Marvel Champions Codex

RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.6)2024-09-26

12 – An enemy with a tough status is attacking me 😱 If my hero has retaliate and I defend and play the new…

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Question

12 – An enemy with a tough status is attacking me 😱 If my hero has retaliate and I defend and play the new riposte protection event, do I understand correctly that I could resolve retaliate first to knock off the tough and then resolve the delayed effect of Riposte to deal 3 damage?

Answer

You can. Riposte’s ability creates a delayed effect, which has the same timing priority as the Retaliate keyword (RR 1.6, page 5), meaning that they can be resolved in either order; you may deal the damage from Retaliate first to remove Tough, then deal 3 from Riposte.

— Alex