I don't know maybe it's just me but when I face a team in arena that's all Sith and then GK...my brain just doesn't like it. (I can't see why he would fight with them.)
It would be fun to face an all clone team...or an all rebel team.
I would LOVE to see some kind of bonus to encourage people to use pure squads. It would have to be a decent bonus to make people give up the DN on their Rex team. So something like +20% speed.
I think it would also encourage different teams in arena.
And i'm not saying people who wanted to couldn't run those hodge-podge teams...they totally could and some still would.
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I was saying the same a lot some time ago, the system in Places of Power event is perfect for that. If all the team members are in tune with leader's tags, the team should get High Morale (+25% bonus to all stats) if all the team is formed by characters from the same alignment (light/dark) should go neutral, no bonus, no penalty and the teams formed by characters from opposite alignments should get low morale (-25% penalty) to all stats.
They do a pretty good job of keeping all the charaters abilities close to what they should be. so why not this too.
You can't tell me that in real life,* if a team of 4 Jedi teamed up with DN that those Jedi would preform as well as a team of all Jedi. They wouldn't. They would have to constantly be careful of DN to see when he would turn on them. At least some of their attention would have to be on him taking away from their ability to focus on the fight itself.
*you know what I mean.
What they should do to increase diversity is track the most common overused combination and give penalties based on that. The more Meta cookie cutter you are the bigger the handicap. And conversely give a benefit to unique squads. Its the lack of diversity in squad makeup that makes things ho-hum.
And I don't know about you but if I worked on a team for a while and than suddenly I got a penalty just because other people started using them Id be upset. Or if I spent time farming them and then they got a penalty i'd be upset with that as well.
It wouldn't even have to be a global thing, just give it to certain characters. Like give Yoda Foresight and retribution for 1 turn any time he starts a match with 4 other Jedi.
For balance maybe generic teams are harder to balance and prevent
The problem is generic strong leader abilitys(rex) is imposible balance a random team because all the toons are good with this teams
Major eye roll. Rex lead is just decent. His cleanse/tenacity combined with multiple other cleansers is what pushed him to the top of the meta. There are MUCH harder leaders to deal with.
But not better generic leader
DN is a counter for cleanse but he good is rex team because you dont lose nothing he get the benefict of his leader
Rex is good without his leader but never meta
His lead was only really important against the Zaul lead due to them getting advantage. It's the cleanse combined with other cleansers and multiple taunts that keeps them on top. The lead is not what makes them dominate. It's just the only decent option for a leader in that team. You can run Kenobi lead too, and it works fine.
Kenobi leader is bad for mixed teams.
Rex is the only option for mixed teams and mixed teams are bad for the game
And as stated many leader abilities are faction specific meaning they are all or nothing. Put all non jedi behind QGJ is a good example. (Yes I know he still gets it)
I don't see any reason to make team composition more restrictive. And 20% speed would be a little bit much.
One compromise that could work is something like Hera leader ability, but just have a stat range, so x faction gets 5% offense for each x faction member present. But then that leader sucks in a mixed team....
Sidious and ST Han have agnostic leaderships as well, but you don't see many of those, even when Han was meta.
I dont like the idea of penalties for mixed teams but good generic leader is not fun, i want a rework for rex ability given a zeta change the all allies to galactic republic i want to see full clones or jedi clones teams
I actually ran STHan lead like a year ago when I first broke into top 20 in arena, and stayed their. It was just the best option out of a hodgepodge group of meta toons.
for example i run sith/empire. i currently have 2 toons on my team that don't fit perfect in my puzzle to keep up in arena but i would love a team of EP vader and the rest RG's. that's not a pure squad by what your saying.
but i am with you on not mixing say all sith with a sole jedi. i just don't mix and match like that. for me it wouldn't be fun. i don't get into the strategy.
A year ago Rex was a niche leader for certain teams while everyone else used Dooku or Old Ben because they were the insane generic leaders of that meta.
Metas change (slowly) and who is the crazy must-have leader changes along with it.
You could then even add additional things like For example where pure teams can actually work towards a common goal (capturing a base for the droids for example) and as long as they hold on to this goal, there is some sort of bonus pay out?
B. Why should people be discouraged from thinking up the best teams just because they aren't your definition of "pure"?