Jade/Assassin

Health: 1440
Toughness: 1500
Recovery: 1320
Power Gen: 100%

## Strategy

**Assassin Jade** is an amazing addition to any team, especially on defense. Her ability to evade is even stronger than Jason Voorhees/Nightmare as she can not only dodge special attacks but also combo enders, making her a bigger threat to tempted foes. Players can avoid the risk by playing cautiously, intentionally missing combo enders and building up enough power for an X-Ray or Fatal Blow Attack, which she can't evade. After evasion, she will launch an unblockable counterattack that cripples the current opponent, temporarily stalling them from using specials. Note that it does not disable X-Ray attacks, which she's still susceptible to. She can still evade while frozen. Her signature equipment, the Bojutsu Staff, works with her passive and allows her to gain a permanent and stackable attack boost after an enemy attack misses, which makes Jade as deadly on offense as she is on defense.

Unlike Jason Voorhees/Relentless, who provides offensive support, Jade instead offers utility support, by reducing the tag cooldown for faster tagging. This makes her great with characters that have tag attacks or effects and also with Jade herself, who possesses both a tag-in and tag-out attack. Note that her tag-out attack *cannot* KO the enemy.

As tag cooldown is reduced, she and her team can greatly benefit from the talent "Spec Ops Tactics", which allow teammates who tag in gain increased power generation, allowing Jade and her teammates to gain power faster for a quick special attack.

After Update 2.0 however, Jade is no longer able to reduce tag cooldown. Instead, she is able to share her evasion with other Assassin teammates, making them a bigger hassle to deal with. Kitana/Assassin and Skarlet/Assassin cannot counterattack themselves however, only coming back in after evading. Jade's counterattack can also be upgraded to deal really heavy damage, encouraging players to be more cautious when facing against her.

## Interactions

Please note that battles are highly situational: this section only mentions cards that have mechanics that, for any reason, are particularly effective with/against, or particularly ineffective against **Jade**. Having a card that "counters" **Jade** does not mean it is always a good choice.

### Good with

* Shadow Sash: This Faction Wars equipment is perfect Assassin Jade equipment. It inflicts Blind at the start of the match, which really helps Assassin Jade when she has her Bojutsu Staff, as every missed attack from her opponents boosts her attack damage. While equipped with the Shadow Sash, she also takes less damage from X-Rays and Special Attacks that she can't evade by 20%, as well as a 40% unblockable chance reduction.
* Scorpion/Ninjutsu, Sub-Zero/Cryomancer, Kotal Kahn/Sun God & Reptile/Nimble: Jade gains 30% Attack from Scorpion or Kotal Kahn and 30% Health from Sub-Zero or Reptile.
* Sonya Blade/Kold War: Sonya's ice armor can help Assassin Jade against the opponents as they will try to do special attacks instead of X-Rays first to break their icy shields. Jade benefits well with this as she can evade and still keep the icy shield and deal even more damage against the opponent with her Bojutsu Staff. Kold War Sonya's Passive has been changed so Jade might not work as well teaming up with her now.
* Jason Voorhees/Nightmare: Both of these characters can evade special attacks and can be a very big nuisance against opponents.
* Kitana/Assassin: Jade's fellow Assassin companion. Kitana generates more power for Jade and Jade shares her evasion chances with Kitana.
* Skarlet/Assassin: Jade’s other fellow Assassin companion. Skarlet bleeds and power drains the opponent at the start of a match and shares Lethal Blow Chances with Jade against opponents with less than 50% health and Jade shares her evasion chances with Skarlet.
* Kitana/Day of the Dead: Because Jade is an Outworld Character, she can regenerate health whenever opponents or teammates are dead or resurrected thanks to Kitana.

### Good against

* Circle of Shadow Characters.
* Jacqui Briggs/Prime, Kung Jin/Marksman, Scorpion/Hanzo Hasashi, Raiden/MK11, Shinnok/Vengeful, Goro/Tigrar Fury, Baraka/Scourge, Kano/Black Dragon, Tanya/Pyromancer & Fujin/MK11: She would avoid their Combo Enders, nullifying their damage and deadly effects.
* Erron Black/Gunslinger, Jax Briggs/Heavy Weapons, Shinnok/Vengeful, Fujin/MK11, Shang Tsung/MK11, Liu Kang/Klassic & Sub-Zero/Klassic: She can evade their deadly Special 2 attacks.

