considering bringing him. 🤗 In the first round my team quickly killed their zero mana cost **Torrent Fiend** and just before the first round finished my team also lost our **Halfling Refugee**, but he took quite a lot of damage, which was a good sign. At the beginning of the second round the **Poison** damaged everyone with 2 damage and it killed their **Hardy Stonfish** at their back who had only two **health**. 😁 Our **Pelacor Conjurer** almost died against their **Sentry**, but luckily he managed to dodge her second attack and survived. The **Poison** attacked all the monsters again in the third round and it killed their **Venari Marksrat** who activated his **Martyr** ability this way and buffed up their **Oshannus** and **Sentry**. Luckily I didn't lose anyone, but their **Oshannus** killed our **Conjurer**. Still in the same round my **Djinn Renova** killed their **Oshannus** who was the strongest monster in their team and just before the round finished the rest of my team finally killed their **Sentry** who was the last monster, so my team won this battle 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 survive long enough while the **Poison** and my team manages to kill the enemy monsters. None of us had a monster with the **Immunity** ability, so eventually everyone will die and that is why I used **Kharafax** in the middle of my team, because he has the **Scavanger** ability as well, which means if a monster dies on the battlefield he will increase his maximum **Health** by one. 🤗

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