Colleen Wing for me is a little more interesting than Misty Knight, but you know she is also very stereo typical, where Misty is classic Sassy black women.
Colleen instead is the classic Ninja/Samurai broad with a sword that is also very Zen and Cool, I think its even further emphasized because she is white.
Which just screams the 80s, so much Karate Kid etc.
Passive:
Colleen Wing is kinda weird character she is a tankish character, with her passives and she can heal herself, so if tanking work she might be strong. She also has a interrupt turn on passive like Boomerang with less chance him that is really strong and when writing this, I been playing just these 2 characters together on the current pvp and they together are actually super strong you keep interrupting everything and I got got the agent with interrupt as well so :).
Way of the samurai is her first passive is a very simply and good tank passive. She can cover for anyone that has low health, the lower the higher chance. And she also has a chance to block the damage. In a sense its both damage reduction and tanking which of course is great. I wont bother again to explain why tanking it itself is shit. Otherwise this a good passive.
Followed by this she also has Zan Trance which gives her a chance to follow up on any single attack she does. When this happens she also heals herself. And it also removes all debuffs on her! This is actually a really good passive. High chance for a second attack, regaining life and more importantly cleaning herself from all shit.
And it then stacks with "tanking".
If tanking was good she would be a good off tank type of character with damage dealing, she has 1 really good offence ability + then having good tank utility on her own. Would make her a good mix up type of character with bot offence and defence.
But,,,tanking is crap.
So her passive is worth around 3+7 = 10.
Abilities:
Colleen has good abilities, shes another character who is way better then what people believe I would say. Sure she is not a top character, but I will put her a bit above middle.
So first of all she has this really good aoe remover, which is her second ability Metio Massacre.
Its stealthy so it cannot be blocked (yeah tanking is shit...) which is great so you can always for sure remove on all. It also triggers bleed stacks which is ok, she has some bleeding moves and clearly she works best with other bleeders, she is one of those typical bleeding team characters. And as that is aoe, and unblockable its good for triggering that.
Then bam, it removals all their buffs. Just like e.g Gambits ultimate just that this is better as its Stealth always. Where he is stealth only if he has his infiltrator class bonus, while he has that easily on level 15. Its still times when he does not and he can be generalist etc. And that is the only thing he has going for him really. So right away her she is better then Gambit, oh yeah it also gives everyone weak point so that the next attack will critical on them.
I usually go over the first kind of move you will utilize with a character. Which for Colleen is her third but I wanted to mention this first as its a "ultimate" level of move really. Its generally used the 2-3 turn of course when they have a lot of buffs on them and to trigger the bleeding stacks. Its simply a really, really good ability. And she then still has an ok finisher ultimate as well.
10/10
So what to start of with Colleen is her third ability which is another turn of on passive. If it was QA it would be amazing but that would be broken. The way it works now is that its an attack, that also turns on an interrupt passive like what Boomerang has but lower chance for it to happen. It combos with her being a defensive and a offensive character.
The attack in itself is crap, which is a downer. This is basically just turning on a third passive, the attack does low damage and the single target opponent gets tenderized and wide-open 2 really low tier debuffs. But this is still the ability you should start with as this third passive is her best passive. And doing this attack may trigger her second passive which puts on her primary attack and that one is a really strong primary attack then this become an excellent turn 1 play.
7/10 (the attack itself its to weak, would be 10/10 if the follow up triggered always)
Her primary attack Keen Kenjetsu, is extremely strong. I would go so far to say its one of the absolute top primary attack in the game!
Its very simple, it does open wound, which is bleed stack 1-3 and ravaged. That means she can easily spread high amount of stack bleed as if she follow up attack from a coordination attack or counters because someone has granted her counter and so on(like new mental set for agent) she will set up high stack of bleed + ravage that is a lot of damage over time and easily help the other to exploit bleed if you play her in a bleed team.
That would be enough to make it a great move. But it also does pressure point, which randomize the 4 basic debuffs. To have this as follow up attack on all her abilities except the aoe remover its extremely strong, the effect is clear that they will have a lot of bleeding. Which you than later can aoe trigger or use for the ultimate. But even if her other move did not use bleeding, this would still be a good move to have as a basic primary attack.
Now of course the rest of her is also about bleeding so she can very easily use her ultimate turn 2 and/or possible removal a lot of stuff while trigger 3-9 bleed stacks.
10/10 Open wound is one of the strongest effects in the game, this + pressure point is extremely solid.
Ultimate:
Her ultimate is very straight forward, its a typical finisher ultimate. It exploits bleed of course like all other bleeding characters with a finisher. It also exploits the old classic paragon which is good as her primary also sets that up, it also has deadly critical for more extra damage if it crits, which is quite standard its no a sure critical so I don't think that makes it so much better.
But it has Brutal Strike, this is does not make it easier to kill anyone per say it just means they cannot resurrect from their death. Obviously this is a clear attribute to have on a finisher not only becasue it just means you can "truly" finish someone of but its really good in this meta, sure it would be better to have fatal blow so the opponent dies if they get below 20% from her damage but to have any anti resurrect is very strong in the current meta.
I should also point out that she has a very high base damage on this finisher, its easy to set up just from 1 turn by herself its actually of the far better ultimate single target finishers in the game.
Lastly, I think that people overlook her as well as they don't count for her high chance for a follow up by her own passive. So when you do this ultimate at least 50% of the time, I estimate it to around 66% she will than also do a primary attack adding in some more damage, her ultimate can easily kill someone from almost full hp if they have the exploits up, which can happen from herself alone if she gets lucky turn 1.
7.5/10 However, this is not a 10 out of 10 uber move. Its one of the best single target attacks and that is about it. There are way better ultimate which do damage and/or awesome debuffs or amazing supportive passives(well they are rare). This is just pure damage, but its a lot of pure damage so at least she is not like many other characters who just do damage on their ultimate where the damage is way to low to matter.
Verdict:
She lands on a 10+10+7/2+10+7.5 = 40/ 55
I don't do this math until I have went over each ability and passive so that number 40 is new for me here in the bottom of the review. And it do think its almost exactly what I had in mind at the start. She is not the best character in the game but she is clearly better then the average mediocre characters.
Shes a 7.5/10 and about 8/10 in a bleeding team and interrupt team.
Clearly her passive bring hers down, while its a cool tank concept it just has no value in the game. You are gonna tank so few attacks and its not even always active. But her second passive is good anyway as it cleans her from debuffs regardless and add some life.
All her ability are very good, I really do think she is underrated as all her 4 attacks are very strong. Sure she would be better of having 3 good attacks and 1 more utility based move. But her third ability that triggers her third passive is kinda like hat, but it would be safer if it was just a turn of passive type of thing, but it may trigger a quick ultimate turn 2 so, its a gamble move, less safe but chance for insane damage while also being really defensively annoying with interrupt and potential cover tanking. Just having a stealth aoe cleaner makes any character somewhat playable, then her primary is extremely strong and she is one of the few characters to have pure damage ultimate that has some worth. Most just have so mediocre damage that they would need +5 debuffs on it to make it viable.
However, in the end she is to much damage to little utility, there are characters who can do her damage + better debuffs / or can heal/shields and so on. So she is kinda a tier 2 character. Not down in the gutter, not as weak as the middle but not a tier 1 or some broken god tier character. But she is probably tier 2+, like close to tier 1, with the right team she is really formidable.
