Ranged pure

A Ranged pure is a type of Combat pure who specialises mostly in the Ranged skill and focuses on raising it to high levels. They are mostly found in the P2p worlds, where they are considered to be most effective.

Overview
A Range pure relies on the basic idea that increasing Ranged is equal to increasing the two sub-skills Ranged Attack and Ranged Strength. Thus, a Ranger only has to increase one skill, where a Melee increases both Attack and Strength. A Ranged pure, therefore, has a lesser Combat Level than a Melee, with arguably the same attack statistics. Most Ranged pures, except the Ranged Tank, concentrate on having their Defense level as 1, thus having a lower Combat Level.

A Ranged pure mostly falls under the following categories:-


 * Ranged pure (Increase only Ranged)
 * Ranged / 2h pure (Increase Ranged and Strength)
 * Ranged Tank (Increase Ranged and Defense)
 * Hybrid Ranged pure (Increase Ranged and Magic)

All these types of pures differ in their Ranged, Strength, Defense or Attack levels. Additionally, a pure can also have Prayer, although many low-level Rangers prefer to have it at 1, as Prayer increases the pure's Combat Level. However, after 80 range, 44 prayer for Eagle Eye can be extremely helpful. It gives a 12 level boost for only 5 combat levels, which cannot be acheived if the pure trains regularly (must do an activity like soul wars to get 12 levels of range with only 5 combat levels).

The Pure Ranger
The Pure Ranger is a type of Ranged pure that concentrates only on increasing Range. All other combat-related skills are kept at 1 or close to 1. Most Pure Rangers are only effective at low levels. Thus, Pure Rangers usually have the following statistics:

The Ranged level could be anywhere from 40 to 99, but most ranged pures quit being one at around 70-80 range.

Pure Rangers are usually very difficult and strenuous to train, as their defense and Constitution levels are very low. The only advantages they have are the convenient safe spots; areas from where they can attack other monsters but the monsters cannot attack them in return. .

Strategy Used
Pure Rangers usually take advantage of the distance between them and their opponents. They start attacking from afar, thus gaining a starting bonus during PvP combat. If their Range levels are high, they can hit up to 270 Life Points or more (in members). Their low combat level, ability to attack from a distance and quick attacking usually gives them an advantage during PvP combat.

However, in f2p, ranged pures are deadly but not effective. Why? They cant k0 anyone because they can't hit high enough to kill the other person through food. Most of the time, Range pures in f2p WIN fights, but don't get the kill.

In p2p, however, it's a different story. Using things like Dragon bolts(e) can make their k0 power just as good as anyone elses.

Strategies Used Against Pure Rangers
The most efficient way to fight a pure ranger is to simply fight like normal, and safe a little. Eat at around 170 and eat twice so you can actually get a hit it (if you eat once the range pure hits twice in that same time) then try to hit them down and K0. They'll have low hitpoints, so you should get some k0 oppotunities.

Against
Ranger with defense is called Range Tanker and is very good against combat pure, but again, at low levels, they mainly WIN fights not kill people.

The Most Effective Pure
Generally, most people tend to range/2h, so now the number of range pures is booming, due to a simple strategy that takes away the advantage of strength. Against popular belief, rangers can have up to 70 range at level 45, this enables them to hit rapid 120s(which is more than the most popular f2p food(lobsters) heals.) This means that when a range/2h switches for the kill, you quickly eat once, putting yourself out of KOing levels. Now the range/2h is vulnerable, you can hit 230,230 before they can eat, usually killing them. Unlike the range/2h combo bonus, your hits will continually hit more than they can heal, meaning that they will eventually run or die. If they run, bind will hold them long enough for the kill. Here is an example of a fight:

Ranger

Health500380---240360---40160

Damage-190130---eats120---eats120---170---20

the second heal was because the opponent had switched to a 2h

2her

Health500310---190---190---20---0

Damage-120140switches to 2h---120200(320)delay from 2h

so the 2h had the highest hit, but got worn down by the ranger when the switch failed to KO

The Ranged / 2h Pure
The Ranged / Two-Handed pure uses a combo of Range and Strength levels. The most popular tactic used in such pures is to attack constantly and quickly with Ranged, till the opponent's Lifepoints gets very low. At these stages, when the opponent is most likely to start eating lots of food, the pure suddenly wields a Two-Handed Sword (or a Battleaxe) and goes for a killing swipe at the opponent's Lifepoints. This strategy is strongly gaining popularity in F2P worlds, as the inability of the Ranged pure to KO a player is overcome in this type of pure.

A Ranged / 2h pure usually has the following statistics:

Types of Knock-Outs
There are mainly three types of KO combos used by the Ranged / 2h pures:-


 * The Normal Switch. This is the most basic kind of KO used by a pure. When the opponent's Lifepoints gets low and the pure lands a relatively high attack, he/she simply wields the Two-Handed Sword and goes for the kill.
 * The Delayed Switch. In this type of KO-ing, when the opponent's Lifepoints gets low, the pure runs away from the player in order to "bait" him/her. Most opponents take this as a sign of giving up or "safing" by the pure, and run after him/her. This prevents the opponent from eating food to heal himself/herself. Then, the pure suddenly wields the Two-Handed sword and attacks, killing the player.
 * The Quick Switch. This is the most difficult as well as the most successful and popular kind of KO used by Range/2h pures. In this case,a player switches his or her ranged attack style to rapid, then just as the arrow is fired, they switch to the 2h and click attack on the opponent. Due to a glitch the first 2h strike hits at the same speed as a bow, meaning that both the arrow and the 2h hit at the same time. This means that instead of hitting, say, 130, then a 210, they would hit 130-210, or 340 damage in 1 hit. The only problem is that you have a 2h strike delay left, so if your opponent does not die, you are vulnerable for 2–3 seconds, as you cannot eat or hit them to finish. But if a player is expierienced enough, they can eat a piece of food while they 2h, which should make it safe to.

The Ranged / Mage pure

 * This kind of ranged pure have trained their ranged and magic at high levels at same time. The player lowers the opponent's lifepoints with ranged fast attacks and then click use the strongest spell they have to KO the opponent.


 * Example: The pure has a Ranged level of 60 and a magic of 60 (they both raise combat level in same way and do not stack so you can have both at same level but with same combat level) the pure lowers the enemies to 150 and then use the fire blast spell and can KO without having higher ranged at level 90+ when they can hit 150s. This is a popular way of a pure in F2P because the ranged attacks cant KO players like in P2P but magic can do it very easily.