Steem Monsters: The Lightning Dragon Is The King Of The Dragons

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My Thoughts On The Lightning Dragon:

Shown above are the two snapshots of the Lightning Dragon at max level, both before and after the most recent card changes undertaken for card balancing. As seen, the Lightning Dragon has lost its Thorns, and gained Blast instead. Additionally, it now costs 7-mana and has one more health.

Having gone this slight, but meaningful transformation, the Lightning Dragon is now arguably the best monster in the game. Most significantly, it still remains the only dragon thus far to benefit directly from the needed Selenia Sky summoner, who imparts an additional +1 to ranged attacks. As a result, the Lightning Dragon dishes out 5 ranged damage to the front defender while pushing another 3 ranged damage to the second-in-line for a total of 8 damage per turn.

More importantly, however, it is also the only monster in the game to issue ranged "Stuns," capable of immobilizing enemy monsters for their turn. This is significant given the ability to evade or stun enemies remains the most useful capability in the game. And to do this from a distance is far and away the best capability one can take hold of.
Additionally, the Lightning Dragon is the only ranged dragon monster with Piercing, which helps to make an opponents armor meaningless from deflecting a full blow.

The increase in health also makes it difficult, although not impossible, for Sneak monsters to easily take down the LD in a single turn (although this is able to be done through dual Sneak monsters that have had their melee attacks boosted).

Yet of course the only true weakness of Lightning Dragon remains not so much in its own abilities as much as it is in its supporting cast. Based on its ranged attack nature, the Lightning Dragon remains vulnerable of being thrusted into the front defender position where it becomes useless to attacking at that point. As such, the only real weakness of the Lightning Dragon is dependent on the rest of your team's ability to keep it in the back position where it can continue to unleash its powerful attacks.

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