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**Hello Splinter nerds**

*It is less than 24 hours before the season ends, and players are struggling to get a good spot on the leaderboard of which I am also one... I am currently ranked in the top 31 and I hope to get to the top 25 before the season ends, it is harder to top now since there is only 1 leaderboard with hundreds of accounts competing to get a good spot.*


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*Cryptic Summoner is still giving me joy with his amazing prowess in battle, I made a post about it where I talked about his poison and expose ability but I don't use that often now, it is the other stat I fell in love with which is the ``Retaliate and Enfeeble`` ability...*



*These two abilities are awesome in melee rulesets or in battles where you are sure the opponent will use melee monsters*


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*I had a battle with ``Antonine`` in a two combole ruleset*

- **Aimless**: *I figured out the opponent would use a melee monster as a tank because of this ruleset, magic, and range will just throw their attack randomly at any monsters in the opponent team so players often use a strong tank to aim well, what I did not expect was the opponent to come with a melee tank and another melee with reach  ability.*

- **Aim True**: *This ruleset means all the monsters would hit their target, regardless of flying, dodge, or flying abilities, there would be no miss, I love this ruleset because your winning depends on your formation and no random luck like misses in the battle.*




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[battle link](https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_73826290c4c5a64e7d9938bb0923f792)

*Immediately after our formation was shown, I knew I had a bigger chance of winning because of my tank and It was as predicted, Check out the formation below!*

- **Summoner  = Cryptic** - **Abilities** = **Retaliate and Enfeeble**

**Tank** = **Mantaroth**


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*Mantaroth was my tank and it did a great job in this battle, The first monster that died in the battle was ``Venka the Vile `` which belonged to the opponent and it was eliminated by Mantaroth through ``retaliation from its attack. It was also my tank that eliminated the opponent tank ``Silverblade fighter`` and weakened the melee attack of the opponent Mantaroth, I would have lost the battle with it but he did not do it alone as he was supported by my rear monsters.*

<center>**Weapon Training and Triage**</center>

**Daigendark Surveyor, Daarg Deadblast, and Angelic Mandarin**


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*This monster is nonattack but it was bestowed a magic power by the weapon training monster I used, Surveyor has a high speed and a stun ability even though it did not stun any monster till the end of the battle, it caused some damage to the opponent rear monsters.*


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*Daarg Deadblast was the magic monster with the weapon training ability and it also added +1 speed to all the monsters in its team which further gave me a good chance to attack first and destroy the opponent, the triage ability also made it difficult for the opponent to eliminate my rear monsters.*

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*The Mandarin was the second triage monster I used so I was not surprised the opponent could only take down one of my rear monsters because the rest had enough health supplements to keep them going.*<hr>

<center>**Venka the Vile  & Anasth Soothsayer**</center>


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*Venka is the nonattack monsters slayer because it does double damage to this monster, it has a high melee attack and that was pretty useful as it causes havoc to the opponent's team while Anasth was my tank heal supplementing Mantaroth with more health.*

*I just love this battle win and formation .*



















































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