X-Men attackers with flight you control cannot be stunned while attacking a defender without flight or range.

Are the following true?

1. If the defender has flight the attacker can be stunned.
2. If the defender has range the attacker can be stunned.
3. If the defender has flight and range the attacker can be stunned.

All are true.

So, if an X-Men character is attacking someone, and you Flying Kick or Mega Blast the Defender, you can stun them back even though you don't get the ATK buff from those cards, correct?

So your opponent's X-men (with flight) is attacking someone without flight or range that you control, and you're giving them flight/range with flying kick/mega-blast?

If that's the case, the X-men character has the possibility of getting stunned if the ATK of the defender matches or beats the attacker's defense. However, the defender will not get +3 ATK/+4 ATK because they are not attacking.

Right, that's what I thought. I'm not saying that your Defender gets the ATK buff, but they do gain flight/range regardless of being Attacker or Defender, which is just enough to ruin the Archangel effect. :)

Just watch out for Storm, who is quite likely to be in the vicinity. It's hard to do a Flying Kick in high wind. Mega-Blast is a very good answer however, if you don't mind trading the +4 ATK for a stun on defense. It'd probably be better to save it for the attack considering the ridiculous recovery abilities the X-Men are packing. And even if you do give your defender range there's always the possibility of a Bamf! to make their attacker unstunnable once again.

Now if only Forge could invent a device that removed ranged...

After she takes away flight, you could then Flying Kick to get it back, correct? She doesn't say loses flight and cannot be flying this turn, just loses flight. It should just check for flight when her ability is triggered, not for the entire turn, if I remember right.

That is correct TechLee

True, but unless your opponent is at less than 2 endurance they can just pay the 2 life and use her power again.

Her ability is triggered for the enitre turn though.

It's a payment power, not a triggered power.

Compare her text to Blind Sided.

Blind Sided removes and prevents the reinforced characteristic while Storm only removes the flight characteristic.

There's nothing stopping a later modifier from giving flight to the affected characters.

Yup. So don't try grounding a Fantasticar with Storm. Hehe.

-Mike

Why not? Can it not be done?

Wouldn't this be timestamp dependent? So as long as the Fantasticar was out before Storm paid, they'll lose flight, right?

(But if they have Stretch, that could be a payment war since transferring changes the timestamp of the equipment)

Actually, you can do that. If the Fantasticar was already in play when you activate Storm's payment power, then Storm's continuous modifier will have a later timestamp than the tub's continuous modifier and the character will be grounded. (See 513.2 & 515 for details.)

Whoa. It does? Can you share your source please? I have not seen this.