The art of the One-shot; or a Mathwingers' call for aid.

By DraconPyrothayan, in X-Wing

Where's Vessary's math? He has an easier time critting people, and can cause people to draw more cards than dice rolled. And as such, mathematically can 1 shot the 16 health VT-49 with only 8 dice.

That's Rexler, not Vessery. And he can't one-shot a Decimator with 8 dice because of the shields. He could do max 12 damage. He would need 10 dice to one-shot the Decimator.

Assuming 10 red dice, and him firing red dice with no modification, he has to hit all 10, then spend his focus token to flip them all faceup, so I just add the critical damage distribution for 8 cards.

(1/2)^10 * P(8 extra damage) = 0.00000001934252881486% chance, or 1.934253e-08, so an incredibly small chance.

edit: also, he can't give more crits than dice he has thrown, the ability applies only to the damage cards given in that attack.

See my analysis above, he can indeed one shot him. All it takes is Yorr, Cluster Missiles, TL to fire said missiles, Focus to flip crits up and Opportunist (with a tad bit of luck).

What analysis? Rexler's ability applies to only one attack, and so does Opportunist, while Cluster missiles are considered 2 attacks! And you only flip DAMAGE CARDS you give to the Decimator. He has 4 shields, so you give him at most 4 cards with 8 theoretical dice, not with that Cluster missile mumbo-jumbo.

Re-read the thread to find the analysis he wrote. It's seriously not hard to read one page.

I missed it ok?

Sorry to burst some bubbles, but Yorr doesn't work with opportunist.

If Yorr intercepts the stress, opportunist can't activate... since the stress from it is a cost, not a result of the ability.