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(April 2017 shard)
My arena rank, which climbed into the 95-130 range after getting CLS in December, has recently started to slide more to the 200 range. I fall to 300-350 some days and have to fight to get back under 200 at payout.
It's not entirely unexpected given that I've not improved my arena team in a while, and also given that Wiggs has been on the way out for a while now.
The obvious solution would seem to be that I need to change my team up...however I'm not sure that would improve things much. My reasoning is that I see plenty of teams in my range with the other combos I could see doing. CLS/Chaze. NS. EP or Vader. JTR. The good news is that there's a lot more diversity now then when every team was CLS R2 Han Chaze, the bad news is I'm not sure making a switch will help me since all these other options inhabit the same place in arena as I do right now.
So what do you guys think? Worth investing in one of the other teams, or not worth the bother? I feel like I have ok speed mods but not great and maybe that's the problem. Or maybe that I'm unwilling to refresh to climb higher. It just seems like I could gear up JTR BB8 Old Ben GK (for example) and it wouldn't change a thing, because I'm sitting at #300 right now and I see one at #275.
I need a new message here.
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You just need more speed. For top 20 imo you need atleast a few 100+ speeds on your toons or you will get blitzed.
I'd just hate to gear several (if not five) new toons to 12 and have the impact be basically negligible.
Yeah, if you are seeing a JTR, gk, bb8, r2, old ben squad at rank 200+ it's most likely bad mods. That is a rank #1 worthy squad.
I would put in gk and thrawn/old ben over wiggs. As of now you have no one protecting your squishy rebels. R2 smoke screen is acting as your swuedo taunt, but he is only 225. Either they can zolo stun him or even outspeed and fracture him.
I can look at that but going from a 10 speed to 15 speed mod on a couple of toons doesn't seem like it would do much.
Of course they would sink you at thier current gear levels lol. But you gotta gear some other toons for arena at some point unless you always plan to run g12 wiggs.
You would be surprised. Arena is all about speed wars.
Personally I run a Palpatine lead team and whichever player has the fastest Vader almost always wins in a mirror matchup.
I'd imagine getting cls to go first would mean that cls would open with the second special and go again and remove all of someone's turn meter. If your raid Han also stunned someone with shoots first and someone else with dead eye you deny the other team 3 of their first moves. Sometimes an ai will win on defense if you put yourself in that position.
So the goal is to have the first 3 moves in a battle be be raid Han cls and raid han. If you are in that position the ai will win on defense a decent proportion of the time.
You can do with 90+. I reached 1st on two accounts (yes, on my alt as well) and I've still never reached +100 speed on any too..
Speed wins. Farm it.