Summoner's Week: Mimosa Nightshade

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^{The tips and possible advises in this article are designed for Silver League, in which I am in right now.}

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Introduction

As we go deeper into the Rebellion, let's take a step back on one of the strongest summoner from Untamed. This summoner is what I think the basis of Chaos Legion's Immortalis.

With a legendary rarity and three abilities to apply on every monster, let's take a look at one of the strongest Death summoner from Untamed, "Mimosa Nightshade."

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Legendary summoners are very efficient in terms of summoner since you only need a level 1 for Bronze and a level 2 for Silver.

Mimosa Nightshade is very strong when comboed with specific monsters. She is also good in low mana fights due to the flexibility of Death Splinter''s monsters.

^Abilities:

Void: [Defense] Monsters with Void ability reduces the incoming magic damage by half. If the damage is 1, before the effect applies, the damage is negated and becomes 0.

-1 Range: [Stat Modifier] [Negative Status] All opponent monsters has their range damage reduced by 1, with a minimum of 1. Monsters with 1 range damage before the effect applies are unaffected.

Afflictioned Status: [Negative Status] Afflictioned monsters cannot be healed and unaffected by the effects of Heal, Tank Heal and Triage.

Pros

Void is a good combo with Shield ability. can be used to reduce all damage the monster receives
Gives Opponents the Afflictioned status instead of Affliction ability to allies. It directly applies the effect of Affliction which removes the weakness where Affliction ability can only be applied by chance.
Death has a lot of good monsters at Silver league. Venari Bonesmith's Poison ability is, to me, the strongest ability in the game. It deals 2 damage every round that cannot be reduced by other abilities. These types of monsters are very good especially since you need to invest a lot of mana for the summoner.

Cons

High Mana Cost.
Mimosa Nightshade has a mana cost of 7, which is equivalent to a summoner and an extra monster. It means that her impact should be worth that extra monster or else just pick a 3 mana cost monster and put that extra 4 mana cost for a stronger monster.
No protection against melee monsters.
In cases like your opponents can only choose melee monsters, this summoner does would not be as useful as she should.
Some of her abilities may be useless in some rules of combat.
Her Afflictioned status is really strong as it automatically attaches to the opponents, same as how Underboss Fabino's Poisoned status works. However, there are certain rules of combat that make this useless.

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Rank	Rules of Combat	Description
	^{Briar Patch}	All monsters on the board gains the Thorns ability that inflicts 2 melee damage to monster with melee damage attacking this monster: Briar Patch reduces the chance that the opponent will use melee monsters which are what counter this summoner.
	^{Wands Out}	During this battle, only monsters with magic damage type are allowed: Same with Immortalis, since Mimosa Nightshade has Void ability, she is very strong when against mages and where can you see a lot of magic damage than the rule ofcombat that only allows magic damage.
	^{Keep Your Distance}	Monsters with Melee damage type cannot be used during this battle.: This is an upgraded Briar Patch. With Keep Your Distance rule of combat, you are sure that your opponents will only use either range or magic damage, which Mimosa Nightshade's abilities counter.

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Rank	Rules of Combat	Description
	^{Healed Out}	All healing effects and abilities are disabled during this battle.: Healed Out removes all the healing abilities in the current battle, in which, Affliction has the same effect. The only difference is that Healed Out cannot be cleansed but why use a summoner that can give Afflictioned status to the opponent when they already have them?
	^{Silenced Summoners}	During this battle, all summoner abilities are disabled: If your summoenrs will have no effect, it would be better to use lower mana cost summoners instead so you could have stronger monsters that costs more mana.
	^{Up Close and Personal}	During this battle, only monsters with melee damage type are allowed: Briar Patch reduces the chance that the opponent will use melee monsters which are what counter this summoner.

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Rank	Monsters	Description
	^Harklaw	Harklaw has a Shield ability that reduces any melee and range damage in half. If you add Void on top of that, he can half all the attacks that your opponents can do making a very flexible monster.
	^{Helheim Demon}	Taunt with any form of defensive abilities are strong. It's the same reason as to why I consider Iziar as one of the strongest defensive monster out there. He has both Void and Taunt.
	^{Venari Bonesmith}	Venari Bonesmith is a good monster when you are doing a battle of attrition. When your strategy is to slowly wither your opponent, Venari Bonesmith's poison is really good.It's especially good since your opponent cannot heal due to Mimosa Nightshade's Affliction.

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This lineup's goal is to muscle out. The combination of Poison, Life Leech and Scavenger is to do a drawn out fight. The longer the fight goes, the more health I get from the combinations of the abilities and the higher the opponent will take from Venari Bonesmith's poison.

Lineup

^{Mimosa Nightshade}

Mimosa Nightshade is good on certain rules of combat but not in general. In this battle where there's reduced chance of using melee monsters, picking her up is a really strong one as she has both abilities that make range and magic damage weak.

^{Carrion Shade}

There's not a deep meaning for him. He's really just a foddder for Riftwing's Scavenger ability.

^{Chaos Agent}

There's not a deep meaning for him. He's really just a foddder for Riftwing's Scavenger ability.

^Riftwing

Main Defense. Good in low mana due to his Scavenger ability. He also has Flying ability that avoids the range and melee damage and Backfire ability that deals damae in case he dodges them.

^{Venari Bonesmith}

He is the main damage for this lineup. His poison ability is exceptional when combo'ed with Scavenger ability.

^{Life Sapper}

Has a Life Leech ability like Venari Bonesmith that can defend the back in case opponents wouls still use a Sneak mosnter.

^{Venari Spellsmith}

I wanted an extra magic damage so all my attacks can pass through armor. She's the only available one at the moment of that battle.

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The first two monsters act as a fodder for Riftwing's Scavenger ability giving him extra 2 health at the very least. With that increased health and decreased opponent's damage, the other monsters can now take care of the opponent's monsters in a battle of attrition.

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Mimosa Nightshade is a niche pick that is very strong on certain rules of combat. I don't agree on using him everytime though especially in low mana cap battles since he costs very high at 7 mana and it would be better to use stronger monsters than rely on what your summoner can do for you.

Either way, if there's a good chance and you are able to pull it off like this battle, Mimosa Nightshade is a strong asset that you can abuse for your own good.

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