Hiruma Nikaru vs. Shosuro Rokuta

L5R CCG Rules board, 22 September 2013

A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.

A player, 22 September 2013

If i use nikarus printed action and then kill rokuta at battle res, can rokuta still react? is there any way that rokuta cannot react besides this?

A player, 22 September 2013

If Rokuta cannot perform actions because of Nikaru's Battle action, he cannot react.

Yes, of course there are more ways of stopping Rokuta's ability, you just have to be creative! . Removing him from the game will also stop the Reaction (eg. Cursed Relic), as well as effects that declare that the ability cannot be used (eg. Soshi Yoshihara XP), to name a few other ways