Melding Paradigms Part IV (Battleblow)

Melding Paradigms Part IV - Battleblow Melds

Battleblow Sources: 

Alert Guard (3-Star Neander with Battleblow 8)
He is easily found in Coin Altar and Mazes

Battleblow is one of the most common melds. Here are the skills that go well with Battleblow.

Bullseye

The best Battleblow carriers are the cards that have Bullseye skill. It makes sure that your creature doesn't miss the hit, and also that your damage is not reflected back to you with dodge runes.

Anathema, Manticore, Michael and Paladin

Commonly used cards are

• Anathema (5 star)
• Pit Dragon (5 star)
• Titania (5 star)
• Paladin (4 star)
• Valkyrie (4 star)
• Michael (4 star)
• Manticore (3 star)

Titania, Michael and Manticore are my favourites in this group. Titania is so good that she has a full page for herself (here).

Michael already has Warlust which gives him a high damage against creatures with large HP pool like Octavius. When battleblow procs, he does more than 6000 damage and one-shot-kills any creature, including creatures with Sacrifice skill.

Manticore is an easily available 3 star creature, it can paralyze up to three enemy cards, has a 2-turn timer, and has Rebirth. It also fits nice with a Morti deck. It is one of the best early melds.

Sweeping Blow

Another common combination is cards with Sweeping Blow.

These are not as good as their Bullseye counterparts. You will not use them since late mid-game because of commonly found Dodge-rune with enemy creatures. A Dodge-rune reflects back the attack to your cards and its adjacent creatures as direct damage. You really dont want to get hit back with direct damage from your own Battleblow-Graboid! 

These cards would still be useful in gauntlet where your opponents doesn't have runes.

The commonly used ones are

• Ash Beast
• Graboid
• Swordmaster
• Techno Chief
• Demonic Templar

I should also mention the three star creature Border Ranger which already has battleblow and Sweeping Blow - makes it open to other good melds like Dodge 8.

Border Ranger already has Battleblow and Sweeping Blow

Other Cards

Sentry Angel is a good cheap early meld. He is tanky and can dish out quite some damage before going down.

Centaur Chief has Warlust and Miasma. He can be a very high-attack situational card against some Neander decks. I would suggest Frost Armor on him though.

What are the cards you have battleblow on? 

Also check out
Melding Paradigms Part 1 (Recycle and Revive carriers)
Melding Paradigms Part II (Sacrifice Carriers)
Melding Paradigms Part III (Immunity Carriers)

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Vitality Grimoire 5

Vitality Grimoire 5 - Kill All Enemy Creatures

Vitality is the easiest Grimoire and starters can do it using the 2 star Hero 'Defiler'.

Vitality Grimoire 5 consists of creatures with 200 HP and 1 attack, however they take only 1 damage from any attacks. They also heal about 6 damage per turn. The challenge is to cause damage as many times as possible to kill the entire deck before turn 50.

The Absolute Beginner Deck

The deck consists of 2 star hero Defiler, 5 Treant Guides at level 10, One treant guide melded with Vodoo from Dark Witch(Another 3 star creature). If you have a 5 star Gorgon or Spirit Siren, you can use either of them instead of the melded Treant Guide.

Defiler's skill work in Vitality Grimoire

Treant Guides are 3-star Faen creatures farmable from the Explorer's Map (Map 4). If you do not know how to do 'explore' for creatures, check out this walkthrough here.

Treant Guide is the only creature in the game with two Mass Heal skills!

You need to have at-least a 3-star Heal Amplify rune on Defiler. There should be a Voodoo rune of level 5 or 6 on the creature with Voodoo. The creature with Voodoo should be the last to be dropped, so that it can stop the enemy hero from activating its hero skill.

Voodoo rune reduces enemy Hero's rage

Defiler's skill kills the enemy cards and the Treants heal the damage, and you win.

Other Decks

There are other alternatives for mid-game players.

A Vile Songstress along with almost any deck can defeat Vitality Grimoire (I use a one card deck with a Virgo). Enemy units (which has just 200 HP) die of the damage when Requiem is negated.

Vile Songstress

If you have Pisces, you could use her to reflect the magic damage and win the Grimoire.

The 5 star creature Anubis can also kill the creatures in one shot.

Do you know any other ways to win this Grimoire? What deck do you use? Please let us know in the comments.


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Deck Heroes Deathmort

Deathmort

Deathmort 

It is debatable which the best 4-star hero is. The worst, however, is Deathmort and his puppet.

Deathmort summons a 'Puppet' which takes damage in place of the hero, and converts that damage taken into attack. Unfortunately, the puppet has no survival skills and dies just too easily to make use of all that attack. It is the weakest summon among all, and does not bring anything to the table that we might make use of.

The ideal talents for Deathmort would be Morti Aura(increases HP of all Morti creatures in your hand), Cripple (reduces enemy attack) and Undying(grants rebirth to your creatures). However, I would suggest to get Wight with the same talent set instead of Deathmort as your Morti hero.

There are no situational uses for Deathmort.


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Deck Heroes Wight

Morti 4 Star Hero - Wight 

Wight and his skill

Wight is the arguably the strongest all round player-vs-player 4 star hero. His skill 'Death Curse' increases the damage exponentially over time. You can look at the below table to see his damage increase round after round at different levels.


(Turns listed downwards in the yellow column, Hero level listed towards the right in green row)

Damage per turn	Level 1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
0	400	450	500	550	600	650	700	750	800	900
1	440	540	650	770	900	1040	1190	1350	1520	1800
2	484	648	845	1078	1350	1664	2023	2430	2888	3600
3	532	778	1099	1509	2025	2662	3439	4374	5487	7200
4	586	933	1428	2113	3038	4260	5846	7873	10426	14400
5	644	1120	1856	2958	4556	6816	9939	14172	19809	28800

Years ago, Wight used to work in guild maps as well. People used him to one-shot maps. Now death curse is cleared by Mantra and Wight is not useful for guild maps.

