Contesting Objectives

[Inside the DANGER room]

Honey Badger has an innate superpower [Anklebitter] which says she cannot contest, interact with, or hold objective tokens.

The 20 point secure crisis Super-Powered Scoundrels form Sinister Syndicate places 5 Ambush objective tokens, and says "Characters contesting an Ambush token have cover from attacks made by characters not contesting the same Ambush token."

If Back Cat is being attacked by Honey Badger and both characters are within range 1 of the same Ambush token, would Black Cat get cover because Honey Badger cannot contest the Ambush token, and can Honey Badger gain cover from the Ambush tokens?

 

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[Negoldar]

On 2/16/2022 at 2:22 PM, Inside the DANGER room said:

If Back Cat is being attacked by Honey Badger and both characters are within range 1 of the same Ambush token, would Black Cat get cover because Honey Badger cannot contest the Ambush token, and can Honey Badger gain cover from the Ambush tokens?

Black Cat would benefit from cover due to Honey Badger not contesting it. 

Honey Badger would not benefit from cover because she is not contesting it.