Talk:Determination/@comment-24485681-20140205060422/@comment-454133-20160720192233

Yea, there's always going to be some moron trying to look big on the internet. For his sake, this one stayed anonymous. :)  Don't take it too hard, it's just some dumb kid.

In answer to your question, because Determination says to discard the card without resolving it, you simply don't take the damage at all. So when you take a face-up crit card, you look at it, and if it's a Pilot card, you take neither the damage nor effects from it whatsoever -- just put the damage card in the discard pile.

On the surface this sounds fantastic! Sadly, given that crits are usually a small fraction of overall damage, and pilot cards are a small fraction of the damage deck (24%), it's often a wasteful use of the Elite Talent slot, or the one point spent. Even "Leebo" has trouble justifying equipping it, because in practice it probably won't affect the game nearly as much as other options.