Forum:Help with Gravekeeper's Visionary Effect

I need help with Gravekeeper's Visionary's effect. The last sentence states, "If this face-up card on the field would be destroyed, you can discard 1 "Gravekeeper's monster instead." So lets say I do discard a monster and my Visionary was to be destroyed by battle. Is it as if this never happened or do I still take battle damage.