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There are some places in the Burning Lands where rats are especially easy to find, so the discovery of Exploding Rats has been beneficial to the Torch in several ways. In most cases, the strange but simple combustion spell is only used for extermination purposes in the caves and around the city of Azad. Combustion works better on some species than others. When used on humans for example, the same spell only catches their hair on fire, which is easy enough to put out. For some unknown reason, rats explode with enough force to take down a brick wall. Because of the intensity with which they explode, rats are also weaponized in several interesting ways.
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BATTLE LINKS : Battle Repaly
My Line Up Explanation
- leagues = Silver 2
- Equalizer = The initial Health of all Monsters is equal to that of the Monster on either team with the highest base Health.
- Holy Protection = All Monsters have the Divine Shield ability.
- 21 mana = decent mana but its okay since we need to pick best card possible only
- summoner = Earth and life can't be used so magic and ranged attack have lower chance to be used
The summoner that I used in this battles was tarsa, this summoner is free to use in current game. actually my tarsa tha I used was at level 2 so my tarsa will be able to summon higher level monsters. because earth and life summoner can't be used so my best bet is tarsa I guess, since in this splinter have lots of potensial low health monsters but has high attack, so I'm gonna use those cards along with tarsa buff that gives +1 to health and melee attack, this is my ultimate strategy in terms of equalizer ruleset. tarsa with the combination of fire splinter
In equalizer rulesets I often choose Exploding rats as my line-up and tank position is good for him in this case, my exploding rats was at level 2 already, i bought some of it in peakmonsters cause I think this card has great potential. this card has 5 speed in level 2 and 2 basic melee damage since I used tarsa as my summoner so his basic attacks would be 3 melee damage. the blast ability of this card is very useful to deal additional damage to enemy, in holy protection rulesets blast monsters is useful to break the protection
the next monster I choose to use is creeping ooze, I chose this card because I want to make my enemy's monsters speed decrease in that way my exploding rats will likely to evade my enemy's attack on him, i put this card in the second position to be a second tank in case my exploding rats get killed this card take damage for a while, having this card with only 1 mana to spend is a good bargain, this cards slow ability is very usefull in various situations that's way I bought one copy of this card.
The third monsters I used is from the untamed edition this card also has low health but in equalizer rulesets that's not a problem, this card has 2 melee damage which is good because we used tarsa in this battle, this card also has decent speed to make sure his attack will succesfully hit enemy's monsters. this card mana requirement is consider low so using this card in this battle is a good option. what makes this cards good is his opportunity abilty, thus this card can attack from any position, I dont have this card but will probably buy 1 in the future
The fourth monsters that I used was scavo firebolt this card was not a melee damage monsters so it won't be buffed by tarsa, but health buff will still apply for this card, My plan choosing this card is to split my attack and lack of melee monsters that can attack from behind and having low mana, so my this card is my best bet for now. this card has 2 ranged damage and 3 speed to make this card attack early, this card only require 4 mana to summon. I have this card in level 2 already, it gains additional speed from the level 1.
last but not the least, I have another monsters from the untamed edition, Fire elemental also a ranged attack, this card require 5 mana to summon and has 2 ranged attack. I mainly chose monsters that has at least 2 attack to avoid shield ability. this card speed was 4 thus making his attack will likely to hit on succesful attack, this card also has low health but remember we are on equalizer ruleset so we may not think about cards health. this card also has blast ability that will useful to add additional damage.
Did My Strategy Worked? What will I do Differently?
This strategy went very well as usual. I was obviously surprised by enemy's line-up, this was my first time seeing hydra in battle, the enemy halving alchemist attack miss on my exploding rats and the blast ability really helps in breaking the protection on enemy's monsters, because of that my monsters attack will deal damage faster. only my rats kileed in this battle rip my rats lol.
About Exploding Rat
What I like about this monster :
- has 2 melee Attack this card base attack is high with the combination of tarsa
- got 5 speed and Blast abilty the speed is very high useful to hit as well as evading attacks, blast ability is good as the ability dealing more damage
What i don't like about this monster:
- 1 health only, but this card will be good to use in equalizer rulesets as I did in this post
When to use Exploding Rats
I suggest you to use this monster only for this situation:
- On Equalizer rulesets, this card will be a beast on this rulesets
- equal opportunity rulesets, This rulesets is also good for the exploding rats since this card could attack early
When to Avoid using exlpoding rats :
I don't recommend you to use this monster for this situation below:
- high mana cap, this cards health is very low you can't rely on this cards speed to avoid attack, magic attacks could easily kill this monsters
- Reverse rulesets, this cards high speed will become a weakness in reverse speed rulesets
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Final Words
Thank you for reading my post, i hope you enjoyed this post and could give another view about this monster. Let me know if you got another view about this monster on comment section. In addition for the new players to Splinterlands if you sign up with my referral link and complete the spellbook purchase, I will send you 75 DEC in game which should help you get started by renting some cards and building up your teams
Credits
- @Splinterlands for making a masterpiece play2earn game
- @carrieallen for ultimate markdown
- Mr. Flauwy for the dividers
- @peakmonsters for creating marketplace nft
Thanks for sharing! - @marianaemilia
Congratulations fo the good work! Keep going