Greetings, My Fellow Splinterlands Player

Once a while I make this post about my Brawl activity and share this one on social media in case one day I will want to check again how far I have got or maybe for you guys... Reading this one might give you some hints about what others (for example, ME!!) have been doing here in Splinterlands.

What special about this week is that this is the first time our Guild, Time and Attention 1, manage to get into the highest Brawl Tier... It is the Tier 5. I believe it is everyone desire and motivation to get into this Tier and we are looking forward the Brawl with full spirit.

and this is what we get today, at the end of our first Tier 5 Brawl

Yes we got trashed, right on the bottom of the table. Tier 5 only has 7 Guilds in it, and we are the last.

We must admit our opponents are from the other league than us, and we are happy it seems all of us in the guild can take this lose in a positive way. Everyone seems to seek some rooms of improvements, change way of play, get more cards and some other stuffs.

This is not about being casual player anymore, we are in the top of the top so our "Casual" should contain more competitive spirit.

Although we lost badly, we still got rewarded this much, 185 SPS. Not many, a bit higher than what we used to get in Tier 2 but that's because we were a regular top 3 Guild in every brawl that time

In this brawl, I joined the Gold League Wild format. Atleast I was not so shameful lah here, managed to steal 3 wins there. However I could not show you guys who were all my opponents in this brawl, unlike Tier 2, Tier 5 only had 6 opponents. So the more I am showing my line up and history, the more I am vulnerable against them.

So let me show you one win only, ok? Against that photohunt dude

HIGHLIGHTED BATTLE

Here comes our battle. At a glance this would look ugly, I was fighting an opponent who came with optimized level, by using an Epic summoner. Epic Summoner has a level advantage compared to Legendary and Rare Summoners, we could see that some of their units were be a bit higher than normal.

We had a trouble some ruleset there, Little League with no Melee available for the brawl. Seeing that combination, I dared my self to bring out my Obsidian which her level was not wise to join the battle.

However I was glad I brought Obsidian, else I would definitely lose this battle due to this one unit

Flame Mephit, I bet most of you guys are unfamiliar with this unit. This one is super dangerous, because when she gets hit, she will activate her rage, increasing her speed and no way my units could hit her with range attacks.

We will see later what I mean with that.

Ok now let see how this one progressed

• This battle started by both sides buffed their team. I saw no debuff here.
• They came with 8 range damage and 2 magic damage. It's a combined 10 damage per round.
• My team had 11 Magic damage with a complimentary range damage from my Martyr.
• Both of us seemed to favor using a Martyr here.
• One thing that worried me a lot was the speed gap between us. They had the speed superiority, all of them moved first before any of my team could make any move. This was absolutely terrible.

This definitely showed that I got badly beaten on the first round. My team could not take down anyone there and I already lost a unit.

Somehow my team managed to catch up the gap, we were back on par 4 vs 4. This was the point when Range Unit became a trouble, especially when the tank died.

Now things looked turned up side down, My team was leading here and I believed I already secured my win here. But there was one thing I would show you here:

If I really came with range unit, Flame Mephit definitely would dodge all the incoming attacks and her return fire ability would kill my units.

Round 5 was the last one, it's a good game and I was happy I could win this one.

WHY I WON THIS BATTLE

This battle looks simple but I believe both of us here used out of the box meta. First as I tell you guys, Flame Mephit. If I went with range, it was almost imposible to beat her.

Second, check their levels. All their Rare units were on level 7, not level 6. This was the perk of having max level Epics on Gold league cap, same as on Silver league cap, we could "cheat" a level on Rare Units.

So I was lucky then to win this battle? the answer was YES. They did not expect I was coming with full mage line up. This was a damn serious one, if they had one anti magic unit or a healer, things would go more evenly balanced.

Why I say it would be more evenly balance, because even they used better tank or some healer, I had prepared a counter for that meta.

Goblin Sorcerer was not a great unit, he was easily killed by a single girl slap on his face. What could you expect from that level of health point?

However this weakling was the key on destroying opponents' defense. This goblin definitely aimed the back first.

Did it work in that battle? Well it did not at all actually, they prepared for that and put a Lava Spider who had high health on their back. However it only took 2 rounds for Goblin to kill that Spider.

Well let say that This Goblin was designed for a Little League ruleset.

Ok that's for today post, Thanks for reading and see you on Splinterlands Brawl!! Brawl is Fun!!

Thank you for visiting my Splinterlands post here, don't forget to leave your comments and feedback below. There are credits in this post for these people:

• @splinterlands : for holding Social Media Challenge events
• carrieallen : for ultimate markdown tutorial
• thepeakstudio : for wonderful divider art

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