Best Of

Let me be clear, she's not a bad champ just a B or B+ grade at max. This is coming from a r4 owner of SW.

Let's break it down by her attack and defense capabilities in BGs

On attack, who are her top counters for that she does w great timing that other champs are on par with some other great attackers? It's not photon, not thing, not sinister, not onslaught, not jean. These fights usually take 60-80 seconds. Maybe kindred and rintrah but that's it. The reason she's so slow is for 2 reasons, she loses her retribution quite quickly, and her rotation often requires 1 sp2 and 2 sp1 (like bastion) under the tight duration of her retribution (20 seconds whereas bastion's is 28s). That is genuinely very tight and if you lose it that's like -40% off ur power stings damage. In sum, her fight spread is eh, her damage bursts is okay, and her rotation feels difficult to maximise her damage.

On defense, her main gimmick is her evade and her used to be AAR from ensnare. I believe that her 3rd ability fumble is not good in BGs. This is only in BGs whereby her abilities often doesn't commingle with the nodes that might enhance her difficulty as a defender (think Hulking in this power efficiency meta, or SW on node 41). For the most part, just hold block and push SW to an SP2 and you are good.

A lot of the fun with placing her on defense was the ambiguity of whether the opponent would lose out the round from a slip up because of her AAR. She was at one point a very chaotic character to fight, you could bring a very good counter like Starky and still lose because you didn't expect a failed parry (whereas now SW becomes almost an entirely safe fight to score 49-50k points in provided you can deal w her evade).

She was like a less BS version of Domino in all honesty, whereby your stuff can fail but you can get around it and its not like its BS unavoidable damage. To get around it, there are two ways you can approach this. The first is to wait out her ensnare and the second is to can gamble and cash out on your rotation or whatever and hope it is enough.

If you are careful and have an evade counter, her evade and fumble are out of the picture, but pre-nerf SW would still be a soft stall champion. Post nerf, her damage is worse than spider ham, and their defensive capability are about the same.

It's a shame really, that she got nerfed to the ground when there are other champs that are more deserving of the nerf like Captain Britain, Dark Phoenix.

That's all I have. Open to hearing any thoughts you guys have and how she has been doing for you if you own her!