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The Kulu Swimhunter is a new Chaos Legion card for the Water Splinter that is a decent range attacker. While I prefer to use magic and melee attackers for the Water Splinter, sometimes, I do mix things up a little by using a range attacker.

## The Rules and My Lineup

*Equalizer, Earthquake - 58 Mana Cap*

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Equalizer coupled with Earthquake is an interesting ruleset. On one hand, you might need to take 2 damage each round if you don't use a flying creature but on the other hand, you benefit by having your lower health cards get a bump in health.

So my strategy for such rulesets is to use flying creatures as much as possible so that there is no penalty. You can [watch my battle at this link](https://steemmonsters.com?p=battle&id=sl_1a524be5f58917c5ccfb97f65845dec8&ref=numpypython).

**Summoner:** Kelya Frendul for the speed and shield boost
**Position 1:** Ruler of the Seas to do explosive magic damage
**Position 2:** Ice Pixie because it flies and gets a big health boost
**Position 3:** Sea Genie because it flies and again gets a big health boost
**Position 4:** Phantom of the Abyss because of its speed, flying and evading ability not to mention heavy magic damage
**Position 5:** Gargoya Devil because it can fly and attack from the front with range attack
**Position 6:** Kulu Swimhunter to mix things up with the range attacks and also because it will get a decent health boost

## Was my strategy effective?

Overall, I would say that the strategy was pretty effective. Having lots of flying creatures helped to not get any Earthquake penalty each round. Also, by mixing things up a bit using range attackers as well, I was able to avoid getting stuck by my opponent's use of the shield and void abilities.

## What would I do differently?

Personally, I might have gone with a stronger tank than the Ruler of the Seas up front like a Sea Monster but I was afraid that I would be giving my opponent too much of a boost. The Kraken would have been too much as well. So a Sea Monster would have been perfect but you can't know that before hand.

## Thoughts on the Kulu Swimhunter

The Kulu Swimhunter helps to mix things a bit with the Water Splinter which can be a bit magic heavy initially. 2 range damage for a level 1 monster is pretty darn decent and at only 4 mana. While it doesn't have the most health, it is decently fast and does good damage for the cost.