BATTERING RAM is an important card in Dice | My Splinterlands Social Challenge post!

almost 3 years ago

What's up Splinterland Lovers!

I hope you all enjoying Splinterlands!

This is your splinter fellow warrior mango-juice with another Splinterlands Social challenge post!!

Well, India is facing a hard time in the second wave of Covid and hospitals are facing a crisis on oxygen supply for the ICU patients. More than hundred patients have been died due to this. Its all over the news and social media and we all are sad about the fact. Gladly, helps from different areas are coming to help out the situation and we soon hope to overcome this tragic situation.

For my leg condition, I rarely go outside and even if I go outside, I use mask all the time outside. I hope it would be enough, I have not got vaccined yet so there is a high chance of getting this virus. So I am taking all the precautions I can.

Better than wasting time, here I am, sitting in front of my PC all the time and hustling with crypto. Recently @raymondspeaks started building a True Splinterlands tournament worthy deck and I ll be playing his account which is a great news for me! I want to thank him for taking this great step towards SL. He already bought all the dice and most of the untamed and beta cards as well.

Talking about today's social post, I took some time and went into deep thinking of which monster I should talk about today. Then I remember I have upgraded the BATTERING RAM to max level recently, so without having a second thought, let the BATTERING RAM secure his place in my weekly curation post!

BATTERING RAM is super usable in low and medium mana matches specially when you know that the opponent will use small health monsters. Costing only 2 mana, this new dice neutral monster has 2 melee attack with Opportunity and Shatter ability which helps him to hunt down enemies with small health ignoring their position in line up. So, If you really want a powerful hunter that can kill down the enemy monsters easily, BATTERING RAM can be your true companion!

I always love playing ranked matches with various types of neutral monsters and by now I have a decent collection of neutral cards. Mostly my neutral cards are either untamed or reward and Ram is my third dice buy. Because of it's usefulness, i couldn't resist myself from buying it.
Moreover, you can choose neutral monsters with any splinter so you can use them all the time without any hustle. Now that I have almost all the untamed and reward water cards and also some alpha/beta edition as well, whenever I see an opportunity for little monsters, I always select Ram over any other low mana card nowadays since I bought him.

However, Costing only 2 mana, this monster has shown great potential on the battlefield, especially in the low mana matches. So today, I chose the BATTERING RAM to showcase in front of all of you splinter lovers.

Ok so, before moving on, let us see what is being written in the book of Splinterlore for her.

Battering Rams are the most ruthless of the charging beasts; they can be found in almost every Splinter. They are not very large or incredibly powerful, but they attack with the fury of much greater monsters. Because of the way the rams’ horns converge into a thick plate of bone, they are able to barrel into anything at full speed repeatedly without concussing themselves. Battering Rams are especially notorious for targeting the weakest or the slowest prey, then relentlessly pummeling them until they stop getting up.

For this reward edition card, Right now there are currently one max Ram available at the market at 54$, 0.14$ per bcx and will cost you a total of 59,288.538 DEC.
Some high level cards are there at good price.
The single ones are available starting at 0.094$ and will cost you 103.229 DEC as per the current rate.

What BATTERING RAM is actually capable of?

Let's have a look into his stats and find out!

Level 1 - In its initial level, it carries 1 melee attack with 1 health and 1 speed. It brings opportunity ability at the initial level with it.
Level 3 - At level 3, it carries 1 melee attack at 3 speed and 1 health.
Level 6 - At the 6th level, It possesses 1 melee attack with 2 health at 3 speed. It also gets Shatter ability at level 5.
Level 10 - At the maximum level, It possesses 2 melee attack with 3 health at 5 speed.

So, what do you think guys? Is it a fantastic choice to defend rangers or just a common reward monster? Let's now see about his ability.

`Opportunity`

Monsters with opportunity ability will attack the monster having the lowest health.

`Shatter`

Monsters with Shatter ability will break any enemy Armour it hits.

`Match line up`

`Ruleset Of Battle`

Battle link Click here

Opponent @iluvwvmountains

Mana count This match holds a mini 13 mana cap!
Summoners This battle supports only Water and Life summoners.

Ruleset So, It was a single ruleset as below...

- Unprotected All monsters will lose their shields in this match.

Well, It's a mini mana match this time and I am thinking to go for the Life summoner Lorna Shine. Because it's a Unprotected rule set match, this rule set is favoring monsters with high attacks. Since it a low mana match, I can definitely use the Ram this time with a decent front defense to cope with things up!

`Line-Up`

`CRYSTAL WEREWOLF`

I chose CRYSTAL WEREWOLF in the first place because of its high health with Thorns ability. I have a level 8 and it has 2 melee attack at 4 speed and 8 health.

`CREEPING OOZE`

I chose CREEPING OOZE in the second place because of its 1 mana cost and slow ability. I have a level 8 and it has 1 melee attack at 3 speed and 3 health.

`BATTERING RAM`

I chose the BATTERING RAM in the third place because of its 2 mana cost and decent melee attack with opportunity and shatter ability. I have a level 10 and it has 2 malee attack at 5 speed and 3 health. This is Mainly to give our small health enemies a little bit of early attack.

`PARASITIC GROWTH`

I chose the PARASITIC GROWTH in the fourth place because of its high melee attack with opportunity and scavenger ability. I have a level 10 and it has 3 melee attack at 3 speed and 5 health. This is Mainly to give our Ram a bit of extra support killing those low health monsters.

`FURIOUS CHICKEN`

I chose FURIOUS CHICKEN in the fifth place because of its 0 mana cost. I have a level 3 and it has 1 melee attack at 1 speed and 1 health.

Battle Result

Let us now take a leap of faith straight into the gameplay.

Well, it was an awesome and unpredictable low mana mana match and friends, the match was full of small and medium monsters as my opponent used a high level water dice summoner Vera Salacia against me! My opponent was having some big level water and neutral cards and his line up was just great! Let's look down to the match!

`Gameplay`

You can directly view the battle. Just click the hyperlink below.

`Battle Link`

First, let us follow the opponent's line-up...

My opponent @iluvwvmountains used water dice summoner Vera Salacia against me.
At the front position, he used the Kelp Initiate Level 8. He definitely chose a lovely tank beast as tanker due to the low mana ruleset to his front and I just hope I get able to kill this non attacking beast with my warriors.
At the second position, he puts the chicken lev 3.
At the third he used Pirate Captain lev 5.
At the fourth position, he puts Water Elemental level 8.

As you can see from the battle, the opponent's line up was mostly focused to attack on my first position and my sniper prone position. while at the front, the kelp initiate was defending with cleanse and triage ability, followed by chicken to get an extra hit. The water elemental was protecting the back with heal and Evade ability and was going big size attacks.

At this case, I have chosen a good front defense because the werewolf really stood up for quite some time while my other monsters were attacking and killing the enemies. I did a good move by choosing the opportunity duo, Ram and Parasitic growth, together they have dealt a great damage upon my enemies.

My opponent @iluvwvmountains really played great! I face her often on the battlefield and her line ups are great as always! If you are reading this, please give him a shout out. I hope you have enjoyed reading my post. Please let me know your feelings by leaving a comment below.