IT IS A FACT: Chimera and BIGGS/ VADER + TIe Fighter/or random other suitable ship are heavily used. You always have single outbreaks with other ships like geos but at least 15 teams in the top 20 of nearly every shard are Chimera witht he above mentioned combinations. The reduction of 5 to 3 ships hammered the fun of ships enormous. I remember the devs saying in an interview that this will bring strategic depth as we never experienced it before.
Yeah well, i never experienced such a rng strategy LOL