Best toons for imperial trooper squad
March 9, 2021 5:18PM
edited March 2021
I need some advice on determining which imperial troopers would be best overall in a squad. Aside from vader and emperor palpatine all my empire/imperial troopers are roughly like gear 10 or lower. I havent worked on gideon since I unlocked him and just want some feedback on which troopers I should be working on.
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Older troopers, in order of importance, are
Veers (for the lead)
Stark (TM removal/buffs, stagger)
Piet (Emporer's trap, daze)
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Range (usually better than DT in a troopers squad, but doesn't have the remnant tag, so if you can only 7*/gear one of the two I'd go for DT)
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the literal bottom of the barrel
Stormtrooper (terrible right now, but also getting a touchup and the remnant tag) - I can't advise gearing him up right now, but I'd at least have him 7* in case he's needed for an imperial remnant event - he is also an accelerate farm
Show us your swgoh.gg so we can advise.
Completely disagree that stormtrooper is the worst. Modded correctly he acts as a far better tank than stormtrooper. His defence is excellent.
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stormtrooper modded correctly acts as a far better tank than stormtrooper
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stormtrooper is a far better tank than stormtrooper
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This is my choice of weaponry until we have enough good troopers that synergise well to make 2 high caliber teams. I won't break it to make 2 mediocre ones.
Hahaha excellent.
Obviously I meant storm can tank better than shore.
Not saying shore sucks as he don't. But storm is a lot better than people think.
After that you absolutely want Range, his kit is slim and simple but adds so much to the team that the overall performance is getting way up.
For the last slot it really depends on the situation but you can't do wrong with either Death or Snow. Death is more tactical and should be used for buff heavy teams or single strong enemies, Snow shines against tons of smaller victims with its raw firepower. Gideon can help with fast opponents and has a mass attack so he can start the turn meter train more easy.
Tanks can help at some points but aren't really needed for any content right now.
My references as a top Imperial Trooper commander:
The damage screenshots are from Heroic Sith raid.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn
I know it's been a while, but after what we've seen, how do you feel about replacing range with dark? Is the raw damage superior to range's calls to assist?
So as mentioned above, those 3 are a given.
The big question is, do you plan on having a "Remnant-Troopers" team?
If so then obviously MoffG-Dark-Death-Storm all go there.
That team needs a "Support" still & only Range qualifies
I look forward to the next 2 Marque characters, Really hoping one of them is Scout Biker Trooper as a Support w/ Remnant tag to match Mando S1 & give Range up to be with Veers for sure.
I feel like Range/Snow is the best combo with the top 3 "officers" above.
Veers
Piett
Gideon
Dark
Range
Gideon is still extremely useful as a plug and play, in which case you sub in Starck.
That’s it.
Thanks. My issue is that I’m trying to go for a total of 5 (a trooper I farm and gear means one less prerequisite farmed for a GL). Since veers, piett and starck are mandatory to relic for SEE, those 3 are definitely on the team. I then need the best possible next 2. One would be gideon, while the other I initially thought would be range, but I’m now leaning towards dark. Would you go for other ones? I’d like to be able to counter see teams with them as well
If you want to go for "best bang for your buck" I'd say Gideon and Dark.
But after them I'd go range to replace Starck most of the time.
I currently run Veers, Gideon, Starck, Piett, Range.
Everyone says to sub in DT somewhere, but I can't justify it. To me, Veers, Gideon, and Piett are non-negotiable to keeping the TM train running no matter who you are facing, leaving Starck and Range as the flex.
• Both Give 20% tm to the team through their teamwide buffs on a 3cd, while DT gives 40% on a 5cd. Already, the former two are better for TM gain.
• Range helps give Gideon insight stacks so he can get his daze out sooner, invaluable against teams that usually wall Imps, as well as generally giving the team TM through assists. Against similar gear levels, his protection recovery and Up can be huge too.
• Starck brings DS dispel, occasional stagger, and if you zeta him control against enemies competing for next turn when both teams are overloaded.
What DT brings over these two is a huge amount of firepower. It gets complicated with Starck bringing CC Up, CD Up, +50 AP, & Def. Down for the whole team to deal more damage, but generally people say DT out-damages all of that by himself. The other use for DT is once Gideon has his daze out, Piett can switch his mark from Gideon to DT to better protect the team.
• If you put DT in over Range, you lose alot of TM gain, teamwide shield, and daze slower, but hit wayy harder.
• If you put DT in over Starck, you lose modest TM gain and overloaded tm control, but hopefully you end up doing more damage with DT alone.
With all that said, I can't bring myself to put DT in. Imps can punch up a huge amount of GP because of their tm control. I don't see how DT helps with that enough to justify his placement on a Imp team.
Then don’t.
But before you decide that go watch some videos of him just demolishing even GLs because he assists 3 turns in a row with 4 stacks.
Then come back and say Starck is better with a straight face.
which set up/ relic level minimum do you advise to take on SEE ?
It’s so good that it looks like a get rich scheme Oo
Let me rephrase that: “Seriously dude ? That’s it ?”