Psylocke duped?
PeterQuill
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Recently duped my 5 star psylocke. Is she worth ranking up and figuring out her play style. She seems so difficult to use effectively.
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Love your music collection. You should visit Stark tower someday.
First thing to note is she gains 25% less power than normal when attacking (you’ll see why that doesn’t matter too much later). With her sp1, there are 2 different ways to utilise it to great success. If your opponent does not have any kind of power gain over time or automatic bursts of power like MD you can pretty much power lock them for the entire fight without needing to debuff them. You simply build up to your sp1 and get a psi charge when the opponent gets a bar of power. You need to bring them to 0 power using your sp1 so it’s best to bait out their special and then parry or intercept them with your sp1. If done correctly they’ll be brought to 0 power, you’ll have a psi charge and they won’t gain any power at all as long as you don’t get hit. She’ll keep gaining more psi charges as you attack them with 0 power which you can use to finish the fight with a heavy. She’ll consume each one she has to deal direct damage to the opponent. More charges=more damage.
The other way to use her sp1 is to let them get just over a bar of power and then use your sp1. If it brings them below a power bar threshold she gets her sp1 back almost instantly. (Does not apply if you drain them when they have a full 3 bars, they need to be over a bar of power and brought below it) That means you can keep draining their power constantly throughout the fight and always have a special ready to use. This is a better method for champs like Hyperion or mordo because their power gains make the other method useless. You should never have to worry about sp3s doing this if you get it right.
Her sp2 places a power lock debuff on the opponent stopping all forms of power gain. Again, this consumes a psi charge to grant you 33% power straight away. Should be enough for a sp1 should you need it or you can build back up to a sp2 again. Damage wise sp2 is much better than sp1.
Sp3 which you probably won’t use very often consumes all psi charges to drain 20% power per charge. If this brings them to 0 power she’ll stun them for 5 seconds giving you more than enough to time to get a few free hits in. 10 second power lock too so you can be as aggressive as you want to be.
Since you duped her, the first method of sp1 should now be more useful. Her crit damage will increase whilst they’re at 0 power and she’ll reduce ability accuracy by x% depending on level. Fewer evades, static shock etc. Absolutely worth a rank 4 imo, but she’s not as simple as other characters, it will take time to practice her and find out if you like her. If you do, great. If not, no harm done. Just give her a try and see what you think, hope that helps.
Best summary I’ve seen.
Dr. Zola
She's a champ I've been coming to enjoy; but you have to be very skilled at not getting hit to make best use of her. I'm still working on that; so spamming her S1 power drain works really well for me.
Her animation is very cool, too. Love her flying kicks.