Executor is a beast? [MERGE]

"Ragnarok_COTF;c-2289139" wrote:
Disclaimer, there are no Executor in my shard. Our first TW opponent set none on defense.

The speed issue with 7* seems like an obvious oversight that I hope is addressed. Depending on how long they take, I also hope they compensate those that rushed for 7* just to have a worse ship than those with 5/6*.

Regarding non-mirror counters. My current exposure is only 1 GAC opponent. I was dumb enough to put rebels on D, so I can't speak to that counter. But Mal is by no means a cakewalk. I was streaming with guild mates, and they streamed some arena Mal vs Ex for me. They lost. I lost. I killed one ship. Brought in Rsddus, killed one more. Brought in Finalizer, got lucky that Breached ship was killed first, so I could dispel HT and clean up.

Taking my admittedly limited exposure, I'd say the ship is just fine vs Mal, Raddus, and Finalizer.

As for the reports about rebels being the better counter, does it not require well geared/relic'd Bistan and SRP? Not to mention Han, Chewie, and Biggs? I'll reserve judgment on that, but if relic'd rebels can soft counter Ex, I'd say that's fair. Feel free to disagree. I just don't think it's healthy to have a new meta without any soft counters.

If my initial observations turn out to be wrong, I'll gladly recant. But so far, to me, it seems like there's a lot of overreacting going on (save the 7* speed issue, which is outrageous).

The speed issue is obviously the main problem with the ship. Ironically, somehow I'm even kind of "glad" that the lack of conquest and therefore, relic 8 materials, excluded me from being able to play the Executor event the first time it came. I'm still sitting on my stockpile of g13 mats and won't gear up anything, as long as it's not confirmed what's going to happen.
Imho it would be perfectly fine if Malevolence and Negotiator would remain soft counters to the Executor, as they have been the previous meta and it took a lot of people long enough to get them, they are also limited to being in a relatively strong guild. If rebels need extreme relics, I could live with that, too. But, when B fleets such as Finalizer or Raddus get through, that is a problem, because those fleets are cheap side farms.