Rebalance & New Costume - Psylocke (Classic) 3*

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edited 30 January 2025, 00:33 in MPQ News and Announcements

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Abilities

Ability: Psychic Knife

General Notes:

This ability is one of the poster children for the “speeds up on use” type gameplay, and does pretty well when teamed with other Strike generators. However, it’s pretty weak on its own at 8 AP (since it’s balanced around the idea that it’ll often be faster), and even once it’s sped up, it’s still pretty slow with a 5 AP minimum. So lowered this to 4 and changed numbers accordingly.

Color: Red
AP Cost: 8

3 STAR: LEVEL 266

(BEFORE)
Psylocke gains momentum, fluidly chaining attacks together. Deals 856 damage and creates a strength 128 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist. Costs 1 less for each Red Strike tile (min cost 5). 

At Level 2: Deals 1678 damage and creates a strength 148 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist.
At Level 3: Creates a strength 205 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist.
At Level 4: Deals 2636 damage.
At Level 5: Deals 3458 damage and creates a strength 333 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist. 

(AFTER)
Psylocke gains momentum, fluidly chaining attacks together. Deal 1384 damage. If less than 3 exist, convert a basic red tile into a strength 147 Strike tile. This ability costs 1 less for each friendly Red Strike tile (min: 4).

At Level 2: Deal 1783 damage. Convert to strength 152 tiles.
At Level 3: Convert to strength 242 tiles.
At Level 4: Deal 2584 damage.
At Level 5: Deal 3859 damage. Convert to strength 328 tiles.

4 STAR (ASCENDED): LEVEL 370

(BEFORE)
Psylocke gains momentum, fluidly chaining attacks together. Deals 1494 damage and creates a strength 224 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist. Costs 1 less for each Red Strike tile (min cost 5). 

At Level 2: Deals 3406 damage and creates a strength 291 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist.
At Level 3: Creates a strength 486 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist.
At Level 4: Deals 4602 damage.
At Level 5: Deals 6125 damage and creates a strength 963 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist. 

(AFTER)
Psylocke gains momentum, fluidly chaining attacks together. Deal 2465 damage. If less than 3 exist, convert a basic red tile into a strength 261 Strike tile. This ability costs 1 less for each friendly Red Strike tile (min: 4).

At Level 2: Deal 3808 damage. Convert to strength 298 tiles.
At Level 3: Convert to strength 606 tiles.
At Level 4: Deal 6537 damage.
At Level 5: Deal 10272 damage. Convert to strength 1119 tiles.

5 STAR (ASCENDED): LEVEL 550

(BEFORE)
Psylocke gains momentum, fluidly chaining attacks together. Deals 15393 damage and creates a strength 2309 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist. Costs 1 less for each Red Strike tile (min cost 5). 

At Level 2: Deals 27707 damage and creates a strength 2702 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist.
At Level 3: Creates a strength 3464 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist.
At Level 4: Deals 36943 damage.
At Level 5: Deals 43100 damage and creates a strength 4225 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist. 

(AFTER)
Psylocke gains momentum, fluidly chaining attacks together. Deal 25398 damage. If less than 3 exist, convert a basic red tile into a strength 2694 Strike tile. This ability costs 1 less for each friendly Red Strike tile (min: 5).

At Level 2: Deal 27709 damage. Convert to strength 3079 tiles.
At Level 3: Convert to strength 3850 tiles.
At Level 4: Deal 34643 damage.
At Level 5: Deal 49069 damage. Convert to strength 4232 tiles.

Ability: Bewilder

General Notes:

This ability is relatively slow in modern gameplay, and it comes with a Countdown tile in order to actually make its ability functional. This ability, as a result, rarely gets used and even more rarely goes off in a useful way. So we’ve changed it to a Passive which has the same mechanics. Increases strength of SAP tiles, then goes and tries to steal AP. This turns it into a kind of hybrid of Falcon’s Yellow and Hood’s Black Passives, doing both fairly well while using a color that often isn’t otherwise used for these types of abilities.

Color: Blue
AP Cost: 0

3 STAR: LEVEL 266

(BEFORE)
Psylocke steadies and channels her telepathic power, reaching into the minds of the enemy to disrupt their attack. Creates a 3-turn Blue Countdown tile that steals up to 4 AP from the enemy’s largest color pool and increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 64.

At Level 2: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 96.
At Level 3: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 107.
At Level 4: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 139.
At Level 5: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 203.

(AFTER)
(PASSIVE) Psylocke steadies and channels her telepathic power, reaching into the minds of the enemy to disrupt the attack. At the start of her turn, increase the strength of up to 2 friendly Strike, Attack, or Protect tiles (in that priority order) by 48. Then, if any enemy AP pool is greater than 8 AP, steal 2 AP from the largest enemy pool. 

