MALAK lightside event is ridiculous

I too am having a hard time with the LS Malak event. Here is my proflie. Please tell me where I need to change.

https://swgoh.gg/p/188421721/characters/

Note: I am in the process of re-modding Mission that would be why her mod setup looks wierd.

Well, it's look good except for Mission mods (should be modded for max offense but with this gear level I doubt it matters much). If you have troubles then probably your tactics is wrong so we need more information on what are you doing in combat and where it fails.

Whenever I do the event, I have Ahnald's video open so I can copy what he does to the best of my ability.

The first thing I do is I try and knock out a droid. I think my issue is misapplying JKR's marked and the lightsaber throw. I know Malak taunts within the first or second turn and I think that is where my hangup is. He taunts and I have misused "marked" by not using it when he taunts. I think as soon as marked is off cooldown, I should mark a droid to avoid his taunt. Also, for some reason Big Z does not always apply an armor shred on Malak when that ability is off cooldown. By the time I've applied 3 shreds, I'm either at or very near the phase where I need to burn him. If the tanks are done, the droids take I think two turns to re-appear. That is when things start to go downhill for me, even though I try and stall the fight as long as possible to get Malak's rage down.If I do manage to get 4 shreds on Malak, he does that hover thing where I get him to the 40% health range and drains the health out of my toons to get back into 50% range and its a seesaw wherein I lose.
So part of my problem in the past has been my misuse of using "marked" and the "lightsaber throw" to pass TM to Bastila.
I'm using Jolee correctly by giving Big Z the "eh, you do it" and healing Big Z when those abilities are off cd.
Also, is there anything I need to do with Big Z's stats so that he can apply armor shred every time (aside from getting him to g13 and relic status)?
I have not tried the event in over two months. Last time I tried it, I had all the wrong mods on everyone. I have taken these last two months to get the whole team re-modded, and geared up.

Also, Mission's "blind" does not always apply a de-buff on Malak to allow Big Z's shred to hit.

"Urias_Fenris;c-2143516" wrote:
Also, Mission's "blind" does not always apply a de-buff on Malak to allow Big Z's shred to hit.

I didn't think that a debuff would affect Big Z's armor shred.

"AM2Rainman;c-2143558" wrote:

"Urias_Fenris;c-2143516" wrote:
Also, Mission's "blind" does not always apply a de-buff on Malak to allow Big Z's shred to hit.

I didn't think that a debuff would affect Big Z's armor shred.

It shouldn't. Pretty sure blind is only an offensive debuff that would cause Malak to miss his next attack. Odd given the name of the debuff, but I don't believe it has any impact on his defensive capabilities.

"AM2Rainman;c-2143558" wrote:

"Urias_Fenris;c-2143516" wrote:
Also, Mission's "blind" does not always apply a de-buff on Malak to allow Big Z's shred to hit.

I didn't think that a debuff would affect Big Z's armor shred.

Ok, good to know. I think the issue for me has always been the speed of Big Z and Jolee. Like I said, I'm in the process of getting the mods worked around on Mission and the rest so that they can perform well in the fight.

And look back at it, the other issue has been the Armor shred which does not always apply each time it's up. Is there a work-around for that?

"Urias_Fenris;c-2143563" wrote:

"AM2Rainman;c-2143558" wrote:

"Urias_Fenris;c-2143516" wrote:
Also, Mission's "blind" does not always apply a de-buff on Malak to allow Big Z's shred to hit.

I didn't think that a debuff would affect Big Z's armor shred.

Ok, good to know. I think the issue for me has always been the speed of Big Z and Jolee. Like I said, I'm in the process of getting the mods worked around on Mission and the rest so that they can perform well in the fight.

And look back at it, the other issue has been the Armor shred which does not always apply each time it's up. Is there a work-around for that?

Keep in mind that armor shred only applies on a crit so high crit chance on Z is the best way to ensure armor shred is going to apply.

Also note that as long as the droids are up you don't have to crit Malak, you just have to make sure he is the targeted enemy. Power Blast is an aoe that will hit Malak and any droid standing so as long as it crits one of the droids, armor shred will apply to Malak, regardless of whether he has crit immunity or not.

As @ImaSmakya said, about the aoe, so one thing to do is kill that victim of his that makes it so he can't be crit, then when you do crit on Zaal's special you don't get fear but this requires at least one droid present. So be mindfull of how you're doing this. This cause me to misplay a couple time myself.