When the GL's first came out, SLKR was clearly better in PVE areas (soloing the Sith Raid for example) and Rey was clearly better in PVP areas. Seemed like a fair trade off. They both were much better than any other character and each was the best in a certain area of the game.
Then they buffed SLKR and now he is way better in both areas. Rey is not that good in PVE areas, yes she can 4/4 in the light-side GeoTB's, but not always depending on RNG, she is not needed for any of the special missions in the GeoTB. Is is also not great in the Sith raid (and sadly there is no other PVE environment to use her)
Add in the fact that she is now much weaker than SLKR in PVP, yes I know it is possible to beat Kylo with her, but it is not easy, it just seems dumb to go for Rey unless you are really trying to get both. Why should someone go for her when SLKR is much better in every area of the game.
Bottom line - if you are only going for one GL Kylo seems like the much better choice.
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I do not have both, I only have Rey, but I find this not to be true. I fall down to the mid 20's or lower, every day and the SLKR teams never fall out of the top 20.
This is not the case for me, Rey mirrors, while a pain the the kitten (similar to the old JKR mirrors) are still easier for me than going against Kylo teams.
She is "on par" with Kylo now for PvP. She does not hold "better".
So there is a definite imbalance with GL at the moment as Kylo is better at one game mode and equal at the other.
Normally I can win Rey mirrors with 4-5 people standing. Unless I use the 5s cheese that will probably get fixed, beating Kylo usually comes down to 1-2 people standing.
Oh I would never say she is useless, she is clearly still the second best character in the game. That said, I think there is a pretty clear and big drop off between Kylo and her. It just seemed like a much fairer trade off when it there was a clear: Rey is better in PVP and Kylo is better in PVE. Now it's: Kylo is way better in PVE and at best they are about the same in PVP.
Exactly!
Ok, let’s say that true, even though it’s easier in TW to bring down kylos team and then finish him off on 2nd or 3rd attempt. Kylos kit is better for PvE no doubt, but the PvE that Rey IS useful for is very important (LS Geo). We can go forever arguing the details but the whole point to the OP is that both GLs are very useful.
From a business standpoint, it's likely they buffed KYLO because more whales initially went for REY, as they want to incentivise further spending to get the better GL. If more whales went for Kylo and then they buffed him to leave Rey in the dust, there would be no incentive to then get Rey other than for collecting purpose.
That’s exactly right, I believe most whales went for Rey off the bat.
This is a pretty good theory
Lol yes, but it also made Rey owners want to go for both GLs
All shards are different. I see ult Kylos in the 40s.
I fell to 39 overnight from 1, and I try to put in an anti-padme SLKR team (no sith trooper). Rey’s in the payout before me don’t drop below 25. Someone forgot to tell my shard that SLKR holds better on D.
What I’m noticing is that mirror matches with either GL are harder than facing the other GL. Since my shard has more Rey than SLKR, SLKR tends to drop more.
What is your Rey team then? Share the magic
Maybe I have her modded wrong, but I have a very difficult time with Kylo teams. It also might be because my WAT is only 6*
I use Rey + Hero’s + GK + Bariss for kylo. Tends to be pretty straight forward. Rey is modded for health (222k base) and offense while maintaining over 500 speed