# AI Ignores Skulls

**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ai-ignores-skulls/8539
**Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)
**Created:** [June 18, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ai-ignores-skulls/8539 "2016-06-18T02:18:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Cell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cell/32/5524_2.png) [@Cell](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cell)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ai-ignores-skulls/8539/1 "2016-06-18T02:18:53Z")

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So I was playing against @dhjl today (Tag Your It) and encountered a funny little thing, the AI left a clear 3x Skull match on the board. I was using a Mab team and all 4 of dhjl’s troops were frozen, the AI elected to take a 5 of a kind brown to he a mana surge for Gorgotha, I was just wondering if this is a routine thing (The AI taking an on-color 5 of a kind when frozen over Skulls)?

I didn’t get a screen shot of the match (just the team and victory screen) cause I didn’t get a shot of board B4 the AI passed up the skulls

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/2X/6/63199328c4db0fb393de9552606df6fe5b67be89.png)

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/2X/8/8fc3f0200f9c8c7203ae64daa5462600cb6b3a91.png)

@dhjl

#Tag, Your It

P.s. dhjl can you take a screenshot of the Revenge? No one has posted how much I’m worth yet

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### Author: ![Shiratori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shiratori](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shiratori)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ai-ignores-skulls/8539/2 "2016-06-18T02:31:09Z")

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I’ve seen the computer regularly take 5 matches before skulls, even if that color was frozen. It doesn’t seem to want to pass on the 10 mana.

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### Author: ![Cell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cell/32/5524_2.png) [@Cell](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cell)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ai-ignores-skulls/8539/3 "2016-06-18T02:36:38Z")

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@Shiratori  
That’s what I thought but wasn’t sure, it’s just bad practice leaving skulls on the board against a skull spam team

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### Author: ![RiverSong](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/riversong/32/2089_2.png) [@RiverSong](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/RiverSong)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ai-ignores-skulls/8539/4 "2016-06-18T03:09:46Z")

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Never mind, I was wrong.

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### Author: ![outlander](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/outlander/32/21087_2.png) [@outlander](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/outlander)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 5:03am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ai-ignores-skulls/8539/5 "2016-06-18T05:03:25Z")

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Not before 2.0 but now I seen a few times, A1 takes 3 skull match rather than 4/5 gem match.  
Also sometimes, not all the time, when Mercy cast the spell to get 4/5 match, A1 ignored it and  
no extra turn.

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### Author: ![Ozball](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ozball/32/36110_2.png) [@Ozball](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Ozball)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ai-ignores-skulls/8539/6 "2016-06-18T08:33:44Z")

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I think as others have said, that while the AI does consider frozen, it much prefers the Mana Surge aspect. So it might have passed up a 4 match in that case, but the 5 match was more important to it.