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6 years ago

New Jango leader strategy on Sith Phase 3!

Hey gang, just discovered something very interesting, and a quick search of the forums didn't pull up anything indicating this was a known strategy, so I figured I should bring it to the attention of other players ASAP.

I just got Jango to 7 stars, and to celebrate I fiddled around with him again in the Sith Raid. My clan is on Tier VI, Phase 3 at the moment so I threw him at Traya with Boba, Zam, Cad Bane, and IG-88. I noticed something about a minute in, then retreated and restarted to confirm.

Jango's leader ability prevents burning enemies from gaining bonus turn meter. As it turns out, that INCLUDES Traya at the end of a topple. So her lightsabers respawn and attack like normal after the topple, but she does not. This effectively makes it possible to DOUBLE the number of times you can topple her. Combined with the increasing crit damage for BH's, you can ramp up your damage a ton by the end of the run. I did over 9 million damage during this attempt.

I don't know what characters are the absolute best for this, but IG-88 is a must since he can reduce enemy Tenacity further with critical hits once you get the contract bonus. If you have Boba on your team, you also definitely don't want to use Execute on Traya, as you'll dispel the burn. I'm thinking throwing Aurra into this team could significantly boost the overall damage since so much time is spent with Traya toppled.

I highly recommend other players try this out and see if they can find an ideal BH combination for it. It seems like Jango may have just taken the mantle for best BH leader in the raid if this continues to work.
  • "BucklingSwashes;c-1758122" wrote:
    Not sure. But that squad I mentioned earlier is almost certainly the best possible. Jango, IG-88, Bossk, Dengar, and Aurra.

    I did a whopping 24 million. It was kind of insane.

    As it's been confirmed that this doesn't work on Heroic, it ultimately doesn't seem to matter much in it meta. A shame, since the team is clearly capable of some insane damage output.


    Tried it out today in Tier 6 but couldn't get Burn to land on Traya. What kind of Potency are you running on Jango?
  • Just checked, and I'm at 117.89%. Had no idea I had it THAT high, but I have two potency sets and a potency cross on him. Landing those burns is really important when he's in the leader slot, so it's probably worth it. I do have him as my highest speed BH as well so he's always getting first opportunity to apply that debuff.

    Worth noting that I'm VERY focused on BH squads in general (I main them in arena), so mine are modded up much more than most people probably have.
  • I had terrific runs with Jango lead on T6 STR, HSTR Jango is hard to set up and keep the lock on traya. I was able to do a 10 million dmg run with him. Jango needs 100% potency and high speed. However The burn does keep Traya from getting a bonus turn after a topple recovery. The hard part is keeping Traya toppled before she gets a normal turn. Took full G12s omegas, MK6 mods, and running Z-jango (lead) , Z-Aurra (ability), Dengar, Bossk, IG-88. Bossk needs to resist saber debuffs, I do not know how much tenacity he needs to do this, I just know 80% tenacity wasnt enough.