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[4.3] Beast (Henry "Hank" McCoy)
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A-power: PinBall/Cannon Ball/Legend Ball--Beast rolls into a ball and 
careens through the area at incredible speed, dishing out lots of physical 
damage

B-power: Propeller Kick/Propeller Lash/Legend Propeller--Beast spins 
around, kicking any enemies in range and causing physical damage

X-power: Beastial Feats/Beastial Instinct/Beastial Soul--Beast mentally 
focuses his mind and body to react to anything; this delivers increasing 
physical damage resistance, Agility boosts and increased jumping range at 
higher levels

Y-power: Orbital Bombardment--calls a powerful laser down from an orbiting 
satellite to smite enemies

Skills:
 - Acrobatics: Increases Agility and allows a double-jump
 - Critical Strike: Increases chance of a critical hit for a melee attack
 - Grappling: Increases Strike and reflects damage from punches and kicks
 - Might: Increases lifting strength and damage of melee attacks.
 - Mutant Mastery: Increases maximum mutant energy
 - Toughness: Increases maximum health

When acquired: You meet Beast during your first interlude in X-Mansion.

Recommended AI level: Aggressive
Recommended AI power: Propeller Kick

Beast is, probably, the purest melee fighter among the X-Men. As such, he 
needs the least amount of Focus of any mutant; you can get away with just 
one-fourth of your stat points placed into Focus. Put half your stat points 
into Strike and the remaining fourth split between Body and Agility--
Beastial Feats and Acrobatics will take care of Agility and damage 
reduction for you.

Pinball is pretty useless, as it is very difficult to control and often 
does more damage to the scenery than to your enemies. Propeller Kick is 
very good, but is most effective only when Beast is being mobbed. You'll 
need enough mutant energy to keep Beastial Feats up and running with the 
occasional Propeller Kick thrown in for good measure.

Otherwise, you'll mostly fight hand-to-hand with Beast. Level up Might, 
Critical Strike, Grappling, Acrobatics and Toughness to their maximum as 
soon as you can. You can ignore Pinball and Mutant Mastery. Orbital 
Bombardment is a useful Xtreme power. Max out his X-power to Beastial Soul 
3 and buy his B-power up to at least Propeller Lash 3 or 4. When coupled 
with a higher-level Cyclops and his Tactics power, Beast can really put the 
hurt on your foes.