Splinterlands BATTLE MAGE SECRETS Weekly Challenge: ARMORED UP!

Good day, everyone! It's time again for another battle challenge from Splinterlands. If you would also like to participate, please make sure to check their post here - BATTLE MAGE SECRETS Weekly Challenge! The new challenge for this week is about the Armored Up. Aside from the battle itself, I will be also sharing some tips from Splinterlands itself on how to counter and use this ruleset. If this piques your interest, please continue reading this post.

We now have a rough idea of how this ruleset will be used in battle. Here are some tips from Splinterlands to give you more ideas or information that will be very useful in picking your monsters in this ruleset.

For this battle, aside from Armored Up Ruleset, the other rulesets are Ferocity: All Monsters have the Fury ability and Target Practice: All Ranged and Magic attack Monsters have the Snipe ability. The maximum amount of mana that can be used is 46. The rulesets do not have any of the rulesets mentioned above in the Notable Rulesets mentioned. However, if we take a closer look, using monsters with Magic Attack will give you an advantage, unless the enemy used summoner Grandmaster Rathe that grants Void Armor ability. Luckily, it seems like the opponent is not using Grandmaster Rathe in his/her deck.

The opponent used Possibilus the Wise that adds additional HP to allied monsters. The opponent also has a monster with Repair ability and used monsters with thick Armors. Luckily, the opponent has no monster to counter magic damage. In Round 1, Time Mage's Rust ability successfully reduced the the armor of the opponent monsters.

In Round 1, you can see that the damage from Chaos Dragon successfully penetrated the armor of the opponent monsters. Its Blast effect also ignored the armor of the adjacent monster. Also in this round, Venari Marksrat was easily defeated.

You can also see that the opponent monster's attack just destroyed the armor without dealing direct damage to my monster's HP. Even though their melee attack power were powered up by Demented Shark's Inspire ability, it will not be felt unless my monsters have no more armor.

In Round 2, my monsters continued attacking the enemy monsters by ignoring their armor, except my Supply Runner's Ranged attack.

Since I also have a monster that has the Repair ability, Time Mage gained 2 Armor again after the enemy monster destroyed its armor.

In Round 2, enemy Diemonshark was defeated bringing the number of my opponent monsters down to 3 while I still have all 6 monsters in my line up.

At this point, I can already smell the victory. The enemy monsters also had missed several attacks and also cannot deal direct damage to my monsters HP.

The combination of Repair, Rust, Flying and Slow abilities plus the Magic Attacks made the enemy attacks quite useless.

And at Round 4, enemy Demented Shark received its final blow, making me the winner of this battle. Here is the full replay in Splinterlands.

This was definitely a very successful battle, and showcased the abilities that worked well with and against Armored Up Ruleset. And I think using Grandmaster Rathe is the best summoner to use in this kind of Ruleset together with monsters with Repair, Protect and Rust ability. On the other hand, using Immortalis will surely counter enemies with heavy armor because of its Shatter ability. We'll see you again the following week with a brand-new Battle Mage Secrets Weekly Challenge!