Chaze Destroyer

"Ouchie;c-1101144" wrote:
Gonna have to agree with OP here. In the right team, with the right mods, she can be a great asset. Yes, terrible in defense, thanks to AI. So are MANY toons. That can be mitigated though in a few ways, depending on your other toons in the team and how you dress her up.

I've had her in my arena team for ages--well over a year. Am I top 10? No, but don't have the time to invest or the interest enough to get there. I am top 100, and lately have been closer to 50 thanks to also adding Deathtrooper.

I don't have her as leader myself, but the extra speed boost for her could be useful for some teams.

Ventress's zeta keeps her offense up and crit chance up for two turns. This also helps the AI problem which is her using her dispell as a heal, even when there are no buffs to remove and she has her offense/crit chance up, thus burning the move when you don't really need it and her offense/crit chance up being wasted. Now with her zeta, even if AI does that, her offense/crit chance will stay up another turn.

Mine is zeta'ed. She's currently in a EP led team, with Kylo (zeta), TFP, and Deathtrooper (a recent addition which now gives me 2 AOE dispellers).

I'm considering switching to Phasma (zeta) lead. Phasma was my leader for ages, and getting lucky with a Ventress assist was great. With Phasma zeta there's no damage penalty for assists, so I'm looking forward to seeing how well they work together again.


Here's a vid I did yesterday with my team against Rogue One + R2
https://youtu.be/NBWo6kg0ySA

Deathtrooper did the real dispelling there. Ventress got one basic in, then dispelled essentially a taunt a few HoTs. A single target dispeller would've been more useful in that battle. Then she used her AOE which did next to nothing even with offense up...
I'm not saying her dispel isn't a good skill, I'm just saying there are better characters for that slot in your arena team. Now, this is coming from the guy who used to use Plo in his EP (L), HRScout, STH, Vader, Plo arena team a long time ago (Don't worry I eventually replaced HRSc with TFP and Plo with Nihilus and then got some zetas and whatnot, but yes I used to run that team in arena and somehow get top 20 during my payout). I know what it's like to not have a good dispeller available, but B2 would be a better choice there. Boba would also probably be better to simply avoid the taunt, especially now that you have Deathtrooper there.

Also, with all the teams that now start arena matches with buffs, Ventress's bonus speed from her unique is becoming less useful even in the first round of attacks.