Every major faction has a "Chaze."

"Waez;c-1145591" wrote:
Well for starter, no.
No other duo has Chaze utility.
No other duo has such a good mix of utility, damage and tankyness, and no other duo can do as much as Chaze can.

And more importantly, no other duo is as plug and play as them. Chaze can be added anywhere and still be effective.

That's not the case for any other duo in the game, and that's how you end up with teams like the Triple Cleanse team where you slap the best individual toons under a Rex lead and it just works for no real reason besides "This character is strong on his own"

I understand what you're trying to say, but it's just not true.

Moreover, Chaze is a very unhealthy duo for the game. They set the bar so high that it's almost impossible to come near their power level without introducing even bigger power creep.

Look at the recent releases: Gar Saxon, Phoenix, ATF., the Imperial Troopers.. All of them are rather good on paper, but the truth is that they're not as good as Chaze, and don't specifically counter them, so they can't have a room in the current meta.

Chaze pigeonhole us into some very specific strategies. You don't have a way to quickly remove buffs or block healing, you're dead.

This comes from 1 major issue in the game: Power creep. Ever since Wiggs was introduced, we have navigated between offense and defense meta. Wiggs was a huge offense powerhouse, so they made Shoretrooper to counter it. They enforced defense with General Kenobi, and soon the game was mostly about defense.

To keep things going, they tried to increase the overall offensive power by reworking Boba and introducing ZVader.

But then offense was too powerful, so they toned it down with the release of Chaze, to increase survivability.

To counter the now defense-oriented meta, they moved to Offense and made Nihilus and ATF, which was probably meant to be a strong offensive character, to pierce the now overpowered wall that is Chaze. R2 and Thrawn were also ways to reduce that whittle down those turtle formations.

But they didn't, and from that point on, the power creep was so high that it was pretty much impossible to create something more powerful. So they made some nice teams, but they can't hold in Arena (Phoenix, Troopers, for instance)

And now, we just have to suffer from that power creep, because it's an unsustainable strategy. The only real solution is nerfing some powerhouses, but somehow most of the playerbase is against nerfs. My guess is they don't realize how cornered the devs are, and that Chaze is here to stay if we don't do anything about them.