I never lose anyone in GW so I finish it with some fun like you do. I run poggle lead, 88, 86, Poe, GS. All are maxed except Poe who is 5*. Today, I came up against QGJ lead, yoda, lumi, windu and JC all maxed. My GS got lumi into red health, then poggle gave offence up. Poe landed 5 exposes and 88 did the dirty work leaving 86 to finish off windu. This left JC standing only to heal himself and then get finished off.
I very rarely have to use suicide squads or B teams.
I run
Lumi (L)
JC
and then whatever combination of the below I feel like
Dooku
QGJ (sometimes L a few nodes if I need to burn something down fast or vs QGJ lead)
SIdious (sometimes L a few nodes if I need a bit more damage)
GS
Kylo Ren
I try to finish with something that's less than the best team I could finish with so that if others encounter my team when doing their GW it doesn't totally wreck them. It's not nice and kind of a **** move, although I am hoping that not everyone realizes what they are doing to others because I still encounter a lot of teams missing healers that I absolutely, 100% know they didn't use for the majority of GW.
Now, if I have to bring a strong arena style team to finish GW, so be it. But I haven't had to do that to finish in months.
Oh...I should add that my standard GW team is Barriss (corrected) (lead), QGJ, GS, Lumi, and Ahsoka.
I leave Dooku, Rey, Sid, IG-86, IG-88, Daka, Poe, Kylo, Yoda and others (everything is maxed out) on the bench for the final fight when possible.
Either my arena team or a test team/build I'm thinking of making my next arena team. Depends on my run.
I finished the last one with something I was curious on.
Ventress Lead
Daka
RG
Dooku
GS
Was not a true test as Dooku and GS were both damaged, Dooku had 1 cooldown on special as they are on my GW march squad. They were both about 60% HP and I faced a Dooku led Poggle 3 cannon team(88,86,gs) so I only walked out with Ventress and a barely alive RG. I was happy with the result seeing as 1 of my 3 speedy characters had cooldowns and 2 were damaged and 1 had a heal as special.
I use my main team for most battles and I'll pull out a B team if there's a certain enemy toon I want to burn down first. I'll put in my main squad if the B team loses to mop up what's left of the enemy team. I'll use a suicide squad if I want an enemy to blow their special and then come back with my main squad.
Main Team:
7* Lumi(L)
7* Phasma
6* Sid
5* Talia
5* Chewie
Sometimes I switch to Phasma lead if Lumi lead is getting terrible RNG for a certain battle. Chewie is actually my favorite GW tank because he can taunt and then heal himself so he lasts multiple battles. Poe, Han, and RG only last one or two battles before they die.
I kill off as many characters as possible on the last node. I make sure the sides are equal with regards to number of characters. So when there's 5 enemies, I have 5 toons. When I kill off someone, the next time I do 4, etc. I just keep grabbing the toons from the bottom, hit auto, and see what happens. Today I finished by beating Sid with I think kit. I keep my A squad in reserves just in case, but it never comes down to that. A few times, I've gotten it down to my last 6 toons before I won. So if you ever get to the last node, and it's just 1 guy, it could be me
FWIW:
(Teams are level 70 and well geared- used to mostly or fully clear a tough node. Survivors are moved into suicide squad trash bucket)
Team A- Barriss, lumi, QGJ, GS, FOTP
Team B- phasma, FOST, kylo, Tusken raider, Poe
Team C- Vader, Tarkin, Snowtrooper, RG, poggle
Team D- Dooku, Sid, Rey, yoda, cad bane
(Suicide squads are level 60, or poor geared 70s. Used to kill off a leader or high threat- aka Daka, Rey, fotp, etc. there are never any survivors)
Suicide A- HK, 86, 88, magmagaurd, leia
Suicide B- boba, lando, greedo, fives, maul
Suicide C- Ben, kit, Talia, JC, Aayla
Suicide D+ any other random 60+ toons or survivors from main teams
Fodder- anyone under 60. Used to blow cool downs in 1 turn or less or it's free!
