Question with Evade Tokens

By RoyalPayne, in X-Wing Rules Questions

So my friends and I have different interpretations with how to use evade tokens

The rules say:

  1. "When defending, the ship may spend that token to add one additional evade result to his defense roll. "

So I would think that you can only spend evade tokens... if you roll defense dice... right?

If so, Then why does the Ghost have an evade on its action bar lol