### Countered by

* Brutalities.
* Day of the Dead Characters.
* X-Ray or Fatal Blow Attacks: Jade cannot evade them.
* Characters who can stun like Johnny Cage/Stunt Double or Liu Kang/Circle of Shadow as Jade cannot evade while she is stunned either.
* Characters who can inflict damage-over-time effect without special attacks such as Kitana/Assassin, Scorpion/MK11 and Reptile/Klassic.
* Bo’ Rai Cho/Dragon Breath: He deals additional damage to tagged out enemy cards with his crit attacks, that can damage Jade with critical specials.
* Cassie Cage/Undercover, Kitana/Ronin, Kenshi/Ronin, Combat Shotgun, Katana & Champion's Nunchaku: All of these characters and the equipment pieces deal more damage versus Outworld and Martial Artist cards, which include Jade. Especially, Kitana and Kenshi deal +30% for each Ronin card teamed with them. Kitana has critical chance and together can lower Jade’s health faster with just basic attacks.
* Jacqui Briggs/Kosplay: Jacqui's Rain Kosplay enables Jacqui to gains Dispel for SP1 and +50% Basic Damage against Outworld characters. Jacqui's Subzero Kosplay allows Jacqui to gains Frostbite for SP1 and Combo Ender and +50% Critical Damage against Outworld characters. And lastly, Jacqui's Reptile Kosplay allows Jacqui to gains Blind and Grapple for SP2 and Poison for Combo Ender and Constant Poison Aura against Martial Arts characters. Jade counts as both Outworld and Martial Arts and hence is countered by Jacqui Briggs' Kosplays.
* Kano/Klassic: If Jade blocks attacks against Kano, she will get stunned and vulnerable to any of his attacks.
* Kano/Commando: Kano is immune to Jade's Blind Attacks.
* Kabal/Black Dragon: Jade cannot evade Special Attacks or Combo Enders from Kabal or his Black Dragon teammates, rendering her Passive useless. Plus, if Jade knocks out a Black Dragon teammate, she is left vulnerable to Kabal’s Fatal Blow.
* Liu Kang/MK11: While tagged in, Liu Kang and his MK11 teammates gain undodgeable sneak attacks and immunity to Blind for 15 seconds rendering her Passive useless for the tag’s duration.
* Scorpion/Klassic: If she's tagged out, Scorpion would still be able to pull her in and deal bleed damage.
* Tanya/Treacherous: Despite her allowing Jade to evade, when Tanya uses Special 2, she moves so far back that Jade cannot damage or cripple her. Plus, Tanya can destroy Jade’s Bojutsu Staff, rendering Jade even less of a threat.

## Abilities

Here are Jade's abilities.

Assassins do 10% more damage versus Circle of Shadow.
 Staff Whack
 Spinning Staff
 Staff Buster

## Support Cards/Equipment

Here are Jade's support and equipment cards.

## Stats

*These stats are the final damage, health, toughness and recovery at level 50, per Fusion rank, with ALL support cards, and without any equipment.* With Update 1.18, Fusion 8, 9, and 10 have been added. The Fusion 10 stats are for ***level 60 characters***.

Prior to Update 2.0, these are her original stats as a Gold Character.

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## Trivia

* Prior to Update 2.0, her passive was **Vanishing Winds**: Jade has the chance to dodge any Special Attack or Combo Ender, after which, she retaliates with an unblockable, crippling attack. Jade's teammates can tag-in at a much faster rate.
* Prior to Update 2.0, she costed 421 Souls.
* Her evade effect is similar like Batman/Dawn of Justice from Injustice Mobile, but the difference is when Assassin Jade evades she retaliate and cripples the opponent, when DOJ Batman evades he retaliate and stuns the opponent.