I use Sid, Lumi, JC, Phasma, QGJ, IG-86, Ventress and Daka in different team combinations during GW. But I like to do the very last node with a complete different team. Today for example it was a mid tier full Jedi team consisting of 5* Anakin (L), 7* Lumi, 6* JC, 5* Ahsoka and a 5* little green guy:
Darth Dodgeious was a little bit annoying with 12 dodges or so, but finally my Yoda kicked his wrinkly butt:
PS: No cannon fodder, no retreats, I think those Jedi did pretty well there.
Tho I usually like to have ventress and initiate (my two 7*). Come to the think of it, I think they're my only two that never die in GW (unless I wipe).
Today I finished with Ventress, initiate, acolyte, and ewok elder. ^_^ 4-man team. (Well 3 women and a fur ball)
For nodes 1-6 I use the 4 nightsisters (no Daka) with ahsoka. They can finish with full health due to their self-heals.
Then 7-8-9-10-11, I try once, then switch out a member if it doesn't end too well, rinse and repeat until I finish with good health and my heals not on CD. I usually bring out Lumi around here.
GS and QGJ I throw in when I need to dispatch foes fast.
I refuse to lose someone before node 9.
9-10-11 I waste a suicide squad first.
Whatever I got left I throw at 12.
The following are lvl 60+ in purple gear:
Ventress
Initiate
Acolyte
Talia
Lumi
JC
QGJ
GS
Han
Asohka
RG
Then I got the 50-60 not yet purple (3* to 5*):
Vader
Ewok elder
FOST
Chewy
86
88
Luke
And the rest are too weak to be of any use other than suicide.
I thought GW teams were based on whatever arena team a person had going at that moment, not GW team. If I am mistaken, could someone please point me to the official information? Thanks!
Main team: QGJ lead, Yoda ,Lumi, Jc, sid
Bench: Eeth, Poggle, Luke,
Second team: Ventress FOTP Chewie Vader Daka
I think if you switch out Vader for Initiate you'd be very pleased. Stronger, faster, more HP than Vader, and synergizes with ventress lead (chips away enemy Turn Meter, which helps ventress move before the healers)
Replies
B team: Nute (L), Leia, Lando, RG, Ewok Elder
Subs: Poggle, JC, Old Ben
C Team: 5/6 star mid level droids
Sub Jedi: Eeth, Mace, Barris
B team: Phasma lead, Poggle, IG-86, IG-88, Sid
Usually finish with one or none deaths
That is: QGJ, Lumi, Sid (replacing Poe as his heal immunity annoys other players), Dooku and Rey. All 7* maxed.
It pleases me knowing L60's come up against this team in GW and throw their toys out of the pram.
Lumi lead
Dooku
Jc
Sid
Qjg
Sub gs and 86
B team
Yoda lead
Mace
Ek
Savage
Ventress
Sub kylo and maul
And finish it easy
I run
Lumi (L)
JC
and then whatever combination of the below I feel like
Dooku
QGJ (sometimes L a few nodes if I need to burn something down fast or vs QGJ lead)
SIdious (sometimes L a few nodes if I need a bit more damage)
GS
Kylo Ren
Now, if I have to bring a strong arena style team to finish GW, so be it. But I haven't had to do that to finish in months.
Oh...I should add that my standard GW team is Barriss (corrected) (lead), QGJ, GS, Lumi, and Ahsoka.
I leave Dooku, Rey, Sid, IG-86, IG-88, Daka, Poe, Kylo, Yoda and others (everything is maxed out) on the bench for the final fight when possible.
I finished the last one with something I was curious on.
Ventress Lead
Daka
RG
Dooku
GS
Was not a true test as Dooku and GS were both damaged, Dooku had 1 cooldown on special as they are on my GW march squad. They were both about 60% HP and I faced a Dooku led Poggle 3 cannon team(88,86,gs) so I only walked out with Ventress and a barely alive RG. I was happy with the result seeing as 1 of my 3 speedy characters had cooldowns and 2 were damaged and 1 had a heal as special.
