"obiwan1011;47340" wrote:
"JohnnySteelAlpha;46914" wrote:
Once you have more of the roster he's actually pretty easy to gameplan for because he only has one way to impact the match.
It's easy to say expand and build up your roster, but that is often a luxury to most F2P players. FOTP is technically a farmable hero, but very few F2P players have the resources to farm him to a 6/7-star. Hence, you often get to only see him in a P2P team, paired with Leia and Poe.
Poe? It takes 132 days (without any energy refill) to get him to a 7-star from the Cantina Shipment. That's 4+ months. The top of the arena is already full of teams led by a 7-star Poe.
This is why the game is flooded with the same Sid/Lumi/Phasma team - not because they are necessarily the best, but because they are the best options within the truly farmable heroes (Arena and GW). This is why the forum is also flooded with nerf threads on FOTP and Poe (and it used to be on Barriss and Dooku); most players just don't have the means within their roster to counter them.
Poe doesn't need to be 7* at all. His health gain from 4-7* is modest and his biggest action is just firing that taunt skill, changing the meter, directing the first few shots, and the expose. As long as you're bringing offensive firepower in the match that can kill stuff in round 1 Poe getting killed at the end of round 1 is not an issue. This is why he's a gift to F2P. He doesn't need to be close to 7* to function at a high level.
