I know it's possible to use a well-geared rebel fleet to beat Negotiator and Malevolence in fleet arena, but I haven't seen anyone talk about what gear levels are required for it and I'm not sure if my team is close enough to warrant an investment. The only one I know for sure is that Bistan's U-Wing needs to outrun JKA's Eta-2, which will require at least G12.4
My current Rebels (7* unless otherwise noted):
Han's ****: zHan R7, zzChewie R6
Biggs X-Wing: Biggs G12.3
Rebel Y-Wing: 4*
Phantom 2: Sabine G11, Ezra, G12.1, Chopper G10
Ghost: Hera G8, Kana G10, Zeb G8
Bistan's U-Wing: Bistan G8, SRP G8
Cassian's U-Wing: Cassian G8, zJyn G10, K-2SO G8
Home One: Ackbar G11
Hound's Tooth: zzBossk R1
What type of gear levels do I need to get to on Home One and the reinforcement ships to be able to beat Negotiators and Malevolence? If there's a video out there I missed walking through this I would also appreciate a link to that!
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1. You want Bistan to be beefy enough to outlive at least 5s attack and Eta-2 AOE (even more against Y-Wing).
2. Ideally Bistan must outspeed your own HMF, makes things less rng (if "less rng" can be applicable to HMF fights at all)
In any case survivability of trio HMF-Bistan-Biggs is the key, so the more gear, the better.
Biggs - G12+3 is ok but see above.
4* Y-wing won't help.
Phantom gear is irrelevant, he's not needed there imho. Replace him with Plo - mass cleanse/heal can be life-saver.
Ghost - idk, can work at your gear level but with more gear he will be less likely one-shotted by literally anything.
Cassian - ok.
Bossk - ok.
Ackbar - idk, I never run it against current meta without G12+3.
With your fleet and only better geared Bistan you may expect definitely more than 50% winrate against full R7 Negos without 7* GR Y-wing at the start. GR Y-wing is the problem, winrate will be lower. Any sane Malevolence setup is THE problem, even 5* is like Nego with Y-wing in terms of difficulty in my experience.
You may try HMF-Biggs-Bossk setup but i'm not sure about success rate.
And pray to the gods of Great Random. Lucky assists streak can blow up 7* Malevolence quite fast, while there will be days when you won't be able to kill anyone because assists-crits-target lock just don't happen.
Yeah I haven't had any success against 7* negotiator with HMF-Biggs-Bossk sadly. And just so I'm clear, HMF-Bistan-Biggs as starters with Bossk, Cassian, Plo, and Ghost as reinforcements is the ideal lineup?
Thanks!
My bad, of course Phantom must be used (usually as first reinforcement), not Ghost. For some reason I always confuse names of these two ships.
Note this works against 5s, Anakin, ht lineups. If they use the Anakin, Ashoka, ht lineup, it doesn't work.. though it might with a relic Biggs.