Its official, RG is BOSS in arena now.

Chef5

Just finished an arena match.

If you don't have RG, you're going to have a really tough time in arena.

RG is now one of the tops in this meta even moreso than before. No wonder CG gave him away in cantina. Non-RG teams wont be able to compete.


RG plus protection = all types of ridiculousness. If you don't have RG now, get him on your arena team.

VeridianShakes

Any tank really. RG is just like an auto tank lol. He's been a staple since I started for me. Looks like he'll stay that way.

KeyMan64x

I am at 4* and am half way to 5* with him. He has been in my arena team ever since I got him to 4* Gear VIII. I should reach 5* before too many people start farming him in Cantina so I should have a solid head start on most people that exist on my Leaderboard....clearly, not other Leaderboards though. I only started the first week of January.

BenjiFett

Yep. He had some of the best game in town before the update.
Now after only about 10 minutes into the update, it's looking like he'll be the ONLY game in town.

Chef5

I have a 6* RG with prefrafted gear 9, the stats are

health 19.3k health
18.5k protection

my arena opponent had the most difficult time taking down my RG combo'd with my lumi heal over time. I had most of my team left standing and this was a top 3 arena battle.

Chewieforlife

always fun when you need one specfic character to be competative. at least before you had QGJ and Dooku, now there's just one

Chef5

Since RG is now in cantina, he's an easy farm. Most players probably have RG at 5* already anyway, by the time everyone unlocks cantina 7, most will alreayd have him at 7* or will have him at 7* shortly after the unlock.

It's like GS, a strong character thats easy to farm and completely Free to Play.

Bossk

I do not get the huge boost in protection. He was already having a crazy amount of health early game.

Chef5

VeridianShakes wrote: »

Any tank really. RG is just like an auto tank lol. He's been a staple since I started for me. Looks like he'll stay that way.

not any tank because RG has 80% stun on basic, and passive health and turn meter gain, along with a seriously frightening amount of health and protection.

Chewieforlife

Chef5 wrote: »

Since RG is now in cantina, he's an easy farm. Most players probably have RG at 5* already anyway, by the time everyone unlocks cantina 7, most will alreayd have him at 7* or will have him at 7* shortly after the unlock.

It's like GS, a strong character thats easy to farm and completely Free to Play.

except most f2p are lucky to even be at lvl 74 right now so 77 is still a few weeks away before that farm can even start lol

Chef5

Chewieforlife wrote: »

Chef5 wrote: »

Since RG is now in cantina, he's an easy farm. Most players probably have RG at 5* already anyway, by the time everyone unlocks cantina 7, most will alreayd have him at 7* or will have him at 7* shortly after the unlock.

It's like GS, a strong character thats easy to farm and completely Free to Play.

except most f2p are lucky to even be at lvl 74 right now so 77 is still a few weeks away before that farm can even start lol

you won't need a 7* RG to stay competitive.

Chewieforlife

Chef5 wrote: »

Chewieforlife wrote: »

Chef5 wrote: »

Since RG is now in cantina, he's an easy farm. Most players probably have RG at 5* already anyway, by the time everyone unlocks cantina 7, most will alreayd have him at 7* or will have him at 7* shortly after the unlock.

It's like GS, a strong character thats easy to farm and completely Free to Play.

except most f2p are lucky to even be at lvl 74 right now so 77 is still a few weeks away before that farm can even start lol

you won't need a 7* RG to stay competitive.

hopefully not. seems likely though. 40k+ health if count protection while auto taunting through

Yudoka

Chewieforlife wrote: »

Chef5 wrote: »

Since RG is now in cantina, he's an easy farm. Most players probably have RG at 5* already anyway, by the time everyone unlocks cantina 7, most will alreayd have him at 7* or will have him at 7* shortly after the unlock.

It's like GS, a strong character thats easy to farm and completely Free to Play.

except most f2p are lucky to even be at lvl 74 right now so 77 is still a few weeks away before that farm can even start lol

Pretty much. I'm a bit above average F2P (I finish below rank 50) and am currently at level 73 with end of Saturday for 74. I cap out at about 1800 xp per day. So it'll take me another 16 or so days to hit 77.

Chef5

Chewieforlife wrote: »

Chef5 wrote: »

Chewieforlife wrote: »

Chef5 wrote: »

Since RG is now in cantina, he's an easy farm. Most players probably have RG at 5* already anyway, by the time everyone unlocks cantina 7, most will alreayd have him at 7* or will have him at 7* shortly after the unlock.

It's like GS, a strong character thats easy to farm and completely Free to Play.

except most f2p are lucky to even be at lvl 74 right now so 77 is still a few weeks away before that farm can even start lol

you won't need a 7* RG to stay competitive.

hopefully not. seems likely though. 40k+ health if count protection while auto taunting through

my RG is near 40k health, and it took forever for my opponent to knock him out of the team. While he was attacking RG with auto taunt I was able to pick off his team one by one. He had RG too, but a lower level one so I KO'd his RG first.

