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Holding frontline pressure and forcing enemies to respect a durable brawl window when your team is ready to follow.
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Emma Frost
For Emma Frost, war is the purest form of art. With her formidable telepathic abilities, she intricately weaves a deadly mental web that ensnares her foes, while her indestructible diamond form lets her lead her teammates fearlessly into the fray. Forever elegant and composed, Emma reigns as the one true queen of the battlefield!
- 01 StartSource profile first
- 02 CheckVanguard job check
- 03 LeaveOne ranked habit
Queue briefing
Decide how Emma Frost fits before hero select gets loud
2Swap when
The pressure pattern repeats
Swap or reset earlier if enemies consistently kite your brawl window and punish you after defensive tools are gone.
3Practice first
Queue with one habit
Force one enemy response, track your defensive form, and call the reset before the enemy burns through the brawl window.
Pocket Rivals ranked read
How Emma Frost should create ranked value
Emma Frost: Anchor space first, then spend cooldowns to start or stop a fight when your team can follow.
Editorial note: this section is Pocket Rivals advice for everyday ranked lobbies. Use the official source panel for canonical ability text, then use this ranked read to decide what to practice next.
First job
Pair with a second Vanguard or a durable Duelist who can hold space when you reset.
Practice next
- 1Use shield, mitigation, or control to claim space before chasing eliminations.
- 2Save one defensive cooldown for leaving the fight.
- 3Commit only after your damage players are looking at the same target.
Avoid
Do not spend every cooldown crossing empty space. Arrive with at least one tool left.
Vanguard role hubUse space in steps, check support sightlines, and reset before the fight collapses.Hero pool guideDecide whether Emma Frost is your comfort pick, safe swap, or role backup.
Hero-specific editorial
Ranked module for Emma Frost
Best for
Holding frontline pressure and forcing enemies to respect a durable brawl window when your team is ready to follow.
Struggles into
Sustained brawl damage, ranged cooldown testing, and speed or control resets that waste her commit.
First swap trigger
Swap or reset earlier if enemies consistently kite your brawl window and punish you after defensive tools are gone.
everyday ranked mistake
Entering the fight like durability replaces pathing, then losing form or cooldown value before teammates arrive.
Practice drill
Force one enemy response, track your defensive form, and call the reset before the enemy burns through the brawl window.
Review basis
Based on Pocket Rivals counter notes using Wolverine sustained brawl damage, Punisher ranged pressure, and Mantis speed or control into Emma Frost.
Official details
Base stats and hero story
Official article date: 2025/04/08
- Health
- 600
- Movement Speed
- 6m/s
Emma Frost is a wealthy socialite, a fashion icon, and a powerful telepath. Though she once used her Mutant abilities to influence others for her own personal gain, she now devotes her talents to Charles Xavier's dream of coexistence between Mutants and mankind.
After Krakoa was transported to the year 2099 through a temporal storm, Emma and her Hellfire Trading Company defended the island nation against multiple hostile corporations. She then convinced the Quiet Council to approve a new Hellfire Gala to chart her people's future in this new timeline.
Skills
Abilities and details
Normal Attack
TELEPATHIC PULSE
- Casting
- Channeled
- Ammo
- 70
- Damage
- Damage increases with energy: 0 - 70/s, 99 - 110/s, full energy - 140/s
- Attack Range
- 18m
- Ammo Consumption
- 10/s
- Special Effect
- Energy gain: Hero hit: 12/s; Sentience hit: 18/s; Common summons hit: 5/s; Shield hit: 6/s. Falloff begins 4s after not hitting an enemy, at a rate of 30/s
Fire a psionic beam to deal damage; the longer the beam hits, the higher the damage
Ability
MIND'S AEGIS
- Casting
- Deployable Shield
- Maximum Shield Value
- 400
- Recovery Speed
- 80/s
- Delayed Recovery After Release
- 2s
- Reposition Cooldown
- 1s
- Cooldown After Destroyed
- 4s
Create a levitating barrier at the designated location
Ability
PSYCHIC SPEAR
- Casting
- Single-cast delayed projectile
- Projectile Speed
- 80m/s
- Maximum Distance
- 24m
- Sentience Health
- Target's 25% Current Health
- Damage
- Deal 5 damage per direct hit. When the sentience shatters, it deals damage to the target, which is equal to 25% of the target's maximum health
- Special Effect
- When the distance between the target and its sentience is more than 15m, their linkage can be broken
Seize control of an enemy's sentience-damage dealt to the sentience cascades to the physical form and can be pierced by Telepathic Pulse. When the sentience shatters, it unleashes extra damage on its owner
Ability
DIAMOND FORM
- Casting
- Switch Form
- Duration
- 8s
- Special Effect
- 25% Damage Reduction in Diamond form
- Cooldown
- 15s
Activate Diamond Form to transform your attack style while gaining Damage Reduction and becoming Unstoppable
Normal Attack
FACETED FURY
- Casting
- Single-cast Spell Field
- Damage
- First & second hit: 50; third hit: 70; fourth hit: 80
- Attack Range
- 4m
In Diamond Form, deliver a crushing double-fisted strike to enemies
Ability
CRYSTAL KICK
- Casting
- Single-cast Spell Field
- Hit Range
- 5m
- Damage
- Hit damage: 40; damage increases to 90 when the target is knocked into walls
- Cooldown
- 2s
- Special Effect
- Maximum knockback distance: 10m
In Diamond Form, unleash a flying kick forward and knock back enemies; extra damage is dealt if they're propelled into a wall
Ability
CARBON CRUSH
- Casting
- Dash Based Control
- Damage
- 30
- Maximum Distance
- 7m
- Cooldown
- 6s
- Special Effect
- Control effect duration: 1.6s
In Diamond Form, lunge forward to grab an enemy, then execute a back slam to inflict damage
Ability
PSIONIC SEDUCTION
- Casting
- Large-ranged Persistent Spell Field
- Duration
- 6s
- Range
- Cone shape spell field, angle range: 80°, length: 30m
- Damage
- Basic damage 80/s; distance falloff: falloff begins at 10m, decreasing to 70% at 30m; angle falloff: falloff begins at 7° from the center of view, decreasing to 80% at 20°
- Energy Cost
- 3100
- Special Effect
- When exposed to the ability, enemies accumulate 10 stacks per second, and the stacks decrease by 10 stacks per second when they leave the exposure. At 15 stacks, a control effect is triggered. Each enemy can only be controlled once per ultimate activation. Gain 25% Damage Reduction during the ability.
Project a forward psychic assault that stuns foes and prevents them from unleashing their Ultimate Abilities; if the effect lingers, it gradually commandeers their mind, forcing them to move toward Emma Frost
Ability
ICED OUT DIAMOND
- Summons' Health
- 250
- Spell Field Range
- A fan-shaped spell field with a radius of 12m, a height of 3m, and an angle of 60°
- Spell Field Damage
- 60
- Slow Rate
- 45%
- Slow Duration
- 3s
- Cooldown
- 20s
Luna Snow grants Winter's Chill to Iron Fist and Emma Frost. When Iron Fist activates Harmony Recovery, he can heal nearby allies with Lunar Chi. Emma Frost can project ice energy forward, dealing damage and slowing enemies. She can also enhance her diamond form, condensing frost into an Absolute Zero Diamond barrier that blocks enemy attacks and movement
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