If use pulse wave and I roll doubles will knockback damage ignore any defence powers that character has?

Yes, everything is ignored until the action is resolved. That include Combat Abilities (Flight), Powers (Charge) that would normally prevent damage from knockback/falling damage.

Okay thank you I already knew this just needed verification for some peeps that didn't think that was right.

Pulse Wave ignores the powers and abilities possessed and used by targets until the action resolves. Knockback takes place during the action, so the powers are still ignored during knockback.


If your "peeps" are anything like the ones I've dealt with, showing them this thread isn't going to do you any good unless an Orange or newly christened Purple comments on it. Even then, possibly not. Best of luck.

Sorry to sidetrack the thread but what dos the Purple signify? I must have missed the announcement. Thanks in advance.

I don't think that the powers are ignored until the action resolves. Powers are ignored for the attack. In the case of knockback while the attack could still cause knockback if the character had charge, if the character is knocked back into a wall they would be able to reduce knockback damage if they had a reducer.

The description of pulse wave clearly says that game effects are ignored until actions resolve. This means they are ignored for knock back as well.

Reading is fundamental (quoting the power in question so "I think" no longer comes into play).

Purple is the new Orange.

Indeed. "Ignored until the action resolves" means just that, and knock back happens during the action.

GOOD GRIEF! Has someone been thinking in here?

I mean, sure, I did a little thinking BEORE coming here, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't thunk.

...which i drank....

So if you Pulse Wave a Flier with doubles and they get knocked off elevated, they take 2 damage? Even a Flier with Invulnerable?

Yes. The Flight ability is what prevents the knockback "falling" damage, and its being ignored during Pulse Wave. And Invulnerable doesn't help, because that's being ignored, too.