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Hello dear splinterlands community and welcome to another Cantfoldaces's Hive Blog for this weekly battle challenge! Since I couldn't find a decent battle on the last week's challenge, I would share with you a really frustrating battle in the *Going The Distance* Ruleset!

# Going The Distance

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<li>Only Monsters with <b> Ranged Attack</b> may be used in this battle<br></li>

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The rules are simple: Only *Ranged Monsters* are allowed on the battle field, with this it's essential to use certain abilities have have the upperhand: 

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<center> **Return Fire : When hit with a Ranged attack, Monsters with Return Fire will return reduced damage back to their attacker**
With this Ability, You make sure that enemy monsters are punished for EVERY hit they launch
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**Headwinds : Reduces the Ranged attack of all enemy Monsters by -1**
Another impactful ability that reduces the archery output 
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**Close Range - Can perform ranged attacks from the first position**
Ranged biggest weakness: Unability to attack from the *Tank* Position is **solved** with the **Close Range** Ability
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## <center> Into The Battle! </center>


![BT rules.PNG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cantfoldaces/23wWpaAkRDxvUnWazDXyRLNgkMLwZMaxcHHw1t2CdoHXuvS38HDKxn89gnnziU1YnDhmA.PNG)

- Brawl Battle
- 33 Mana
- **Earth, Death, Dragons** ACTIVE
- Fire, Life, Water OUT
- <div class="phishy"><b>Going the Distance + Lost Legendaries + Armored Up</b></div>

Unfortunatly Life is out so I couldn't pick *Ilthain*, LOST LEGENDARIES didn't affect too much the picks except maybe *Iza The Fanged* that works pretty well in this ruleset, ARMORED UP provides extra protection for all the ranged unit: the *more* monsters on the field the *extra* benefit you'll get from this Ruleset (2+ Armor)

|Cards|Ability|Commentary|
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|https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/rift/Fernheart_lv2_gold.png|**Close Range**|Probably the best alternative after **Ilthain** & **Lir Deepswimmer** in this Ruleset, in addition to the **+1 https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://i.imgur.com/kUlCAyH.png** that adds more tankiness to all Monsters|
|https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/soulbound/Fungus%20Flinger_lv3_gold.png|**Martyr**|Thanks to **Close Range** I can benefit from Fungus to attack from the 1st position, but the main reason still for its sacrifice to buff my 2nd Monster!|
|https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/reward/Vampiric%20Blossom_lv2.png|**Oppress**|Decent stats in term of Damage, Health and Speed while adding to that a *Martyr buff*, it'll deal some serious damage!|
|https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/chaos/Goblin%20Tower_lv1.png|**Blast**|Except  for its low speed, it got what it needs to take on the first position and deal enough damage thanks to **Blast**! |
|https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/chaos/Hunter%20Jarx_lv2_gold.png|**Snipe**|My highest Damage dealer, It's the Enemy monster on the 2nd Position that deals the damage so I have to take care of it by aiming my attacks to its direction using **Snipe**|
|https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/cards_by_level/reward/Venari%20Seedsmith_lv2.png|**Scavenger**|Putting it on the last position and allowing it the scavenge till it reaches a very high Health while still dealing damage thanks to *Close Range*|

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# Pre-Round 1


![b1.PNG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cantfoldaces/23tbPAj4WnLK5va56PsR1XbEnbWdQyTUaR5kDCsX8YEvs2FtHv66Vp7GGMRsB71EeJKGs.PNG)

<center><div class="phishy"><b>Pre-battle Buffs & Debuffs</b></div> </center>

Damn that *Contessa* Summoner was really a hard hit on my team's damage, Enemy picked a pretty solid team but still underleveled, getting rid of Gargoya Devil will weaker their damage a lot !
Both Dhampir Stalker and Liza Fox can pose a thread too.

# Round 1


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As anticipated, *Fingus Flinger* death triggers **Martyr** on *Vampiric Blossom* thus making a a suitable tank for the next rounds 
However, `Armored Up` benefits neither of us as it's taking too long to just getting rid of the Armor!

# Round 2


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- Starting up with a couple of **miss** shits from *Vampiric Blossom* & *Venari SeedSmith* was brutal
- *Vampiric Blossom* eliminated via the deadly shots fr m the enemy team
- Unfortunately, Gargoya Devil is still alive

# Round 3-4


![b4.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cantfoldaces/23tGbqzXvqUraCbMEGeigJBhrAqtCweDKVbb4cA3HmobEAUfz3pwZ62GqQbhxoWtPht7T.png)

<center> **When the 25% https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://d36mxiodymuqjm.cloudfront.net/website/abilities/small/ability_flying.png Evasion chance turns into a 80% Evasion chance** </center>

It's ridiculous how the RNG favored the opponent in this game: **5 misses out of 6** in the entire battle despite having the Speed Advantage.
In the meantime, the opponent doing some serious damage and leading to this desperate situation:


![b5.PNG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cantfoldaces/23tGZrKMKFcfpsTERmt5vzFNJoQpQU9zcc9eW3ummMeMunm6uCEG4pbi1p8CjB3VVwvaN.PNG)
 

Nothig much to show afterwards as it is my utter defeat in this battle as Liza Fox keeps on accumulating **Bloodlust** stacks and Venari Tankiness couldn't do much in this desperate situation!


## <center> [Here's the Link for this Battle](https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sm_LRGsrrIQ5Ct3J7dv1uOS) </center>

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# After-Battle Commentary

I was curious about the odds of winning this battle, so I've decided to run it on the [Splintertools](splintertools.io) website and the result was shocking to me, *Not even close*:

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It means even if I manage to take down Gargoya Devil, the result won't be too different from the current battle.

After making some adjustments; Placing *acid Shooter* + *Mytica Headhunter*, the results are looking much better but still not overwhelmingly in my favour:


![b7.PNG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/cantfoldaces/23xV6hB7ksLiG84Mkyebe4H1zSjoptPWiraCXS5wzRGEtrtekajS6sMy6M1nN9ryk7wNi.PNG)

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