Current "Ships Meta"? - Strongest fleet combination and admiral
February 21, 2017 1:10AM
edited February 2017
This is really only directed at people who focus on fleet battles a lot and are near the top of or otherwise dominating their Fleet Arena shard. I am curious about what is the strongest combination and layout of ships for the Fleet Arena. What are good stand-alone ships, and what are strong synergies?
From what I have been able to gather, Ackbar is currently the strongest all-around Fleet Commander, but what are his best ships and synergies? Interested to hear everyone's thoughts, thanks!
Edit: Please specify between strength on Offense and strength on Defense, if there is any difference that you are aware of, it's possible the best ships are just best in all contexts.
From what I have been able to gather, Ackbar is currently the strongest all-around Fleet Commander, but what are his best ships and synergies? Interested to hear everyone's thoughts, thanks!
Edit: Please specify between strength on Offense and strength on Defense, if there is any difference that you are aware of, it's possible the best ships are just best in all contexts.
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Ackbar is probably the weakest if you ask me.
Tarkin or mace with target lockers are by far the best current comp currently
Agree.
Ackbar is easiest to use on offense to start off with, but once your ships become more powerful he's not as good, and he's probably the worst one defensively in high end fleet arena.
Mace + republic ships (Plo, fives, JC, Clone Sarge, Rex, Ahsoka and then some tankier ships) is a great defensive fleet. They toss around taunts and heal protection left and right making them very hard to kill and very hard to kill in 7.5 minutes. Tarkin + FOTF, Imp TIE, and Boba and some more dark side ships works very well. They can do a lot of damage and FOTF is a huge pita to fight when theres a bunch of target locks being tossed around.
Disagree ..
What I've seen work very well is AA command
Tie, FoTie, Boba, Biggs, Shore/DT ship
The two ties and Boba lock all the time - AA keeps Biggs alive
Scimitar as primary reinforcement .. His special with AA command continuously healwith retribution
Then have consular and others as to finish off the squad
The most hardest and best capital ship would be Tarkin. Empire ships have amazing synergy with Tarkin and they just keep going forever with the TM manipulation with FOTP and TIE fighter while hitting hard as hell. You can throw in a few other republic ships or a third affiliation / synergy with Tarkin-lead and still do good. I think Tarkin and Mace are pretty evenly match when it comes to which is better.
Everytime I battle a AA fleet the capital ship gets very few turns, and when it does it is sending a reinforcement so it might get 1 heal or 1 attack in. I have not seen AA use its ultimate in battle in a long time.
Example. AA took 2 turns 1st was to renforce second was a heal.
My endurance had 4 turns.
On offense he can of course win without problems.
10th with 83k??????
My god ... wt* my arena
Im around 135k and im generally 50th
First one is around 160k
Akbar
Poe
Vader
Biggs
TFP
Fives
Maul on the bench with 2 others. Might go back to JC being on the frontline. Had him in the main lineup before along with Ahsoka
For me it comes down to who I have geared the most, character wise, and AA allows for decent synergy with a bunch of scrubs. If I had both tie pilots I'd probably run tarkin but I don't, and not worth it to gear them up so that I fall to 2/3 instead of 6th max. I tear up the "perfect" mace team daily but a large part to the two stray options mentioned above
G11 AA, 6* home one
G11 5* Biggs x wing
G11 4* Tie X1
G9 6*JC star fighter
G11 5* Imp Tie
G11 5* Slave One
G10 5* Umbarran
G11 6* Wedges Xwing
G11 5* Sun Fac
All of the fleets I face are nothing but 7* ships, with the odd sub-7* Vader.
The strategy is to spread out target locks and damage, then call in 5's for the grand slam.
Doesn't hold up on D but it's allowed me to Zeta 4 toons so far.
Line I.D. Siskin59953
IDK I've held second since the start of my leader board with AA.
I'm gonna guess that your fleet leader board isn't full of old whales? Ackbar is great to start, but once your ships start getting more powerful he loses his value. It's a fairly easy win on offense, but the AI plays ackbar pretty poorly.
Fotp, Tie, boba, Biggs and Vader is my starting 5 but Bistan is a good option too with maul, fives and Rex or sun fac as my next 3. Rarely fall out of top 5...for a while it was not beatable by the ackbar leads on my shard.
TFP g11 lvl 80 7 star
Ashoka g10 lvl 80 6 star (91/100)
Biggs g10 lvl 82 7 star
Wiggs g10 lvl 80 6 star
TIE advanced g11 lvl 78 4 star
Reinforcement is:
Darth maul g10 lvl 75 6 star
Fives g9 lvl 75 5 star
Sun fact g10 lvl 75 6 star
I'm always top 20, usually top 10.
I have some problems with defense with heavy target lock fleet - AI using my fleet very badly.
My Ships :
Vaders TIE, IMP TIE, Boba, SunFac, Biggs , Wedge, Fives, Ashoka
Maybe i need any change for beat brutal Mace Defense posts.
P.S. i am only Tarkin on top 30 positions.
This is what I run. I find its very effective. But I don't have the shore ship super high yet, so I run wedge or JC instead.
Boba blasting with lots of target locks is just gross.
I find Tarkin really, really wants Vader ship, so it puts him out of reach for me. Mace is just the best for holding rank IMO.
Yup AA is easily the worst. Maybe he's easiest to start off ships with, but at the high level, I lol when I see AA ships because they get a maximum of 2 turns.
I prefer Mace with a team of target lockers, and some like tarkin as well, but at least offensively, I can't see how you could lose running Mace with 3 Ties, Biggs, and +1 with max ships/pilots.
With my setup all logic seems to point to using tarkins ship but mace's ship just works so good with this setup. I'm working on getting my tarkin crew power and ship power up now (g9 tarkin ship is lvl 65 compared to my g10 mace and lvl 80 ship) however, everytime I test tarkins ship out I can't quite beat the teams that I can dominate using windus ship, obviously my windu ship is much stronger but I was still beating these same teams easily with mace when he was where my tarkin ship is now. So honestly idk if tarkins ship will ever be any better. I feel like my fleet right now is borderline OP on the offensive side.
Not enough ships to have a different variety of teams imo. What I run is probably the most unique team. Executrix(only one in the top 50 that does), no Biggs. Nothing but darkside ships. Tie advanced, both tie fighters, sun fac, Slave 1, Scimitar. I have a few light side ships as reinforcements. Finish top 5.