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

Icon	Description
	Only Monsters with Ranged Attack may be used in this battle

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:

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

Headwinds : Reduces the Ranged attack of all enemy Monsters by -1
Another impactful ability that reduces the archery output

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

Into The Battle!

• Brawl Battle
• 33 Mana
• Earth, Death, Dragons ACTIVE
• Fire, Life, Water OUT
• -
  Going the Distance + Lost Legendaries + Armored Up

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
	Close Range	Probably the best alternative after Ilthain & Lir Deepswimmer in this Ruleset, in addition to the +1 that adds more tankiness to all Monsters
	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!
	Oppress	Decent stats in term of Damage, Health and Speed while adding to that a Martyr buff, it'll deal some serious damage!
	Blast	Except for its low speed, it got what it needs to take on the first position and deal enough damage thanks to Blast!
	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
	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

Pre-Round 1

Pre-battle Buffs & Debuffs

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

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

• 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

When the 25% Evasion chance turns into a 80% Evasion chance

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:

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!

Here's the Link for this Battle

After-Battle Commentary

I was curious about the odds of winning this battle, so I've decided to run it on the Splintertools website and the result was shocking to me, Not even close:

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:

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