5th toon under Zaul: zkylo or zsidious?
Planning to run Zeta Maul, Palpatine, Kenobi, zeta boba, and one of zeta kylo or zeta sidious.
Would love any thoughts on who would be the better 5th toon here.
Cheers all!
Would love any thoughts on who would be the better 5th toon here.
Cheers all!
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Ha! Love it. I am leaning slightly towards kylo since I think he has more general utility and may be more useful on defense, but I am definitely still undecided.
Savage Opress got a great zeta ability that works great in a sith squad.
Right now I run zaul/ep/zooku/zader/gk
Vader is actually really good after his recesbt damage buffs plus his 90% AB now..
I will switch out Vader for Zavage soon and expect for the team to stay alive longer!!
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And then you accidentally put it on some other toon thinking you give him an omega.
For Zaul, EP, GK, Boba Zett, I would personally say Zid. I think Zaul lead really needs 3 or 4 sith to work the best. Having only 2 sith takes away too much and gives your enemies just a little too much choosing in who to attack. While Kylo is a great character to have, I think using Sid would allow you to go first more often and also make them focus down on GK. I also don't really think Boba is the best choice for this squad, but that's just me and you probably have more need for his ability block than I do on my shard.
@Vertigo Very helpful response and much appreciated. I've been on top of my shard for the past few months, but it is getting tougher. I will have the first GK for reference. I do find that boba's ability block is very useful, but Nihilus would do the same and give enemy less options. That said, maybe its worth it to gear sidious or kylo instead of nihilus (who I have at 4* for the foreseeable future). Boba was my first zeta and it gives him a lot of survivability, plus he is very useful since literally every team in the top 10 uses boba and this lets me get rid of him without reviving.
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Nihilus + Boba doesn't really work very well unless your enemies are slower than Boba and faster than Nihilus or slower than Nihilus and faster than Boba because otherwise you'll just be ability blocking characters with skills all on cooldown already. So if you're going to stick with Boba for the time being, I'd certainly recommend going for the Sidious Zeta. He's very fast, especially so with the Zeta Maul lead and if you have him followed up by EP or Boba that'll trigger the expose damage right away which will do a good chunk of damage right away. Plus his basic is 100% chance to apply healing immunity vs Kylo's 75% chance. So he can reliably prevent healing and protection recovery now as well which can help you stop zeta Kylos or zeta Jyn leads or zeta cody leads or other zeta'd bobas.
One thing Nihilus does bring that Boba won't is a consistent dispel, Boba has execute, but you probably don't want to use that to dispel taunts, Nihilus will do that with his Basic, and with GK he can gain retribution and counter and dispel on the counter attack. So I wouldn't totally neglect Nihilus and gearing him, but for the short term you should focus on having either Boba or Nihilus in your squad, but with the sith team I think Nihilus would be a better fit.
Zaul, palp, nihilus, GK, ??
If you put Nihilus in then I think Kylo would be a nice addition, but Sid would also be a good choice. I feel it could really work either way just depends on who you face. Although if you go with 4 sith and GK, that basically makes GK's unique redundant in that they basically have to target him anyways, and him granting critical immunity when they're crit does the same thing as stealthing the sith. I think to get the most out of GK's unique Kylo would be a better choice, but then Gk can also grant Foresight, and Kylo having Foresight is also kind of unneeded as you want him to be hit. Could really go either way haha, but if you're using Boba I would vote Sidious personally.
Zid goes first and exposes, ep stuns and triggers expose, nihilus drains force... savage and nihilus can be lethal if they stay alive too long, zid is fast and applies heal immunity, nihilus dispels, maul dazes and hits hard, zavage hits like a truck and is very hard to stop.... that is my plan... but i am also working on assassin to help with speed as my mods are not best... will see who i prioritize
This doesn't make sense to me. Having 5 sith without sith trooper means they will all be stealthing and removes the advantage you get from having them stealth on crits.
Thanks for the theorycrafting - much appreciated!
My buddy did this accidentally this AM with Nihilus lol
Now, I find Zaul, Nihilus, Palp, and Savage to be VERY good. That savage spot can probably go to sidious or dooku or vader tbh but Savage's utility is great there. Now for the 5th, IF only there was a character that was very tough, and only got better when they get beat on. If only that character would recover a bunch of protection when he uses a special that he can spam... If only that character would require all characters faster than your sith to attack him because of stealth, guarenteeing a huge increase in damage to start out the match..
I am really surprised more people havent done this..
But if he's using GK, that said character won't be taking as many hits and his goal is to have GK in the squad. Also, Tanks are still kind of necessary with Zaul as Buff Immunity can stop them from stealthing over and over again (B2/TFP).