Excellent on the advantages and disadvantages.
Now for your strategies, I understand the whole, formulating a strategy but the thing with the RP, in fights you have time to think of a strategy before you actually conduct your move. From what you said, distancing your opponent to come up with a strategy, and then coming up with a strategy where you'd want to come close range, is rather wasteful when you can just use the time contemplating what you want to do for your next move before you post it and then go close range. That being said, if you want to go close range, you keep your opponent close to you, if you want to distances them than you do that.
With your strategy it seems you'd like to distract them while you attack them from another angle or plane. That is a common and basic strategy. That doesn't mean it's bad, it's good actually, however, you just need to know how to do so. Battle are all about trying to get your opponent to make that one fatal mistake. In most battles now a days, it's all about the win, everybody wants to kill quickly. There's no poetic fighting anymore, catch your opponent off guard to injure them. Not enough to incapacitate them, but merely make it harder for them to fight. Also people want to kill kill kill, never capture, or weaken, or knock out, or toy with.
Anyway that's a peeve of mine everybody has their own method. And for future reference, when I ask you to make strategies, you do not have to feel as though you're obligated to stay with techniques just from this element. I want you to tell me how you would use these elements but you can also talk about how you'd use these techniques with other elements or techniques. Everything is all about the right combinations and right timing. using all of one element only serves to harm you, as It would be all to easy to just use one or two wind techniques to counter a complete three move turn of lightning jutsu (speaking purely of canon here). Since I've made you wait long enough I won't ask you to re-make this strategy, I'll just expect more from you next time around.
One more thing, you can also think defensively, think of how an opponent may attack you and then you come up with a defense/counter. Just throwing that out there ^^
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