It is another week in the Splinterverse and the next big change is imminent. Developers are about to ban bots from Modern league. It has already been communicated that it will not be "perfect" and it cannot target the "battle guide bots" which only recommend players the optimal line-up. My personal opinion is: Instead of pushing this forward and leaving enough space to bypass it one should have taken more time and come up with a riper solution.
-But let's go with the word of my guild @acolytesofhelio (btw. feel free to apply if interested): "We Keep Battling!" and now for this week's ruleset and a corresponding battle!
This week's ruleset is called "Holy Protection" and as you might guess by reading the name it gives some defense buff. Indeed the first hit on each unit does not deal any damage.
To me the following implications arise: 1) Fill all slots available because even weak units get the free hit regardless how low their stats might be! and 2) Attacks which hit more than once or hit more than one unit should be advantageous.
As for the fine print: "All units gain the Divine Shield ability which reduces the damage of the first attack received to 0.
Divine Shield will be re-applied when a unit is Resurrected.
Blast damage will remove Divine Shield."
So here it is, my battle:
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_391b0587a034e53ee5f2033b64ac8b0c&ref=jdike
You might laugh, but the battle was more interesting than the line-up suggests :D
Me and my opponent went both with "a rather classic line-up". Following my musings abovethe most important unit on each side is: "Axemaster"!
Round 2 already looked in my favor as my opponent was missing his front tank unit.
And the secondary tank unit soon after...
Although in round 4 chances seemed rather equal again.
Still in round 6 it was clear who would win.
What's in this fight? -Most obvious one is that similar line-ups can end up rather different! ;)
Second observation: Different levels can make a difference, but sometimes they do not! My opponent had: 3x level 3 units, 1x level 2 unit and 2 level 1 units. I had: 1x level 3 unit, 1x level 2 unit, 4x level 1 unit. And still I won...
And my final take-away from this fight: My assumption that units that have more than one attack are very useful in "Holy Protection" ruleset. -A lot of my opponent's heavy attacks were absorbed due to this shield effect!
You are still not into the Splinterverse, but you consider joining? -Consider using my sign-up link, too: https://splinterlands.com?ref=jdike
Join us now!
Thanks for sharing! - @mango-juice
