Magmatrooper

Egor

Does anyone know how durable this guy is? Ive been considering a few arena teams that aim to take forever to kill when ran by ai

Been considering the following:

1. (Leader)Old Ben - harder to kill than dooku I think, and evasion leadership is a must
2. Rg - no explanation neccisary
3. Vader - lots of health, slow as all heck but since getting him I like him, and slow to kill
4. GS - cause everyone needs some damage, but the gamorrean looks interesting if i can find a way to get him
5. MagmaTrooper - i was considering fives for all his health but with magmas turn manipulation would he be better?

No clue how this would be but i need to come up with a team that is hard to beat cause i lose a lot of ranks overnight.

Opinions? And any advice on MT would be appreciated.

Sikho

He's meh. Nice health pool, lots of TM gain from debuffs, but he hits like a wet noodle.
The fact that you can accidentally attack counter attackers with his basic is annoying too.

Egor

so you would go with fives over him, he has a lot of health as well and a lot of ppl love him so probably smarter

Sikho

Egor wrote: »

so you would go with fives over him, he has a lot of health as well and a lot of ppl love him so probably smarter

Yes. Though the counter changes affected him a bit, I think Fives is still reliable.

The only situation I'd go for MT instead is if you plan to run an Empire team.

Egor

Ive meen tempted to for ds missions, but a good arena team is more important atm

Thanks for the help

garublador

I'm not sure what his potency is like at gear VIII, but my gear VII Magmatrooper has the TM on his AoE resisted quite a bit in GW. Otherwise I agree with Sikho's analysis. Lots of health is nice but his damage is on the low side and he's less useful now that TM reductions can be resisted.

jedii_2040

I am too farming for Magma and bringing him to at least 5*. He has lot of health and decent attack plus the turn meter manipulation. So he will be a nice addition to weaken a strong team in GW. I think he will pair nice with ST Han. He can provide some more turns to the team.

Gank_Killer

I've got my MagmaTroop at 7* and gear8, working on those Stun Cuffs. He gets a bit more +damage gear starting with gear8, so right now he's just beefy. With some +offense buffs/leadership he can actually put up some fair numbers when he ricochets and crits.

garublador

jedii_2040 wrote: »

I am too farming for Magma and bringing him to at least 5*. He has lot of health and decent attack plus the turn meter manipulation. So he will be a nice addition to weaken a strong team in GW. I think he will pair nice with ST Han. He can provide some more turns to the team.

I use a 7*, gear 7 MT for the fist half of GW. He's a nice placeholder because his health is so high and his damge is sufficient for that level of play. Once I get to the second half he goes on a suicide squad because his damage is so low that he's a liability and his TM reduction is resisted so often. I'm weary to spend the 40 purple shower drains on getting him to gear VIII because I haven't been super impressed with him so far and those things are a hot commodity.

EasyRight

I like my Magmatrooper paired with my Magnaguard100. My Magnaguard has an Omega shard for his standard attack, thus raising his damage considerably...which I plan to do very soon w/ my Magmatrooper. Anyway, my point is the two are gr8 as tanks especially when they get down to the very end of fights & have to trade **** w/ 1-2 opponents. Buuuut, my main draw is that they are a killer controller pair. Even w/ a slow poke leader like Lumi, they can add nearly a whole extra round of attacks in most opening rounds. Considering that Magnaguard is hitting possibly up to 3x in some rounds, (w/ Omega shards, he now does solid damage *2500* on par w/ most standard attacks) you can bring a lot of damage to teams before RG's/Chewies/etc get a chance to control. It's a weird off-the-beaten-path choice of characters, but it works.