Enough of the rebels already!

There is something you can do about it. Get Lando. :)

Jokes aside, i do not want to play with the rebels, and I wish i could play the game mostly with the side I choose. And that, would not be the rebel scum...

We need a couple of Dark side healers please. Nightsisters are not much in role.

This isn't really a user error situation though. The developers have flooded the market with overpowered rebel characters, plus added an event where only rebels can used (emperor event), forcing everyone to beef up their rebel squads. All said and done why WOULDN'T players use these squads, since they are now their strongest squads?

Meanwhile it makes the squad battles a very irritating, unimaginative, dull chore.

Often such choices are a result of user behavior and they are meant to balance the game. i.e. We see in out data that players do not prefer to spend resources on rebel scum, therefore we create an event to bring this different gameplay they offer to the surface, and motivate players to love the rebels (never!) a bit more.

Of course, this should be done in moderation, especially if indeed the vast majority prefers to play with a different faction. (We know which one! We can feel their presence in the force!)

I totally, 100% agree with the OP on this. I'm a solid mid-whale player with ripped toons. The rebels right now are st.upid over-powered. Wedge (l), Biggs, Baze, Chirrut, Sun-Fac. How do you beat this team? I've used a ton of dispellers, but Chirrut just overrides them. I've tried ability blocking Chirrut, but then Baze is taunting.

I get that this game is a lot like Magic TCG. New character (cards) come out, and the older ones become obsolete. But this is beyond ridiculous. I've been a staunch supporter of this game since it came out. My biggest complaint has been the slow animation of the tank raid. Now, I'm getting angry and frustrated over a game. I'm sure this will fall on deaf ears like always, but let's look at truly balancing this game out a bit.

I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed but it seems like they also weakened IG-88 quite a bit recently too. Mine used to deal 22k per hit, now he averages around 14k. He and the rest of my droids used to be able to parry the irritating rebel squads, not so much anymore.

Before Chirrut and Baze were added I had a really good chance of beating nearly any Wiggs team with my Droid team. But now, I'm getting destroyed by teams with Chaze (chirrut and baze) and wiggs. The main reason why I am losing now is because of chirrut (and baze obviously, but mostly chirrut). His unique ability that gives heals over time on a critical hit SHOULD be a leader ability instead. For comparison this would be like swapping HK-47's leader ability to a unique ability, and then have IG-88 as your leader instead. I still have a small chance of beating these teams as long as they don't have another high damage character along with the 4 OP rebels. To do this though, I need Biggs to not hit 88 or JE (or at least get buff immunity on baze and JE dies), daze biggs with K-2SO, AND get ability block on chirrut. If these happen then I have a chance of winning. In the future unless the devs balance the game with the new zeta abilities then rebels will always be OP. Rebels shouldn't even have zetas cause they all have insane synergies with each other, ie Chaze and Wiggs.

I totally agree with these statements. Rebels are a needed group and a large part of Star Wars, but you need more diversity in arena groups to keep things fun. No one wants to fight same four characters every battle