Given the buildup to your grudge fight with Blueskull is your post the best you can do?.
perhaps it is a case of bad shitter, bad runner and bad loser?.
To my mind (unless fight was in forest) a well set up mage would have to make many mistakes
for a Ranger to even beging to have a chance at winning.
Written by my hand on the 20th of Cloudburst, in the year 988.