RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)

Phoenix: Telepathic misdirection, if you target a villain and it does over kill on another enemy, does that overkill…

Question

Telepathic misdirection, if you target a villain and it does over kill on another enemy, does that overkill damage go on to the villain itself or to the player who played misdirection? Follow up question to telepathic misdirection, since it uses the key word “defense” would I be triggering “prefect defense” cards such as unflappable and hard to ignore. If yes, I would also do retaliate damage to the target I used misdirection? Second question: if Phoenix has her telepathic shield and forced field generator in play and takes damage, can I pick between both of them to remove or add counters since they both use “force interrupt” or must I choose only one.

Answer

The definition of Overkill states that if a minion is dealt excess damage by an attack with overkill, the excess amount is dealt to the villain. If you used Psychic Misdirection causing the villain to redirect the damage from its attack, the excess damage would be dealt back to the villain.
Yes, with Psychic Misdirection, you have defended and (presumably) took no damage, so you could trigger Unflappable.
If you had Retaliate X, and used Psychic Misdirection on a villain’s attack, then yes, you were still “attacked” and you would still deal X damage to the villain.
If you had both Telekinetic Shield and Forcefield Generator under your control, they share the same timing trigger for an enemy attack dealing damage to you, so you would choose the order in which they resolve. However, only one card at a time can affect the damage; you can’t choose to split the damage between them, but excess damage from one can be blocked by the other. For example, if you were the target of 7 damage from an enemy attack, you could choose to resolve Forcefield Generator’s effect first, but it would have to prevent as much damage as possible (let’s say it had all 6 counters, so it would prevent 6 damage) and only then could Telekinetic Shield block the rest (1).

-Alex