Chewieforlife

Chef5 wrote: »

Chewieforlife wrote: »

Chef5 wrote: »

Chewieforlife wrote: »

Chef5 wrote: »

Since RG is now in cantina, he's an easy farm. Most players probably have RG at 5* already anyway, by the time everyone unlocks cantina 7, most will alreayd have him at 7* or will have him at 7* shortly after the unlock.

It's like GS, a strong character thats easy to farm and completely Free to Play.

except most f2p are lucky to even be at lvl 74 right now so 77 is still a few weeks away before that farm can even start lol

you won't need a 7* RG to stay competitive.

hopefully not. seems likely though. 40k+ health if count protection while auto taunting through

my RG is near 40k health, and it took forever for my opponent to knock him out of the team. While he was attacking RG with auto taunt I was able to pick off his team one by one. He had RG too, but a lower level one so I KO'd his RG first.

exactly my point haha seems like arena will come down to who has the strongest RG so that precrafted gear comes into effect more as well

ThorsAssassin

Hmm I just fought a team with a purple 7* RG on it and had no trouble with him. Maybe it's my gear on the team. Protection is amped at gear 9.

Voltron2685

That's why there are characters who can remove taunt.

Chef5

exactly, if you have QGJ humbling blow will help you a lot in arena.

Corrvan

My 5*rg gear 8 rg was a boss in yesterday. Now he gets 2shot. Lol.

Slewfoot

For an extra PITA, use him with ST Han leader for a defense buffed 2 tank nightmare.

Chef5

I have STH, interesting.. Im worried that my DPS will fall too low if I add two tanks. I already have Lumi as a healer. So adding STH would mean I only have two DPS characters.

VeridianShakes

Lumi isn't bad at dps. Plus that ability block has saved me headaches on the regular. I have her in my squad too right now.

Chef5

VeridianShakes wrote: »

Lumi isn't bad at dps. Plus that ability block has saved me headaches on the regular. I have her in my squad too right now.

running GS, Rey and QGJ as my DPS, all of which I think are valuable to the team, I can't imagine replacing any of them at the moment. My Han is still low level, I've never really put any resources into him.

pac0naut

I sure am glad I geared up my RG to purple the other day. Looks like Protection only applies to purple gear levels.

DarthBalls

Chef5 wrote: »

Since RG is now in cantina, he's an easy farm. Most players probably have RG at 5* already anyway, by the time everyone unlocks cantina 7, most will alreayd have him at 7* or will have him at 7* shortly after the unlock.

It's like GS, a strong character thats easy to farm and completely Free to Play.

An easy farm huh. He's not unlockable till level 77. And with the increase to battles... He's not even close to being an easy farm.

Chef5

any thoughts on adding Phasma to a QGJ RG, Lumi team? Phasma can give advantage while QGJ gives the team offense up, Imagine every character on your team with Advatage guarantee crit with offense up?

DarthBalls

Oh and... **** precrafted gear. Noone can give me a reason why the devs felt that was a good **** idea

LeoRavus

One way to beat this without a leveled up RG is to use dispellers. QGJ takes that taunt away pretty much every time. I may be using him and Asajj to combat this.

Jedi2407

Slewfoot wrote: »

For an extra PITA, use him with ST Han leader for a defense buffed 2 tank nightmare.

True, Except on defense. The AI will not use the two taunts in good sync.

Chef5

DarthBalls wrote: »

Chef5 wrote: »

Since RG is now in cantina, he's an easy farm. Most players probably have RG at 5* already anyway, by the time everyone unlocks cantina 7, most will alreayd have him at 7* or will have him at 7* shortly after the unlock.

It's like GS, a strong character thats easy to farm and completely Free to Play.

An easy farm huh. He's not unlockable till level 77. And with the increase to battles... He's not even close to being an easy farm.

Its a lot easier then it was before, I was refreshing the nodes daily and spent a lot of crystals, and buying his shards in the shop leveling up RG, but now that he's in cantina, this is far easier, IMO its realistically attainable now for free to play when in the past it wasn't.

If I wouldve known he was going to be in cantina, I wouldn't have spent all those crystals.

Im at level 74 also. I think if anything free to play may only be behind a few weeks or so, once they hit 77 they can probably level up RG fairly quickly. I think most will have RG at 4-5* already.

Heywood

DarthBalls wrote: »

Oh and... **** precrafted gear. Noone can give me a reason why the devs felt that was a good **** idea

Nor have they allowed us who didn't precraft gear to even farm the new gear. It is STILL unavailable...