Tips and Tricks - Speed in Rule Set -- A devastating concept!

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Missing Chance and Speed

If you take into account the lower leagues from Novice to Silver, you'll see that Speed and Missing chance do not play a major role into battles. As soon as you reach Gold, and especially the Diamond/Champion division, you'll realize that not paying the necessary attention to speed and the abilities related to missing chance (Dodge, Flying and Blind) will doom your existence on those playing fields.

There are special circumstances where Speed is king.

Spreading Fury Rule Set (Enrage)


Enrage multiply your Melee attack and Speed by 1.5, always rounding up, and that makes Speed a very important feature of any battle with the Spreading Fury rule set.

This is a battle against @switcheroo5, and take a look at what happened in this one.

Switcheroo chose not to play any monsters with the Slow or Swiftness ability, and as a result he struggled against my team which was stacked with speed from the Kitty + 2 Swiftness monsters + 2 Slow monsters. The result is a battle where his team is almost all playing with 1 Speed, against my team buffed with + 4 Speed, + Blind from the Spirit Miner, and notice that I haven't take any damage yet, and as soon as I take my speed will be multiplied 1.5 times.

This is my backline monster after taking damage:


In this one against @periods, we have a similar situation with some significant differences. First one is that this match has Earthquake, so non-flying monsters take damage every round, and although that can be a bad thing most times, you can definitely use this in your favor to activate the Enrage ability of some of your monsters. But what ended this battle pretty quickly was the fact that he played Sea Monsters in the first position, and you should always take care with monsters that reflect damage in battles with Spreading Fury.


As my Nightmare hits the Sea Monster, it gets enraged and nobody ever touchs him ever again. With an absurd 17 SPEED and Phasing, it dodges every single attack in this battle.



Let's take a look at another very interesting rule set where Speed is a necessity.

Explosive Weaponry (Blast)


Blast deals half of your damage to the adjacent units, always rounding up the adjacent damage. The whole structure of monsters and how they are meant to intereact with each other is not meant to account for the overwhelming amount of damage that a battle with Explosive Weaponry provides. I have yet to come across a line up that can actually tank every monster attacking with the Blast ability.

That pretty much means that the first attacker will almost certainly win, if they have enough damage to capitalize on that.

In this battle against @Johannx we both played speed, but I relied heavily on it, and it paid back.

There's just not many monsters that can stand in the second position taking so much damage, and eventually the whole team falls appart. The decisive factor in these matches is not only that you will have the first barrage of attacks, but you'll probably have the second barrage of attacks first too, and no matter what composition, even if you survive the first you'll surely fall to the second.

Here's a second example of the same rule set, being played with the same fundamental mind set. Focus on speed, and let the rest speak for itself.

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Nightmare with Kitty seems to be a winning duo. I saw this on Dwayne Cunninghams (@infidel1258) stream as well. But kitty is out of reach for me at the moment.

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It is one of my favorite combos, and it is expensive as F. I rent Kitty to play it, and it is as expensive as it is strong.

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I rented it once a few months ago, when I was still unprepared and lost a few battles with it, so I forgot about it, before understanding the value of speed.

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The game is complex, hopefully you'll revisit that combo in the future.

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Great share, i love speed yet have not seen 17 or even close ever!

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Speed is so much fun man. It's one of the things I love the most in Splinterlands.

I don't think I'm breaking that 17 any time soon though.

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Speed is actually awesome in all leagues. Even with just the starter deck, Spark Pixie + Pyre is really hard to hit and makes for a snipe dodge tank. Kitty + Almo works a treat too.

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Oh I bet it is. It's just rare to see Kitty at those places, but Almo + Kitty should be scary any league. Pretty sick combo.

I just meant that lower leagues have a lot less monsters with actual buffs and debuffs, so missing and speed becomes much more a feature of every monster. And Spark Pixie is insane in that respect. Jeez I hate that little devil!

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Spark Pixie is one of my fire splinter favourites. Sadly, their rental has gone insane this season...

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I seldom play fire, but as I play against it a lot I really hate that little devil in the backline. It usually can even dodge a lot of my hits in the back. Always the first one to attack.

And renting has been really crazy lately indeed. Auto bid changed a lot of things, and the new rewards too. I feel like the market is still adapting to everything.

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I absolutely love speed! I made a post recently with Dr. Blight and an effort to control speed with the cards. Those are some crazy speed numbers you posted!

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Yeah man, you just can't ignore speed in Spreading Fury. Things get absolutely out of control if you do.

Thanks for the support, and I'm definitely checking that Dr. Blight post!

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Thanks so much for the compliment dude. I actually made this one in a rush, the next ones will be better!

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Nightmare getting 17 Speed was so satisfying to watch! Awesome content as usual!

I started accumulating Nightmare cards slowly, as we can see this card is undervalued at the current price $0.62

Looking forward to your next post! Cheers
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Thanks bro, always great to have you!

I love this monster so much that it was the first and only card I maxed out. Bought most of it for like $0.30~0.40 before I got hacked and lost it. Now I'm starting to do the same once again, and I'm sure we'll both get there eventually.

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Damn I'm sorry for your account loss :( Hope you'll recover soon and grow your wealth better than ever!
Some youtuber (called Dwayne) are even coping your strategy :p

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Hahahaha, I don't know if I was the first one to use in order to call it mine, but I've seen some guys use Nightmare in Diamond/Champ too. Nobody uses him as much as I do, that's for certain!

And be sure bro, I'll be building it all up and even more in the future. One step at the time we all get there.

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