Immediate disclaimer: I am not saying the Falcon should be nerfed. I'm working on my Rebel ships, but it's going to be a while before they're in ship-shape (ayyyyy).
Anyway, has anyone found a way to reliably beat a Rebel fleet with the Falcon in it, other than mirror-matching it? I'm honestly at a loss. My starting lineup currently consists of Hound's Tooth, FO TIE, and TIE Silencer. I'd heard that stunning the Falcon can work, but I tried that and no dice; it recovers from stun before their Ackbar moves, then Ackbar uses the LOLASSISTFRENZY ability and my FO TIE is dead before I've even got my first reinforcement.
Attacking Hound's Tooth first doesn't do me any favors either, nor the third, which is usually Biggs or Bistan's U-wing. Basically I have to hope that I get extremely lucky and don't lose a ship to the AOE ability from Ackbar (maybe one out of ten matches), otherwise it's impossible to win because I just can't overcome the combination of the Assist Festival plus HT losing taunt due to the Falcon's auto-cleanse and dispel.
Any advice? My ship options are very limited beyond what I already use, but profile link just in case:
https://swgoh.gg/p/918597557/ships/
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Personally I use Cassian reinforce if I dont have breach on my ships. Lando's Falcon if I do. I have about a 50/50 win rate. If he also has Bistan in the starting lineup, I have a zero win rate.
I'm guessing a Ghost + maxed Reys Falcon off the bench might do it, but I can't test as my RMF blows.
As far as tanks, Biggs + Vader is better than HT I think. That's what I use. Clone Sarge + Plo + Mace might be even better.
Also saw FOTie + Poe works. I think the guy had to remove 3 mods from his Poe to get it to go after FO Tie. But if the first attack on HMF strips protection, Poe can Insta-Gibb the HMF.
And half the time my HT can't survive the massive beatdown, so there's no way my Biggs will live through it even if Vader is there.
As far as Resistance Xwing and Poe, the former's pilot is at like gear 7 so no go, and the latter is also low-geared and I don't even have the ship unlocked. Since I'd need to gear pilots either way, I feel like just gearing up my Rebels is the way to go there.
Ht cad silencer also proven to work.
Method 1: Chimaera with Geonosian Soldier, -Spy and Hound's Tooth
- Absorb the first hit
- Gain taunt with HT
- Use Chimaera's buff special. The enemy HT should now have Defense Down and lack Protection Up.
- Geo Spy special and Soldier special should take out HT in two shots
- Keep taking out reinforcements as they arrive. Bring in Sun Fac or another tank for dual taunts.
- Take out HMF
Method 2: Imperial TIE Fighter and Poe's X-Wing
- Max ITF and mod Poe to be one step slower
- Use ITF's special on HMF
- Finish off HMF with Poe's special
Breach is bugged right now to provide 25% accuracy down.
There.
That helps explain why I've been getting so many dodges lately.
Yeah. Needs to be a priority fix. Its Not like HT needs any extra survivability, but whiffing 4 times in a row is absurd. Usually it ends up on a tank, but when one of your attackers gets it, it can ruin you.
Thanks. Now it starts to make sense....
Every single time...
Over the last 10 matches it's at least 75% miss rate.
Can't be WAI...
All you had to do was to read back 1 post. Its not WAI. Breach is bugged. Its confirmed to be a bug for months.
Thats perception only. A breached ht also misses a lot, but noone cares because he doesnt do meaningful damage anyway.. But when youre 100k+ hitting (+stunning) shot misses, that hurts.
I just had an encounter where the assist triggered 6 shots!!!
Not even talking about the breach bug and all the other crazy buffs etc.
And I know that the people playing this combo now will come out and tell me that I just don’t understand the strategy and/or logic of all the effects or that I just need to build up my fleet etc.pp.
But that doesn’t change that the Falcon (especially in the Rebel fleet combo) is WAY to OP.
But it does work against weaker falcons.
Unfortunately no weak Falcons in my shard :-(