Psylocke

Duelist X-Men

Duelist · 250 HP · First appeared 1976 · Mutant

Origin

Betsy Braddock first appeared in Captain Britain #8 in December 1976, created by Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe. She started as Captain Britain's twin sister and a supporting character in his solo book before being recast as a telepathic X-Man in the mid-1980s.

Comic history

Psylocke went through one of the most dramatic identity changes in comics history when, in the 1989 Acts of Vengeance event, her consciousness was placed into the body of a Japanese assassin named Kwannon. That body — and the resulting purple-haired psionic-blade visual — became the dominant Psylocke design for thirty years before recent comics restored Betsy to her original body and made Kwannon a separate character. The Marvel Rivals design uses the Kwannon-body purple-haired silhouette that most readers associate with the name.

Psylocke in Marvel Rivals

Psylocke is a 250 HP Duelist who plays as a melee assassin with a ranged option. Psi-Blade Dash is the gap-closer. Psychic Stealth is the disengage. Wing Shurikens are the ranged poke for when she cannot commit to a flank. She is one of the more positionally demanding Duelists; she has burst, but her windows are short.

Abilities

Psionic Crossbow is the ranged opener. Wing Shurikens is the secondary ranged. Psi-Blade Dash is the closer. Psychic Stealth is the escape. Dance of the Butterfly, her ultimate, is a multi-target slash that chains across enemies in range.

Spotting Psylocke in Rivaldle

The purple hair is the strongest single tell in the roster — only Psylocke has Purple in her hair color array. That makes the hair color cell in Classic Mode a one-guess answer for Psylocke. In Pixelation Mode the dark-purple-with-pink-highlights palette is similarly distinctive. In Emoji Mode the butterfly is a nod to her ult.

Try the puzzle

Psylocke is a possible answer in every Rivaldle mode. The fastest way to spot them is usually a combination of two columns in Classic Mode plus a quick read of the silhouette or pixelation. Once you get a feel for the database fingerprints — the unique species cell, the unique origin year, the unique HP value — most heroes can be solved in two or three guesses.

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