Talk:Juke/@comment-72.169.80.163-20160102213452/@comment-161.249.174.2-20160217200750

It makes more places for someone to spend focus. Stripping tokens is the thing just behind getting more actions on the list of "things that win games."

Consider the joust. I have higher PS, Juke and an evade. My opponent has a focus. We'll assume I took the evade action to make it easier.

I shoot first. I roll 2 hits. My opponent rolls 3 greens and gets a blank, a focus, and an evade. I change the evade to a focus.

They're faced with a choice. Spend the focus, take no damage, and then take an unmodified attack against me when I have an evade (which will probably thus miss) or don't spend the focus and take an extra damage. My evade token has now functioned in both phases, either reducing my damage by 2 (assuming one of their hits was a focus) rather than 1 or getting me an extra hit for free. Whereas without the Juke, they may well have taken the single hit, kept their focus, and had focused shots on me.

Or consider that you're shooting at Poe with r5-p9. Poe counts on having his focus to power the regen. He can convert one, but not two. So making him choose to *spend* the focus or not is huge. That ignores the entire range of conditions where people *aren't* taking focus, whether because they were blocked, because they used boost or barrel roll to get in arc, because they're stressed, etc, and it becomes far more effective.

I easily see that being worth 2 measly points.

Combine it with Omega Leader, where a focus token is effectively a blank and you're golden.