His armor is imbued to withstand the strongest of magical attacks, and even the mightiest of foes is no match for his massive, two-handed sword, which some say was forged in the Realm of Nightmare.

Hello Splinterlands Community!

Welcome to another Splinterlands Share your Battle Weekly Challenge. For this week, Legionnaire Alvar is being featured representing the neutral element.

For those who are new to my post, I usually post information which is related in the Silver League Modern Format.

This will be the first post that I will be sharing battling in the Gold League specifically the gold tournament which I recently joined.

The Chaos Legionnaires are ruthless warriors and the Chaos Legion's elite fighting force. Alvar Veralyn was conscripted into their ranks at a young age after his family was slain and his world conquered by the Chaos Legion. The harsh conditioning that all conscripts receive nearly broke the child, but in the end, his old, easy way of life was subsumed by the desire for battle and conquest. Alvar dedicated himself to his training, intent on reshaping his mind and his body until he had no equal on the battlefield. Eventually, he rose to the rank of General and now stands as leader of the Chaos Legionnaires.

Alvar is a most imposing sight on the battlefield. His armor is imbued to withstand the strongest of magical attacks, and even the mightiest of foes is no match for his massive, two-handed sword, which some say was forged in the Realm of Nightmare. He lives for battle, wading through his enemies and striking them down as he seeks out the strongest among them to engage in single combat. He enjoys nothing more than watching the life fade from his opponent's eyes. His conquests are legendary even among the Legionnaires, and he earned the title of Godkiller after the Battle of Dargnilat, during which he single-handedly defeated one of the Old Gods.

🛡️ The Stats

• Legionnaire Alvar is a powerful legendary card belongs to the neutral splinter.

• Looking at the basic stats, Alvar do have a very thick armor, a decent health, dealing a decent melee damage and a slow speed due to his two hand sword.

• One of the most important abilities Alvar have is the Void Armor which is very suitable to his heavy armor.

• The Giant Killer ability also plays an important role especially when fighting against a high mana cost monsters. Alvar can deal a double damage to these monsters.

• Moving up to gold league, Alvar use demoralize ability which reduce all opponents melee attack by 1.

• Lastly, the deathblow further deals a massive damage, a one on one battle with Alvar seems to be very difficult. Maybe that is why he is called the Godkiller.

Combo Cards

Since Legionnaire Alvar is a neutral splinter, a lot of summoners are compatible with Legionnaire Alvar. We have Tarsa to increase melee damage, Kelya Frendul for additional armor, Possibilus to be able to attack in the second position and Conqueror Jacek for a speed boost and piercing attack. Chanseus is also very compatible.

For the other summoners, they can be use as well but it depends on the cases like for example with Lir Deepswimmer and Ilthain when against range monsters and Owster Rotwell if against magic.

Immortalis is the main summoner that can disable Legionnaire Alvar.

Card	Advantage/Disadvantage
Tarsa	Tarsa is very compatible with Legionnaire Alvar due to the increase of melee damage as well as health. One good thing as well is that there are not enough monsters in the fire which can stand against magic attack which is why Legionnaire Alvar is a good addition for the Fire Splinter.
Kelya Frendul	Kelya Frendul further boost Legionnaire Alvar armor and with River Hellondale ressurection ability. This combination gives a great defensive advantage against magic attack.
Chanseus the Great	Probably the most compatible summoner when considerign Legionnaire Alvar alone. This is because Chanseus have the repair ability which is for Alvar's armor and the ressurection ability for another round to use the heavy armor. Also High Priest Darius from the Life splinter can gives additional ressurection.
Immortalis	Legionnaire Alvar weakness is Immortalis simply because of the shatter ability which obviously defeat the purpose of Legionnaire Alvar having a high armor.

In terms of monsters, those monsters with Inspire ability, ressurection and repair ability are the one that is compatible with Legionnaire Alvar.

Card	Advantage/Disadvantage
River Hellondale	River Hellondale is one of the most compatible with Legionnaire Alvar due to the two abilities which is already available starting from silver league. The ressurection gives additional utility to Alvar which can further utilize his high armor as well as the inspire ability which increase Alvar damage.
Orc Sergeant	With Legionnaire Alvar defending the first position against magic unit while orc Sergeant in the second position utilizing the reach ability. The Inspire ability increase Legionnaire Alvar damage on this scenario.
Evangelist	Another monster with the inspire ability from the backline which gives additional melee boost attack to Legionnaire Alvar
Adelade Brightwing	Adelade Brightwing is another monster that is very compatible with Legionnaire Alvar. With the repair ability, Legionnaire Alvar's armor can sustain damage and with the ressurect ability, another chance is given to Legionnaire Alvar to further defend the frontline.
High Priest Darius	Adelade Brightwing is another monster that is very compatible with Legionnaire Alvar. With the repair ability, Legionnaire Alvar's armor can sustain damage and with the ressurect ability, another chance is given to Legionnaire Alvar to further defend the frontline.
Junker	Junker is another good support to Legionnaire Alvar dealing additional damage from the second position. The repair ability gives sustainability to the Legionnaire Alvar void armor.
Lone Boatman	Another card from the backline position that can provide additional sustainability to Legionnaire Alvar's void armor.

