Deal 18 damage in 1 turn (without trample) ! The Dwarf is Exploding ! | Splinterlands Weekly Battle Challenge

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Hello guys, welcome back to Ramadhanight's Hive Blog on Splinterlands Weekly Battle Challenge's Session. For this week Battle Challenge, I want to review old monster, because everyone already makes review the CL edition cards. So today I picked the old reward cards that some of you might never use, the exploding dwarf ! This monster got very high offensive potential, but only got 1 health. Even without the equal health rule, this monster could be deadly ! Let's see how my battle goes !

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~Lore of Exploding Dwarf~

Before we start taking about the battle, let's talk about the monster first. For those who loves a story, i bring you the lore of the Exploding Dwarf

The aptly named Exploding Dwarves are newcomers to the Splinterlands. No one knows from whence they came; the Dwarves simply emerged from the Molten Mountain caverns a decade ago, quickly reproducing and settling across the Burning Lands. It is best to keep distance from them (especially when they are exploding).

They are no longer a newcomers anyway :D

Source: Splinterlands.com Lore

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General Information About Exploding Dwarf

Now that we knew about the lore of the monster, let's have a look at his stats and abilities. The information about this monster's stats and abilities are shown below

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As you can see at picture above, this monster only cost 5 mana which makes him suitable for medium mana cap. The exploding dwarf really have an exploding ability (blast) since his first level with 3 melee attack (this will cause him to be able to land 5 damage to enemies (3 fron + 2 at it's back). At 3rd level, he already got piercing ability which makes him possible to hurt enemies with armor. At lv 4, his damage increase into 4 and having retaliate ability at 6th level. His damage increase again at lv 7 with 5 melee attack, and ended up at 6 melee damage at maxed level. He also got trample at lv 9 which cause him a deadly monster on stampede ruleset (thanks to piercing, and blast. Retaliate worked well as well to reduce enemies health on equal health ruleset). The only and most dangerous thing to consider is his health. He only got 1 health since 1st until maxed out ! So you need to really carefully when using this monster. But he got 6 speed which makes him having good chance to land attack on enemies before he died with enemies tickle.

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Formation

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Battle Link: https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_6377099811a3f530de8dbaeb51122df5


My Lineup's Explanation :

Rules :

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Before we discuss about the formation, here is the rules for this match
Poisong : All enemies are getting poisoned
No arrow : No range monster are available
34 Mana Cap : Medium high mana cap, suitable with exploding dwarf
Splinter available : Only fire, life, and dragon splinter are available

PositionCardAbilityStrategy
Summonerimage.png+1 Physical Attack, +1 speed, -1 HealthLegendary summoner which suit very much with melee fire monster. Not just the physical damage, the speed buff and health debuff really important to eliminate enemies
Tankerimage.pngBlast, Piercing, Retaliate, TrampleMain monster on 1st. Expect him to land as many damage with his high speed, blast and pierced attack. Retaliate will be great bonus
2nd Monsterimage.pngBloodlust, Void Armor, Void, Giant KillerA solid tanker when the dwarf died. Expect him to easily killed front enemies after high damage from exploding dwarf.
3rd Monsterimage.pngReflection Shield, Camouflage, ImmunityTo prevent blast enemies attack and survive on poison ruleset with his immunity ability
4th Monsterimage.pngCleanse, Slow, HeadwindsHelp my tank from getting poisoned with his cleanse ability. Reduce enemies speed as well to help the dwarf land damage to enemies first.
5th Monsterimage.pngImmunity, RetaliateExpected to survive until all teammates eliminated because he got immunity. Expect him to retaliate enemies backstabber as well
6th Monsterimage.pngDemoralizeClearly for wasting enemie sneakers as well reduce their damage

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Does My Strategy is Worked ? :

If you want to watch the battle, please click the link i've mentioned above.

The battle scene are also shown on gif below:

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I'm glad that my strategy worked well. Explosive Dwarf are able to create massive impact with 18 damage in total in just 1 round! (Thanks to retaliate and high speed). This makes my team easier to win the game

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Discuss About Explosive Dwarf :


What i like about Explosive Dwarf:
What i like about this monster is he got medium mana that could suit on most situation. I also loved his offensive ability. High speed, high damage and piercing already good enough, and the retaliate is just makes it better for him.

What i don't like about Explosive Dwarf:
What i don't like about this monster is surely his very very low health. He only got 1 health which easily could die with enemies thorn, or some tickle with high speed monster ! But his low health would no longer become problem on equal health ruleset.

When to Use Explosive Dwarf:
I suggest you to use this summoner when you got equal health ruleset. This will makes this monster a very offensive tanker. You can also use this monster just like what i did, by put him forward to deal massive damage only to help the 2nd monster to easily got bloodlust.

When to Avoid Djinn Apprentice:
I don't recommend you to use this monster on low mana cap and very high mana cap because you can get better monster on those condition. And don't ever use this monster on reverse ruleset (he will never hit and instantly died!)

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Conclussion

Explosive Dwarf got very good offensive stats and abilities, but are very fragile because he only got 1 health. He is very great on equal health ruleset, and without that ruleset, you still able to get the best out of him but should be very carefully not to let enemies hit him first before he attack.

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Final Words

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The attacks of expoding dwarf card are very good but the health of this card is very low so I don't use this card much. good post.

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Yes, still very good monster on equal health , opportunity, or sneak ruleset

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