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Martial Art with Tortisian Fighter | My Splinterlands Weekly Challenge

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What's up Splinter Addicts

This your fellow warrior mango-juice with another Splinterlands share your battle weakly challenge post!

Well, the world is slowly getting recovered from the COVID-19 epidemic and the normal days are coming back. But, I think we have to continue using all safety matters (wearing gloves and mask, avoiding the crowd, sanitising our hands etc) for our safety as well as for the society.

Anyways, I am still enjoying my lockdown days. I am doing Work from home regularly as suggested by my office and also simultaneously enjoying my quality days at hive and discord. I admit I was never this much active on here but at least these caged days have given me the opportunity to involve myself more into this blockchain world.

In this vivid crypto world, I mostly spend my time playing Splinterlands and even in the discord groups, I mostly talk about Splinterlands with my friends. Not only that, but I also have a keen interest in writing articles related to Splinterlands which you can find in my wall.

That reminds me of this week's @Splinterlands challenge post on the Tortisian Fighter! If you are a Splinterlands player, it's obvious that you know about this challenge post where they give one theme every week and we write a quality post on it and get awesome votes by team Splinterlands. This week, the theme is to write an awesome article on the new Water Untamed card Tortisian Fighter! So let's take a deep dive into Splinterlands and meet with our new guest, The master of Martial Art, Mr Tort.



Tortisians are one of the newest civilized race to find their way into the Splinterlands from the other side of the world. Typically these seafaring people are well known for their martial Art and close combat. Thou they carry a Spear always with themselves, they seldomly use it as both their fighting skill and the Shells are enough to beat down the enemies.

  • Level 1 - In its initial level, it carries 2 melee attack with 1 Armor, 3 health and 1 speed. It brings good attack power with it so it may be a good choice for novice tourneys.
  • Level 4 - At level 4, it gets the Shield ability which helps it to get reduced damage from enemy melee and range attacks. Also, it carries 2 melee attack at 2 speed, 2 armour and 3 health.
  • Level 10 - At max level, It possesses 3 melee attack with 4 armour, 4 health at 2 speed. This card also holds 2 abilities repair and Shield at max level which makes it a good choice for melee matches.

Abilities

Shield

With this ability, the monster will get less damage from melee and ranged enemy monsters.

Repair

With this ability, it can repair a portion of any broken armour of a friendly monster in your line up.

Current Market Status

Currently Tortisian Fighter is listed on the market for 0.031$/bcx which is a very cheap price and you may also find some multi bcx cards at that rate. I have not had a Tortisian myself, So my alt owner helped me with a max on which I will be using in today.

Match line up

Ruleset Of Battle

  • Battle link Click here

  • Opponent @abc.love.steemit

  • Ruleset So, It was a Equalizer ( the health of every monsters increases equal to the monster in the battlefield having the most base health ) + Up Close and Personal ( Only melee monsters can be used in the battle). It's a big mana match and I shall go for a Daria deck full of big melee monsters including my Tortisian Fighter of course.

  • Mana count This match holds a giant 38 mana cap!

  • Summoners This battle supports Fire, Water, Life and Dragon summoners.

At this much mana cap, I am free to choose any monster without the headache of the mana limit. As I am going to use Daria I will get access to those Dragon Melee monsters too which is a big plus point as it opens way more options to choose from.

Line-Up


FROZEN SOLDIER

I chose FROZEN SOLDIER in the first place because of it's unbreakable Shield. I have a level 8 Flesh Golem at it has 4 melee attack at 4 speed, 7 armour and 6 health. It also possesses 2 abilities as stated below.

  • Shield - take reduced damage from all melee and ranged attacks.

  • Reflect - When hit by magic, reflect a portion back to the attacker and does damage back.

MANTICORE

I chose MANTICORE in the second place because of its reach ability. My MANTICORE is of level 6 and it provides 3 melee attack at 3 speed with 9 health. It has the following abilities.

  • Flying - Increased chance of evading melee and ranged attacks from non-flying monsters.

  • Reach - Can launch melee attacks from second in line position.

