Featured Team: Emma Frost & Psylocke

Phoenix Five Emma Frost (Tactician):
ISO-8:  4 Spry, 4 Steady
Emma is a very technical hero:  You will often want to Unlock Potential to either purge debuffs or increase Psylocke's power, since she is your primary bread and butter offense on this team, then follow up by applying Psychic Tap to any characters without Mental Resiliance.

This can take some knowledge of what the characters are capable of:  Heroes with full action defensive moves are not ideal targets, but heroes like Wolverine or Iron Patriot that are assured to attack if possible are great targets for Psychic Tap.  If you are facing a very defensive hero, War Diamond to stun them and hold them out of the action, or use Mental Trauma to apply an AOE Migraine to the opposing team to reduce their damage and keep yourself alive.

Typically, you will want to Unlock Potential whenever possible, unless Emma acts first on your team, to maximize the stamina gain and keep your offensive power up.  Emma is very reliant on the AI to do her damage, and as a result is not the greatest defensive team hero, although her abilities are all very potent.

Modern Psylocke (Infiltrator):
ISO-8:  8 Steady
Your setup for Psylocke is Mental Coordination first turn, then follow up with a Kinetic Shield on either the Agent or Emma if you still have the Psionic Shadow buff, and then follow up with Telekinetic Katana, or Psychic Knives if you need to break through a target that is protecting, or you already had Weak Mind on someone due to Coordinated Attack.

The real benefit to Psylocke here is that the Weak Mind caused by her Telekinetic Katana causes Mental Anguish to do 75% of a character's base health, so you will often want to put Weak Mind on characters you targeted with Emma, or set up to psychic tap if Emma follows Psylocke in the turn order.

Bruiser Agent
ISO-8:  8 Steady
Hoarfrost Mace
Sinister Sceptre
Scroll of Angolob
Shepherd's Staff

What you typically want to do with this build is use Staff at the earliest opportunity, use Angolob to strip buffs, then protect for two astral projection turns by using Sinister Sceptre.  That should give sufficient time for your team to get set up, and the extra healing from the Staff will help make up for the fact that your team has no regeneration of any kind.

Budget Setup:
Custom Posessed Pistol / Custom Goblin Glider
Sudden Support
Power of Four
Damage Amplifier

This Agent wants to kill people, plain and simple.  Attack, and hit extra hard, with your quick action supporting items to allow you to make huge hits, and will proc additional coordinated attacks.  Use Power of Four when you have near full Stamina thanks to Emma so that you can use four Pistol shots to take down a pesky target before you burn out in a blaze of glory.

Summary

Strengths

This team is very good at taking out teams that vastly outclass you in armory and stats, since it is based on Mental Anguish which scales with opponent HP. Additionally, it has a strong "get lucky" factor when you consider both Emma's chance to take very little damage, and coordinated attack proccing multiple times to randomly explode key targets.  That makes for a very efficient team that can roll the dice and win unwinnable fights.

Counters

Ironically, other Psylocke teams are very difficult for this team to beat, and Rescue teams can be a nightmare for Emma due to Rescue purging Mental Anguish.  Also, if you're facing this team, don't forget that refreshing removes Mental Anguish which can take a lot of the edge off this team's ability to damage you.

Rating

Offense:  A+

Defense:  C