Shell Witch/Conker combo is soo hard to beat

[marmite]

Battles that start with a couple of Shell Witches and a Conker seems to be pretty much impossible to beat - you have to kill both witches before they attack and apply more shell armour to each other otherwise it just becomes a losing battle as they stack more and more protection on each other and then when the conker attacks it has like 14 damage and one hits everything.

Is there something I'm missing on how to beat these?

[Firellius]

Conkers can be frozen to delay their turn, and they hit single targets, so you can soak up hits with clunkers or summons. Shell Witches will also die in one hit from an Azure Battleaxe, if you're lucky enough to get one or two of those.

[MyCabbages]

Conkers have three main counters:

- Soul flame or whatever it's called. It explodes based upon remaining hearts not shell. So you essentially can blow up their row multiple times by just reapplying it to the conker guys each turn. Contrary to what the guy above says: don't battle axe the witches, battle axe the conkers and they will explode immediately.
- The card that let's you copy an enemy with one health. As it also gets their shell.
- Ink, which silences their effect and means they do two damage on their attacks.

As with everything else in this wackily designed game though: if you haven't got those pray you can freeze them long enough to kill them before they attack.