Featured Team: White Crown Phoenix // Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde)

White Crown Phoenix (Infiltrator):
ISO-8:  6 Mercurial, 2 Spry
Your plan with Phoenix is to Mind Link on Kitty, then either move mind link between your agent and kitty as they are phased, or attack with one of her attacks.  If someone dies, Phoenix Fire.

Shadowcat (Infiltrator):
ISO-8:  8 Steady
Your basic plan with Shadowcat is to use Call Lockheed first round, then Sneak Attack to break Phased, Shadow Kick next round, then use Phased Attack to repeat the process.  Try to make sure to use Call Lockheed on a tactician to get Combat Reflexes.

Bruiser Agent (or Infiltrator, use Blaster WC Phoenix if so)
ISO-8:  8x Forceful
Sinister Scepter
Neurotrope // Norn Stone
Scroll of Nomaj // Angolob // Shepherd's Staff
Arc Reactor Charge // Sudden Support

This Agent is specifically designed to buff the party and have things to do while it hides under Astral Form.  Ideally, you get to open after Rescue or their Agent use their buff removal, so you can go Neurotrope >> Arc Reactor Charge >> Sinister Scepter, and put a huge hurt on someone.  This stuns your agent, but conveniently enough, you're hidden behind Astral Form and can only really be attacked by psychics.

Budget Setup:
(Custom) Only for Killing
Digital Decoy
Curative Reach
(Custom) Posessed Pistol

This setup is designed to be an aggressive one:  Only for Killing applies Mental Anguish much like Emma Frost, so use it on characters who will attack primarily with their first action, otherwise, either apply Digital Decoy (do this the turn before Shadowcat will be unphased) or unload with the Possessed Pistol.  You can use Posessed Pistol to set up devastating Sneak Attacks with Shadowcat.

Summary

Strengths

This team is a very powerful defensive team, and the ISO-8 are set up to take advantage of the AI as much as possible by making sure that Kitty's HP is higher than the Agent's and Phoenix.  Phoenix's AI will mind link the character with the most HP, and much of the time that will be Kitty, allowing you to string counterattacks if your opponent doesn't know what's up.  This team also is fairly durable even if they do know what's going on, since the agent and Kitty are often invulnerable and Phoenix has multiple resurrection effects.

On offense, this team can punish teams without both Rescue and an Agent with scrolls, getting numerous counterattacks and being immune to most attacks as they do so.

Counters

This team is very soft to psychic attacks, as well as a sustained buff removal team like Rescue and an agent with scrolls.  Rescue's AI is very soft, but on defense this team struggles against her.  You want to focus fire down Phoenix, making sure to kill her twice with back to back attacks to prevent her from using Phoenix Fire.

Rating

Offense:  B+

Defense:  A-