I once failed twice in a row to roll to break with SI Hercules. First action, rolled a 1. Next turn pushed, again...1!!!

As for normal breaking away, its gotten to the point where I don't even try anymore.

I rolled a six with my ex-wife....

I have several friends who NEVER make breakaway rolls. I am never usually the type to use tie up pieces specifically for that purpose, but there are many times when I would rather tie my opponent up if anything else than to keep him from making ranged attacks. I can always count on one guy to NEVER break away and yet he always goes for it.

I don't try to break away any more. After I failed a critical breakaway after two Probability Control rerolls followed by two theme team rerolls (with straight 50/50 odds, by the way. No Plasticity) at the end of a long streak of unlikely failures I made a mental note that in the future it'd be more worth my action to just stand and punch. Even a longshot critical hit is better odds for me than trying a regular breakaway.

Just might be the most signature worthy quote I have seen in some time.

Rep to you sir.

Nope, I think its not so 50/50. I like to have Prob so I can yet again miss it. Its more fun to miss it twice. Especially when usually Breakaway rolls need to happen at some point.

I have a die with 5 on each side. I never fail.

In relation to HeroClix...my break rolls are about 30%. Shape Change tends to be higher, while Super Senses is somewhere in the middle.

I have horrid break away rolls- usually about 25%, so like many I prefer to stay and fight if possible. Even giants and Plasticity characters tend to fail break away for me.

On the other hand, I hit Super Senses about 50% of the time, so it evens out. Except for playing online where you roll your opponent's Super Senses for them...then it doubly sucks!

In the Maryland Mega-Game 7 tournament I was playing in yesterday, I did something I rarely do -- I tried TWO break-away rolls with a R Supergirl, trying to get away from E Question so I could go attack someone else.

On the first roll, I missed. No surprise.

On the second roll, I succeeded -- the heavens parted and a host of gossamer-gowned angels descended, singing -- so I grabbed an object and Charged my opponent's Vet Alan Scott Green Lantern... and missed my attack.

I love breakaway rolls.

At the end of my turn I usually evaluate the board for the rolls that I will most likely want to use my off-turn PC on. Priority usually goes something like this.

1. Critical Hit/Long Shot
2. Successful Breakaway Roll
3. High-End Regen
4. Successful Attack

I hate rolling for breakaway but I love PCing breakaway rolls.

I don't know my personal rate because I so rarely attempt it. I literally cannot remember my last breakaway roll.

Do you have an extra one, I can't roll breakaway to save my life...errrr game ever.


LOL

I would like to add to this post to derail it a little but still add to the numbers discussion.

There is supposed to be a 50/50 for break away rolls but there are times when the amount of time the rolls are hindered in some way.

For example Super Senses (SS)
When I use SS I seem to do well and can usually make it 75% of the time despite worse odds. Then I also remembered that for all the times that I make it, the few times that I do not make the roll it pretty much meant that the character was KOd. Sure I can make the SS roll with my Phalanx Soldier 3 times out of 4, but that 4th time meant that it died. This is common as a lot of figures have SS in the middle/end of the dial, or just start off with it.

I am willing to bet that a lot of these times when you want to roll breakaway the consequence of not making it is the quick KO of your figure. That tends to skew the results.

I had not before considered applying the principal to breakaway rolls. That is, that each success can possibly generate an additional success and a failure generates no such thing.
I actually believe that it is the opposite. I believe that a failed breakaway is more likely to generate another future breakaway roll than a successful breakaway.
If I fail a breakaway, sure I might be KOed but if I am not, I'm likely to try it again. However, if I successfully break away, it is likely that it was to some benefit to me that should eliminate the need to attempt a future breakaway. So in the same way that a successful SS roll means you will get another SS roll when the character is attacked again, I believe that a failed breakaway roll means that you will likely try again on a later turn. By this reasoning, I believe that the average player's breakaway success should be less than 50%.