Talk:Bossk/@comment-86.135.165.54-20181214154403/@comment-454133-20181218192712

If you read the rules about Target Lock, it serves three purposes:

1) While performing an attack, you can spend a target lock you have on the defender to reroll any number of your dice.

2) To perform an attack with a weapon that has the [TARGET LOCK] text, you need to have the defender locked.  Some weapons also instruct you to spend the lock (e.g. most torpedoes and missiles).

3) Some abilities reference target lock for various effects