This week's Splinterlands Community Negotiation Challenge features a very different theme: Underdog Victories. While not everyone may be familiar with the term "underdog," it refers to an unexpected victory in which your team was at a certain disadvantage, yet with strategy and a bit of luck, you often manage to secure the victory.
In the case of the Splinterlands event theme, it refers to a match in which you managed to win against an opponent who had a clear advantage, such as more mana, more units, or more upgraded cards, and yet you still managed to win. Let's analyze an "underdog" match I had in Brawl this week! #splinterlands #play2earn
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Details of this "Underdog" Match!
This theme is completely related to the objective of Splinterlands, which is to be a card game focused on strategy. The best combination of cards, depending on the rules and available elements, guarantees victory more than a single strong team. The crypto game was designed this way so that players seek to have as many cards as possible, focusing on unique cards for certain situations. This creates demand and helps balance the market, preventing players from focusing solely on a certain set of cards, which would lead to many others being forgotten.
In this match, as you'll notice, the opponent had a summoner named "Avina of the Wolf - Human," which many might consider stronger because she could use one of two abilities, being from the Rebellion summoner pool from which the player can choose. While he could choose between giving Heal to one of the cards or +2 Speed to two cards, I didn't have any buffs with my summoner Prunda Undervesch.
Out of curiosity, I went to Peakmonster to check out all the most used summoners in the Rebellion collection, which are these rare summoners with two abilities. An interesting point that demonstrates the strength of this summoner, Avina of the Wolf, is that of all the summoner options, she's the most expensive, with a low buy of $1, while the first Nomos is less than half that. On the other hand, Purnda Undervesch is selling for $0.79, while the cheapest BCX is $0.40. This shows that, depending on your strategy, it's possible to achieve victory in Splinterlands with fewer resources than your opponent. The difference ultimately lies in the capabilities of each player.
Analyzing Strategies: Ally vs. Opponent!
After understanding in more detail the "underdog match" theme and the entire scenario of the match in question, with the rules and available elements, let's analyze the strategy used by the players, in this case the allied units and the opponent's units.
Let's begin by analyzing the strategy used by the summoner. Even though Prunda Undervesch doesn't have an ability like the opponent's summoner, she still has two major advantages, both of which depend on the player's strategic ability. The first advantage is mana expenditure; while Avina costs 5, Prunda only costs 3, leaving 2 mana to use on units.
Furthermore, being a Dual Element, it allows you to choose the best cards from both the Water and Life elements, which allowed me to choose the Anachron Bolter to counter enemy archers, while as DPS I could use the Shock Trooper, which deals 4 magic damage.
It's quite curious that both players chose to use Janni Rebel, due to her high HP stat and decent DPS, but she ends up losing the use of her Inspire ability. Choosing two archers was a very poor choice in this scenario, as they didn't have a strong defense to prevent them from ending up on the frontline and were also nerfed by Anachron. While the opposing tank only had 7 HP, my Ulundin Overseer had 12 HP.
I didn't like the opponent's use of Gallicus, because right at the beginning he took 4 damage and was almost defeated, unable to contribute anything because of his very poor Speed, so he was defeated without doing anything. In the end, he ended up losing to himself, using a not very good strategy.
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