[Nanya01]

Sansker, do you have any idea how big the Milky Way Galaxy alone is?

You need to put things into perspective, when you're doing a dimensional transfer, you're transferring from one dimension to another, that is, traveling.

Just think about where you live, okay? Now, you wish to go to the store, you can walk, ride a bike or drive a car to get there. The amount of time it takes you to get there is relevant to speed of travel and distance needed to travel, correct?

Why wouldn't dimension travel be the same?

But, you have to remember, when you start to get to millions of miles or more, distances become relative.

And when you talk dimensions, distances get even further than that.

As for your thing with styles, yes, a Belkan Knight could use long range abilities, we've seen Signum and Vita both use long-range attacks, however, how many long range attacks do they have? 1? 2? Most of their attacks are close range.

Heck, look at Zest and Erio, neither of them have any sort of long-range attacks in their arsenal.

And, yes, a Mid mage can use close range, as we see with Fate. But then again, Bardiche is an Axe, a Scythe and a sword, it's kind of designed to fight in close range. However, if you look at Fate, she mostly uses the melee abilities to defend herself and she fights at long range. Season 1: She had Nanoha in binds and instead of going in to put the hurt down, she uses Photon Lancer full power. In A's: she couldn't match Signum nor Reinforce in CQC and did her best work when fighting at a distance. in StrikerS, Fate does use her energy blade more, however, she mostly uses it to defend herself and get out of a situation, she's far more likely to use sheer speed or lightning blasts to overwhelm her opponents.

Nanoha does some close range stuff as well, but she only really uses a stabbing motion with Raising Heart, or beats them with it like a club. In StrikerS, she didn't fight Vivio in close range very much, she was seen blasting Vivio instead of stabbing or clubbing her.

Teana's another example of a mid-mage who can fight close range. She's a gunner, and while she has a dagger, it's only meant to be used in self-defense.

Hayate is a Belkan Knight-Mage, while Lutecia is a summoner. Summoners operate differently than most as they use their summons to fight most of their battles.

To wit, Caro, by the end of StrikerS is A+ in rank while Lutecia was S rank, yet Caro defeated Lutecia simply because Lutecia wasn't as good in personal combat.

Heck, Hayate admits that she's useless as anything but a bombardment user, but that's because, if you read into it, her Linker Core was powered up from Reinforce Eins and gave her even more power, but she never learned how to control it as well as Nanoha or Fate.