Jedi teams are a liability
Jedi teams have a lot of interesting synergy and certainly some power characters but the meta has leaned heavily towards Sidious and Dooku and especially Sidious AND Dooku. They are both fairly farmable characters, unlike many of the top tier Jedi heroes and they are extremely prevalent in the top 100.
Count Dooku is an absolute nightmare to get rid of without stuns and that's not even considering having a jedi team. With a jedi team, trying to focus him down with flawless riposte/hindering press combo resulting in 35% stun and ability block (and force lightning at 90% stun chance) is a guaranteed loss since the one thing Jedi are really lacking is, you guessed it, stuns. Only the truly terrible Eeth Koth and only-whales-have-her-maxed Aayla Secura can deliver in that regard.
Sidious, being available in squad cantina shipments and granting no-restrictions crit and crit damage has made him the most prevalent leader in squad cantina by far. It also means the one thing the Jedi really have going for them, healing, is no longer reliable. While he does have a small health pool, his free 35% evasion against Jedi teams makes focusing a gauranteed loss probably half the time. Yet, it's dangerous to ignore him because he smacks one of your carries with a healing debuff and you lose anyway. The only thing that slightly balances this out is his 0 potency.
Point is, the prevalence of anti-jedi abilities in the current meta has rendered anything but support or healer jedi a liability. And some day when they buff scoundrels were going to have Cad Bane's everywhere and Darth Maul is on the up-and-up too resulting in team wipes because you brought Jedi. I guess this would be much more interesting if there were anti-Sith abilities to counteract this, but there isn't. Which means bringing an all Jedi team is almost always going to leave you at disadvantage.
Count Dooku is an absolute nightmare to get rid of without stuns and that's not even considering having a jedi team. With a jedi team, trying to focus him down with flawless riposte/hindering press combo resulting in 35% stun and ability block (and force lightning at 90% stun chance) is a guaranteed loss since the one thing Jedi are really lacking is, you guessed it, stuns. Only the truly terrible Eeth Koth and only-whales-have-her-maxed Aayla Secura can deliver in that regard.
Sidious, being available in squad cantina shipments and granting no-restrictions crit and crit damage has made him the most prevalent leader in squad cantina by far. It also means the one thing the Jedi really have going for them, healing, is no longer reliable. While he does have a small health pool, his free 35% evasion against Jedi teams makes focusing a gauranteed loss probably half the time. Yet, it's dangerous to ignore him because he smacks one of your carries with a healing debuff and you lose anyway. The only thing that slightly balances this out is his 0 potency.
Point is, the prevalence of anti-jedi abilities in the current meta has rendered anything but support or healer jedi a liability. And some day when they buff scoundrels were going to have Cad Bane's everywhere and Darth Maul is on the up-and-up too resulting in team wipes because you brought Jedi. I guess this would be much more interesting if there were anti-Sith abilities to counteract this, but there isn't. Which means bringing an all Jedi team is almost always going to leave you at disadvantage.
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I need to get the balls to drop Barriss but her bypass of the Sid heal block is kinda useful at saving a soul.
I believe incoming update will introduce some anti-Sith abilities. Otherwise a 7* Dooku will be so difficult to kill and we'll see many OP threads in the forum. So don't give up on your Jedi team yet...
Sid-Dooku are everywhere. So is Kylo. The Dark Side is faster but not more powerful
That was one of this issues I brought up, availability. There's pretty much no way you're going to have aayla at a competitive level without spending hundreds of dollars, and I limit myself to $20 a month. Her kit definitely has some foils to Sid/dooku but I've never actually seen her in squad arena or gw.
It is relevant because Jedi have amazing synergy that works well against everything...Sith are the answer to a full Jedi team.
Maul didn't die.
Mace lost.
Luke didn't defeat Vader, he tried to strike down the emporer in anger and failed, Anakin killed Vader in the same way Vader killed anakin. Anakin/vader was the one who defeated sidious.
From what I understand Jedi won and spent a lot longer in power than sith...eventually after loads of planning and finally catching them completely off guard with a huge betrayal from within...they live in power for like 20 years? Before one partially trained Jedi comes along and topples them...
That would be a valid point if Sith didn't also have Sith-based synergy. My point is, given the current state of the meta, only QGJ teams have any hope in hell of being competitive and he's a whales-only hero. Either tone down anti-jedi, or make the viable jedi heroes more accessible. We need some variety in the top 100.
Fine, maul was resurrected by the sheer will of fan service, but he lost the duel. Mace also won a lightsaber duel and force contest against Sidious, he "lost" because he was betrayed. Luke in the height of his power defeated Vader in a lightsaber duel. I never said anything about Luke defeating the Emporer. The Jedi have no worse of a track record against Sith than the Sith do against Jedi. After all, in the words of Obi-Wan, "Sith are our specialty".
Thing is with Dooku even a 6* Max I can 2 hit him with Lum and JC. Sid is a 2 hit kill with the Jedi I run. Sure he evades. While it would be cool to have an all Jedi team. It is not viable in this current balance where Sid, Maul, and Dooku run all over.
There are plenty of good Jedi leaders. Luminara, Barriss, Anakin, and IMA are all fantastic. There are only 3 Sith with Sith leadership skills. This is without comparing the sheer number advantage of Jedis(14 most of any race by far) compared to Sith(5).
Ah well the dangers of running a mostly Jedi team...sometimes a Sid will just win on his own whilst you are completely unable to make damage stick to him lol. Very much not a fun experience.
Every one of my characters were 6* max gear for 61.
Lmfao, Sid definitely is a beast, that's it.
You need to get one
Well I have one but I don't use him out of principal on non dark side missions and will never let him be leader ever because look how that turned out!
But yeah if personal taste wasn't an issue I would use him so much xD
LOL.. Good luck with that.
The thing is tho I never feel cheated when I get beaten by them because I paid for my team and those players farmed theirs for hours.
Technically Im the one who "cheated" so I just accept defeat when it comes.
Also its the "Jedi" thing to do... Ammarit???? (Ok, lame joke. Ha ha)