Running:
Emperor (L)
Sid
Vader
Ani
RG
Sit in 1st...allow me to explain. Sid on an aoe crit slaps 3 dots on ppl and w/ 32% potency from emperor lead and a potency mod, he sticks them regularly. He's also a great way to gimp an opposing Rey as she loses her +30% offense by having a debuff.
Vader goes and delivers 3, sometimes speed down as well making it 4 more debuffs. He goes again immediately and with the stun from emperor, 3 debuffs from Sid and 3-4 from him, he can potentially cull 8 debuffs at +400% damage. Since he has offense up from Ani and Culling Blade omega'd along with +crit damage mod, he has culled an opposing SunFac to death in 1 shot for 62k. Nothing can live thru that. Even a non crit with fewer debuffs is 20k+.
Emperor and Ani r both targets that have to be killed asap, but Sid, being somewhat squishy, is tempting and takes heat off of them 4 a round usually.
For 2 more turns, Vader does nothing except...ability block QGJ or an opposing Ani if either r still alive until he can start the machine again.
Plus, I think there's a cool factor in running 2 versions of Emp and Ani in the same squad.
I realized after posting that I was in a conversation started about Tarkin being viable. My apologies. If Tarkin opened with his debuff instead of his aoe on defense, he would b far better and arena worthy since he would get 2 back to back turns.
