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Heroclix Tutorial 2017 Powers and Abilities Card - Key Changes

Each click has four abilities; Speed, Attack, Defense, and Damage. Each Ability has specific value that are determined in your character dial.

Each click may have a colored square that indicate a special power descripted below.

A white square on the dial indicates a unique and special power descripted only in the character's card.

In Adition to the powers indicated on the dial, there are characters that have special Features "Feats", that characters are marked with a star on the dial, that ability is asssigned to the character while is not KO and are discripted as the white abilities on the character's card.

Speed

Speed

Charge (dark green icon)

Earthbound/Neutralized (light green icon)

Flurry (red icon)

Force Blast (purple icon)

Hypersonic Speed (golden icon)

Leap/Climb (orange icon)

Mind Control (light blue icon)

Phasing/Teleport (yellow icon)

Plasticity (dark blue icon)

This character adds 2 to its d6 roll when breaking away. Opposing characters can’t automatically break away from this character and subtract 2 from their d6 roll when breaking away from this character. Opposing characters entering a square adjacent to this character must end their movement, even if they would not have to do so normally.

Running Shot (gray icon)

Give this character a power action; halve its speed value for the action. Move this character up to its speed value and it may be given a ranged combat action as a free action.

Stealth (black icon)

When it is not your turn, hindered lines of fire drawn to this character are blocked.

Side step (pink icon)

Give this character a free action; it can move with a locked speed value of 2.

Attack Powers

Attack

Blades/Claws/Fangs (red icon)

When this character is given a close combat action, you may roll a d6 after making a successful attack. The result replaces this character’s damage value, then that damage value is locked.

Energy Explosion (orange icon)

When this character is given a ranged combat action and deals damage, an area of effect may include all untargeted characters that are adjacent to one or more hit targets assigned at least 1 damage. Hit targets are dealt damage normally, other hit characters are dealt 1 damage for each lighting printed on this character’s base.

Incapacitate (light blue icon)

Give this character a close combat or ranged combat action to make an attack that deals no damage. If the attack hits, give the target an action token; if the target already has 2 action tokens, deal the target 1 penetrating damage.

Penetrating/Psychic Blast (dark blue icon)

Give this character a ranged combat action. Damage from the attack is penetrating damage.

Poison (golden icon)

At the beginning of your turn, give this character a free action and deal 1 damage to each adjacent opposing character.

Pulse Wave (yellow icon)

Give this character a ranged combat action even if it is adjacent to an opposing character; the area of effect for this attack is half the character’s range value. Draw lines of fire to all other characters within the area of effect, including at least one opposing character; these lines of fire ignore all game effects except for walls, blocking and elevated terrain. Game effects possessed or used by characters with a line of fire drawn to them are ignored until the action has been resolved. If a line of fire is drawn to more than 1 character, this character’s damage value becomes 1 and is locked. Each character hit is dealt damage.

Quake (light green icon)

Give this character a close combat action; this character’s damage value becomes 2 and is locked. Make a close combat attack that targets all opposing characters this character can attack with a close combat attack. Each hit character is knocked back 2 squares.

Smoke Cloud (purple icon)

Give this character a power action; place up to 6 hindering terrain markers in distinct, adjacent squares that are all within this character’s range (minimum range value 4). At least one of the terrain markers must be within line of fire when it is placed . The terrain markers remain until the beginning of your next turn. Characters that occupy these terrain markers modify their attack value by -1 unless they can use Smoke Cloud or ignore hindering terrain for line of fire purposes.

Steal Energy (black icon)

Each time an opposing character takes damage from a close combat attack made by this character, heal this character of 1 damage.

Super Strength (dark green icon)

When this character moves due to its own action, it may either pick up an object or place an object it is holding. The object must be picked up from or placed in either a square the character occupies or an adjacent square. If this power is lost or countered while this character is holding an object, immediately place the object in the square this character occupies.

Telekinesis (gray icon)

Give this character a power action and designate another target character or object (A) and a destination square (B). This character, A, and B must all be within 8 squares and line of fire of each other. Place A in B. If A is a character, it must be a single base character and possess the Tiny or standard damage symbol.

If A is an opposing character, make a close or ranged combat attack that deals no damage against A, and only place the character in B if the target is hit. If A is an object and B is occupied by an opposing character, this character may make a ranged combat attack targeting the character occupying B, dealing object damage and destroying the object. A character that has been placed by Telekinesis this turn can’t use Telekinesis this turn.

Precision strike (pink icon)

When this character makes an attack, it can’t be evaded, and the damage dealt can’t be reduced below 1 or transferred.

