User:K8r2/Tenno guide to Ash

Here we got Ash, the ninja rogue!

Stats summary: very high health, the rest is average.

Ash, besides its inbred style (choose noble animation, please) has the capacity to adapt, owing to his skills, to every playstyle, both stealth and massacre, with his tankyness a bit above average. Like every frame, he's got 4 skills: Using Ash
 * 1)  Shuriken. Like most n° 1 skills, it shouldn't hold surprises, but in return it is cheap. Ash shows off his Oriental flavor and throws some shurikens with perfect aim (so much you can even miss the enemy purposedly, they will hit the mark). They also hit quite hard, but not as much to rely on them. The Augment Seeking shuriken reduces enemy armor(affecteed by strength), making this a good utility on high levels.
 * 2) Smoke Screen. Being invisible, other than allowing to overhear conversations, multiplies the damage of your melee attacks by four, and of course prevents enemies to track you (even the nast antitheft corpus system) unless you shoulder them. In short, a reduced version of the Loki's ability, with this one that lasts longer and can be activated in air (because it seems Ash throws a smoke bag on the ground to get invisible). The augment Smoke Shadow provides invisibility for the team mates, if they can't by themselves.
 * 3) Teleport. Unreal ability that allows you to teleport towards a target (enemy, mate, companion, Saryn's Molt, Loki's Decoy...): just aim and go. Is Ash full of surprises, isn't him? Actually he isn't the only one who cans, but his skill doesn't cost much, and, because Ash doesn't bother getting from behind, he allows you, if you press melee immediately afterwards, to perform a painful finisher.
 * 4) Blade Storm. Your favorite is surrounded by enemies. His rifle, an orokin era relic, is jammed, despite the 50-year warranty now expired. What to do? Call friends! Aim at an enemy, and unleash hell. Watch the show of Ash and His Clones and, by the time they have finished, no one wil stay alive... What is left to say? Ash will probably feel better when he's done.

The skills you will want to consider are 4, 2 and 1. Don't get around giggling because of you high hp, because of average armor. Following the frame's style, a furtive approach is reccomended, using Smoke screen often in open field, but keeping energy for your main ability, Bladestorm, your ace in the hole, and using the cheap Shuriken when you feel to.

Modding Ash

If you miss Loki or want to resemble his older brother, you may want maxed duration, specially when you are playing solo. But is better to look for a hint of range and strength to use the 4th ability at its best. In both situations, Ash's favorite mods are efficiency mods (Streamline, fleeting expertise), flow and rage, to get back a bit of energy in the hardest situations and use 4.

Nothing more to say, Ash never disappoints.