question about catches

[potestas]

if you fufill the catch does that allow you to completely bypass the stress track

[Haru]

Nope, you only get to ignore the benefits from toughness and recovery powers. So if you hit a character with a stress track like this

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with 5 shifts of stress and you satisfy the catch, the target could not use the stress boxes in the brackets and would therefore need to take a consequence. Since the consequence was inflicted satisfying the catch, he can't heal it away with recovery powers either, the consequence would have to heal as if the character didn't have a recovery power.

[Cadd]

Hitting with a Catch-satisfying attack can also be a compel on the targets High Concept, for instance to withdraw from touch.