The Factors That Makes Me Use Sandworm And Why Is Not Suitable In Some Battles

Hello splinterlords and splinterladies around the world. I read through the banning of splinterlands account in the twitter, I was perplexed because I don't think splinterlands have done something that could warrant such act from twitter. We knew how twitter was behind surge increase of players in recent time. Twitter has been major source of information for splinterlands for sometimes now.

Though we have been suspended from twitter, there is no problem without solution; incase if there is no solution, there will be a way to manage. Since we are always looking for new ideas and knowledge. We will always find solution to particular problem, therefore, solution will never run out of our hands. I heard the story of man who was looking for solution of his problem. He exhausted his resources to find the solution, at the end, he got the solution.

SANDWORM is one of my favorite Monsters off all times. This monster is unique to me, I used it even when the rule of the game does not favour it. Sandworm is neutral monster with amazing ability that always makes me to use it. Is One of the melee monster that attacks anywhere. If you place it at the first position, it will fight; if you place it in the middle, it will attack; if you place it at the back, it will attack.

THE FACTORS THAT MAKES ME TO USE SANDWORM:

• Melee: I have seen many sneaky monsters in the course of time I have been playing splinterlands, Sandworm is incomparable in time of melee. I knew how this monster destroyed enemy's monsters with just one targeted attack. What will take kobold Miner three attack to eliminate, it will take Sandworm once to destroy. The melee is a great factor that changed my mentality of using Sandworm in most of my battle.

• Sneaky Ability: I began to like this monster because of the way it fights its way from the back to the front. Sometimes, it is only Sandworm that will fight in some of my battle arrangements, and in most cases, it wins. Because of the trust I have with this monster, I do protect Sandworm from any monster by places it in the middle.

WHY IS SANDWORM IS NOT SUITABLE IN ALL BATTLES?
• The first reason is the high number of manner, it has 9 mana which will be difficult to use in most of the battle especially battle with small mana. The high number of Mana is a big disadvantage because it will take the Mana that suppose to use for three monsters. It occupy to much of space.

• Another reason is the 'speed', the level one is not good enough to battle as it has 1 speed which most of the monsters would have been attacked before its turn. This is good to fight reverse Speed rule as the monster with the lowest speed attack first in the battle. Level 2 - 4 have 2 speed; this is not also good for most of the battle as it will take time to attack.

• The third reason is the weak nature of Sandworm, it is very easy to destroy. This is the major reason it can't be used in first position. No shield ability, it is very easy to eliminate. It has no armor, no special ability.

LET'S LOOK AT THE ABILITIES OF SANDWORM
• Sneaky Ability: I have mentioned this already.
• Snare Ability: wonderful ability, this removes the flying ability on any monster that have it, which makes such monster susceptible to attack. Once that embargo is placed, any further attack from Sandworm will not miss.
• Piercing Ability: this type of monsters does damage to the target's health if the melee or range attack damage is in excess of target's armor

BATTLE RULES

Target Practice: All range and magic attack monsters have the snipe ability

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BATTLE ARRANGEMENTS

• The Kraken: I studied the battle rule, I need to use this monster with taunt ability to attract all enemy's range melee and magic attack monsters and allow my monster to snipe. This strategies helped me a lot. If not this arrangement, captain ghost would have been destroyed. Despite the fact, the kraken was no lasting in the battle. Though, my mission was achieved; all what I was looking for was victory and I got it. Kraken was eliminated dues to heavy attack from opponent monsters.

• Water Monster: I knew kraken will not last in the battle. Therefore, I brought in backup that will take the battle to victory. The main reason I chose water monster as the backup was to take the first position when kraken is eliminated and the healing ability it possessed.
At round 1 when kraken was eliminated, Water Monster took over the first Position, at second position when it was attacking by goblin Mech, it recovered some amount of health and struck black again. At round 3 when it was attacked again by goblin Mech, it gained also some amount of health and struck black. If it were not because of the healing ability, Sea monster would have been eliminated.

• Captain Ghost: captain is instrumental in this battle. It was easy to eliminate spirit miner because of the magic attack of captains ghost. But the reflection of prismatic energy cut short its life at second round. At this round I was left with four monsters.

• Sandworm: the major reason I placed it as the third position was to hide it away so that it could do its work perfectly. You could see how it destroyed octopider. Octopider is one of the monster that had high health. It would have taken Kobold Miner four times to destroy octopider which would have be fourth round, but the presence of Sandworm cut its death to second round. Sandworm eliminated Boogeyman in level three with just a strike. That is how powerful Sandworm is.

• Sniping Narwhal: this sniping monster was to fight in the middle but it effort was not enough as the range attack was reduced to 1.

• Water Elemental: the speed attracted me to use it, and the healing ability it possessed. Water Elemental was the second monster that attacked after prismatic energy. Water Elemental would have been the first monster that attacks but Boogeyman reduced the speed of all my monsters by one which gave prismatic energy opportunity to attack first.
At the end of the battle, four of my monsters were not destroyed.

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