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![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/wSbsMsfC-image.png) https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@splinterlands/share-your-battle-weekly-challenge-water-elemental ###### How are you all doing battlers? How were the season end rewards for the last season? ##### Me, for the first time, finished in *Untamed packs* earning ranking in golden league and got couple of packs for finishing in top 30!!!! ###### Even though I got those 2 packs, I have to admit that, ~~finishing in top 30~~ maintaining top 30 ranking will be a daunting task since with each win, you may get as low as 3 rating points and for a loss, we will lose around 35 rating points and climbing back to get those 30+ points means, we have to compete atleast 10 battles!!!!!!!!!!!! ###### Ah, that's painstaking but, no pain no gain ;) isn't it? ###### OK, let me come back to the main topic of this blog, that is, to write about a battle for the **SHARE YOUR BATTLE** weekly challenge. ![Water Elemental.gif](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/s567tXwZ-Water20Elemental.gif) ###### **Water Elemental**, the *theme* monster for this week is still one of the most used monsters among Water Splinter in-spite of many new nice monsters introduced because of it's *self healing* ability and good attack with *dodge* ability combined to escape some attacks. ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/RhrvsRxo-image.png) ###### That stats for this awesome monster are shared in the above screenshot. ###### This *self healing* monster starts with 2 *ranged* **attack** which is not bad since it's *healing* is more important and the attack increases to 3 from level 3 and eventually to 4 from level 7 ###### The **speed** of this monster is it's biggest strength as it's among the *early attackers* with it's *speed* starting at 4!!! which increases to 5 from level 2 and remains as 5 in all it's remaining levels. ###### It's **life** can be a bit drawback if we have a low level monster as it starts with *life* of 4, but it gets increased to 4 from level 2 and to 6 from level 4 and to a max of 7 from level 6 onwards. ![Line.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVT6ZAFpiN3LKV24KewpyyTyDpjNbrZiAax577pp4SzdK/Line.jpg) ## Battle and Lineup: ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/aStchxwL-image.png) https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=4253e7990dd3764e7470f8af3903dc70926f40d9&ref=coolguy123 ###### As we can see above, this was a battle with lesser MANA cost with a MANA cap of 20 and had 2 interesting rule sets in **Close Range** and **Keep Your Distance**. ###### While **Close Range** allows the *ranged* attack monsters to attack from first/front position, the **Keep Your Distance** allows only *ranged* and *magic* attack monsters to be used in the battle keeping *melee* monsters out of attack. ##### Opponent used **Yodin Zaku** for this battle and hence, this win is a special one although it was just 20 MANA cap. ##### For this short battle, here is the lineup I used: ## Lineup: #### 1. Lord Arianthus: ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/L8qTL1HA-image.png) ###### Since this is a **Keep Your Distance** battle, I used this monster since it can *magic reflect* back to *magic* monsters and can also reduce the attack from *ranged* attack monsters because of *shield* ability. --- #### 2. Water Elemental: ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/ea0OJLiC-image.png) ###### Used this *theme* monster to check any *snipe* attack and also utilize it's better *speed* with good enough *ranged* attack of 3. ###### It played a major role in keeping the *blast* attack from opponent's monsters since he/she used **YODIN ZAKU** as summoner. --- #### 3. Mermaid Healer: ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/xk94okoi-image.png) ###### Used this *heal second line monsters* ability monster as it has the *Triage* ability and this was also significant in this role to *heal* and keep alive the **Water Elemental** monster. --- #### 4. Albatross: ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/maK5iGgc-image.png) ###### First of the 2 *healing* monsters and each of these played their part in this battle against **Yodin Zaku** and it's monsters. --- #### 5. Crustacean King: ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/QWS1SF7F-image.png) ###### Second *healing* monster in my lineup, it was also the monster which can give those *armors* to all friendly monsters and it's single *ranged* attack also played a huge role in this win. --- #### 6. Furious Chicken: ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/PLtZ6svq-image.png) ###### The last monster on my lineup is this *zero cost* monster wasn't utilized at all as all the attack was towards **Lord A** and **Water Elemental** --- ###### Opponent's usage of **Yodin Zaku** made me feel frightened for few moments, but just after few minutes, I was all smiling :). The monsters used by him were: **Gelatinous Cube**, **Imp Bowman**, **Goblin Fireballer** and **Fire Beetle** as his 4 monsters. ![Line.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVT6ZAFpiN3LKV24KewpyyTyDpjNbrZiAax577pp4SzdK/Line.jpg) ## Battle: #### Round 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5: ###### All the monsters just kept attacking **Lord Arianthus** except for **Fire Beetle** which tried to attack **Water Elemental** and missed couple of times which also helped me to win this battle. ###### By the time it was round 5, **Gelatinous Cube** breathed last and that was the **beginning of the end** for the opponent's monsters. ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/7x0w75UC-image.png) --- #### Round 6: ###### **Imp Bowman** was the next monster to be removed and even the **Close Range** didn't help much to the opponent and **Goblin Fireballer** was the next to move to front. ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/3pYmDmur-image.png) --- #### Round 7: ###### **Goblin Fireballer** needed just one blow as it was hanging in with just 1 life and that brought the *last man standing* i.e. **Fire Beetle** to the front. ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/vG8HUSOO-image.png) --- #### Round 8: ###### **Fire Beetle** got 2 more blows in this round to get itself removed and ended the battle in my favor. ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/coolguy123/vYsbnnTX-image.png) ![Line.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVT6ZAFpiN3LKV24KewpyyTyDpjNbrZiAax577pp4SzdK/Line.jpg) ## Questions and Answers: ## Did your strategy work? What will you try differently next time? ###### Yes, it worked quite nicely as the battle result shows, but there was a point at which I felt it will be a tough one just after seeing **Yodin Zaku** as summoner. ###### If wasn't using **Water Elemental**, I would have used **Wave Runner** for it's vis a vis profile albeit *healing*. --- ## Do you like the WATER ELEMENTAL? Why or why not? ###### I do like it a lot and is one of the most used Water splinter monsters. ###### It's attack and speed makes it to be used in the *magic* attack dominant Water lineups. ![Line.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVT6ZAFpiN3LKV24KewpyyTyDpjNbrZiAax577pp4SzdK/Line.jpg) ###### So, all in all, it was an interesting battle although it made me feel scary initially. ###### Most of the time, low MANA battles will be trickier to win as there will be less space to accommodate the *most used* monsters and hence, winning such battles will be more satisfactory. ## Wishing all Happy Monday and nice week ahead. ![Line.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVT6ZAFpiN3LKV24KewpyyTyDpjNbrZiAax577pp4SzdK/Line.jpg) #### Join the new Official Telegram for Splinterlands via link given below to participate in contests and have fun. #### https://t.me/splinterlandsHQ --- ##### Not yet signed up for Splinterlands? ##### You can join using my referral link: splinterlands.io and get some monsters from me :) ##### Also, try monstermarket.io if you haven't already for your steemmonsters cards and packs purchase and get instant cashback with every card purchase. ![Line.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVT6ZAFpiN3LKV24KewpyyTyDpjNbrZiAax577pp4SzdK/Line.jpg) Thanks for the votes, comments and resteems. 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