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https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@splinterlands/share-your-battle-weekly-challenge-grumpy-dwarf

###### Welcome to another edition of the Weekly challenge battle blogs for Splinterlands on the the **SHARE YOUR BATTLE** challenge.

###### I hope you keep checking the Splinterlands assets worth everyday, I do so mostly more than once every day with the assets growing exponentially every day :)

###### OK, here I go with this blog with details of the lineup I used, the battle strategy and the details of each round of the battle.

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###### **Grumpy Dwarf** was the monster I used to use the most during the initial days along with either **Flesh Golem** or **Sea Monster** or even with **Haunted Spirit** since it is the one with *reach* ability and it is a common *melee* attack monster from *neutral* category from Alpha/Beta versions.

###### It comes with *enrage* as we level up this monster to level 5 to get the enraged speed and attack.

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###### Let's see the stats for this monster as we can see from above screenshot.

###### **Grumpy Dwarf** is on the lower side of the attack as it starts with just 1 attack, but it can go up to a maximum of 3 attack without *enrage* and additional *inspiring* by other monsters or summoner with which it will be used.

###### It's *speed* just varies by 1 throughout it's 10 levels as it starts with 2 speed and can increase to 3, but again, with enrage, it gets additional speed.

###### Another good thing to compensate for it's low health is that, it has *armors* from level 1 itself as it starts with single armor and is it leveled up, it gets additional armors and can have 3 armors max at maximum level.

###### The *health* is on lower side as well with it starting at 2 *health* which can increase to 4 at final level.

###### As we discussed above, this monster has 2 abilities viz. *reach* ability from level 1 and from level 5, it will have *enrage* ability to provide increased speed and attack. 

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## Battle and Lineup:

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###### It's another low MANA cap battle as this battle had 17 MANA cap and the battle had 2 rule sets with **Equalizer** being One of those which gives equal *health* to all the monsters with the *health* of the monster with maximum *health* on either side.

###### The other rule set was the **Lost Magic** meaning no *magic* monsters can be used in the battle and I was particularly in favor of that with *equalizer* rule being in force, it's better to have more *melee* attack monsters to get the benefit of *retaliate* ability from **Exploding Dwarf**, the front monster I used.

## Lineup:

#### 1. Exploding Dwarf:

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###### The moment I see a *equalizer* rule set in any battle I fight, First monster I get to my mind will be **Exploding Dwarf** because of it's *blast* ability, *pierce* ability and even the *retaliate* ability.

###### It almost takes out the front monster in combination with other monsters and it can even attack back when a melee attack monster attacks it because of the *retaliate* ability.

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#### 2. Grumpy Dwarf:

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###### This is the Second Dwarf monster with **Exploding Dwarf** at the front and these 2 *Dwarf* monsters were good enough to give an easy win for me in this battle with this one having those *armors* and *enrage* ability.

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#### 3. Serpentine Spy:

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###### Another good monster with low MANA cap battles is this **Serpentine Spy** as it gives 4 attack when used with **Malric Inferno** for just 3 MANA cost and another good thing is, this is an *opportunity* ability monster and keeps hunting low *health* monsters.

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#### 4. Imp Bowman:

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###### A monster with *pierce* ability and gives 2 *ranged* attack for just 2 MANA cost and is one of the useful for low MANA cap battles.

###### Another point about this and **Serpentine Spy** are that, both are with good *speed* and can attack early.

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#### 5. Furious Chicken:

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###### Last monster on the lineup is the *Zero* MANA cost monster and is used to absorb any *sneak* attack in this battle as it will also have equal number of *health* like all the other monsters in this battle.

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###### Opponent used Earth Splinter with monsters being **Furious Chicken**, **Gelatinous Cube**, **Parasitic Growth** and **Goblin Thief** in that order.

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## Battle:

#### Round 1:

###### Opponent's usage of **Gelatinous Cube** means, all the monsters will be with huge health and yes, each of those monsters were with 11 health to start with.

###### Opponent placed **Furious Chicken** in front position followed by **Gelatinous Cube** and his idea was to keep front position active and keep attacking the Second line with his **Parasitic Growth** and **Goblin Thief**, but, I had different plans as I used **Exploding Dwarf** which will be a *blasting* monster and **Furious Chicken** got removed in no time in this round.

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#### Round 2:

###### **Gelatinous Cube** no doubt had huge *health*, but it was against the likes of **Exploding Dwarf**, **Serpentine Spy** and **Imp Bowman** who just wiped it out before it could heal back to stay alive and that means, opponent's *back attacking* **Parasitic Growth** moving to front position for a battle with **Exploding Dwarf**.

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#### Round 3:

###### Before we could realize, the 2 remaining monsters from opponent got removed with **Parasitic Growth** to go First by the brutal attack of **Exploding Dwarf** which, attacked once again in the same round by *retaliating* **Goblin Thief** to get rid of it to give one of the easiest victories to me.

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## Questions and Answers:

## Did my strategy work? What will I try differently next time?

###### I had no doubt that the lineup I used was one of the best for *Equalizer* battles and this lineup once again proved that by giving an easy victory.

###### If I have to try different, then, may be I could have used **Halfling Alchemist** instead of **Imp Bowman** to just reduce the attack from front monster by opponent.

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## Do you like the GRUMPY DWARF? Why or why not?

###### I used to use **Grumpy Dwarf** a lot when I started playing the Splinterlands battles, but, he is now like a monster with least preference because each of the Splinters have got so many innovative and better equipped *reach* ability monsters and **Grumpy Dwarf** doesn't find a place in my lineups nowadays.

**P.S: unless explicitly mentioned, all the images are screen captures from Splinterlands game website or the ones from @splinterlands blogs.**

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###### That's all guys, it was a long day for me and I am happy that, I could complete this blog today and I hope you enjoyed reading this :)

## <center>Thanks and Have a good week ahead :)</center>

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