I have a figure with 18 defense and energy shield/ deflection showing. I perplex up her defense twice. She is then attacked via a range attack by a figure who is adjacent to another figure with the police team ability. All lines of fire are un-hindered. What is my figures defense for the attack.
So you start with an 18 defense. Perplex it up twice so you have a 20 defense. Add +2 for Energy Shield / Deflection against Ranged attacks, which brings your defense to a 22 but due to the Rule of Three:
Whenever the sum of all modifiers applied to asingle combat value is greater than +3 or lessthan -3, the sum of all modifiers is instead +3 or-3, respectively. All modifiers continue to apply tothe combat value; only their sum is changed. Thisrule only applies to modifiers, not to replacementvalues. Replacement values can alter theprinted combat value by more than 3 before anymodifiers apply, with modifiers still limited to anet modification of 3 on the replaced value.
…it becomes a 21. The opposing character attacking you with help from the Police Team Ability:
When a character using the Police team ability is adjacent to a friendly character making a ranged combat attack, modify the target’s defensevalue by -1 if the target is within line of fire of this character.
…will bring your defense “down” to a total of 21 - you still had that +1 modifier that wasn’t counted before due to the Rule of Three.
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