For monsters with shatter abilities which could easily destroy Legionnaire Alvar are as follows:

Monster	Element	League
Radiated Scorcher	Fire	Starting from Bronze League
Flamesmith	Fire	Starting from Bronze League
Ferexia General	Fire	Starting from Diamond League
Torhillo the Frozen	Water	Starting from Diamond League
Ice Pixie	Water	Starting from Gold League
Goblin Dartling	Earth	Starting from Silver League
Goblin Thief	Earth	Starting from Gold League
Mitica Headhunter	Earth	Starting from Diamond League
Lone Boatman	Life	Starting from Diamond League
Luminous Eagle	Life	Starting from Diamond League
Lensmaster	Life	Starting from Diamond League
Dark Astronomer	Death	Starting from Silver League
Weirding Warrior	Death	Starting from Bronze League
Gloridax Magus	Dragon	Starting from Gold League
Battering Ram	Neutral	Starting from Gold League

Ruleset

Legionnaire Alvar specialized against magic units and can be use mostly in different matches. These two main ruleset gives Legionnaire Alvar a big boost against magic units.

Ruleset	Benefits
Armored Up	When armored up ruleset is in play, usually your opponent will use a magic units to bypass the armor. In this ruleset, Legionnaire Alvar is good to select and this ruleset will increase his armor further.
Counterspell	Given that Legionnaire Alvar's is against magic due to his void armor, adding up a counterspell will further improve and reflect back some magic damage to the attacker.

Below are the ruleset that are strongly against Legionnaire Alvar:

• Back to Basics
• Unprotected

🛡️ The Battle and Outcome

Battle

Rules of Combat

Modifications: Up Close & Personal
Mana Cap: 40
Playable Splinters: Fire, Water, Earth, Death and Dragon

With the Up Close & Personal ruleset applies, melee monsters with high armor and abilities such as shield, demoralize, sneak, reach, opportunity and thorns are the important part of the battle.

• Summoner: Kelya Frendul as the summoner for the speed buff, armor as well as a lot from water monsters can attack even in the backline.
• 1st Position: Legionnaire Alvar as the main tank due to a very high armor. A ★3 Legionnaire Alvar have the demoralize ability which reduce 1 attack from all opponent monster.
• 2nd Position: Flying Squid is in the 2nd position due to its reach ability as well as the blind ability which gives the enemy to miss some attack. A high speed and a blind would give much chance to avoid the attack.
• 3rd Position: Disintegrator is a pretty common monster as long as Up Close & personal is in effect.
• 4th Position: Junker as an additional attacking monster where it can do reach attack when Disintegrator is in the first position. My junker is not high enough to do repair to Legionnaire Alvar on this battle.
• 5th Position: Deeplurker is the main damager striking those monsters with low health.
• 6th Position: Torrent Fiend acts as a decoy and meat shield for sneak attack.

Let's do the battle analysis per round:

Round 1

Analyzing both team, Legionnaire Alvar and Disintegrator demoralize gives a big melee damage debuff to the death team resulting to a 1 melee damage only for all monsters.

In water team, Legionnaire Alvar, Flying Squid and Deeplurker are the only one who can attack while Cursed Windeku, Shadow Snitch and Sha-vi for the other side.

Cursed Windeku is the first target of Legionnaire Alvar and Flying Squid while Deeplurker will target Crypt Beetle.

On the other hand, Legionnaire Alvar is the target of Cursed Windeku and Shadown Snitch while Torrent Fiend decoy works with Sha-vi.

Round 2

Crypt Beetle has been poison and will be eliminated in the 2nd round immediately.

The same pattern of attack will continue but all of the three attacking unit will target and will try to eliminate Cursed Windeku.

On the other hand, Legionnaire Alvar is showing his great defense against Cursed Windeku's thorn and attack.

Round 3

Cursed Windeku and Torrent Fiend has been eliminated.

The same pattern of attack will be done by Deeplurker, Alvar and Squid and will eliminate Shadown Snitch.

Sha-vi on the otherhand will try to take down Deeplurker.

Round 4

One by one the frontline enemies is falling on the hands of Legionnaire Alvar.

The battle continues.

Round 5

Disintegrator is heavily wounded with poison. A single attack from Deeplurker will eliminate disintegrator in this round removing the demoralize effect thus giving the chance for Legionnaire Alvar to eliminate Xenith Monk as well in this round.

Round 6

With Sha-vi only the remaining unit, a victory has been sealed in this round.

BATTLE LINK

🛡️ Final Thoughts

Legionnaire Alvar is a powerful legendary card from the Chaos Legion Edition which is highly effective against magic monsters because of his Void armor. This card also deals a powerful attack against high mana cost enemies such as Grum.

In higher league, Legionnaire Alvar is against melee monsters as well due to the demoralize ability and very hard to beat one on one because of the deathblow ability.

Legionnaire Alvar is a 9 mana cost which is applicable in high mana matchup.

How do you think Legionnaire Alvar is?

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