There are two ways to defend against blast damage: reducing the damage and using a reflection shield. The reflection shield absorbs the blast damage, preventing a monster with reflection from being affected by the blast. To reduce blast damage, you can use three abilities: void, shield, and protect. Void reduces magic attack damage, shield reduces physical attack damage, and protect adds armor to units. It's also effective to combine void and shield in defense to further reduce damage. This includes using Demoralize with a shield to decrease physical damage and silence with void for magic attacks. You can also use abilities that bounce damage, such as magic reflect for magic attacks and return fire for ranged attackers.

If your gameplay focuses on offense, there are many abilities you can use:

Swiftness: To increase your attack speed, the faster you attack, the faster the blast damage spreads.
Slow: Similar to swiftness, you can slow down the opponent to gain an advantage in speed.
Inspire: To increase melee damage, larger damage also means larger blast damage.
Scattershot: Spread your attack on the opponent, and the blast damage will also spread. This is also effective against taunt and camouflage because it bypasses them.
Opportunity: So that the attack is not focused on the 1st position, as opponents often use a reflection shield in the second position to reduce blast damage.
I'll share a battle from the SPS DAO tournament in the silver league where I didn't use speed and scattershot. Instead, I used camouflage so that the opponent's attack would focus on the front. I also used two healers to heal my tank and backline due to the damaging effect on my second position. Let's see if my strategy was effective in the battle.

MY BATTLE

TEAM COMPOSITION

LINK TO THE FULL BATTLE

KEYNOTES

My strategy in this battle is double healing for the front and back. Where the tank heal will heal the 1st position and the triage will heal the backline where there may be damage due to the blast effect from the opponent's attack.

BATTLE HIGHLIGHTS

Oshannus of the opponent lasted until round 10 before he died due to my continuous damage to him. Luckily, the opponent didn't have a healer, so I managed to kill Oshannus of the opponent.

In round 12, Void Dragon executed a double kill. First, Void Dragon killed Deeplurker with a direct hit, and because of the blast effect, Hardy Stonefish also died.

Since Torrent Field only had 1 life left, he wouldn't be able to survive the battle, so the battle ended in round 13.

• Overall, the double heal strategy was successful. Merdaali Guardian's healing was a big help to Djinn Oshannus, while Lily Shieldpaw's triage helped Void Dragon to be healed from the blast effect inflicted on him.

• Lily Shieldpaw's Camouflage also helped to focus the opponent's attack on Oshannus.

• If you want to bypass the camouflage ability, you need to use scattershot. It's also good to use a scattershot in explosive weaponry to spread the effect of the blast.

• A good strategy for explosive weaponry is the combination of scattershot and speed to spread the blast effect to the opponent more quickly.

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