Hitting a wall with Bastila - help me beat Traya!
Current team: 4* zBastila (L), zzGMYoda, zEzra, GK, 5* zHermit Yoda. All are gold-ringed except Basti and Hermi. I get stopped somewhere around 15-20 in the arena. I started playing Nov 2015 - the month the game launched. So it's a pretty competitive shard.
I can take down Emperor Palpatine (L) teams - no problem. Every time.
I can take out mirror matches by swapping Ezra out for my G12 zVentress. All it takes is one round where WE have our buffs and they don't (because Ventress took 'em off) and they're done for.
I. Cannot. Beat. A Traya lead.
For those of you reading this and using Sith, whenever I see someone in the arena running Palpatine lead *but they have Traya in their party* I'm like, BAD MOVE! ...I can crush Palp lead. You should always run Traya lead if you have her. At least against Jedi.
Anyway, the team that's killing me is Traya (L), Sion, Sith Trooper, Palpatine, Thrawn. I spend all my time trying to kill the Trooper, and as soon as I do, I'm blocked by Sion's taunt and have to work on him. By the time he's almost dead, he's got his super-resurrect on and it's pointless. Traya's isolated GK, Thrawn's fractured someone (probably Ezra or GM Yoda, my primary damage dealers) and it's game over.
I don't know if this is a matter of my Bastila and Hermit not being 7-starred and G12? Or if at that level of arena play, their mods are just better than mine? Or if I'm missing something on strategy or team composition...? I've tried replacing GK with zOld Ben (switching tanks), and zEzra with zOld Ben (TWO tanks), and zEzra for zVentress (to dispell taunts, which is pointless, because they come back too quickly) and zEzra for Visas (but she's not zeta'd yet and only G11, so she isn't impressing me much).
Any advice from any of you? And for those of you running Traya lead, feel free to smirk and feel good - that team is a headache and a half!
SamUX
I can take down Emperor Palpatine (L) teams - no problem. Every time.
I can take out mirror matches by swapping Ezra out for my G12 zVentress. All it takes is one round where WE have our buffs and they don't (because Ventress took 'em off) and they're done for.
I. Cannot. Beat. A Traya lead.
For those of you reading this and using Sith, whenever I see someone in the arena running Palpatine lead *but they have Traya in their party* I'm like, BAD MOVE! ...I can crush Palp lead. You should always run Traya lead if you have her. At least against Jedi.
Anyway, the team that's killing me is Traya (L), Sion, Sith Trooper, Palpatine, Thrawn. I spend all my time trying to kill the Trooper, and as soon as I do, I'm blocked by Sion's taunt and have to work on him. By the time he's almost dead, he's got his super-resurrect on and it's pointless. Traya's isolated GK, Thrawn's fractured someone (probably Ezra or GM Yoda, my primary damage dealers) and it's game over.
I don't know if this is a matter of my Bastila and Hermit not being 7-starred and G12? Or if at that level of arena play, their mods are just better than mine? Or if I'm missing something on strategy or team composition...? I've tried replacing GK with zOld Ben (switching tanks), and zEzra with zOld Ben (TWO tanks), and zEzra for zVentress (to dispell taunts, which is pointless, because they come back too quickly) and zEzra for Visas (but she's not zeta'd yet and only G11, so she isn't impressing me much).
Any advice from any of you? And for those of you running Traya lead, feel free to smirk and feel good - that team is a headache and a half!
SamUX
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And if you try it and it works, please let me know! There are no Trayas in my shard yet, but I want to be ready!
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeah. I never got Darth Nihilus! LOL. Whoopsie. I mean, I HAVE him, but he's like 3-star G6 or something horrific like that.
I'll slowly work him up, but it's gonna be a hot second. Any other bright ideas?
The only real answer is someone like nihilus or probe droid to one-shot traya as soon as bastila clears trooper's taunt. I'm also curious if traya herself can work as the fifth. I'll unlock her tomorrow, so I'll find out soon enough.
Either way, it's a dang fun team, so I'll take what I can get with it. The sith bandwagon just bores me.
Yyyyyyeeeeeeeeeahh, I never got Fulcrum either. I mean, I HAVE her, but she's in the same condition as Nihilus. I've always WANTED her!! I mean, my name is Ahsoka Tano! But she's never been strictly farmable... wherever it is that she occasionally pops up, I use that currency for something else. Zetas, maybe?
But I agree with you: I've only ever wanted to have a badass Jedi team and now I do! All my Jedi are strong now (G11 or higher, everyone except Guardian) and I have tons of fun using all of them in various places in the game!
thrawn can be ability blocked... he is not a sith
Ugh, bummer. I mean, I don’t have him either, but I figured if you’d been playing that long, you would.
That’s the only team I remember seeing that could really handle the Traya lead. Bastila, Old Ben, Ezra, Talzin, Nest is a variation I’ve seen, but it still struggles badly against Traya lead.
Sorry.
If I come across another, or remember one, you’ll be the first to know.
I’ve never tried it, nor have I seen a Game Changer discuss it.
That’s all I could find for you.
In arena Nihilus works just fine at 3* g8. May try him once or twice.
You just have to use something that works. Adding Thrawn is always smart... To almost any line up. Nihilus, as well. I don't understand how you don't have them both fully maxed if you've been playing that long. I get you are light side and all... But they are so darn fun to use. As for adding someone else... Check your mods. Speed kills, but it is not always the only answer. A good combo of attributes can often make the difference. I don't run then against Traya lead... It is detrimental to their health!
Just for reference, here's my collection: https://swgoh.gg/u/ahsokatano/collection/
Thanks for the advice, guys! It kills me to have to put non-Jedi (especially dark side!) on my all-Jedi team coz I'm a nerd like that, but I'll get over it somehow. I'm so close to top 10 I can taste it!! Worth the effort.
SamUX
I farmed Fulcrum out of the fleet store, supplemented with a few shards that I bought for crystals. She was a surprisingly painless farm. Maybe because I was just farming her in the background and not paying attention but it felt like she got to 7* pretty quickly.
With that in mind, you will just have to switch your team up a bit. When you gain a buff (lots of those on Bastila team) you are losing offense, and when you assist, you take damage.
Trooper can be really annoying. You have to not only cleanse him, but put on buff immunity. CLS comes to mind. But then you have to keep his tm down so he isn't cleansed by Traya right away, and then there's their Thrawn. So having your own Thrawn to fracture trooper seems like a safer bet.
For arena I’m running Traya(L),Thrawn,Sion,Nihilus and instead of Sith Trooper I’m using KRU. It’s a fun team and hold defense decent.
OP try different Jedi combinations or switch out one Jedi for a different toon see if that helps.
Don't worry about that, it is not a reliable counter anyway. I have 6* g11 sp217 Nihilus and have not been successful at all. And it looked so easy in the video! Yeah well, not every match looks like that video.
Haha, I don't think anyone is trying to find anything that has a chance at winning on defense at this point. Traya is just too good. Anyone with her on offense can just auto win every battle against teams that don't have her I'd imagine.
I remarked the same thing. You now get more debuffs and Pain is inflicted easily. It seems Bastila is kind of broken again.