Greetings,

Well, I got the dread figure in a pull the other night. Hmmm, said I, hmmmm. Well...heck, how do I use this thing?

She's too expensive to be a stealth+B/C/F brawler (and you can't afford to risk her on the front lines)

She doesn't have the range (max 7...leaving her with 2 damage) to be a stealthed sniper.

She doesn't have the defense (16) to afford letting her get tagged by an enemy, so you feel obligated to stealth her, so her movement is limited.

Soooo, has anyone out there come up with a plan for this dame? Maybe not even an ultimate death plan, just a reasonable plot to have her earn her points in a build.

I had some amusement with her + Psylocke + Hand Ninjas in a Ninja Army! build. Keep Psylocke near her to boost damage, Ninja's also lurk around boosting attack and preventing people from reaching her. It worked pretty well for a while (I even managed a crit hit plus 6 on B/C/F that put V Beast on his last click after he whiffed his roll to attack Elektra...but he only needed a 6 to hit me, me a 160 point character! Heaven forbid I walk out anywhere near a Firelord! (The game pretty much ended when Elektra got to her dread MC clixs, lost stealth, and promptly ahd a face full of Cyclops optic blast)

Therefore, please, for me, my future kids, and Grandma McGurdy who's demanding a rematch so Cyclops can kill Elektra again...anyone have battle thoughts for her?

Regards,
Thor.

I think she's awesome. My basic strategy when using her is to hide her with a taxi near her, preferably shadowcat, and perplex her range/dmg to snipe ppl off to pressure my opponent to move in on her to prevent her from dealing dammage.
When she gets mind control, I taxi her to my opponents' two most powerful figures, mind ctonrl them, and then make them either destroy their own team or, in multiplayer games, i make them run into the middle of other people's armies.
That's an easy way to make the game more interesting for everyone.

I suspect - especially from catching part of a marquee she was pulled in - that she's the ultimate sealed booster piece. Since you won't see that many 100+ point figures, her combination of MC (especially two target!) and everything else may make her an incredibly effective figure.

Besides that, though, she's just a pretty good representation of Elektra Assassin. This isn't Mage Knight; not every piece is designed with a particular strategy in mind.