Misty knight is another pure damage character who does not do damage, sure she is not the weakest character in the game purely on the damage perspective but there are clearly a lot of character that dish out way higher damage, then their is characters who deal lower damage but way better debuffs, or characters that do the same damage but also has 10x better utility, defence abilities etc.
Basically she is a very uninteresting character to play with, she is only damage and she does not even excel at that.
I was very disappointed having her as a PvP reward, PvP rewarded character has in the past been really good, then they have seen a huge decline to w.e name they could pull out of a box but then Cloak And Dagger was an amazing reward followed by Beetle who is a very meh character.
Its been up and down the last 10 or so seasons.
Misty Knight is one of those low points.
And I do think this is quite a big deal, compare her to for example the next character, Kamela Khan, that's a 90 CP character, that does not mean anything. Just a new character for command points, its on PvP reward or/and Special operation heroes you expect them to be good. Right now when writing this, its a new quest for Moondragon, which is not hard but tedious as its to do 21 daily missions. And she seems to be a really strong character, I am actually thinking about writing an article about her, Mantis and the bunch of new psychic stuff. In her case it makes sense shes a daily hero reward, Mantis also seems pretty good, make sense as a SO Reward. Misty Knight is horrible so she in returns is a huge let down for a PvP reward and that was clear even before anyone even unlocked her.
The thing is that as always when a character is like that in Marvel Avengers Alliance is usually because they don't make any sense, just some kind of half ass meshed together stuff. She has no coherency in her design and then no coherence in her gameplay ability.
( I won't bother going into her comic character, she turned fake evil or something before that she was just Iron Fist girlfriend I ever found her any interesting, overall Heroes for Hire where pretty bad but Luke Cage and Iron Fist has always been good addition to the main storyline of the avengers hmm, they are kinda weird like that)
Passives:
First of all really unfitting passive unexploited-able, which kinda goes for her exploit theme (then I just assume its some kind of reference to her being a Sassy Black Women...)
But it just makes zero sense in the game. This is a 100% tank passive, it makes exploit attrition and other exploit attacks have no effect on her based on the debuffs on her (the attack still does it base damage). Would be way cooler if she was truly immune to attacks with exploit.
Shes a Blaster and they rarely can tank. Blaster after Tactician is the worst tank class in how they are affected by other classes, a tactician tank triggers stealth on infiltrator's so that's pretty bad. But that's the class versus buffs, on the stat wise, Blaster followed by Scrappers are the worst tanks. Because low defence as Blaster has the lowest, but they also have really low evasion. And a lot of people miss out on that having low evasion means not only that you do not avoid attacks as often but that you also get critical hit more. So obviously blaster sucks as tanks, the only Blaster that have survive ability are characters like Amazing Spider-Woman who just have a very high evasion chance regardless of her actual stats.
In Misty knight case she has a heavy damage reduction passive towards a lot of characters. But she still take high damage, so its just really bad. She do have a shield ability on herself but no other utility. For example compare her to Baron Mordo who has immune to fatal, but he also has astral form and random chance for shields. So he can hide away that makes him hard to kill even if hes a blaster and he has a better shield then her QA move.
She is a 100% offensive character and it really does not fit.
Her other passive is just a copy of classic Gray Widow. Where she will put mark for revenge on characters that attacks her which purely increase the damage, clearly these 2 passives have zero synergy.
Right away here we see that there is no coherency in the way she operates.
Note: Her passive is also worse for her over having it on Gray Widow. Because Widow can always retaliate against any given target as all her attacks are stealth. While Misty Knight may be attacked by a character protected by a tank and then she (nor her team if they cant go pass) cannot utilize this passive.
Abilities:
Misty Knight has a multi functional QA ability her third one.
Well her first option is not a QA and the best one, but the other 2 is.
So like many other characters she has 4 moves + some available QA. Clearly you either use her 3.2 or her 3.3 move as they are QA followed by either her 3.1 or any other ability.
3.2 is then a shield, which is a really bad shield is just a the most plain kind of shields where it blocks some damage until it is destroyed and only protects her, still quite common to start with but yeah this is bad. No heal, no extra damage no immunity to x.
3.3 the thing is that 3.3 is bad, its just really fucking bad. This could be one of the most redundant moves in the game, it does generalized. Which is Ok, it turns of someone class and that as a QA is kinda weak but ok. However, it also does winded and off-balance which is just the turning of scrapper and infiltrator respectively. So......it just doubles turn of those 2 classes, sure there are more characters who are e.g Tactician and can counter, like Cyclops with combat expertise but generally this is uber redundant.
Practically you will either shield yourself or generalize someone. That's how she starts her game.
Ultimate:
After this all her game plan is about using the ultimate as it has exploits on everything and critical, cannot miss etc but it only has it on marked targets......
And she cannot fucking but marked on by herself. I mean really WTF. So you have to randomize the mark on someone as they attack her, then debuff them and then be able to attack them, hoping they don't have tanks or similar moves. Or you know just remove her mark.
Sure in a perfect world they will take a huge damage from this ultimate but realistically it never extremely hard to get in. Especially on any primary target, say you face a Nul or Pestilence you have to kill fast but they never attack her. Well then she never can ultimate them, that is horrendous. She has one of the worst ultimate in the games if not the worst. That she cannot focus the mark like Widow is just astonishing.
So her other abilities then, yes Now I started with her ultimate but its all about it in the end as her other abilities are crap and do zero damage. They are all about setting up the ultimate finisher which may not mark the target you are debuffing.
Her first ability, Is just pain train, which is really really horrible. As with Gwen its a bad debuff that stacks up and becomes slightly better, its nothing like the soulfire from Ghost Rider and even that is bad today.
She has a high chance to do another attack. which then makes her trigger the second stack of pain train, which is still bad.
She also puts om target focus that slightly increase damage taken, this combos with the next attack by herself so that's like the basic scrapper combo from back pre season 1 level of power.
Her second ability has Hobbled,,,again is she supposed to tank? Which is that it turns of stealth moves. It really has zero value for Misty Knight. It also gives them fumbled so people counter attack them an ok debuff but worse then flanked (+follow up attack) and then it has immobilized turning of melee attacks. This is actually pretty good, but the attack has low damage and only the immobilize debuff is interesting. Rest is crap and these stuff don't really boost her ultimate.
So her last thing is 3.1 This is an Aoe that does rattled which increase follow up stuff, w.e debuff and superior firepower which can random shell shocked which is good and some other stuff.
Really that's it?
She cant even set up the debuffs for her ultimate. Her ultimate is hard to use even ignoring the huge lack of concept on her marked for revenge.
Verdict:
0/10. the worst PvP reward to date.
