An important note for new players: you can only play this after you "successfully evade". Effects that "automatically evade" an enemy like Polished Cane, Breaking and Entering, or Restrained do not involve a test on the evade effect, so you did not succeed by anything and cannot play this.
Rules reference here: https://arkhamdb.com/rules#Automatic_Failure_Success
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Frickenator
· 26
I'm very confused about this rule. Skill test is to obtain one of two outcomes: success or failure. Automatic evade“ hasn't undergone skill test, because it inherently contain the meaning of success. However, the rules do not consider "automatic evade" as a ”successful evade“. This contradicts common sense.
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du3223540
· 1
Nah, because there is no skill test to succeed or fail at. It's simply an effect that happens, therefore it's not an (un)successful evade. They could have used two different words for the evade effect and the evade action though...
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AlderSign
· 469
I'm from the camp that believes they should just change "automatic evasion" to "exhaust that enemy"
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HeroesOfTomorrow
· 95
It would need an extra mentioning, that you also disengage (That is, if you are engaged automatic evade also work on enemies, you are not engaged with, evade actions don't.) But yeah, nobody would assume, dealing a damage with Beat Cop counts as a successful fight. The unintuitive stuff is, that both are called evade.
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Susumu
· 389