Her and prime war machine make a very formidable shield team...

Wait, how does she counter LE absorbing man's powers when it says that this power can't be countered or ignored?

That doesn't make sense to me. What am I missing?

LET YOUR GUARD DOWN: Adjacent opposing characters can't use defense powers.

This game is all about wording. In this instance the big word in her power is USE. She stops his defense before it kicks in meaning it's not countered or ignored....it just doesn't exist. You can't use it to roll the dice in order for him "not" to take damage and therefore he takes all the damage delivered to him. It acts as if he has no defensive power at all...Malekith does the same thing.

For her points she is great. I like her trait too, that basically shuts down charge/flurry combos, or the use of perplex/outwit/prob with powers like running shot and charge from the same character, since running shot/charge are power actions that move then give an attack as a free action.

Funny enough, next week, our LCS tournament special rules are that at least half of the build must be using an ATA. Since ATAs can only be assigned to a Theme Team.... guess who's on my SHIELD Theme Team!!! :)

WAXM Forge also does this.

Question: Let's say you plopped Agent 13 down next to someone who already has a barrier up (oh, like maybe Scarlet Witch). Would it counter that current use of barrier or would it just restrict further use of barrier?

No because it doesn't counter, it says they can't "use". switch has already "used" barrier

OK so what does this do to stop clicks? You shouldn't be able to activate them either!

I believe these kind of effects prevent use of anything in the defensive slot so as long as the stop click or other activation is in that slot than it is nullified, I think.

There should be a good list of these pieces in my sig line for reference.

double post sorry

Does her attack special also nullify the use of granted defense powers through the Phoenix Force, Book of the Skull, or any other resource or relic? Or just the defense power that is in the opposing character's defense slot?

Only the d slot. It has been ruled but I am not doing the search for it. Look for Malekith around the time of release of that set if interested.

More limited than White Witch, but just as effective in terms of limiting free actions. A great counter to themed teams and characters assigned Power Battery constructs.

With the rise of Gluttony and other stop click like effects, Agent 13 is becoming almost must play for me. Gluttony is easily one-shotted once she shows up next to the big guy.

Sometimes difficult to get her into a theme team, but there are ways. (G.W. Bridge, Entities, Welcome to the Legion, etc.)