Do you think a 5* chimaera will be better than a 7* executrix?

I have a guy at rank 3 in my arena with 6 Star chimera so our answer may be right there.

Who were the enemies he came up against while ascending? That should be factored in too.

"SpeedRacer;c-1304911" wrote:
The question is only one, can Chimaera reach it's 4th turn before Executrix 5th?

If yes then u might beat Tarkin.

Really this is the correct answer.

Whichever ship can get their ult off the quickest should be the one that you use.

https://youtu.be/PY5bflBntew

Here’s a vid showing a 5* chimera vs a 6* executrix

So I have a rubbish G7 lvl 3 abilities Thrawn with no mods and a 5* Chimera with hardly any abilities (3,5,2,2,1 as you read across startingbwith the crew power). I beat a 380k+ power 7* Executrix team (I was at about 327k). I have lower geared pilots but what I think is a better team. Didn't lose a single ship.

Then took on a 6* Ackbar who is one of the strongest guys on my shard to take first place. Certainly no harder than normal and a comfortable win though not as overwhelming as the first.

Nobody got off their ultimate or more than 2 reinforcements. Too chicken to drop the power and paint a target on my back so switched back to Exec for holding over night.

I've faced 3 G12 Thrawn, 7* Chimera ships in my arena - 2 had 1 zeta and the other had both zetas - so very near max Thrawn. The 2 zeta team had 450k ship power and he has all his starting pilots at G12. His total GP is over 3.2 million! My 7* Executrix smoked his team using 2 reinforcements and I had 5 pilots standing when I launched TIE Strike. The other two Thrawn players that had 1 zeta Thrawn had similar results. In the 3 battels, Thrawn never got to his end game special. I have Screen shot but can't post them at the moment, but in one of the battles vs. the 2 zeta Thrawn I killed his FOTP, damaged his Biggs, my Tarkin was 20% TM in to his 2nd turn ... but his Thrawn hadn't moved yet - still about 10% TM away from his first action.

For comparison, I don't run Reaper and my pilots are all G11 or less except for Vader - and even with Vader my TIE Adv is just 6* right now (late start on ships). My Starfighter pilots are G8 and my Scimitar is just 4*...so 390k power ship with just 1 G12 pilot took out, pretty easily, a full G12 pilot team with a 2x zeta, G12, 7* Chimera - he didn't use Reaper in the squad, but I can also farm Reaper as well so it goes both ways.

Thrawn's ship is very good, don't get me wrong, but it's not unbeatable and I'd definitely say a 7* Executrix is >>> than a 5* Chimera. I wouldn't even rule out Executrix being flat out better or at least as good even compared to a 7* Chimera. Of course new ships can come in and changes things and skew it toward Chimera heavily, but as of now I think the classic capital ships are still competitive.

"Napoli;c-1305605" wrote:
Any thoughts on how a 6-star Chimera with a 5-star G11 Thrawn would fare (as opposed to a 7* G12 Ackbar ship)?

Hard to say, what's the speed at that level? I would also qualify on the above I think on offense a well-built Thrawn / Chimera will win on offense vs. Tarkin. Wasn't trying to insinuate Chi was trash, it's very good, just that it's not like a CLS vs. Maul in arena type of thing.

Johnny, did those chimaeras have the ultimate fully upgraded to give a 4 turn cooldown instead of 5? Executrix is faster but the advantage of chimaera is one less turn to get to the ultimate.

Answer is simple. Chimaera is unstoppable on offense, but useless on defense.

"Macattack9;c-1305704" wrote:
Johnny, did those chimaeras have the ultimate fully upgraded to give a 4 turn cooldown instead of 5? Executrix is faster but the advantage of chimaera is one less turn to get to the ultimate.

Yeah that skill was maxed. In fact, they each had all the skills maxed. I checked my screen shots at time of playing and also in game now. I just looked at the 3.2 mm GP player with all G12 pilots, he's sitting at rank 15 now despite a 2xzeta G12 thrawn and 7* Chimera.

EDIT: just fought a 4th battle vs. one of these guys - they actually had me down considerably early due to focus fire targeting and the TL + Biggs setup (so nothing to do with Thrawn specifically), but I still get to my end game special too fast and won with 4 ships still standing vs. his lone TFP as my TIE strike move came available.

I will say, Gauntlet Starfighter is a big ship to have in reserve vs. CHI ...that team dispel after his debuffing move + Protection up is massive. You're going to want TIE Reaper & GS if possible.