Best squads for phase 1 of heroic sith raid

It's been a while since my guild successfully cleared heroic sith raid and since then we've cleared it no problem albeit phase 1 with nihilus always slightly slowing us down a bit. However lately my guild has been taking a lot longer to complete phase 1 for reasons unknown. What used to take us maybe only 30 to 40 minutes to complete now can take up to nearly 4 hours to clear and this is just phase 1. I can understand bad timing of the raid or whatever but I'm considering looking into working on building up other squads to help make more progress. I typically run a resistance team with jedi training rey and do about 1.5 to 2 million damage on auto but what other squads are best for phase 1 of sith raid?

22 Replies

taxingpear94
6 years ago
Resistance is the way to go. Jedi Rey lead, R2, BB8, trooper and scav rey. DO NOT auto the phase. You must manually play it. https://swgoh.gg/p/991589674/characters/?f=Resistance
That is my resistance team. Check my stats out. I can normally take out 10% or more of phase 1 by myself.
Rath_Tarr0
6 years ago
Are you sure it's not just people sandbagging for a shot at p2? Nihilus is frustrating and unrewarding fight.
Ladas139
6 years ago
"Coolnessda;d-215021" wrote:
1.5 to 2 million damage on auto

I think you have self diagnosed the “unknown reasons”.
GifafiTho
6 years ago
resistance w/jtr c3 r2 rt/finn but rt is better imo bc of the cleanse
GifafiTho
6 years ago
resistance w/jtr c3 r2 rt/finn but rt is better imo bc of the cleanse
coolnessda
New Traveler
6 years ago
In all fairness my squads aren't in the best of shape. As a free to play gamer I can only do so much and lately I've been trying to keep up with my jedi revan squad since they are my everything squad right now while working on separatists for padme and geo territory battle. So yes my participation is lacking its moreso that I dont have other strong enough teams to add in for phase 1 and the feeling that only a few guild mates really put any effort into phase 1 because it seems like the same very few people put in the higher scores every run. Otherwise we clear phases 2 thru 4 no problem. I'm part of a guild with 48 members and we have a somewhat strict entry galactic power of like 3 million or more. My best guess is either the raid has gone stale for most of us or it's just bad timing but it just seems odd that it only started getting bad within the past 2 months give or take.
jpfit262
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
JTR, and then you want to hit the last 5-10% of the phase with JKR and then roll into p2 and do roughly the same or better damage there as well.
tvsfrink
6 years ago
"Gifafi;c-1972916" wrote:
resistance w/jtr c3 r2 rt/finn but rt is better imo bc of the cleanse

A properly geared Finn does way more damage, and a JTR squad doesn't need a cleanse for multiple reasons.
GifafiTho
6 years ago
"TVF;c-1972933" wrote:
"Gifafi;c-1972916" wrote:
resistance w/jtr c3 r2 rt/finn but rt is better imo bc of the cleanse

A properly geared Finn does way more damage, and a JTR squad doesn't need a cleanse for multiple reasons.

why not? re: cleanse
tvsfrink
6 years ago
"Gifafi;c-1972944" wrote:
"TVF;c-1972933" wrote:
"Gifafi;c-1972916" wrote:
resistance w/jtr c3 r2 rt/finn but rt is better imo bc of the cleanse

A properly geared Finn does way more damage, and a JTR squad doesn't need a cleanse for multiple reasons.

why not? re: cleanse

C3: No attacks.
BB8: Only attacks if called or counters, don't call BB8, counter doesn't occur enough with def down to matter.
Finn: Special every turn.
JTR: Alternate specials.
R2: Alternate specials.

So only BB8 will every use basic with def down and it won't happen often. Meanwhile, you also get cleanses from JTR (self) and R2 (unique AOE cleanse).