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6 years ago

Gen. Skywalker or Jedi Knight Anakin Update Incoming?

It’s been over a month since the 501st were updated. They are currently a four person team, but still no word on what will be coming to make them a complete team. What would the 501st be without the leader of the 501st, Anakin Skywalker?

Some suspect there will be a new General Skywalker character introduced to the game. I’m not so sure. Not with The Mandelorian & TROS set to introduce many new characters very soon - The Knights of Ren, to name one group. That’s likely taken a lot of development time to be ready by November, when The Mandelorian begins. I strongly suspect we will see an update to Jedi Knight Anakin (JKA). We can see hints to that in that Ahsoka Tano being given the 501st tag, and the recent change to the Advantage buff. JKA’s leadership gives two turns of advantage to any Jedi or Clone who’s attack was evaded.

Currently, the Clones are far better than they were, but still very beatable. If Fives has his newest zeta, you really don’t want to take down any other 501st until Fives. It’s not hard. However, if JKA is on the team, even weakening Fives would call JKA’s bonus action for mass AOE. The 501st in SWGOH currently consists of Clones and one Jedi. Capital Games really seems to want us to use Ahsoka with the 501st. Teamed with JKA boosts Ahsoka’s speed and attacks.
Some point to Shaak Ti, because she’s great with Clones. Yet she has no Clone or 501st tag, nor any reason she should have one.

I suspect we will see JKA get a 501st tag, and possibly a new 501st unique that comes with a new zeta. What that new unique could be, I have no idea. Who could have imagined Rex would become a soft Nihilus?
Grievous, Fives, Ventress, and Brood Alpha are all non-event characters with two zetas. I just find it odd that JKA, the Chosen One, is a one zeta character. His zeta is more of a buff to Padme, than to JKA. He should have a second zeta.

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  • This is why I ignore poorly-spelled, unsubstantiated Discord rumors.

    For a solid year we were "definitely getting Jedi Knight Luke." Never happened. Jango Fett was "definitely going to be a legendary." Nope.

    Just stockpile resources if you think something big is coming, and pay attention to the kits of new characters or reworks, as they sometimes give away what's coming.
  • Something to synergize with the 501st was definitely implied by the devs in the last Q&A. I personally don't put any stock into the "leak" details but feel confident that the devs have something coming.

    'Q: With Echo's basic ability it says that he does extra damage when he has Crit damage up. No one on his synergies gives Crit damage up... is that something or someone to look forward to perhaps?
    A: Tophat - Interesting. Wonder what that could mean?"
  • "Kristantei;c-1971264" wrote:
    "Jamerson;c-1971251" wrote:
    Reworking JKA for this would destroy the padme team.......It needs to be the clone wars version of general skywalker

    It wouldn’t destroy the Padme team. It could be creating a new team or a variety of teams. Give JKA the 501st tag, you could see a Padme led team with JKA and 501st team. A more defense heavy Fives, under Padme’s protection increase, could make them very dangerous.

    They gave Ahsoka the 501st tag for a reason. She already works best with JKA.

    They didn’t bring in an event character for Geonosis DSTB. I don’t see any reason why they’d bring in another new event character for the coming Geonosis LSTB. Anything new, would likely be unlocked through the LSTB, ala Probe Droid and ROLO.

    I’ve been seeing people predicting a Fallen Anakin for two years. A General Skywalker feels less likely than that. It feels too much like a repeat of the Anakin the game already has.


    The thing is, Anakin unsynergized with Shaak ti & 501st clones, is already the 2nd best team in the game.

    If Anakin got synergy then u got the best team in the game that is 80% F2P since Shaak Ti is a marquee

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