The recommended skills for Wight are Morti Aura(increases HP of all Morti creatures in your hand), Cripple (reduces enemy attack) and Undying(grants rebirth to your creatures)

It is good to have a few non-Morti creatures in a Wight deck, because you don't want Undying to trigger as soon as 3 of your creatures are out. The more creatures get Undying, the better.

Death Curse targets the enemies with highest HP, and this usually are the strongest creatures. He is really handy when you face a low level deck with just one or two top tier creatures like Virgo which are otherwise indestructible.

Undying is particularly useful in the Gauntlet when you want most of your cards alive after each battle. I would recommend to get Wight as soon as you can!

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Deck Heroes Predator

4 Star Hero Review - Predator

You get a free Predator at level 25

Predator is one of those Heroes for which you need to build a specialized deck. It is absolutely worth the effort, because a well-built Predator deck can punch way above it's weight.

Another thing is that you get Predator for free at level 25 as a level-up reward, so there is no reason to not use him.

The recommended skills for Predator are Faen Aura (increase HP of Faen creatures) and Agile (80% chance to dodge attacks).

Predator requires an almost fully Faen deck. The specialty of the Faen faction is that they buff each other very well. 3-star Frost Ragers with Sprite Link 7 (increase attack on all your Faen creatures by 175) is one of the best early melds that you can make to rank in the tournament with Predator. Typically you can make a deck with an average 4000 HP, 1200 attack, with 70-80% of the creatures having Frost Armor or dodge, and more than 850 heal! There is a post dedicated to Frost Rager decks here.

Predator's summon, the Grizzly soaks up to 80% of damage dealt to the hero, and reduces magic damage and basic attack damage to 50% on self. So if you hit Predator with a basic damage of 3000, the grizzly reduces it to 300 (600 damage after 80% reduction, then reducing it by 50% again to 300), and then heals 300 damage by itself, even disregarding rip. It is the toughest 4 star summon you can get.

Grizzly - the toughest 4 star summon in the game

Grizzly Skills

Every time the grizzly takes damage in place of your Hero, it reduces the enemy Hero rage by 20. If the enemy deck has creatures like Dahlia, Gorgon etc, then it is bye-bye to enemy Hero rage. Even 5 star heroes become helpless if they cannot activate their skill.

Situational Uses

Predator can be used to clear Protean Grimoire in 4 star. You only need to have a high level Hero-vigor rune on Predator and have to drop cards one by one until all but one card is left. Grizzly will soak up the damage from enemies and keep your Predator alive.

Predator can also be used to clear Protean Grimoire in 5 star using a Henrietta deck. You can find the post about Protean Grimoire here.

Tournament

I have a friend who reached top 1000 in tournament with two predator decks. I myself used it till I was around 3000-5000 rank or so. Grizzly's rage-reduction is a good way to fight against 5 star heroes who have much stronger skills. For example, Vile songstress lose her rage every round when the requiemed creatures hit your Predator!

There is also a pretty 3 star Faen magic deck. However, that requires good leveled up runes, which I lacked and hence it did not work for me that well.

All in all, Predator is one of the best 4 star heroes for the tournament. You must make the best use of your free Predator!

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Earth Totem Blood Warlocks

The Blood Warlock Deck!

Here is a small Haiku dedicated to my favourite 3* deck.

Blood warlocks en-masse. 
Kickass. In guild map battles,
2 million damass

If you are still here after reading my lame haiku, I will share my secret guild map recipe with you.

Use a Berserker hero with blood warlocks, with Earth Totem melded to a few of them. Earth Totem level 6 gives 300 HP to all Neander creatures. I wouldnt wince if you meld Earth Totem 10 from a Nidhogg onto a blood warlock, the Blood Warlocks are that good.

My warlock deck

Berserker's boars at level 5 unlock a skill of increasing your Neander creatures' damage permanently. And three such boars could be existing at a time, each could add upto 230 attack to each blood warlock, for a total of 690 attack, every round.

2x100+30 = 230 per boar per round!

In the below screenshot of a guild map attack, you can see a level 10 blood warlock at the bottom. (It is faint, you might need to open the picture to see)

^^level 10 blood warlock!

Now you know where these 2 million+ damage came from.

When Berserker is at level 10, the boars resist retreat and instakill. Pretty good against Arch Devas, Revenants and Hell Wolfs.

With a blue heal-amplify rune, a warlock heals for 200. With a purple heal-amplify rune at level 7, they heal for 276. (I have two from glory altar. They are super rare and might take you a long time to get) That is a total of 2000-2760 heal from 10 healers. You can also use a few frost-armor oracles to shield against heavy hitters, if required.

Healing is the key for a Berserker deck!

With a Blight 4 rune (pretty common) partially levelled up on my hero , the warlocks deal 450 poison damage each to three creatures, followed by 150 next round. That is an extra 1800 damage every round per warlock (450x3 from first activation and 150x3 during the enemy rounds).

Mixed with two or three recyclers, this deck also helped me clear the gauntlet daily. (Keep your deck power as low as possible until the time you are interested in clearing gauntlets daily).

What is best about this deck is that there are no entry barriers. You can start farming Berserker shards regularly once the ore mine is open to you at level 25. Blood Warlocks are available on map 6, which can again be cleared using Frost Rager decks. (Refer to the walkthrough here if you are facing problem progressing, or just post a question in the comments here if you need more guidance).

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