Steem Monsters abilities table by summoner level, water splinter

As I've been leveling up my accounts, I've found I really wanted this chart, so I thought I would make one for you. As monsters level up, they gain abilities, and some of these are extremely important - attack for Swamp Thing and Goblin Shaman, Heal for Flesh Golem, Blast for Fire Demon, and so on. Knowing where those abilities come in is very important for deciding how to level up your teams. Since leveling up always begins with your summoner, I've decided to group new abilities by rare summoner level. To keep this from being huge, I'll split it into separate posts by splinter.

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Summoner Level 1: Inherent Abilities

Card	Ability
Pirate Captain	Snipe
Crustacean King	Tank Heal
Sabre Shark	Sneak
Sea Genie	Flying
Water Elemental	Heal
Frozen Soldier	Shield
Naga Warrior	Retaliate
Frost Giant	Shield

Summoner Level 2: Level 3 Commons, Level 2 Rares and Epics

Card	Level	Ability
Crustacean King	3	Ranged Attack

Summoner Level 3: Level 4 Commons, Level 3 Rares, Level 2 Legendaries

Card	Level	Ability
Spineback Turtle	4	Thorns
Medusa	3	Stun
Frost Giant	2	Trample

Summoner Level 4: Level 5 Commons, Level 4 Rares, Level 3 Epics

Card	Level	Ability
Mischievous Mermaid	3	Dodge

Summoner Level 5: Level 6 Commons, Level 5 Rares, Level 4 Epics, Level 3 Legendaries

Card	Level	Ability
Pirate Captain	6	Inspire
Crustacean King	6	Protect
Sea Genie	6	Strengthen
Water Elemental	5	Dodge
Frozen Soldier	5	Magic Reflect
Naga Warrior	4	Enrage
Frost Giant	3	Slow

Summoner Level 6: Level 8 Commons, Level 6 Rares, Level 5 Epics

No new abilities.

Summoner Level 7: Level 9 Commons, Level 7 Rares, Level 4 Legendaries

Card	Level	Ability
Frost Giant	4	Stun

Summoner Level 8: Level 10 Commons, Level 8 Rares, Level 6 Epics

No new abilities.

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Where with Fire we saw that progress was loaded onto level 4, here in Water it's clearly loaded onto level 5. While some of the earlier abilities are important, particularly Medusa's Stun and Turtle's Thorns, level 5 is basically a full-scale team upgrade. Then almost nothing of interest happens after that; summoner levels 6-8 are pretty much restricted to stats increases in this splinter.

This explains why my level 4 water teams have so much trouble; they're lagging behind the other splinters in terms of abilities. I should be focusing on moving them to level 5.