Kit Reveal: B-Wings and Fries (Chips)

UNIT NAME: B-wing

ALIGNMENT: Light Side

CATEGORIES: Attacker, Rebel

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Key Attributes:

• Lifting Home One’s Rebel fleet to greater heights! The B-wing is most compatible with a fully non-Scoundrel Rebel fleet.
• B-wing makes greater use of Home One’s strengths by reducing the capital ship’s cooldowns.
• Create more chances for Rebels to deal devastating amounts of damage under Home One’s Master Plan ability.
• Home One will have a new effect added to its Unique ability, Band Together, which allows the capital ship to reinforce B-wing immediately at the start of battle.

 

Inspiration:

• The B-wing first appeared in the Battle of Endor in Return of the Jedi as a mainstay heavy fighter for the Rebel fleet, and has been on our radar to add to Rebels ever since we added ships to the game
• The original “Blade Wing” prototype was seen in Star Wars: Rebels, flown by Hera Syndulla. Unfortunately this version of Hera in Galaxy of Heroes already has a ship so she couldn’t be the pilot of this one.
• During that episode, and in the show Skeleton Crew, we saw the B-wing fire its focused laser beam to cut through the enemy ships. We knew that if we ever added B-wing to the game we would want to show off this move as part of its kit.

Strategy Tips:

• Reinforce B-wing quickly at the start of battle for a potent burst of damage across the entire fleet before your enemy can even make a move.
• Use B-wing to assist as much as possible to reduce Home One’s cooldowns as fast as possible, giving more opportunities to use Master Plan.
• Using B-wing’s Special 2, Composite-beam Laser, consecutively under Master Plan will be most effective in dealing more damage.

 

FAQ:

 

• How do I unlock B-Wing?
• B-wing is a Marquee event starting on 10/7 at 11am Pacific. Like all our Marquees at this point, the event will give out rewards daily, so make sure you keep coming back and playing it every day.
• Who is the pilot?
• Since Hera Syndulla was not available, we noted that Captain Drogan was qualified on the B-wing in his service record, so we tapped him in as pilot for the ship. You will earn Captain Drogan shards during the Marquee for B-wing to ensure your new ship has a crew to fly it.
• Where does this ship and fleet stand in the meta now?
• B-wing under Home One, starting in reserves, is an extremely potent upgrade to that fleet. Save for the Big Three (Executor, Profundity, Leviathan), the new Home One/B-wing fleet should be performing exceptionally well against fleets of equal investment.

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ABILITIES:

Basic - Gyrhil R-9X Heavy Laser Cannons

Final Text: Deal Physical damage to target enemy with a 20% chance to Target Lock them for 1 turn, 100% if the allied Capital Ship is Home One.

If the allied Capital Ship is Home One, Rebel B-wing gains Offense Up for 1 turn.

Target Lock: Inflict Evasion Down to target enemy for 1 turn.

Special 1 - Blockade Buster (Cooldown 3)

Final Text: Deal Physical damage to all enemies and inflict them with Accuracy Down and Defense Down for 2 turns. Rebel B-wing dispels all debuffs on itself and gains Protection Up (10%) for 2 turns. If the allied Capital Ship is Home One, call a random ally with Defense Up to assist, dealing 50% less damage. Grant the assisting ally Critical Damage Up for 1 turn.

Target Lock: Daze all enemies with Target Lock for 1 turn.

Special 2 (Crew) - Composite-beam Laser (Cooldown 5)

Final Text: Deal Physical damage to all enemies and Rebel B-wing gains Critical Damage Up for 2 turns. If the allied Capital Ship is Home One, inflict Evasion Down on all enemies for 1 turn. If target enemy is already inflicted with Evasion Down, Ability Block them for 1 turn instead and deal 100% bonus damage.

This ability starts on cooldown. If the allied Capital Ship is Home One, the cooldown of this ability is reduced to 1 at the start of battle.

Unique - Tactical Maneuver

Final Text: At the start of battle, if the allied Capital Ship is Home One, gain 10% Max Health until the end of battle. Whenever Rebel B-wing is damaged by an enemy, gain 25% Turn Meter and Retribution for 2 turns. Whenever Rebel B-wing attacks out of turn, reduce all cooldowns on Home One excluding Call Reinforcement by 1. Whenever Rebel B-wing gains Master Plan, all Rebel allies gain 25% Critical Chance (stacking) for the rest of the encounter. Whenever Master Plan expires, Rebel B-wing gains Tactical Supremacy for 2 turns, which can't be copied.

Reinforcement- Stay On Course

Final Text: Enter Battle: Grant Rebel allies Advantage and Defense Up for 1 turn. If the allied Capital Ship is Home One and there are no deployed Scoundrel allies, grant Home One a bonus turn and their cooldowns are reset excluding Call Reinforcement.