Main Team:
7* Lumi(L)
7* Phasma
6* Sid
5* Talia
5* Chewie
Sometimes I switch to Phasma lead if Lumi lead is getting terrible RNG for a certain battle. Chewie is actually my favorite GW tank because he can taunt and then heal himself so he lasts multiple battles. Poe, Han, and RG only last one or two battles before they die.
B team(Jedi):
5* QGJ(L)
5* Yoda
5* JC
5* Mace
5* Ahsoka
B team:
4* Finn (L)
4* Poe
5* Greedo
4* GS
4* RG
Subs:
4* Vader
4* IG-88
4* Ventress
4* Han
4* Bariss
Suicide:
3* Luke(L)
4* Nute
3* IG-86
3* Dooku
3* Jawa
Some other 1* and 2* toons if I'm really struggling that day, which doesn't happen often.
FWIW:
(Teams are level 70 and well geared- used to mostly or fully clear a tough node. Survivors are moved into suicide squad trash bucket)
Team A- Barriss, lumi, QGJ, GS, FOTP
Team B- phasma, FOST, kylo, Tusken raider, Poe
Team C- Vader, Tarkin, Snowtrooper, RG, poggle
Team D- Dooku, Sid, Rey, yoda, cad bane
(Suicide squads are level 60, or poor geared 70s. Used to kill off a leader or high threat- aka Daka, Rey, fotp, etc. there are never any survivors)
Suicide A- HK, 86, 88, magmagaurd, leia
Suicide B- boba, lando, greedo, fives, maul
Suicide C- Ben, kit, Talia, JC, Aayla
Suicide D+ any other random 60+ toons or survivors from main teams
Fodder- anyone under 60. Used to blow cool downs in 1 turn or less or it's free!
B Team: Barriss, Daka, Dooku, Sid, and GS
Ackbar
Leia
Biggs
Han
+random lvl 50-60 character.
Lumi
JC
FOTP
Leia
6 star dooku lead
6 star gs
5 star qgj
4 star rey
4 star rg
I rarely have to retreat and can do the whole GW with this squad.
Darth Dodgeious was a little bit annoying with 12 dodges or so, but finally my Yoda kicked his wrinkly butt:
PS: No cannon fodder, no retreats, I think those Jedi did pretty well there.
Bariss, Phasma, RG, Daka, and old Ben.... Matches went reeeeal slooow
Tho I usually like to have ventress and initiate (my two 7*). Come to the think of it, I think they're my only two that never die in GW (unless I wipe).
Today I finished with Ventress, initiate, acolyte, and ewok elder. ^_^ 4-man team. (Well 3 women and a fur ball)
Off topic: do ewoks have females!?
Bariss and rg at 5 stars, and the others at 7
Then 7-8-9-10-11, I try once, then switch out a member if it doesn't end too well, rinse and repeat until I finish with good health and my heals not on CD. I usually bring out Lumi around here.
GS and QGJ I throw in when I need to dispatch foes fast.
I refuse to lose someone before node 9.
9-10-11 I waste a suicide squad first.
Whatever I got left I throw at 12.
The following are lvl 60+ in purple gear:
Ventress
Initiate
Acolyte
Talia
Lumi
JC
QGJ
GS
Han
Asohka
RG
Then I got the 50-60 not yet purple (3* to 5*):
Vader
Ewok elder
FOST
Chewy
86
88
Luke
And the rest are too weak to be of any use other than suicide.
Yea similar to my arena setup but I use elder instead of lumi there. It steamrolls most other teams
Bench: Eeth, Poggle, Luke,
Second team: Ventress FOTP Chewie Vader Daka
Yoda 6*
Lumi 7*
Mace 7*
Ashoka 7*
Barely ever lose a toon playing this team
I think if you switch out Vader for Initiate you'd be very pleased. Stronger, faster, more HP than Vader, and synergizes with ventress lead (chips away enemy Turn Meter, which helps ventress move before the healers)
Barriss, QGJ, Lumi, Rey, Kylo
B Team: Sid, Dooku, Asajj, JC, Ashoka
C Team: Luke, Vader, RP, Mace, Tarkin