Consider the following situation: I'm flying Genesis Red with Push The Limit, and I decide to Evade and Barrel Roll. Then a higher pilot skill ship with Squad Leader gives him another action - this time, Target Lock. He chooses a ship that has two focus tokens (thanks to an effect like Recon Specialist or Jyn Erso).

Clearly, I'll gain two focus tokens thanks to his ability. But does it mean I also have to remove my evade token to match the number of tokens on my target? Common sense says no, but I can see someone attempting to rules lawyer that one...

EDIT: This should've gone into the rules forum, my apologies!

Well we can talk about ship building. The one thing I learned with Scykes when trying to fly them without the Heavy title (this was before the C-roc errata) is that PTL is hard to pull off without green hard turns. You need to have some sort of turret or something and Scyks have none of those. As for tokens I think the ruling is you get nothing more if you already have more tokens which is why against higher skilled pilots he is bad. To be honest Genesis Red is only good if token banks and token tanks (Such as Soontir Fel and Kyle Katan) ever make it back into the meta. But as you already pointed out you want the highest pilot skill or a way to acquire a target lock at the start of the combat phase when everyone has banked up their tokens for the round to use him effectively.

So for Genesis Red there is only 1 EPT that works with him, VI. Too bad you can't give him Adv Cloaking Device.

I don't know genisus red but I think ptl's stress would stop squad leader from working