Does Negasonic Warhead needs awakening? Or high sigs?

Macha1275

Guys does Negasonic Warhead needs awakening for max output? Or needs high sigs? I have a 6 star generic AG, thoughts pls

Ercarret

She benefits from being awakened but I don't know if max sig does a lot for her. What her awakened ability does that's important is to pause her incinerates and energy vulnerability passives during Striker and Counter-Attack hits, making the upkeep of those easier. She gets this ability at sig 1.

Then there are two abilities that get better as you put sig stones into her:

* As a defender, she starts the fight with 40-100% of a bar of power. This makes her slightly more annoying on defense, but I generally find that her defensive qualities depend more on if you've got a good counter to her than whether or not she starts with a bar of power. So I wouldn't put any sig stones into her for that.

* When she does Counter-Attack, she places 1-3 incinerates on the opponent. This can be quite valuable if you're Counter-Attacking a lot, but since the number is rounded up, you get 2 out of 3 incinerates at a very low sig. Maybe sig 4 or something like that. I know sig 20 is 1.37 incinerates, which becomes 2 when rounded up. As such, I don't feel like dumping a ton of sigs just to get that number up to an even 3.

So in conclusion: does she needs the awakened ability? She sure benefits from it. Does she need a bunch of sig stones? No, not at all.

EdisonLaw

Not required, an unduped will do just fine

Polygon

She needs a bench to keep her warm. You probably have better mutants to rank. Shes not worth a generic even if you had zero thorns counters though