I’m managing 1st in Arena with Padme and and R6 JKA but struggling to decide on the 5th character! GMY is great but can easily wiped out on the opening salvo. R2D2 is only Relic2 and not modded well, so I can’t judge him fully but clearly has potential. C3PO is very useful....
Who do you think works best and why?
5th on Padme team... 65 votes
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I have tried C-3PO, although I have not the team maxed yet, and the lack of use of all those courage on top of it makes me feel like wasted.
C3po adds a ton of damage to a cls team. Even more so now health is increasing.
I like running Padme, JKA, GK, 3P0, Zarriss. It's the best Padme team I've run as there is so much protection up and healing going around that even when RNG goes bad I tend to still win with everyone alive.
Except, Padmé is better than CLS so why sabotage ur Padmé team for a team that isnt as good?
Dunno why you’d call cls not as good, it is such a wide powerful counter to many squads.
They are both good teams equally I’d say. He adds more to cls then padme imo.
Padme can function well enough without him but cls takes more of a hit without him.
Talking from a non arena based standpoint (GW,GAC,TW) which is why I assumed finch1221 brought up cls/resistance in the first place, seen as the OP only asked for arena.
But for GAC/TW purposes I often use GMY, and save 3p0 for a JTR droid squad.
Not really equally. Padmé requires much less investment and can beat every team in the game while CLS requires a lot of investment and cant keep up with the new teams.
Since Padmé teams are better than CLS teams,
Put 3PO on it.
3PO is the best you can use however RoS may change that but atm it's your best bet.
On offense, I like to use Zarriss when possible. It’s pretty easy to get into a rhythm of falling below 50% health > bonus turn > bonus turn > health equalization, then rinse & repeat to victory.
When you combine GK and 3P0's skills under Padme, it makes it so that whenever you get crit, you get crit immunity from GK. Then, since you got a new buff, you get protection up which makes you immune to debuffs. The interesting part is that both of these buffs apply before the debuffs attached to the attack whose damage triggered the buffs. This makes your toons have amazingly consistent "perfect" debuff resistance.
Now when you combine GMY with GK, GMY spreading his buffs makes GK taunt. This is an interaction that was verified intentional somewhere a while ago and it is supposed to act like a pretaunt for GR.
What this basically means is the core of the group is Padme, JKA, and GK. The 4 most notable characters to fit in the other 2 spots are: Ahsoka Tano, GMY, 3P0, and Zarriss.
Which 2 to grab really depends on what you're trying to do. Offense or Defense? Which comp are you fighting on O? GMY and AT seem the most situaitonal of those 4 to me. GMY is good for offense, not as good on D IMO. AT is good against teams with amazingly high buff survivability. Interestingly enough this doesn't count Padme mirror matches. She slows down wins in Padme mirror matches thanks to all the undispellable protection up her consistent out of turn attacks generate on the opponent. 3P0 gives this team super versatile survivability as well as his other usual shenanigans and Zarriss has long been known for turning matches into drag out team.
This is why I like Padme, JKA, GK, 3P0, Zarriss. It's a time out team. Everyone's really hard to kill, That's the premium defense team IMO. GMY fits really well on offense, especially against another Padme team since they tank damage so well.
Shaak Ti is another notable 5th, she has some nice abilities that fit in quite well.
This is probably the best concise breakdown for GR strategy I’ve read, Kudos good sir!
Padme is a counter to more squads
Padme is a more meta team but cls counters more teams Gmy also better counters malak
CLS doesn't counter more teams than Padme. It's the opposite actually, and the Padme team usually requires less severe mods with more comfortable wins.
CLS is still quite versatile with the right squad. Amazingly so compared to some other legendaries, but Padme is basically the primo kill everything squad right now.