Make Plo Koon great again!!
Plo koon is a very powerful jedi in the comics, one of the few that can use the sith power Force lightning without succumbing to hate or anger.
In this game though...... he is probably the second last jedi i would consider farming, after jedi guardian. I mean even kit fisto has better abilities and the only reason i own plo in this game is because i got lucky with a bronzium pull. I mean seriously, anti stealth.... with piddly damage...
So i think they should rework him to have more damage, his mastery with lightsaber should give some counter chance and his knowledge of the force should provide buffs, probably speed and tenacity up. Also some clone synergies, as he was a respected general in the GAR
And for God's sake, CHANGE THE BLOODY ANIMATION OF FORCE JUDGEMENT!! Ea got the name right, but it's supposed to be effing green FORCE LIGHTNING COMING OUT OF HIS FINGERS, not some weird flash of light that the enemies don't even feel.
What do you guys think?
In this game though...... he is probably the second last jedi i would consider farming, after jedi guardian. I mean even kit fisto has better abilities and the only reason i own plo in this game is because i got lucky with a bronzium pull. I mean seriously, anti stealth.... with piddly damage...
So i think they should rework him to have more damage, his mastery with lightsaber should give some counter chance and his knowledge of the force should provide buffs, probably speed and tenacity up. Also some clone synergies, as he was a respected general in the GAR
And for God's sake, CHANGE THE BLOODY ANIMATION OF FORCE JUDGEMENT!! Ea got the name right, but it's supposed to be effing green FORCE LIGHTNING COMING OUT OF HIS FINGERS, not some weird flash of light that the enemies don't even feel.
What do you guys think?
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He could actully be pretty useful in the current meta with all the stealth from zeta Maul. The buff wipe on his basic is nice and gives him defense up. He can also give it to the whole party and put offense down on the enemy with an AoE attack. He is classified as a tank. He works well as one. Lots of damage mitigation. He's not a damage dealer and that's fine.
Buff wipe and TM gain make him a shoo in for the grand master yoda event. Yoda spreads buffs like mad so all the buff wipe possible is needed. Yoda goes so fast that the tm gain will be quite helpful.
His ship is also quite amazing. That alone makes him worth farming. Easily the best support ship in game currently. Gives tm to all allies, tenacity up to clones and protection up to Jedi. Has a ship taunt, erases all debuffs on them and gives them protection up (if they are republic) and spreads speed up with his basic if they are target locked. He's a little squishy, but he should be with all that utility.
Also, I'm just gonna post this Rework (+Zeta) here again cuz the more people see it the better:
As far as i can remember the only thing he excelled at was sucking....hard...until he got a ship. That ship is worth gearing him to the gear wall at the very least.
But back to original point...when was he ever good in this game?
I tried that (Cuz I love my Plo), but your team needs to be very fast to make use of the anti-stealth buff (otherwise you get crushed real quickly) and it really needs to be against a full sith Zaul team, otherwise it's not as useful to have him in there.
yeah good point about ships, but that's no excuse for the character itself to be ****. And come on, who in their right mind would use a jedi against a maul lead, especially one as squishy as plo? maul would one shot him and then go on a killing spree on the rest of your team. At the very least, change the force judgement animation to one of lightning, make it single target and increase damage and give some stun chance. Some counter chance would be icing on cake but not required. AND OH GOD, CHANGE HIS GODAWFUL LEADER!!
The title was a joke based on trump's make America great again lol
It's very sad that you have to explain that.
Plo has never at any point been great in the game. He can work well vs a teebo team but that's it. If you're thinking vs zaul meta, still tough to out last initial burst and speed
He is kinda "meh" as a character, but he has his uses. Dispel on basic attack is nice because it can't be ability blocked (looking at you Boba), and his AOE offense down was actually super effective (for me) against Wiggs because it cuts their triple assist damage in half, it's still big, but it had allowed my characters to survive a few more hits after it. I think his +50%/+25% TM gain skill can actually be situationally amazing, but again that's only situationally.
He is directly outclassed by Nihilus (imo) though, as Nihilus's basic dispel ALL buffs (not just 1 with a 50% chance to get the rest) and Nihilus can increase cooldowns rather than just cutting their damage in half he can stop those super assists. Nihilus can also then take out hard to kill enemies at the end of matches like Zylo and Zavage especially. Not to mention Nihilus has a slightly higher base speed, and being a Sith he doesn't have any direct disadvantage from enemies (Jedi have some direct counters like EP, Vader's basic, Maul, other anti jedi abilities etc.) Hence why when Nihilus came out I replaced Plo and put in Nihilus.
I did try Plo's lead against a couple of zeta maul teams on my shard (before I had a zeta of my own) and it didn't work great. You could strip them out of stealth, but they'd still have advantage, and the +20% TM bonus at the start ensures that you're playing catchup with them the whole game, even if you have a fast TFP or someone to try and strip stealth as early as possible. It's also still limited by taunts, if they zeta maul team has GK or Baze you still need to strip the taunt before you can actually attack any of the characters that you just de-stealthed. Which is why in the rework I designed I included taunts in his dispelling chance because it allows you to more freely target enemies. It's a great anti-buff team that doesn't just increase direct damage of an attack to punish enemies with a lot of buffs, it's a more strategic way around it.
Force Judgement animation should be changed (as above) - but it doesn't work off of his very high basic damage... so, like, it hits like a wet noodle. Maybe target enemy takes physical and other enemies take special? Of if it did shock on on the target enemy that would rock.
Taunt on Take charge would be okay - or a cleanse of 1 random debuff on all allies -- just drop the dumb omega of 'other allies get half' Plo was built as a little bit of a specialist so we can just leave it.
Overwatch is pretty specific. I mean, unlike friggin Greedo (who has a leadership, why?) Plo was an actual general. As the OP stated, if it was opened up to Taunt or some other bonus as he might make a good lead. If it gave Tenacity or Immunity to Daze as well it would make him a real counter to some teams.
Plo Koon: Sergeant, why are you so certain no one is coming?
Clone Sergeant: We're just clones, sir. We're meant to be expendable.
Plo Koon: Not to me.
Finally, to give him the Boba Treatment - give him a unique passive. - he was all about keeping his troops alive, so something like -- "Plo Kloon heals 10% of his life at the start of each of his turns. Whenever a Clone or Jedi take damage, Plo Kloon takes 25% of it instead"
He's listed as a Tank -- so let him Tank like a proper Meat Shield!