Apocalypse’s stun immunity is bugged

PapaBurger
PapaBurger Posts: 17 Just Dropped In
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I had just downed the enemy Polaris and then fired my Polaris’s stun on Apocalypse, but he was “immune” even though he has no active mutant ally. As a result, he was able to fire “survival of the fittest” on me. 

I was able to stun Apocalypse on a later turn. It seems like his stun immunity doesn’t go away until the turn after his last mutant ally is downed, but that is not what his power’s description states. 

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  • helix72
    helix72 Posts: 995 Critical Contributor
    The game’s been like this for a while and the same affects other characters too, it looks at the condition at the beginning of the round only. I had the same q as you a while back, agree the wording doesn’t match how it works, but now that you know you can plan around it.
  • Vhailorx
    Vhailorx Posts: 6,085 Chairperson of the Boards
    I think helix is right and it's an order of operations issue.  Many of those 'When contingency X, Y ability procs' powers are checked once at the start of each turn, rather than updating dynamically, and apoc's stun immunity appears to be one of them.
  • MegaBee
    MegaBee Posts: 1,018 Chairperson of the Boards
    Yeah, that was... let's say surprising.
  • DyingLegend
    DyingLegend Posts: 1,203 Chairperson of the Boards
    He is immune until the next turn. I thought this was brought up in another post a little ways back.
  • PapaBurger
    PapaBurger Posts: 17 Just Dropped In
    DyingLegend said:
    He is immune until the next turn. I thought this was brought up in another post a little ways back.
    That could be. I’m not very active on here. 

    I’ve noticed it before, but I was never quite as sure of myself regarding what was going on as on this 2020 event. Facing Apocalypse with a stunner is fairly rare, but it’s happening a lot in this event. 

    So previous rare occasions I would think, “shouldn’t that stun have worked?” This time it was, “That definitely should have worked!” 


  • PapaBurger
    PapaBurger Posts: 17 Just Dropped In
    helix72 said:
    The game’s been like this for a while and the same affects other characters too, it looks at the condition at the beginning of the round only. I had the same q as you a while back, agree the wording doesn’t match how it works, but now that you know you can plan around it.
    Yeah, plan to get walloped by Apocalypse 

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