I understand that perplex works with pulsewave if the perplexer is outside of the pulsewave range, but can I use ICWO to increase the AV of a pulsewaver?

thanks

Yes. The Pulse Waver is unaffected by its own Pulse Wave.

Pulse wave ignores all powers and team abilities-In Contact with Oracle is neither, therefore you can up your attack or damage or whatever.

Feats do work with pulse wave-other wise you could never use nova blast.

Pulse Wave was errata'ed in a FAQ to ignore Feats.

However, Pulse Wave does not ignore the powers, abilities and feats of the character using the Pulse.

FYI, Pulse Wave will now ignore the ICWO modifier if it is upping the Defense Value of a target.

Seriously? So I pulse wave a character with lazarus pit and Ko the guy and he doesn't jump in the pit?

They still go in the pit. The KO/LP affect happens after the action I guess.

Ok, PW ignores TAs but how about this?

you have a PW'er in range of FF Thing (sporting the FF alt TA feat card) and LE Sue Storm is out side of PW range and on her first click. Does the PW still have to hit a 19 defense?

No. The Thing is also consider Feated with AFF and it will be ignored during the pulse wave.

"Sorry Ben, but Sue can't help you here."

Thanks for the replies, guys.

Follow up question:

So, if a pulsewaver has perplex, he can perplex himself before a pulsewave, right? That could be tight for a future Magneto...

That is correct. It works really well for the Doctor Doom LE from CT (10 AV, 3 Damage, with Perplex, Master Mind and Pulse Wave all for 68 points).

I accept that this works (and have used it to gain notariety with Ultron's triple EE), but I don't really understand why. You can't perplex in the middle of an action. It seems that if you perplex first, when the Pulse Wave or Energy Explosion action took place, it's description says "...this damage value becomes one for the attack...." Wouldn't it become 1, regardless of how highly it was perplexed before the attack?

They weren't talking about the damage value. They were talking about using Perplex for other values.

As for your Ultron thing, it doesn't work unless you are use Enhancement and/or SHIELD TA.

Now THAT makes sense! Thanks!

Actually, if there is only one figure in the range of the Pulse Wave, the damage is not reduced to 1. So you could perplex up Nimrods damage to 7 and as long as there is only one figure in the range of the Pulse Wave it does the full damage.

However this will not work with Nova Blast because it specifically states it uses the unmodified damage value.