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Mr. Byrne, I think I phrased my comment badly. I was just thinking about long distance attacks, not the nature of their effect. Certainly YMMV, and you ARE the imaginary X-Man here. In my own consideration - certainly Havok's power isn't nearly as focused as Cyclops. If you want a keyhole opened, you ask Scott. If you want a building knocked down, you ask Alex (although Scott's good for that too.) Alex needs a LOT more training to get to subtlety, and even then - not likely. I'll ditto that for Lorna.
I included Iceman because he is best used attacking at range. Surely an ice "beam" is physical and not so subtle. But an ice ball attack is a bit less "personal", and a freeze attack strikes me as a pretty good ranged attack; Ororo can do the same, but with much less subtlety.
Nightcrawler, to me, is a crossover between ranged and melee. Undoubtedly his attacks are hand to hand. But how he gets there is a long distance type of attack. Since it seems that he can teleport in zero time (rather the definition of teleporting, I would say), it's sort of like a long distance punch. But certainly it's impractical to port in, lay a couple of punches, and port out again.
Perhaps I ought to consider Sunfire; a true blue ranged attacker. And with enough ego and character to go up against Wolverine. A Sunfire cameo might be nice... he's an ANAO X-Man too, kind of.
And without a doubt, Banshee's power diminishes over long distances; he's not the line-of-sight attacker that Cyclops and Marvel Girl are.
Again, just my silly discussion; I wouldn't think of contradicting you, but just chatting with you. Thanks for your reply on this!
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