RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.6)2024-11-19

36 – Questions about how retaliate works against villain stages. 1.If you attack and defeat a stage of a…

Question

36 – Questions about how retaliate works against villain stages. 1.If you attack and defeat a stage of a villain that has retaliate, does the next stage retaliate if it also has it? 2.If you attack and defeat a stage of a villain with an instance of damage from a multiple instance damage attack and then damage the next stage that has retaliate, does it retaliate? If so, are the different stages considered different enemies or how does it all work?

Answer

Yes. The new villain stage is considered the same character/enemy, so if it has Retaliate in the window after it’s attacked, it deals damage to the attacker.
Yes, the newly revealed stage triggers its Retaliate X once the attack resolves.
Each stage of a villain is considered the same character/enemy (assuming each stage has the same title, which is usually the case). You can “defeat” a villain stage and are considered to have “defeated” an enemy for the purposes of abilities with that triggering condition, but the enemy is still considered the same “character” and its Retaliate still triggers.

— Alex