**** Emma Frost (Astonishing X-Men) ****


4-Star Rarity (Legendary)
Heroes, X-Men



After a devastating attack wiped out her school, Emma joined forces with the X-Men. Despite their antagonistic history, Emma's dedication to educating mutant youth has made her into an unlikely ally."
(Abilities, Match Damage, and Health listed at level 270)
13,995 Health







Psychic Meddling - 10

Emma weaves her way through the enemy's mind, further destabilizing their psyche at every turn. Creates a 3-turn Purple Repeater tile that destroys 2 enemy Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles. If none exist, the Repeater tile destroys 1 AP in the enemy's strongest color instead. (Does not generate AP.)
- Level 2: Creates a 2-turn Purple Repeater tile...
- Level 3: ...destroys 2 AP in the enemy's strongest color instead.
- Level 4: ...destroys 3 enemy Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles.
- Level 5: ...destroys 4 enemy Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles.

When the pressure's on, Emma transforms into her powerful diamond form. Fortifies up to 1 friendly Special tile and turns this power into Diamond Skin.
- Level 2: Fortifies up to 2 friendly Special tiles...
- Level 3: Fortifies up to 3 friendly Special tiles...
- Level 4: Fortifies up to 4 friendly Special tiles...
- Level 5: Fortifies up to 6 friendly Special tiles...

Emma's diamond skin grants her super-strength, but limits her psychic powers. Emma's match damage is increased by 150%, but she cannot fire powers. When there are no Fortified friendly Special tiles on the board, this power becomes Girl's Best Friend.
- Level 2: Emma's match damage is increased by 180%...
- Level 3: Emma's match damage is increased by 200%...
- Level 4: Emma's match damage is increased by 260%...
- Level 5: Emma's match damage is increased by 325%...

Emma makes sure her team is fully-trained, battle-ready, and appreciative of the merits of lifelong education. Creates a 2-turn Yellow Repeater tile that places 1 strength 49 Strike tile and improves up to 1 existing friendly Strike tile by 27.
- Level 2: ...places 2 strength 49 Strike tiles...
- Level 3: ...improves up to 2 existing friendly Strike tiles...
- Level 4: ...2 strength 73 Strike tiles...up to 2 existing friendly Strike tiles by 37.
- Level 5: ...2 strength 90 Strike tiles...up to 3 existing friendly Strike tiles by 58.
**** Emma Frost (Astonishing X-Men) **** 7 votes
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Comments
Psychic Meddling is fine.
Girl's Best Friend is too expensive for what it does (for comparison only: Shuri's Vibranium Virtuoso creates 6 Fortified tiles for 8 AP) and the inability to fire powers once you're able to activate Diamond Skin lowers her usability.
Labor for Learning's Strike tiles are just too weak to be useful (3* Daken's passive creates 2 strength 56 Strike tiles at level 266).
My simple fix:
The thing with Girl's Best Friend is that it's kind of her thing. She goes Diamond Form, and it shuts off her psychic powers. It does make her hard as a diamond, though, which the game only represents as increased match damage (and not even base match damage) and not with any increase in durability, which might have been nice. The other problem is in game, you can't choose to leave Diamond Form to use her other abilities again (and labor for learning isn't even a psychic power, she's just a teacher??), although, Psychic Meddling isn't so great anyways, so is it a big loss? ...
She's a mess.
She really is a mess and just a liability in any required node. I like her and it's sad to see this character get treated like this.
Two of her abilities work on 2 turns repeaters and her abilities are not exactly cheap either. The costs of the abilities need to be reduced to compensate for that, seriously.
Purple: 9
Black: 10
Yellow: 7
That would already be a good improvement, more in line with a 4* (and not even a good one at that).
It's too bad, she could be decent utility but with these costs the match is almost over when those repeaters get going or you need to bring an AP generator for her (and it's not worth it).
Emma deserves better
Being forced to use her in Venom Bomb as an essential is making me agree with you. There's so little offense on that Emma/Starlord/Fishnets team that it makes me almost appreciate Emma's black. Almost.
Frost on the other hand has 3 very expensive powers and the countdown is too long on yellow and pink, she might be serviceable if they were just 1 turn but two is way to long you are typically talking turn 6-9 when you finally start seeing any benefit from casting the yellow or pink power. The match should be over by then. Her black is only good is she is on a team she is tanking but it hamstrings her other powers so it is essentially useless (if it had a defensive component to it it would be a little better). No she is just too slow. the tiles she generates are too week and black kills her utility.
Nope I will say it she is the worst. I tried this event to get her to work she needs a rework asap
Flaptain is still worse in my book.
With the right team the fight is over long Before Captain Falcon gets enough AP to use his red...
I mean, I want to like him, the design is pretty neat. But he is slow and that unfortunately means he is of Little use in the speed meta.
If we are talking about the bottom of the barrel we have to look at the positives, his upside is greater than hers for that simple reason, he can do a ton of damage and swing a match (assuming it makes it that long) she cannot, hence, he is a little better. We are talking bottom 3-5 characters here, nobody is going to be competitive bringing either of them in a match.