This might be crazy but I'm exploring maxing out Chopper to replace Old Ben on a CLS, raid Han, R2, Ezra, and Old Ben arena team.
Having Ezra and R2 on there means they get buffs and get reduced cooldowns.
My main concern is that Chopper has only a one turn taunt.
Will the reductions on R2's cooldowns be enough to keep stealth up?
Is this a crazy/stupid idea?
https://swgoh.gg/u/ariben/
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Also if you are facing buff heavy teams chopper can cleanse them off (recharging protection and draining turn meter). The 10% turn meter reduction on all enemies per buff on the targeted enemy can really buy some time.
In balance I expect it to be a bad idea but you can play with it if you like. I think it's more likely to work with bb8 r2d2 rjt team.
It’s there to pull aggro momentarily when you know a power move like a fracture from Thrawn or CLS’s dispel/BI combo is coming in. He can’t and won’t take sustained damage, but he adds a lot of control to a team.
With that logic only old been is a tank. Everyone else gets fractured and is irrelevant.
No, because lots of other tanks have tools to get back to taunt ASAP and keep it up.
Ignore fracture in the equation if you like. The point of Chopper isn’t to take sustained hits. The point of chopper is to take a hit or two for a breif moment. It’s a different utility.
Bad idea for that comp, you're better off keeping Ben.
He actually isn't a tank though. He's identified as a support.
Yep. Silly idea.
I don’t think anyone ITT is saying chopper is bad. Hell, I use him on my top ranked arena team. But he doesn’t fit where OP wants to put him.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x71_jOfqBoY
Does anyone really ever used Watch and Learn on anything but a support? That 60% TM for Ezra, 40% for support is too good to pass up on. Once in a great while Zeb gets it if I really need someone dazed or stunned.
No tank besides old ben deals with fracture at all. That is the only reason some use old ben over gk. Because even go can't handle fracture. Any insight on what other tank handles fracture even a little I would be very interested in. Let me know your secret against fracture.
Right. This is why I said “set fracture aside”.
Chopper can replace a tank if your idea of what a tank is for is “eat fracture”
This is not even close to he full extent of what actual good tanks are for.
(This is different from saying chopper is not a good character. He’s great. But hes not a tank. And it shows.)
zombie... death gets rid of fracture.
The number of Phoenix and droid allies in the comp doesn't change how often someone's CDs get reduced because it gives an equal increase in CD reduction chance for each additional member of those factions due to an increased chance to assist.
To put it another way, everyone whose CDs can be reduced by Chopper will average having their CDs reduced the same amount regardless of how many droids and/or Phoenix are in comp.
Understood. I mainly meant that it's only those two getting the buffs. So you have a fifty fifty chance for an assist. But you are correct the more assists the more opportunities for him to get the cooldown.