Featured Team: Black Widow // Wolverine

Grey Suit Black Widow -Tactician

ISO-8: 8x Steady (Health/Attack/Accuracy)

Brown-and-Tan Wolverine - Scrapper

ISO-8:  8x Steady (Health/Attack/Accuracy)

Agent - Scrapper

ISO-8: 8x Chaotic ISO-8

Armory:  This composition favors balanced, slanting towards attack, or all out attack.  Defensive setups on this team are likely not ideal.

Optimal Gear:

1. Kuzuri
2. Scroll of Ocerebi Nomaj
3. Neurotrope // Warbringer's Axe
4. Custom Magnetic Field Generator

Starting Player Gear

(This is intended for players who are new to the game, and do not have access to gold items, limited edition items, or the like.  Consider it the "budget" recommendations, although I will recommend many customized items from epic bosses, so expect to do a bit of farming.)

1. Sabertooth's Claws // "Snikt"
2. Curative Reach
3. Custom Magnetic Field Generator
4. Custom Only For Killing

It is also worth mentioning that the regular, non Brown-and-Tan Wolverine is nearly as good as the Brown-and-Tan, so if you are very short on CP's you can use him.  The same cannot be said for Black Widow, her Tactician Grey Suit is mandatory to make her useful in PVP.

Team Strategy:

This team is all about focus fire.  Widowmaker's ability to take someone out in one pass, particularly blasters if someone is fool enough to send one of those on defense, leads you to very strong openings.  Your openings are very much reliant on turn order, but they often fall into one of three categories.

1. Your opponent has a blaster.  This means that your Agent and Wolverine should focus on applying three stacks of bleeds with ravaged to someone other than the Blaster, and Widow will focus fire the blaster down with Widowmaker and her Flying Kick.
2. Your opponent has an Infiltrator.  This means that Widow and the Agent should focus fire someone, while Wolverine applies three stacks of bleeding and ravaged.
3. Your opponent went first and got their defenses set up // the above two scenarios don't apply.

The third scenario is the most complex, since you can fairly easily win the other two.  We'll talk about this one.  What if your opponent has a protect that you don't want to hit with your scrappers, like Hercules or a Bruiser Agent?  As it turns out, as long as they're not immune to bleeds you're probably OK just focusing everyone's efforts on the protector directly, and knocking them into next week.  If their protect is based on a buff, Widow can Flying Kick it off while Wolverine uses Feral Ambush on someone else, and your agent takes defensive actions like setting up Custom Magnetic Field Generator, or using Scroll of Nomaj to punt buffs if you have it.  Then, it's a matter of continuing to apply bleeds, and using Widowmaker to keep key members of their team on the back foot and stunned.

Rescue is particularly difficult, so I'll detail how to beat her with this team here.  What you really want to do is make sure that the first time she puts up her healing shield you can dispel it with Scroll, and the second thing you want to do is focus all your fire and efforts on whoever it is on their team can actually do damage.  Rescue's primary weakness is that she is very poor on offense, and if you can cut the legs out from under their offense before you're too weakened, Wolverine can usually do the rest on the back of his natural healing and your agent's ability to heal and shield him.

I haven't seen a ton of this team on defense, but my defends tended to be moderately poor.  You should likely only use a Scrapper agent on offense, and switch their suit to something more effective on defense, like Bruiser or Infiltrator.  This is a team that I really like on offense, and I used it to get Adamantium this season, but I often switched my defending teams around and just used this because it can quickly end fights.  This is a particularly important facet of this team for the last few days of PVP when your attacks are so critical to keeping up your rating.  You will face a lot of defensive fights, and a slow attrition-based attack team can't win enough fights quickly enough to keep up with the assault.

Summary

This team is great, as long as you're not leaving it back to defend at high tiers of play.  The team defends just fine for leagues below Vibranium, and features a number of neat abilities and the ability to largely ignore protects.  I use it, and that's the best recommendation I can make.  However, it's pretty bad on defense and since the last PVP reward armor was Bruiser, this team composition should probably use a different kind of Agent overalll, and possibly Infiltrator Wolverine on defense.

Ranking:

On Attack:  A

On Defense:  C+

Counters  

This team can be countered by heavy Bruisers, like Captain Britain, Juggernaut or Hercules.  Hercules is particularly good at beating this team down, as long as you have a way to remove bleeds from them.  Other things that can stop this team are teams like Rescue/Phoenix that can remove the bleeds quickly enough to blunt Wolverine's offense.  One of the keys for fighting this team is to make sure not to use AOE attacks:  Focus your fire on the Agent or Wolverine, first, and leave Black Widow for last.  Her AI isn't perfectly good, and the last thing you want to do is let her spam free attacks by attacking her before you can kill her quickly.