Alpha (Hero)

Alpha is a playable Hero Character in The Walking Dead: No Man's Land. Alpha is unlocked only through acquiring 500 of her specific Hero tokens. When unlocked, she starts at 4 stars.
She is of the Hunter class and has the Hero Leader trait of Cold-Blooded. He also has Ruthless, Lucky, Marksman and Critical Aim.
==Leader Trait — Cold-Blooded==
Alpha’s attacks are {0}% less likely to result in Body Shots and are {1}% more likely to be Critical Hits. If an attack results in a Body Shot, Alpha may move for half an action point after attacking. As a leader, Assaults, Hunters, and Shooters gain these bonuses.
Level	Body Shot Reduction	+ Critical Chance
1 	12% 	12%
2 	14% 	14%
3 	16% 	16%
4 	18% 	18%
5 	20% 	20%
6 	22% 	22%
7 	24% 	24%
8 	26% 	26%
9 	28% 	28%
10 	30% 	30%
== How to use Alpha ==
Alpha has long been regarded as a pretty bad hero, due to the unpredictability of her LT. 
Alpha's LT revolves her ability to negate body shots. All hits in the game will automatically be bodyshots when the ASL is +5, and a lot of traits and effects in the game depend on if a hit is a body shot or not. For example cripple requires a body shot, while ensnare requires that it's not a body shot. Alpha's LT makes this outcome unpredictable, and with her in lead you can't be sure to cripple high level walkers.
Alpha's "less likely to be bodyshots" is basically the same as Piercing, and stacks with it. This means that with a gold Piercing weapon (40% body shot reduction), you have up to 70% chance of a hit not being a body shot (not that this is not affected by lucky). Note that her LT has no impact on melee survivors. 
If the shot is not a bodyshot, it will have an increased chance of being a critical hit. Critical Chance is boosted by Lucky.
All this means that Alpha benefits of weapons and traits that benefit of critical hits, so she should be badged offensively with 3 Damage & 3 Critical Damage badges, and unlike many other ranged Heroes, she should have a weapon with gold Piercing, like the regular Wrecker Shotgun. As traits she is perfectly fine with her default traits Critical Aim, Marksman, Ruthless and Lucky. You could argue that Lucky should be rerolled to Sure Shot to further improve the chances of a critical hit, but it's definitely not a high priority reroll to do.
Currently Alpha is mostly used in Last Stand as a team member, especially if there is a Hero available that can recharge her, like Connie, Princess or Guardian Carol. This will allow her to get charged often, allowing her to push and severely damage walkers with the Wrecker Shotgun.
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