Advantages

Attacks are varied, powerful, and inflict strong buffs and debuffs.

Disadvantages

No area attacks.

Low stamina to start with.

In the comics and the movies, you either love the “Merc with a Mouth” or you find him irritating. The same thing applies in the game. Deadpool frequently comments on gameplay itself (apparently he is aware he is in a game, and isn’t shy about expressing his opinion), surfs the Internet during battle, and even gets “banned from PVP.” As a game hero, he is indispensable for serious players. He is considered one of the best Scrappers in the game.

Deadpool regenerates health during the game, so he is difficult to kill. Moreover, he has a chance to survive presumably fatal attacks with a 1% health recovery, giving him a chance to regenerate (and to be healed). That makes him a tough out both in regular gameplay and in PVP.

Offensively, he has a lot to choose from. His first attack, Sharp Pointy Things, gives him the OP buff, which works in concert with his later attacks. It also ignores the opponent’s defensive capabilities. Bang Bang Bang! is a ranged gun attack, firing a full clip of 25 shots at the opponent. It doles out moderate damage, but more against opponents with protective buffs such as Strengthened or Agile. If Deadpool has his OP buff in place, he inflicts Buff Blocker on the opponent, removing all of his buffs and preventing him from applying new ones. This attack also gives Deadpool the Imba buff. The next attack, No Holds Barred, is a single-target attack that depicts Deadpool whacking the hapless opponent with the game’s status bar. While the visual is ridiculous, the attack itself is fierce, hanging heavy damage on the target and, if Deadpool is Imba, giving the opponent an array of nasty debuffs such as Weakened and Dizzy. It also removes debuffs from Deadpool. Finally, it gives him the Totally Broken buff. His last attack, Happy to See You, is the big payoff. If Deadpool is OP, it gains Stealthy and True Strike, inflicting more damage to an already-damaging attack. If he is Imba, the attack gains damage and ignores defense. If he is Totally Broken, he gains a number of Exploit buffs that inflict massive damage.

Sometimes, for no apparent reason, Deadpool gains the Level 16 Ranger buff. No one knows quite what it means, but if he has it when he launches Happy to See You, he becomes Super Human, and his stats increase dramatically for attack and defense. His Laptop passive lets him randomly inflict opponents with several debuffs, including Nerfed (decreases all stats) and Buggy (forcing the opponent to Recharge for his next action). He can also give Pretty Cool Guy to anyone, opponent or teammate; in game terms, it does nothing and is more of a joke than anything else.

Perhaps his only real limitation is that all of his attacks are single-target (as is often the case with Scrappers). Stamina and Evasion are issues with him, and need to be addressed with ISO chips.

PVP: Deadpool often appears in PVP. When you see him as an opponent, your best best is to knock him out as soon as possible, before he can work up to obliterating one of yours with his later attacks. If you choose to run him, you should pick a single opponent – the agent or an Infiltrator – and lower the boom on him. His ability to regenerate and even resurrect from a knockout blow makes him a formidable PVP asset.

Alternate Uniforms: No alternate uniforms currently exist for Deadpool. It is possible he may get one in the future, though Deadpool, as part of the X-Men, appears in movies that are not owned and distributed by Disney, so any future X-Men movies (including a possible one for Deadpool himself) won’t result in any tie-in efforts by Playdom, which is where many alts come from.

Strategy Suggestions

Deadpool should move through his four attacks in order, from first to last, whenever possible. If he attacks an Infiltrator, his follow-up, Sharp Pointy Things, keeps his OP buff in place, making it possible to keep that debuff in place all the way to Happy to See You. The last attack takes four rounds to build up to, but when Deadpool finally unleashes it, it almost always takes out the opponent. He doesn’t have to keep attacking the same opponent, naturally. The agent can use gear or supplies such as Quantum Jumper or Chrono Boost to give Deadpool extra turns, allowing him to build up to a devastating, fully buffed Happy to See You by the second or third round – if he doesn’t run out of Stamina first.

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