Wondering what people are seeing for the impact of CLS on their shard -
This morning my Nov '15 hard-launch leaderboard was 9/10 CLS in the top 10, 12/15 in the top 15, and 17/25 in the top 25.
Additionally, only 4 DS leads total in the top 50 - 12/14/31/36 ranks (Thrawn - me, Boba, DN, and DV leads respectively)
CLS has wiped away the Tarkin / Thrawn leads seen before and taken many of the Rex. My LB is generally a dead on leading indicator of how the arena game in general will move across the entire playerbase as demonstrated on GG - I'd expect we see CLS lead % on GG continue to shoot up and pass Rex within a week. Wouldn't surprise me at all if he hits an unprecedented 60%+ on the site.
What are the rest of you all seeing at this relatively early point in CLS's reign?
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Rank 1 is Vader, Tarkin, Thrawn, DN, GK.
4 CLS (top 10)
7 CLS (top 20)
8 CLS (top 30)
Nah - shard chat feedback indicates otherwise - DS teams like the guy running DV having a big problem winning. Tarkin guys same feedback. Rex Classic cleanse as well - struggle winning. There are a high number of forced CLS conversions and the guys that haven't been able to are now not making the top 10.
We've observed a zJinn player that took 1 reliably at his payout through all these metas not be able to take 1 for 3+ days now with a CLS team camping at 1 during his payout. The CLS shift is legit.
Biggest drops/struggles have the classical triple cleanse team without GAT (Rex, DN, something).
What speaks in favor of the cls meta is that those teams can finish a battle probably the fastest right now.
What is the age of your LB? I would think that on younger LBs he wouldn't be owned as much due to the 7* farming requirements.
Honestly, they've all removed Nihilus from their teams, which has made things easier for me. I run Thrawn/Nihilus/Shore/GK/DT. I've prepping to run CLS/GK/Nihilus/R2/Thrawn. I still need 3 more zetas to finish off CLS and R2 though. Right now nothings broken though, so while I'm preparing to move on, I'm not messing with it yet.
CLS, Gear XI, zeta on "it binds"
Old Ben, Gear X1, no zeta
Raid Han, Gear X, zeta on Shoots first
Leia, Gear X, no zeta
R2, Gear XI, zeta on Number Crunch
I have 2 more zetas to hand out but don't know where to place them on this team, BUT, since switching from my zVader squad to this one I have gotten up to low 20s in my launch shard, and so far, it holds up quite well on defense. Woke up this morning and only fell to 38.
Along with R2, and a couple fast attacking characters he should be great. Working on mine now.
2 in top 10
5 in top 15
5 in top 25
7 in top 50
sounds like you have it pretty rough.
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I'm not in the practice of those mixed up "throw all power toons together" type of teams. I like my teams to look like they belong together. Lol!
Granted, R2/Han/CLS are power toons but at least they belong together.
i was using that team you're using, i got absolutely destroyed the first battle vs commander luke lead. I used drain force and they KO'd my almost full protection kenobi with counters. (user error, i know, but auto would have done the same). It went down hill from there.
This was vs luke lead, leia, raid han, old ben and r2.
5/10 in the top 10 with CLS lead.
11 of the top 20. Only 1 Thrawn lead in the top 30 now - was probably 1/3 until CLS was released. While Thrawn lead has disappeared, Thrawn remains in most of those CLS teams.
Unfortunately it seems as though CLS is causing arena to "undiversify". Most that have it are running CLS (lead), GK, DN, R2D2 and Thrawn. That is most of the CLS lead teams on my shard.
In game guild: TNR Uprising
I beat the REAL T7 Yoda (not the nerfed one) and did so before mods were there to help
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He has one of the easiest counters for old shards in zBarriss. Also, if rex teams are disappearing in favor of CLS, then look for a resurgence of Zaul who is also a direct counter to CLS.
He's good though, but not 75% of the top 20 dominant. He fits right in with the rock/paper/scissor meta of the last couple of months imo.
Aaahh I see... Thanks!
I've never had a problem with the counters. My Kenobi has 104k ehealth. He recovers 30k protection with Thrawns command. Plus against a team like the one you faced with limited dispels he will almost always have crit immunity up from Shore. Basics aren't going to power through that.
So your shore is faster than your nihilus?
it doesn't really matter, but i find it hard to believe that your team can auto a luke team that has superior mods. If your mods were superior i wouldn't have commented.
edit: you can ignore this post if the luke team you auto'd had chaze in it btw.
In top 50, CLS leads are currently at:
#4
#5
#6
#7
#12
#31
Cls lead(no zeta), chaze, han(zeta) and r2(all zeta)
Rex teams are a joke now. Shoot first rex and stun him, luke special on dn or gk, good to go. Han takes out thrawn pretty much on his own
The most common team is threxus which is what I run and have don't have any problem beating the CLS teams at all, even the whale that out mods me.
What I've observed is that 3-5 people play around with different teams while the rest stick w the same team until forced otherwise. CLS isn't going to force the Rex guys to switch so most won't be changing. The only guys who said the CLS teams are hard are the DS leads.