Has anyone else been trying out buffed X-23 yet?

I've been dabbling with her a bit, nothing special or intensive tbh, but so far I've found her playstyle to be extremely funny and engaging. Despite loving the character, pre-buff X-23 was just boring to play: now it feels like a different champion to use, despite her animations (which aged kinda well, considering she's an early 2016 character) being the same.

I was curious to see if someone has figured out her optimal rotation(s) already: for longer fights, I initially thought to build her frenzy, launch an Sp3 for the cruelties, then build a Sp2 for the Vicious, follow with some Sp1s to pause Bleed as much as possible, and using your rapid light attacks window when you have a good amount of Bleeds to maximize the burst damage.
It doesn't seem that the Cruelties make much difference, though. I'm not really sure about it.

Admittedly, I think giving her a 100% chance to regenerate the first time she's being hit (like Hood's invisibility), with a cooldown afterwards, would have maybe been better than having to use your Frenzy, but so far I've found it to be relatively easy to build and keep, so I don't have lots of issues with it for now.
The playstyle rewards you for punishing and intercepting opponents anyway, so having a better "safety valve" in case of mistakes (especially considering how sneaky the AI can be, or the input issues) would have been preferable, I think.

I also still have to try the Wolverine Battlecast on her, I completely forgot about that.

Comments

ahmynuts

Everyone had been talking about how mid she is. There's multiple threads on it

Ercarret

I like her. I've only been able to test out my 6r3 version so it's kinda hard to gauge where the 7* will land, but at the very least she's a ton of fun to play. I definitely don't predict her to be mid. One 100 Frenzy Eviscerate Stun cycle should get through pretty much any BG health pool.

One thing that I think would have been nice, though, is if the Vicious passive that you get from the Sp2 would last for the duration of the Eviscerate Stun. It's probably not a problem in most matches, but you can build her up so that the Eviscerate last for much longer than the 10-second Vicious passive. My gut assumption was initially just that the point is for you to use several smaller cycles rather than a single massive one, but the problem there is that you pretty much immediately push your opponent to their SP3. As such, it seems as if it would be much safer to build up to that single massive Eviscerate rather than trying to go for several smaller ones. But then you lose out on the increased Bleed potency halfway through the Eviscerate. It just…I don't know, it rubs me the wrong way ever so slightly.

One thing that I haven't seen people test out all that much is how she fares with the Recoil masteries. I haven't either, but just from reading her description, it sounds as if she'd potentially work really well with them.