Chosen Assassin is ridiculous

[Majere]

OK, I simply don't see what I'm supposed to be doing about the Assassin. I don't know if this is how it's supposed to work, but I ran into her almost immediately, well before I've managed to get my squad size up or get any gear of note. She appears from outside grenade range and gets shields if I miss her, then runs in a ridiculous distance, has half a soldiers HP in one blow, stealths, and moves out of spotting range again- and she's immune to Overwatch. Sure, if she's stupid enough to stop in range, as she did in the intro mission, you can get her with a grenade but 'hope the enemy is an imbecile' is not a strategy.

Am I missing something, because right now this is as much fun as lemon juice aftershave?

[The Dapper Dragon]

引用自 drake_hound：

Well let say mine is always in overwatch at the ends turn.
And my bonus is I get more damage on her after the 3rd attack.

Let say She Stinks majority with her super movement. especially in a packed and dense random huge City Blocks. But in the end well I just took the damage and wounded. and gotten her down.

It seems I am in badly need of a infirmary. cause every mission running into the Chosen is getting to be a pain.

This is what I have, and I down her all the time. She's bested my squad by turning the Lost against me, and done a good amount of damage every time she's shown up, but it's all about spacing out your targets. She'll ALWAYS try to hit and run, so if you can have people spread out enough to be able to chase her, or better yet, get in an area that has blockable exits, it makes it a lot more managable.

[Wintermist]

Hunker down, and she might not see where everyone is, so she moves to a location where you can shoot her. That's how I got it done.

[Harukage]

Assassin is predictable as all other chosen. She can be annoying when she jumps on higher stores runing away when buildings are nearby. so play around it and draw her on open space and eventuly she will be easy to track. And none of the Chosen is tough enough to survive a couple shotgun shots in a face.
Also OP, as it sounds yours has the trait that gives her shields when you miss? Then stop wasting time with overwatch. Like realy.

[Tenshin51]

引用自 ΞxiLΞ：

On the 1st meeting, are you even supposed to be able to kill her completely?
I got her life down after some grenades and reaper sniper, then she escapes, then right at the end kidnapps the skirmisher dude right as we evac.
I thought it was all scripted to be that way?

Same thing happen to me, maybe this mission is a tutorial.

I really thought chosen's weakness and strength will be randomized. Luckily I bring 2 grenadier then beat a crapp of her.

[Zara]

I envy people who can grenade the Assassin...sadly mine is immune to explosives, as well as overwatch, so I get to take a lot of injuries taking her down, at least until I get better weapons/skills.

[Furaxis]

I never realized their weakness were random. My assassin was immune to explosives and took extra damage from high ground... my snipers destroyed her... she's a chump in my game

[Tiasmoon]

Hmm on second thought I think only one of the Chosen's strengths is fixed. In case of the Assassin shes always immune to Overwatch? I've seen immune to melee, immune to explosive, reactionfire all as other possible strengths.

[Sovereigndrake]

After a few forced evacs and some time on the run...
Ranger with Talon rounds, Laser sight, Shard Gun, Run and Gun, Hunter's Instinct. Bonded to somone.

Assassin has bewildered so I justt got everyone to take shots. Ran the ranger up beside her shoot her for like 20dmg. Use Teamwork to get a second shot right away. Easy 40+ damage.

The first time i actually defeated her was very nearly a botched mission, ended up having to evac my medic (via sniper) who was bleeding out and she had knocked the other guy unconscious. Luckily there were only sectoids left so my ranger made short work of it.
She was immune to explosives, overwatch, and reduced everyone's will whenever she attacked.

[PA]

in the first few encounters this ♥♥♥♥♥ surely got me well, after I have the battle scaner and scan ability, she becomes a real ♥♥♥♥♥ got shot all over the face and boom! boom!
in the first mission you can line up your soldiers to lure the ♥♥♥♥♥ to use her ability then the next round she will stay there and not invisible,then you got a one shot chance,any crit or shot+nad can shut her up.

[Krobon]

Well when you get a little further you'll find that your reaper has an ability that if someone goes out of stealth, they are revealed for the rest of the battle, once I had that, the assassin was easy.

[no0ne]

引用自 Majere：

引用自 phillip_lynx：

What are their disadvantages? Play on these.

She takes extra damage from grenades, and from Skirmishers. My Skirmisher has the skill to throw a grenade without ending his turn to support this.

It makes no difference, because she moves so far (and in stealth) she only ends up in grenade range if she's stupid. That's the problem.

Build nad use scanners. Use scanning protocol by Spec.

[Sniper33]

In the same boat. I have the high ground. She crosses the map up the ladder and dazed the VIP. ran off and vanished. next round jumps back up and blinds the whole group. I grenade her...Nope she is shielded. I fire, miss & miss again. She guts one squadie...bleeding out. put out claymore. She wont go near it. put myself between where i saw her run off to and the claymore...She appears behind me and finishes off the VIP. Mission over. WTF I just started. my squad has nothing. They miss 90% of the time. Overwatch does nothing. The Assassin stikes every time no misses. I 'm shelving this game until they mod the hell out of it. last $40 for an add on.

[Bjornn "Boxy" Steeleye]

ya mine is immuse to overwatch and melee, but she takes +3 damage from each hit after the first in the same round and weak to reapers. she can be a pain but what i have noticed is that if you hunker down she wont do much damage at all and try to keep someone with high movement (like the reaper) in your squad to chase her down and pick her off

[Tiasmoon]

引用自 Sniper33：

In the same boat. I have the high ground. She crosses the map up the ladder and dazed the VIP. ran off and vanished. next round jumps back up and blinds the whole group. I grenade her...Nope she is shielded. I fire, miss & miss again. She guts one squadie...bleeding out. put out claymore. She wont go near it. put myself between where i saw her run off to and the claymore...She appears behind me and finishes off the VIP. Mission over. WTF I just started. my squad has nothing. They miss 90% of the time. Overwatch does nothing. The Assassin stikes every time no misses. I 'm shelving this game until they mod the hell out of it. last $40 for an add on.

You can always lower the difficulty your playing on tho. They are ment to be hard opponents.

If she has a shield I would advise reading her strengths and weaknesses and responding accordingly.

[Dead2Rights]

I feel like I got pretty lucky on this because she had vulnerability to melee damage on mine. That just means that I run a Ranger up into her face to slice her open.

But seriously - I am not a fan of the stealth on a boss. At least she isn't total 1 hit killing my guys, I'd rage if that was the case.