Sick of Empire
I'm in a relatively new Shard ( December) and every single top 50 team is Empire, I think there's 2-3 NS teams, 2 FO and 1 Rebel and everything else is Empire. How do I counter this ? (Palpa Leads)
This is my roster: https://swgoh.gg/u/adapting/
This is my roster: https://swgoh.gg/u/adapting/
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Am I best sticking with NS ?
I know what you're saying, I have an Empire team too for R2D2 but I don't want to just switch to Empire like everybody else and exacerbate the problem, mirrors are no fun imo.
JTR is impossible for me, I don't even have access to the vets farm yet so I probably won't have her for at least another 9 months.
Maybe they'll nerf palpa+vader, I'm surprised they buffed them so hard since they are pretty much f2p at this point. I've only been playing for 4 months and I already have both of them 7 starred so.
You seriously want 9 months of Emperor Palpatine lead ??
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Besides, how can you be sick of Empire? Its a great TV show.
They dont need to be nerfed. All You need is Thrawn lead Empire team against Palp, Vader duo.
So the counter is another empire team ? That seems cool.
The CLS / Titans meta really wasn't that long ago and went on for for about 4 months. Every squad in my top 100 was pretty much exactly the same team. So don't moan about an Empire meta that is barely a few weeks old.
First order teams with zeta kru have an advantage over empire teams so if you don't want you follow the meta that's a successful enough counter meta like nightsisters was for the teams.
Yes, but I use DK+DT duo and Shore and Storm so it is not easy to farm this. Long farm. But DK can be replaced with Tarkin, also Starck or Veers can be used. Palp is easy to deal with and when he is gone fight is over.
There must be something I can do, like maybe replace Acolyte with Thrawn, give him the fastest mods I have and fracture vader before he can do anything.
Honestly, Vader is less of a concern than Palp. That aoe stun just murders a team out of the gate. I'd fracture him over vader any day of the week, unless it's a Zeta Palp team. Especially since it's nearly impossible to get your team faster than Vader without god mods, so he's going to be going first with force crush/culling blade almost every time anyway. Fracture on him doesn't do you nearly as much good after that.
For the past few months, the meta was CLS...CLS...more CLS and then JTR and nightsisters took over a little bit. Now you have the option for CLS, Empire, Sith Nightsisters, JTR and GK Zarriss is still decent. Even a zzKRU lead FO squad is a threat. They want to allow everyone to use different factions that they enjoy, which will make the game more diverse and enjoyable for everyone whether you just started, or if you’ve been playing a long time. It’s a great change and with the upcoming sith raid rewards getting into the mix, Traya will soon be a strong competitor as well. You may not like having a shard full of empire, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing.
I’m not sure why you think changing to an empire team will exacerbate the problem, because it won’t. You changing to empire in your shard is like throwing a pebble into the Mississippi River. The effect is minimal at the most. I knew I needed to prepare for R2, so I starting working on Empire a while back. This update made my life so much easier. I went from struggling to stay top 50 with Phoenix to being top 20 and for a few days until zetas were applied, i even hit top 3-5. When I’m finally able to get my first zeta, I’ll be back up to the top with my squad too.
You as a player have to be flexible enough to be able to use all the characters you have for what they are worth. Squad arena is only a small part of the game. I’m working FO now for BB8 and I’m enjoying that. They are another tool to increasing my roster, same as with my crew members. I worked on maul for a long time and now that he’s done I’m enjoying the scimitar a lot more.
The point is, not everything is about squad arena and you have to be able to change in order to be successful both in squad and the other aspects of the game. Keep an open mind and I’m sure you’ll be able to counter the empire/sith craze soon enough.
Some solutions for your shard that are also f2p: Zinn resistence team with BB8 will be tough to deal with. Rebels still work really well when using Biggs cuz he’s a nightmare without death trooper to daze him. Chaze is another option and one that you’ll eventually want to work on. Even getting Shore trooper, Death trooper and Krennic when they unlock for you will give you a plethora of options just in the empire faction to be more competitive in your shard as well as in the other game modes.
Also remember that getting these character will help your guild in territory battles so its almost hard to mess up. I’m currently working on ShT and DT because they are going to really help me in Squad arena and they are 2 of the lesser owned characters that are needed for TB so it helps my guild a lot. Focus on your roster in every area of the game and keep your head up, you’ll be fine. Also mods are a huge part to your success. Understanding them and making your team fast enough will help tremendously regardless of which team you choose to use.
Btw, I started on Oct. 28th 2017 so I’m no veteran. I’ve just had a lot of help and i read a lot. Hope this helps
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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I do alternate between cls titans team and cls, han, thrawn, chaze.
But when they uograde the skills of characters like EP and Vader allowing very bad mods to beat my CLS team easily, i will use my very good mods on the same palp lead team and it will be much mucb harder to beat.
Right now, palp lead is the best overall team on offense and defense in arena. And outside of arena, territory battles and territory wars are just as important.
I still use my CLS titans and CLS chaze in alot of raids, but i am happy to set uo my dark side teams as well.
Unlike nightsisters, you dont have to pay to star up palp pead teams. And ns steuggle with palp lead alot.
This.
Everyone was sick of Rebels for a year.
Now they're sick of Empire/Sith.
Heck at least the bad guys look cooler
"Palpatine and an army of red lightsabers"
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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Let us have some fun for at least a little while before RotJ Luke comes along and ruins everything.
Maul was the longest lasting meta in the history of the game. It went on for many many months. It wasn't until a month after R2 was released that they lost the top spot. Then CLS took over for a while. Then NS was the best squad, but wasn't ftp, so it was more niche. JTR took over CLS as the most popular but NS were still better. Now Empire is the best squad. Even Chaze was part of a mixed squad under rex, with GK, DN, Boba, Zylo, etc.
It's actually been a pretty healthy mix...
I’m using zzEP, zDV, zzGAT, zDN, and GK. All g12. But I’m not really having much fun with them. The battles take longer.