Talk:Unkar Plutt/@comment-104.186.108.142-20180303055251/@comment-454133-20180303060521

This ability works even without a tractor beam. It's worth noting that it's impossible for his ability to do anything if this were not so, as he cannot equip a tractor beam.

Tractor Beam tokens are separate from tractor beams, and can be received by other means like Unkar or Shadow Caster. Same deal with ion tokens -- they're assigned by a number of methods, not just the Ion Cannon. Focus tokens and target locks can be received even without a focus or target lock action. And so on.

In general, if an ability explicitly says "do this", you get to do it as long as you don't break the rules of the ability itself. For example, you can take a free barrel roll from BB-8 even if your X-Wing doesn't have Barrel Roll on his action bar, but you still have to be able to perform free actions (e.g. not stressed).