Captain Frankie does 53 damage per round, and still lost!?

Good morning Splinterfans, before I need to go out with the family I have a couple of hours before they wake up to play my favorite game, on Hive I try to make a couple of Splinterlands posts every week to keep the momentum going plus it's also good exposure for Splinterlands because I'm also posting them on other platforms outside Hive. 🙂

With my 'manual' account, I am playing with a Silver level deck in the Modern Gold League, and although this was a Modern battle, it surely was a WILD one!

The conditions were very favorable to use Captain Frankie, and I could see my opponent liked to play that card AND has a max level deck, not a favorable condition for me!

This battle was a Melee Mayhem / Equalizer battle with 46 mana and all splinters except the Death splinter open to be chosen from, expecting Frankie I knew I had to protect against Melee Damage but then still the damage would probably be way too high and they would probably just shred through my front line but it doesn't hurt to try anyway so let's make a nice team myself!

I had first put Mantaroth on the second position because I wanted a double tank with the Shield ability, but I ended up using all my mana and only having five cards on my team, there are two rules I always want to follow in an equalizer battle when it's possible, 1: always use a full 6 monster team, 2: always use a healer.

With the Death splinter unavailable the choice for Elias was easy, let's see what my opponent came up with, was I right in anticipating Frankie?

How did I build my own team? I always start with what I really want to include in my team, so that was definitely Slade, somewhere in the back and two tanks with the Shield ability up front, then I selected a healer, and because I wanted to counter a unit with Shield in the front of the other team I wanted to bring some heavy magic damage as well so that's what the Shock Trooper is for, like I said I switched Mantaroth with the Grimbardun Fighter because I didn't have enough mana for that 6th monster, with the solution I had to mana left but the best choice in this case was the Halfling Refugee with the self heal and nice damage if it gets to the front it will be a nice meat shield to protect Slade for two or three attacks more.

Well, sometimes I wouldn't mind NOT to be right, and this was one of those moments... DAMN that's a lot of damage output.. let's count that!

53 damage in ONE round vs 30 damage for my own team....

I have to be honest I just pressed SKIP BATTLE because I didn't had any hope in winning this but sometimes I tend to underestimate my own teams and Splinterlands tends to surprise you! 😅

The start of the battle was really nice because Slade instantly deleted the Tidal Tsunamist before it could even blink its eyes, so that's 9 damage less already!

With so much damage, a lot of cards getting killed fast can be expected so the end of round one looked like this:

So what I'm learning now is that Frankie teams are really strong at the start of the fight but when cards start dying, the Inspire gets taken out more and more so the attack output drops.
Knowing this, it's important to protect against the damage with Shield but also to use fast units to strike before they do.

The damage output now is 31 for the enemy team vs. 25 for my team, the playing field is getting more even!

By the end of round 2, only half of the enemy team was still there - this is a really fast battle considering everyone started with 11 Health Points, that double heal is annoying to get through but Slade will do that job without any problem, it's by far the best synergy in my Modern deck: Elias / Slade.

Well well well... that team doesn't look so scary anymore!

Halfling Refugee made the final kill, a win for me!

You can watch the battle unfold for yourself here.

Now that I was able to get in to Gold 2, the SPS reward has gone up slightly. 🙂

Well, this was only my second battle for today so before leaving with the family I still need to grind through some energy which is at 48/50 at the moment. 😅

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