Is STOP considered a defense power?
It is usually in the defense slot, but not necessarily as in the case of Man-Thing where it is in Movement.

On the design insight that Wizkids did on Emma Frost, they don't specify.
https://wizkids.com/heroclix/2016/03...ht-stop-click/

My question is if EW049 Green Arrow hits the Con Doomsday will his STOP kick in and he only takes one damage?
His Kryptonite arrows will definitely turn off the invulnerability on Doomsday's defense, but if STOP is not a defense power, it would not matter much.

KRYPTONITE ARROWS: When Green Arrow hits with a ranged attack, the hit target can't use defense powers until your next turn. If the hit target has the Kryptonian keyword also give it an action token.

HIDEOUS EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT: STOP. Doomsday can use Invulnerability. When this click is revealed due to damage taken from an attack, after actions resolve put an Adapted token on the attacker.

Defense powers are powers in the defense slot. No more, no less.

I haven't looked myself, so you'll have to check and see if Hideous Evolution is in the defense slot. If it is, GA will shut it down. If it isn't, then it works normally. All of it. Even the Invulnerability.

It is in the defense slot. So that's that.

STOP, itself, is not a power or ability at all. It is a key term, which is explained at the beginning of that article. Much like UNIQUE MODIFIER, it is essentially shorthand for a standardized effect.

Well, it states in the link to the design article that it is an effect. That is why I was curious. Is an effect a power if it is in the defense slot?
If STOP is an effect and not a power, does it work?

It does not work.

The reason it doesn't work has nothing to do with STOP.

The reason it doesn't work is because Hideous Evolution Experiment is a power in the defense slot. GA hits Doomsday and now Doomsday can't use Hideous Evolution Experiment.

Doesn't matter what HEE did. Maybe it reduced damage by 10. Maybe it damaged anybody that hit Doomsday. Maybe it gave out free ice cream. What ever it did, it can't be used now. That fact that STOP is involved is immaterial.

GA would cut through Doomsday's Hideous Evolution, but not Hulk's Antimatter Warp Core Explosion.



As stated, GA stops figures from using defense powers. Defense powers are powers in the defense slot.

But whether or not he prevents the use of stop powers? That all depends on where the stop power in question is located.

I edited my post to reflect this.

'Ignores' was, or should not have been, stated, as that is completely different from 'can't use', and would be confusing to people correctly understanding that STOP: powers can't be ignored.

An effect granted by a power. Happens to be in the defense slot. Thus it makes it a power that GA's power works against. Got it.

As far as I can tell GA would shut off any defense powers granted in the stop effect but not the STOP itself.

This incorrect. See all the posts above.