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[4.17] Wolverine (Logan)
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A-power: Brutal Slash/Eviscerate/Legend Slash--Wolverine's staple power, a 
powerful strike with his extended claws

B-power: Claw Flurry/Claw Frenzy/Legend Frenzy--multiple slashing attacks 
against all enemies in a line in front of Wolverine

X-power: Feral Rage/Berserker Rage/Unstoppable Rage--adds +5 to Wolverine's 
Agility and increases movement speed by 30%, Berserker Rage also increases 
Strike by +5 and Unstoppable Rage also increases Body by +5

Y-power: Savage Rampage--huge slashing attacks against all nearby enemies

Skills:
 - Critical Strike: Increases chance of a critical hit for a melee attack
 - Expertise: Increases Strike and Agility stats
 - Healing Factor: Regenerates health and reduces the effect of pain
 - Mutant Mastery: Increases maximum mutant energy
 - Sharpness: Adds damage and destruction to all claw attacks
 - Toughness: Increases maximum health

When acquired: You start the game with Everyone's Favorite X-Man(tm).

Recommended AI level: Aggressive
Recommended AI power: Brutal Slash

Wolverine is very popular, and is your starting character. In the early 
going, you will find him to be very useful because of his Healing Factor--
he can regenerate health. As the game progresses, you may find yourself 
using Wolverine less and less. Once you have the ability to carry a lot of 
health packs and you have Tissue Generators in your inventory, Logan is 
just not as appealing.

Wolverine's primary mutant attack should be the Brutal Slash tree. It's a 
powerful attack, especially combined with Sharpness, and is much faster 
than the major attacks of Rogue, Psylocke and Colossus. Claw Flurry allows 
Wolverine to make multiple, fast slashing attacks. It is great for getting 
out of a crowd, and can also hit combos well. While not, overall, as good 
as Brutal Slash, it may be worth investing a few points to see if it gives 
you more combos than Slash. If so, you would want to max Flurry rather than 
Slash.

It's questionable whether the Rage buffing power is useful. You can, at 
high levels, get +5 to three of your stats; but, you can also get +5 to two 
of those stats by buying levels of Expertise. The difference is Expertise 
is permanent. Rage only lasts, at most, 36 seconds and uses a huge amount 
of energy.

Since Wolverine probably won't have a lot of energy, you should concentrate 
on maxing out the Brutal Slash power, Critical Strike, Expertise, Healing 
Factor and Sharpness. Then, just use Wolverine in a very up-close and 
personal way. Split your stat points fairly evenly between all four stats 
until you decide how much you want to use Brutal Slash. If you like to use 
if frequently, concentrate more points on Focus, followed by Strike. If you 
would rather just use Queensbury Rules, let Focus lag and put more points 
into Strike, then Agility and Body.

Wolverine is also the central figure is what is known as the "Fastball 
Special". Any character with at least one level of Might (Beast, Colossus 
or Rogue) can pick Wolverine up and throw him, like a dart, at an enemy. 
This is a quite useless feature of the game, but can be fun to play with 
once in a while. Note: despite rumors to the contrary, only Wolverine can 
be thrown as a Fastball Special and only the three X-Men with normal Might 
can throw him. Emma's Shell Might and Alison's Magma Might do not work.