Lowest gear to unlock Darth Malek??

I did it with g10 zaalbar and g11 mission the rest g12+.....its not too bad as long as you mod for offense and then speed on zaalbar to give you more armor shreds. Took me about 12 tries with most being an annoying run of having malak in the red but not quite enough to finish off. A lot of people say let malak consume critical immunity pod but on my successful run I consumed them all then a key direct focus on malak reduced his turn meter enough where a revan assist from jolee was enough to finish it...