Sunny Bounder

By Hiemfire, in X-Wing Rules Questions

Sunny has a Lock on her target and a Focus token. She rolls her primary attack and comes up double blank. Per her ability an additional blank result is added then she spends her Lock to re-roll. The re-roll results in triple Focuses. Does she add a Focus result resulting in 4 hits when she spends her Focus token or is she limited to just 3 hits? Comes down to are the original attack roll and the re-roll considered separate triggers from what I can tell.

Sunny's Card:

•Sunny Bounder

Dice Modification section of the Rules Reference (pg. 9)

Dice Modification

Players can modify dice by spending various tokens and by resolving abilities. Dice can be modified in the following ways:

  • Add: To add a die result, place an unused die displaying the result next to the rolled dice. A die added in this way is treated as a normal die for all purposes and can be modified and canceled.
  • Change: To change a die result, rotate the die so that its faceup side displays the new result.
  • Reroll: To reroll a die result, pick up the die and roll it again.
  • Spend: To spend a result, remove the die from the dice pool.

Additionally:

  • Dice modification occurs during the respective Modify Attack Dice or Modify Defense Dice step, unless otherwise stated.
  • Although dice can be modified by multiple effects, each die cannot be rerolled more than once.
  • If an ability instructs a ship to spend a result, it cannot spend another ship's results unless stated otherwise.
  • Canceling dice is not a dice modification.
  • Rolling additional dice or fewer dice is not a dice modification.
  • If a die cannot be changed to a given result, nothing happens.
    • For example, an attack die cannot be changed to an result because that result does not appear on that die.

Due to the wording of her ability in 2E, and how in 1E it specified "once per round" I feel like it would indeed work in the scenario you presented, 2 matching results into 3 > target lock > 3 matching results into 4.

I however find myself hard-pressed to take Sunny without Linked Batteries, as I was running her with Linked Batteries & Shield Upgrade in the end of 1E and loving every moment of it.

1 minute ago, Innese said:

I however find myself hard-pressed to take Sunny without Linked Batteries, as I was running her with Linked Batteries & Shield Upgrade in the end of 1E and loving every moment of it.

I miss Linked Battery too. It was a nice damage boost for Scyks in general. :)

1 minute ago, Hiemfire said:

I miss Linked Battery too. It was a nice damage boost for Scyks in general. :)

It was a wacky list involving 2 Scurrgs packing things like Synced Turret & Deadeye, then the aforementioned Sunny build; makes me really nostalgic for Linked Battery just to put it on Sunny.

Yup. She's not once per round any more and each roll and reroll is a separate opportunity. Nice catch.

It's compensation for not being able to get double mods any more which takes her from neat cheap filler to basically no better than a generic.