SAND WORM

I chose SAND WORM in the third position. It is the newly released reward sneak card with high mana cost and deadly sneak attack power. Its already a popular sneak card among the players and thou I had only a level 1 card, I didn't think much and select it at my 3rd position. My SAND WORM is level 1 and it possesses 5 melee attack at 1 speed with 5 health. It also possesses sneak ability at level 1 as stated below.

  • Sneak - Attacks the monster that is last in line-up.

DRAGON JUMPER

I chose my DRAGON JUMPER in the fourth position becaue of its opportunity ability. I am excited to see how this ability helps me killing the weakest ones in this match. As all the summoners will have the same health, the dragon jumper will help me clear either the front one or the one standing at the back. My DRAGON JUMPER is of level 4 and it is carrying 5 melee attack at 5 speed with 7 health. At max level, it has 4 abilities as stated below.

  • Flying - Increased chance of evading melee and ranged attacks from non-flying monsters.

  • Opportunity - Attacks the monster having the lowest health at that moment.

  • Snare - When attacking a flying monster, disables its flying ability and cannot miss.

  • Stun - When hit an enemy monster, has a chance to apply stun it causing it paralyzed for 1 round.

TORTISIAN FIGHTER

I chose TORTISIAN FIGHTER in the fifth place especially because of its Repair ability. My TORTISIAN FIGHTER is of level 10 and it provides 3 melee attack at 2 speed with 4 armour and 4 health. It has the following abilities.

  • Shield - take reduced damage from all melee and ranged attacks.
  • Repair - Restores some of the armour of friendly monsters who's armour got damaged the most.

SPINEBACK TURTLE

I chose the turtle in the last place because of its unbreakable Shield and the throne ability. I have a level 10 Spineback Turtle at it has 3 melee attack at 2 speed, 5 armour and 7 health. It also possesses the throne ability as stated below.

  • Thrones - When hit by a melee attack, does damage back to the attacker.

Battle Result

I have to admit, I wasnt quite confident about using the fighter as I had more other options to choose from. I could have also used the Electric eel in the place of manticore but my mind was busy calculating where to place the monsters.

For this one, the rules were also a big factor. First of all, We can only use Melee monsters in this match so that solves my problem of facing magic monsters. I chose multiple monsters with Armour so that the Tortisian can restore their armours multiple times. I protected both sides of my line up with monsters having huge shield so that my monsters in between stay alive for longer.

Gameplay

You can directly view the battle. Just click the hyperlink below.

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Battle Link

](https://steemmonsters.com?p=battle&id=2160fac5e166aed1a486cc67a47e12f8f629ccb3&ref=red-dog)


First, let us follow the opponent's line-up...

  • My opponent @abc.love.steemit used Dragon summoner Selenia against me.
  • At the front position, he used Sea Monster lev 10. He chose a big defence to his front and I just hope I get able to kill this huge beast with my melee ones.
  • At the second position, he used Horny Toad level 10.
  • At the third position, he puts Sand Worm lev 2.
  • At the fourth position, he chose Feasting Seaweed lev 10 which will launch devastating Opportunity attacks on me.
  • At the fifth position, he chose Parasitic Growth lev 10 which will help seaweed to clear my wounded monsters.

It was quite an unpredictable match but at last, I was able to win this one. First of all my opponent has used Opportunity Duo which was a great strategy no doubt. Like me he also has used a low-level Sand Worm as I have said, it is getting much popularity since its release.

As you have already seen the battle, I am sure you know who is the real hero of this battle is. Of course, he is the Tortisian fighter. While all my other monster died, Tortitian single-handedly beat down both of the opportunity monsters. His Repair ability is superb especially in melee matches as it will not only protect itself but will also protect other armour holders and meanwhile you will get enough time to kill the opponent's monsters.

So, I admit I was wrong about tortisian Fighter an it really is a great choice in the battlefield. You just have to make a good stretegy to utilize its powers.

I hope you have enjoyed reading my post. Please let me know your feelings by leaving a comment below.


Last but not least, I really wanna say thanks to @aggroed @yabapmatt and the entire @splinterlands team for their continuous and tireless effort on this game. You guys really rock!!

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