This is her Signature ability:
Lagacy says that she needs awakening, but not necessarily high sig levels:
While Vega says that she needs awakening AND high sig:
Essentially the awakening ability makes a significant difference to her damage output, but she still doles out a good amount without it
Sig 1 is fine. The extra is just a bonus
my unawakened one usually cooks in BGs
I used an unawakened Okoye for a few months. She still smashed paths in act 8 and 9, and still cooked hard in BGs. Weren’t many bullseye fights I lost, and then once I duped her, it just made the fights faster. She is fantastic either way, but yeah, definitely hits harder with the dupe. By no means necessary though, rank her up and have some fun