Defense

Defense

Barrier (light blue icon)

Give this character a power action; place up to 4 blocking terrain markers in distinct, adjacent squares of clear terrain that are all within this character’s range (minimum range value 4). At least one of the terrain markers must be within line of fire when it is placed. The terrain markers remain until the beginning of your next turn.

Combat Reflexes (light green icon)

Modify this character’s defense value by +2 against close combat attacks. This character ignores knock back.

Defend (yellow icon)

Any adjacent friendly character may replace its defense value with this character’s unmodified defense value.

Energy Shield/Deflection (dark green icon)

Modify this character’s defense value by +2 against ranged combat attacks.

Impervious (golden icon)

When this character is dealt damage, roll a d6. On a result of 5 or 6, the damage dealt is reduced to 0. On a result of 1 – 4 , the damage dealt is reduced by 2.

Invulnerability (gray icon)

Damage dealt to this character is reduced by 2.

Mastermind (dark blue icon)

When this character would be dealt damage, you may instead choose to transfer all the damage to be dealt to a single adjacent friendly character with a point value less than this character’s. Any additional effects of the damage dealt (knock back, penetrating damage, etc.) are applied to the character taking the damage. Damage dealt by this power is not an attack.

Regeneration (black icon)

Give this character a power action; roll a d6 and subtract 2 from the result, minimum result 0. Heal this character of damage equal to the result.

Super Senses (red icon)

When this character is hit by an attack, you may roll a d6 before damage is dealt. On a result of 5 or 6, this character evades the attack.

Toughness (orange icon)

Damage dealt to this character is reduced by 1.

Willpower (purple icon)

This character may ignore pushing damage.

Invincible (pink icon)

Half of damage dealt to this char acter is ignored.

Damage

Damage

The damage symbol represents the character’s size.

ICON DESCRIPTION
ATOM
This characters are smaller than standard
STANDAR
This characters are stardard size
GIANT
This characters are bigger than standard ones
COLOSSAL
This characters are biggest in the game

Smaller characters do not block the line of fire drawn to or from larger characters.

Battle Fury (orange icon)

This character ignores Shape Change, can’t make ranged combat attacks, can’t be carried, and can’t be targeted by Incapacitate or Mind Control.

Close Combat Expert (purple icon)

Give this character a power action. It makes a close combat attack against a single opposing target character; before making the attack you may modify its attack value by +2, its damage value by + 2, or both combat values by +1.

Enhancement (dark green icon)

When an adjacent friendly character makes a ranged combat attack, this character modifies that adjacent friendly character’s damage value by +1.

Exploit Weakness (light green icon)

Give this character a close combat action. Damage from the attack is penetrating damage.

Leadership (gray icon)

At the beginning of your turn, give this character a free action and roll a d6. On a result of 5 or 6, add one action to your action total for that turn and this character may remove an action token from an adjacent friendly character with a lower point value.

Outwit (black icon)

Give this character a free action to counter a power or a combat ability possessed by a single target opposing character until the beginning of your next turn. Any game effects with a duration specified by the countered power or combat ability are removed. A character using this power must be within range (minimum range 6) and line of fire to the target.

Perplex (golden icon)

Give this character a free action to modify by +1 or –1 any combat value of a target character until the beginning of your next turn. A character using this power must be within range (minimum range 6) and line of fire to the target. If a target character is damaged or healed, the effect of Perplex on that character ends immediately.

Probability Control (light blue icon)

Once during your turn, this character allows you to reroll one of your rolls, ignoring the original roll. A character using this power must be within range (minimum range 6) and line of fire to the character for which the original roll was made. Using the same rules, once per round during an opponent’s turn, this character allows you to force that opponent to reroll one of their rolls, ignoring the original roll.

Ranged Combat Expert (red icon)

Give this character a power action. It makes a ranged combat attack against a single target character; before making the attack, you may modify its attack value by +2, its damage value by +2, or both combat values by +1.

Shape Change (dark blue icon)

When this character is chosen as the target of an attack, you may roll a d6. On a result of 5 or 6, the attacker can’t target this character with an attack this turn and the attacker may choose another target character instead. The attacker then makes the attack unless there are no targets, in which case the action resolves without an attack.

Support (yellow icon)

Give this character a power action and target an adjacent friendly character; neither this character nor the target can be adjacent to an opposing character. Roll 2d6 and add the result to this character’s unmodified attack value. If the result is equal to or higher than the target character’s unmodified defense value, roll a d6 and subtract 2 from the result, minimum result 1. The target is healed of damage equal to the result.

Empower (pink icon)

When an adjacent friendly character makes a close combat attack, this character modifies that adjacent friendly character’s damage value by +1.

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