"JohnnySteelAlpha;c-1082081" wrote:
@ImYourHuckleberry
Chaze is broken and not arena at the moment. It's very simple. Arena is not broken because you can beat Gk / R2 / Chaze without using any of those 4, you are not forced in to a mirror match or using the same 3/4 core toons. Chaze is broken because they are bypassing the cycle part of the game. They take a Sith like DN, who they have no deliberate synergy with, and it forms the core of the best team in the middle of the greatest pass (Sith) the game has ever had by far. We are 2+ months deep in dark side releases / updates and Chaze has only gotten stronger over that time. Through every meta since they have been released, they are the best defense team and an elite offense attacking team. This is only possible because they do so much - so they are ready made and will be fine in any meta. They have zero inherent weaknesses.
That Chaze meta is not due to poor toon development - zSO, zKylo, DN, SA, SiT, Dooku ... these are all excellent toons. It's their ability, because they do everything, to hijack other factions best players and make them better with them than in their own synergy team. Think about that. Team synergy is < Chaze. That's a problem no? It's not toon release issues - CG is putting out fire - but Chaze is engulfing anything good, no matter the faction.
I think your indifference to the future and what ifs is quite shortsighted. I've seen this happen already in other games - I've lived though full out game breaks where 200+ roster was boiled down to 4-5 heroes that required a mirror match. It can happen, it has happened before, but let's not let that happen here. The game is too good overall and too many awesome characters and skills. I feel the game is dangerously close to breaking in terms of needing a core 3/4 heroes and REALLY getting close to breaking the LS / DS part of the game.
In the end though, I'm not going to get upset and hoot and holler. I'll take what the game gives. It's not my game - just sharing my view and opinions and I'm seeing the game trending in the direction of how CG's other game - Heroes of Dragon Age - went as well. The entire good / evil cleanse / debuff dynamic is eerily similar and the way we are closing in on a very elite handful of toons vs. the entire roster....
Look at this GG report - you know what sticks out the most as a huge warning sign that the game is breaking / consolidating on a very few toons? The chasm that has opened up from the top 5 most used characters and the 6th+ most. You go from 44% usage on Chirrut all the way down to 27% on DM. And that gap is in the process of widening day by day. It's not shrinking. Trends are for further widening of this elite / non-elite gap. R2 - very much riding Chaze's coattails, is now past Savage and Kylo - both very strong characters. In a matter of days he will almost assuredly pass both EP and DM to move in to 6th. You can put your head in the sand to these trends, but the game is absolutely in the process of consolidating / collapsing on a very few characters and Chaze is at the core of that collapse.
https://swgoh.gg/meta-report/
This is an awesome summary that people should read over and over again.
