I feel pretty aimless in arena: Spent Nov-Dec. grinding out an Empire/Sith/Kylo ragtag-team to rise from rank 2000 in arena to around rank 250. Got to a place to farm zetas, unlocked 7* R2 and got CLS recently. Now just working on rounding out FO and Phoenix to grab BB8 and Thrawn.
I've been treating this game with more of a 'Collect them all'-attitude, rather than being arena focused (huge mistake for resources, I know). GW is my favorite part of the game, trying out different team compositions, fiddling around with random synergies and whatnot.
The recent surge of CLS/JTR teams in my shard has made my ragtag group of Darksiders a bit impotent, so I'm looking into building a new arena team to keep farming Arena Tokens and such.
I'm debating what direction to go in for a new arena team that can keep me in the top 200.
I will have Thrawn (5-6*, not ready for 7*, yet) in the next two weeks, so might be able to put an Empire team together, but that would require some work on my ST, and I don't have ShT unlocked yet.
I'm very fascinated by GK/Zarris, but have never faced them in arena, so my experience with them is zero. Would be curious if Zarris is worth the farm, as I'll have GK unlocked in the next few months, and I tend to prefer DS toons to play. I love a strong defensive playstyle.
I'm currently sitting on 1.5 zetas, really wish I wasn't hesitant to zeta Vader, and am reluctant to join the Light Side and pour more attention into my CLS. Would appreciate all advice and perspectives.
https://swgoh.gg/u/cosmos333/TL;DR: Prefers DS arena. Wants to put together a better team. Will have GK in near future, is GK/Zarris fun?
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Better yet is Nightsister. They are Dark Side and they are strong defensively.
Talzin lead, Asajj, Daka, 2* G2 Zombie, and Acolyte
Or Asajj lead for the same team.
Throw in a couple of Zetas on Asajj's unique and the Leader ability you will be using and you are already top 50
As mentioned above Nightsisters are also a great faction in the arena. In the right combination they can top the ranks. Some of them also have other uses:
Assaj is great in hAAT raids.
Zombie and acolyte are very good META team killers with Leia under Nute lead.
Talzin works great against JTR lead teams under Rex lead.
GK + Zarris still work with the right team composition, even though the new JTR teams have made it remarkable more difficult. Still, yesterday I won all my 4 matches against JTR teams (3 of the battles in top—10). Against CLS lead and mirror teams it's guaranteed win still. Furthermore, GK, Zarris, JC and Ahsoka/Luminara make a a fun gimmick team for LS TB (if you add Aayla for her stun, you even have a tool to handle counters from elite Snowtroopers). The zeta on Barris is not really needed to have fun with this team, but it helps in phases 5 and 6.