Psychic Bomb: Modok can use Pulse Wave. When he does, choose a keyword that Modok possesses. Friendly characters with the chosen kw are not affected by this use of Pulse Wave.

So friendly kw holders are not hit by it, but are they there for purpose of reducing the damage to one?

Correct...

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Correct, they reduce it to one even if they are not hit?

You are correct in that if (without the friendly keword friends of Modok) there is only one other figure in range, he gets blasted for full damage.


Muhahahahah!!!!

A character doesn't need to be hit, they just have to be within range and LOF.

No.

PW does not affect them, so their powers are not ignores and they are not attacked/damaged. But the character using PW (MODOK) can still draw LOF to the characters, so the damage will become 1.

Thanks for the clarification.

oh wow that's terrible, that was seemingly the best potential thing about MODOK...oh well...

There's always the Nova Blast feat in golden age constructed...

thats lame, they should fix it.

You would probably pick a keyword that MODOK had that the rest of your team didn't and then blow up your Madrox swarm to hit my Wife's wonder woman, though.

This presumes there is something to fix and that it was not designed to work the way it currently works.

QFT

truth be told, there's nothing wrong here. at least it keeps your figures from getting whammed.

well i could see the argument that having a LoF drawn to you is affecting you.

There is always the SR Torch's pulse wave for 3 damage to everyone(Y)