Share Your Weekly Battle Challenge: Lava Spider The helper

Hello splinterlands lovers, how are you today? The first time I read about lava spider, it was a blog of @mango-juice I saw the article. It was a comprehensive post by mango-juice that I was engrossed with. I love the way he wrote the article and I wanted to arrange the way he explained it. It was a vivid explanation about the lava spider he gave in that post.
It was my first time using a lava spider after the post; I lost my first battle with a lava spider because I made the mistake of selecting the wrong monster in the wrong position.
This monster is very useful in battle when you know the best position to use it. I never gave up using this monster, I used it again when there was availability to use it in the battle and I won the battle.
The reason I don't like using lava spider is the ranged attack of the monster at level 3 compared to the fire beetle at level 3. I have both of them in level three; it takes a lava spider twice to have the same level of damage as a fire beetle.
When I compared the fire beetle with my lava spider, I preferred my fire beetle to the lava spider because of the range attack of two while lava spider has one.
Though, it is clear that lava spider speed and health is higher than fire beetle but still prefer fire to lava spider.

Lava spider is one of the fire monsters with range ability, this simply means that it has just a little advantages of being in the position and that is the time when the rule of the battles supported it; aside from that, the opportunity to start the battle is very narrow.

From the statistics of lava spider, the snipe ability is one of the monster’s abilities that disorganises the plan in the middle. In most cases, snipe ability monsters attack in the middle and disorganized opponent plans.
The day i saw the combination of zaku and monsters with snipe ability, i was marveled because i couldn’t eliminate a monster from my opponent in the battle.

My lava spider did not have a snare ability which would have been an added advantage to me. Snare ability removes flying ability that makes the monster not to miss attack. Snare is a good ability that can give you victory in battles. This is because I have come across monsters with snare abilities in battles, and I have encountered how this ability is very useful in battles.
The last ability of a lava spider is poison and can only be activated in the max level.

RULESET

Fog and War: monsters lose the sneak and snipe ability
In this ruleset, it is not that snipe monsters will not be used : losing snipe ability simply means that the monster will not be able to attack in the middle but can only attack monsters in the first position.
Losing sneak ability means that sneak monsters would not be able to attack unless such monsters are in the first position.
Mana cost: 20

click here to watch the battle. Seeing the level 6 summoner scared me first, and I began to think that I may lose the battle. Nerissa tridawn and hazmare harpoonist in level 5 put great fear of losing the battle.

BATTLE LINEUP

• Cerberus: Cerberus was my first monster because of the melee attack and healing ability. With these two characteristics of cerberus, I believed that it could stay longer in the battle.
  When I saw the 5 magic attack of nerissa tridawn and 5 range attack of hazmare harpoonist, i calculated the damages that would be done to cerberus. Then i discovered that Cerberus would not last beyond first round of the battle.
  One thing i was happy about was that Cerberus attacked kelp initiate which my opponent placed in the first position in the battle.
  Just like the way I calculated it, Cerberus did not last beyond the first position in the battle. 10 damages were done to cerberus by Nerissa tridawn and hazmare harpoonist that eliminated the cerberus in this battle.

• Fineas Rage: the reach ability was most important to me; The reach ability would position this monster to attack in this battle.
  The speed was an additional feature of Fineas Rage that made me have confidence in this monster. I was disappointed when fineas rage missed the first attack in this battle.
  One thing that came to my mind was that the next attack should not miss the target. I knew how kelp initiate can dodge the attack of melee and range monsters despite not having the dodge ability. I have been in situations where kelp initiate was used against me in several occasion, and my melee monsters missed 30% of attack against kelp initiate.
  One of the things that helped me in this battle was the health of Fineas rage: it takes 2 attacks from Nerissa tridawn and hazmare harpoonist to eliminate it. Assuming i placed any other monster in that position, probably i may lose the battle.

• Serpentine Spy: it is very important to use speed monsters in these kinds of battles.my first three monsters attacked before my opponents two monsters attacked in this battle. In the third round, Serpentine led the attack since Cerberus and Fineas Rage were eliminated in the battle.
  The biggest advantage I had here was the speed of the serpentine spy: that was the reason serpentine spy attack before nerissa tridawn and it was eliminated.
  Hazmare harpoonist was the only monster left in my opponent's lineup. due to its range attack, it could no longer attack in this battle. Harmare harpoonist was eliminated in this battle.

• Lava spider: fourth position was its best position in this battle. Assuming i place it in second position, I may lose the battle because by the time it led the battle, it may not be able to attack again.
  Lava spiders can be risk in third position in this battle: since serpentine spy can be placed in any position, using lava spider in the third position would delay attack of destroying my monsters.

• Furious Chicken: knowing fully well that sneak monsters would not be able to attack from behind. my thought was that by the end of the battle, it could be left with furious chicken and ranged attack monster.
  I have battled where I was left with a furious chicken and my opponent was left with a range attack monster. Furious was able to deliver me victory in that battle.
  And again, using furious chicken was advantageous to me because it required nothing.

• In conclusion, this chao card (lava spider) is a good monster. To enjoy this monster very well, you need to use it with summoners that have the ability to give additional range attacks to all friendly monsters. This is where the lava spider attack will be very effective. If my opponent uses shield ability monster, my lava spider would be useless in this battle.
  additional of lava spider is to increase the force of attack in the battle that is the reason i said, 'lava spider the helper'.

credit to splinterlands for the pictures in this post.