Renown0 · 26
I think we all know the drill when we see Leadership X-23 at this point: Find and play Honey Badger with a bunch of upgrades, get attack or thwart bonuses as appropriate for your situation, and watch the happiness drain from the villain's eyes.
This is just my updated take on the deck now that Age of Apocalypse has given us Sidekick, Side-by-Side, and Suit Up (plus some fixes, given my former misunderstandings about the game).
Suit Up in particular has me interested, because we can grab Honey Badger and Danger Room Training, which is obviously a generally very good combo. But the real kicker here is that it makes Game Time significantly more likely to be usable. A ready + heal already exists with Side-by-Side, and is arguably better because it readies both of you and subsequently comes with an extra fuckload of attack/thwart, but it does cost 2, while Game Time is free, meaning you could much more easily play multiple copies, possibly even on the same turn as a Side-by-Side. I'm not going to bother showing you the math. The point is that if you've got all this stuff out, you've already won.
Edits/Thoughts: Removed Lead from the Front to add another Suit Up and Game Time. The combo is shockingly consistent. I am contemplating swapping X-Gene for that +2 ally HP upgrade whose name escapes me, but I think the free Claw Masterys and Regenerative Longevitys are more useful, since it's inevitable that Honey Badger will leave play sometimes (I can always rely on a stray Self-Isolation to ruin my whole career), and she's already got HP buffs and healing available.