At Level 2: Improve tiles by 56.
At Level 3: Improve tiles by 65
At Level 4: Improve tiles by 83.
At Level 5: Improve 3 tiles.

4 STAR (ASCENDED): LEVEL 370

(BEFORE)
Psylocke steadies and channels her telepathic power, reaching into the minds of the enemy to disrupt their attack. Creates a 3-turn Blue Countdown tile that steals up to 4 AP from the enemy’s largest color pool and increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 112.

At Level 2: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 224.
At Level 3: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 258.
At Level 4: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 370.
At Level 5: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 594.

(AFTER)
(PASSIVE) Psylocke steadies and channels her telepathic power, reaching into the minds of the enemy to disrupt the attack. At the start of her turn, increase the strength of up to 2 friendly Strike, Attack, or Protect tiles (in that priority order) by 86. Then, if any enemy AP pool is greater than 8 AP, steal 2 AP from the largest enemy pool. 

At Level 2: Improve tiles by 116.
At Level 3: Improve tiles by 150
At Level 4: Improve tiles by 217.
At Level 5: Improve 3 tiles.

5 STAR (ASCENDED): LEVEL 550

(BEFORE)
Psylocke steadies and channels her telepathic power, reaching into the minds of the enemy to disrupt their attack. Creates a 3-turn Blue Countdown tile that steals up to 4 AP from the enemy’s largest color pool and increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 1154.

At Level 2: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 1927.
At Level 3: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 1927.
At Level 4: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 2308.
At Level 5: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 2654.

(AFTER)
(PASSIVE) Psylocke steadies and channels her telepathic power, reaching into the minds of the enemy to disrupt the attack. At the start of her turn, increase the strength of up to 2 friendly Strike, Attack, or Protect tiles (in that priority order) by 885. Then, if any enemy AP pool is greater than 8 AP, steal 2 AP from the largest enemy pool. 

At Level 2: Improve tiles by 962.
At Level 3: Improve tiles by 1039
At Level 4: Improve tiles by 1193.
At Level 5: Improve 3 tiles.

Ability: Psi-Katana

General Notes:

The ability does what it says on the tin, and is fairly effective for what it does. But numbers have gone up a bit since the dark ages when she was originally designed, so these new values keep with the times.

Color: Black
AP Cost: 6

3 STAR: LEVEL 266

(BEFORE)
Psylocke carves the enemy up with her psionic katana. Deals 535 damage and leaves the enemy bleeding, converting a basic Black tile to an Attack tile that deals 128 damage to the current target each turn.

At Level 2: Deals 856 damage.
At Level 3: Increases Attack tile damage to 205.
At Level 4: Deals 1391 damage.
At Level 5: Increases Attack tile damage to 333.

(AFTER)
Psylocke carves the enemy up with her psionic katana. Deal 755 damage. Convert a basic Black tile to a strength 126 Attack tile.

At Level 2: Deal 1006 damage.
At Level 3: Create strength 202 tiles.
At Level 4: Deal 1489 damage.
At Level 5: Create strength 420 tiles.

4 STAR (ASCENDED): LEVEL 370

(BEFORE)
Psylocke carves the enemy up with her psionic katana. Deals 934 damage and leaves the enemy bleeding, converting a basic Black tile to an Attack tile that deals 224 damage to the current target each turn.

At Level 2: Deals 934 damage.At Level 3: Increases Attack tile damage to 486.
At Level 4: Deals 1868 damage.At Level 5: Increases Attack tile damage to 963.

(AFTER)Psylocke carves the enemy up with her psionic katana. Deal 1345 damage. Convert a basic Black tile to a strength 224 Attack tile.

At Level 2: Deal 2335 damage.
At Level 3: Create strength 420 tiles.
At Level 4: Deal 4296 damage.
At Level 5: Create strength 1213 tiles.

5 STAR (ASCENDED): LEVEL 550

(BEFORE)
Psylocke carves the enemy up with her psionic katana. Deals 9621 damage and leaves the enemy bleeding, converting a basic Black tile to an Attack tile that deals 2309 damage to the current target each turn.

At Level 2: Deals 9621 damage.At Level 3: Increases Attack tile damage to 3464.
At Level 4: Deals 13085 damage.At Level 5: Increases Attack tile damage to 4225.

(AFTER)Psylocke carves the enemy up with her psionic katana. Deal 13854 damage. Convert a basic Black tile to a strength 2309 Attack tile.

At Level 2: Deal 16542 damage.
At Level 3: Create strength 2789 tiles.
At Level 4: Deal 21557 damage.
At Level 5: Create strength 4810 tiles.