Splinterlands Card abilites - The unknown power of "Blind" and "Dodge" Vs Melee and Ranged based teams

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  1. Do have any problems with melee and range-based attacks against your team?

  2. Are you looking for the next interesting idea on how to improve your battle statistics?

  3. Do you want to understand why your cards attacks just keep missing your opponent?

Then this article is for you!

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A lot of people might not know this, so let´s focus on the formula to calculate Hit and Miss chances:

(Speed Difference x 10%) + 25% (if the affected monster has dodge) + 25% (if the affected monster has flying and the attacker does not have flying and the affected monster has not been affected by Snare) + 15% (if there is blind) = Evade Chance

It might not seem like much, but one or two missed attacks can already decide the battle.

This post will introduce you to the power of the much neglected "blind" and "dodge" abilities and other factors in Melee and ranged battles with a special focus on Silver League battles.

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Ability Description

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Blind
All enemy Melee & Ranged attacks have an increased chance of missing their target (+15% chance of evading)

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Dodge
Has an increased chance of evading Melee or Ranged attacks (+25% Dodge vs melee/ranged)

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Flying
Has an increased chance (+25%) of evading Melee or Ranged attacks from Monsters who do not have the Flying ability

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Example for evasion mechanics

Attacker

Defender


The probability for Grum to miss is the following:

Speed
6-1 = 5 Speed Difference = 50% chance to miss

Flying ability of the Defender
25% chance to miss

Dodge ability of the Defender
25% chance to miss

--> Total chance to miss 50+25+25=100%

So you can see that Grum will never even hit Phantom even once, which showcases the importance of these abilities in melee and ranged battles.

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Blind

There is a decent selection of cards with the Blind ability:

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But there is only one monster card and one legendary summoner with Blind that can be played within Silver League rules and both are part of the Water Splinter:

Summoner

This card will cost you ~600 USD to own and quite a bit to rent so I can´t recommend going with this option

Monster

This card is quite a bit more cost-efficient and will either be extremely cheap to rent or you can pay ~23 USD to own the card directly.


You can find a battle that shows the strength of Blind here

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Dodge

There is also a decent selection of cards with the Dodge ability:

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But again, there is only a very selected few that can be played within the Silver League limitations:

This card will cost you around ~50 USD to own but it can also be rented quite cheap at the moment

This card will cost you around ~15 USD to own and should be on everyone's "To purchase" list as it will probably never be cheaper than now


This card will cost you around ~0,5 USD to own on Level 2 and should be on everyones "To purchase" list


This card will cost you around ~5 USD to own on Level 1 but can be significantly stronger if you are willing to pay the ~75 USD for LVL 4


This card will cost you around ~105 USD to own on Level 1 but it combines Flying and Dodge in one card with a very high Speed. This is kind of the Melee and Ranged killer


This card will cost you around ~150 USD to own on Level 2 but it combines Dodge and a team Speed increase which makes it a very strong addition to any anti melee and anti ranged team

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Line-Up recommendation

The best Anti Melee and Anti Ranged team within Silver League rules depending on the Battle Mana Cap would therefore focus on the Water Splinter.

It would look something likes this or with Phantom at the end depending on your enemy expectations:

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NameLevelMana costUSD cost
Keya FrendulLevel 44100$
Serpent of EldLevel 175$
Phantom of the AbyssLevel 110105$
Creeping OozeLevel 113$
Giant SquidLevel 4523$

This would give you a very strong base set-up of owned cards with a total of 17,20 or 27 Mana for an investment of 131 or 231 USD.

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Warning

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Aim True
Melee and Ranged attacks always hit their target

--> Evasion mechanics do not work as described with this ruleset. Please focus on high damage and high health cards instead!

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If you do not yet play this fascinating game, feel free to use my affiliate link and send me a message afterwards. I will send you my reward for your sign-up in DEC (~5% of 10$) to get you started with some rental cards after you have purchased the Summoners Book.

Thanks for reading. I´m happy about every comment to learn more or discuss your opinion on this.

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This anwsered all my questions on this topic. The example of the battle put it into prospective. Thanks!

Great breakdown of these awesome abilities, I so want a spirit miner I love that card so much he pairs well with so many lineups.

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Awesome and informative post..Thanks

I´m happy to hear you found this helpful. Thanks for taking the time to check it out :-)

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