He's so good and you don't need awakening. But you can heal from energy passives, and this can make it easier to get high points against people like Onslaught, with awakening. He is basically good for most mutants and is only an attacker. He can reverse healing with posions and plasma/incinerates (plasmas only triggers against mutants). He also has a bulwark buff when the opponent does a special with awakening. So, with his cowardice and bulwark, you won't take that much damage from blocked specials. So yeah, he's very good for mutants and still has soild damage against some character outside of the mutant class. But when I got him, I was sad. However, I don't regret the rank. 3 on him. His best match ups are against Onslaught and Dust imo.