It's time to balance Baze/Chirrut

"Nikoms565;c-1058289" wrote:


1) They can function on virtually any team (unlike Droids or Zaul or even Wiggs - who generally need Wedge in the lead to maximize their effectiveness).

2) They have no direct counter.

3) They are labelled as Rebels - already one of the strongest factions in the game.

I daily play against them at 7*/gear 11 battling for the number 1 spot at my payout. So I do face them, and I don't use them. I don't even have them. I have no reason to defend them for personal benefit. To your points I'd say:


1) Lots of toons function great on any team individually without the need of a specific other toon. These 2 really need eachother. Chirrut more so. You mentioned Wiggs who absolutely can go into lots of teams as the DPS without Wedge lead.

2) There are tons of direct counters. I used to destroy them with STHan in the previous meta. A counter attack that does little damage fed me TM until Baze was dead and almost nobody on his team had moved yet. Stormtrooper has been reworked to have a similar effect. Zader with an AoE dispeller also ruins their day. Multiple toons do amplified amounts of damage to toons with lots of buffs. We just need more options for counters in more factions. And that's what will happen. Faction passes are the plan moving forward.

3) Sith are the strongest faction. Rebels are one of the largest. But there are still very bad Rebel toons whereas every single Sith in the game is arena viable in some team comp. And just because a faction is big or strong doesn't mean a toon in it should be nerfed. In fact if for instance Bounty Hunters get a faction pass, and you then have a legit support squad to run with Boba (who already counters Chaze to death single handedly) then it would reduce the nerf talk.

So are they on a higher level than lots of toons? Yes. And they are very easily beaten multiple ways with a variety of toons.

The main problem (which the devs have stated explicitly) is that many of the original toons that came out with the game were underwhelming to begin with, and need to be updated to the new power level. Faction passes for bad teams/characters are coming. Nerfs aren't going to happen.