Understanding the Opportunist and Sneak Abilities: A Concise Tutorial by Ksam

VIDEO TIMELINE

• 00:01 - 02:29 | Introduction
• 02:30 - 03:15 | Opportunist Ability
• 03:16 - 04:03 | Sneak Ability
• 04:04 - 05:36 | Examples of Monsters with Opportunist and Sneak abilities
• 05:37 - 06:19 | My Battle as an example (Explanation) and outro

OUTLINE OF THE POST

• Introduction
• Opportunist Ability
• Monsters with Opportunist Ability
• Sneak Ability
• Monsters with Sneak ability
• Battle Example
• Appreciation

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In selecting the Monsters we are to use for our battles, we Consider the rule set, Mana and Splinter specified for the game. After this, we also consider the mana and ability of the selected Monster.

Considering the ability of a Monster is very essential as it can guarantee heavy damage on our opponent's team and strength or healing on your Monsters.

In this post we are going to consider two important abilities: Opportunist and Sneak abilities.

In this tutorial, I will explain what the Opportunist and Sneak abilities are, I'll show you some Monsters that possess these abilities. Some of which are available among the Playable cards gotten through the Spell book you bought. Lest I forget, this video is directed to all Newbies and beginners. However, I'll be so glad to get reviews and comments from Great Splinterlands players.

You can check out my previous video on detailed Beginner's Guide to Splinterlands Battle. Click here

You can also check my previous video on the three healing abilities. Click here

THE OPPORTUNIST ABILITY

Just like the name, OPPORTUNIST from OPPORTUNITY, the Opportunist Monsters look for the perfect OPPORTUNITY to attack. In the game, they attack the opponent's Monsters with the lowest health, so that with their hit they will deliver a critical damage to the Monster with low health.

Monsters with the Opportunity ability may attack from any position and will target the enemy Monster with the lowest health.

MONSTERS WITH OPPORTUNIST ABILITY

Some of the Monsters with the Opportunist ability include:

Monster Name	Image	Level 1 Stats
Serpentine Spy		Splinter - Fire; Mana - 3; Melee attack effect - 2; Speed - 2; health - 1
Deeplurker		Splinter - Water; Mana - 3; Melee attack effect - 2; Health - 6

THE SNEAK ABILITY

Just like the name, SNEAK, the Sneak Monsters go through the backdoor rather than the front gate. In other words, they attack the Monsters at the backdoor rather than the first position Monster.

Targets the last Monster on the enemy Team instead of the first Monster.

MONSTERS WITH ABILITY

Some of the Monsters with the Sneak ability include:

Name	Image	Level 1 Stats
Tenyii Striker		Splinter - Fire; Mana - 5; Melee Attack Effect - 2; Speed - 2; Health - 6
Pelacor Bandit		Mana - 3; Melee Attack Effect - 1; Speed - 3; Health - 2

BATTLE EXAMPLE

To show you an example of how this happens, I'll share a Battle I played and these Monsters were used. The battle was for one of the Splinterlands Battle Challenge.

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The battle was against triplecoin who chose Summoner and Monsters from the Primal Force of Fire. On the other hand, I selected my team from the Primal Force of Water.

Two Opportunist Monsters were used and 1 sneak Monster was also used in this battle.

THE OPPORTUNIST MONSTERS

In this video preview we see the opportunist Monsters of both teams attacking the weaker Monsters (in health) of both teams not minding their positions.

THE SNEAK MONSTER

In this video preview we see my opponent's Sneak Monster, attacking my last monster instead of the first. That's is what Sneak does 😅

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