Rock, paper, scissors! Let's discuss known arena teams, and who best to counter them!

My server isn't that strong, I could win any one of these battles, and likewise they could bet me as well. I just ran out of chances, and I'm not wasting crystals.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-ESo0uZMfiPRVRLcU1MOW9MTWM/view?usp=sharing

"ZeeDubyah;133797" wrote:
I'm losing consistently to current #1 MadRussian w/ his ~28k team on our shard. Granted I'm only at ~24k, but I'm looking to finish today at #2, because I just cannot snipe him w/ my team.

My team: Poggle (L) 6*G8, GeoSol 6*G8, IG-88 5*G8, IG-86 6*G8, Poe 5*G8

His team: QGJ(L), Yoda, GeoSol, Hoth Scout, Dooku (All 7* Gear 8, except Geo who is Gear 9)

He immediately adapted to the new speed meta and it is absolute murder.

You can counter this pretty well with a similar speed setup - just have your Dooku stun Jinn, then have your own Jinn focus fire on the other Jinn.

My preferred setup vs. this team is to utilize 5x AOE with a heavy lean toward tanky toons: I use Snowtrooper, Phasma, Kylo, Sid leader, and a 5* DV. This works now well still, probably 75%+ win rate, but when DoTs killed, oh boy it was a joke.

"ZeeDubyah;133773" wrote:
We're on the same server. We're lucky to only have a handful of whales, but it is getting a lot more competitive in the top 10.

You're on my allies list. My player name is TommyDiesel. You're killing it with a lvl 62 Sidious?

We really need to get guilds with the next update.

Edit: You're right, not too many whales, but things did get more competitive at the top after the last update. I finished as high as #8 in the past, #14 yesterday, #20-something today, sitting at #42 atm. I need to get QGJ 7*, and buff out GS and Poggle, my two new projects.

"Mr_Eel;133820" wrote:
I'm not sure there is any way to deal with a perfect speed build. By its defining characteristic, the loss of at least one of your toons before you act is probable. You can recover once every few matches, but the AI playing as you on defense cannot. I too am interested to know if anyone has come up with anything. I just build for speed and split matches with my opponents. Not much strategy to it sadly.

I want to try an Ackbar, Leia, ST Han, Hoth Scout, Dooku team. But that's going to take awhile to finish farming.

I just posted right above a build that takes down speed builds at a really high rate. The AI doesn't focus fire well and if you use characters that have over 14k health you will generally survive with all your heroes alive to hit back.

"ZeeDubyah;134151" wrote:
Haha, I don't use my Sidious outside of the Attacker challenge and GW. Poggle is my leader in PVP on my geo/droid team. He is a beast. I have him fully geared and 30 shards from 7*. With his 25% offense leader ability and offense up, he crits for almost 6k, almost always ability blocks, and sends geo sol well into the 12k+ range on a critical. I guess since attacker challenge was today, my long forgotten/neglected Sid is my ally offering (sorry about that).

I'm getting 86 up to 80/100, and the remaining daily log-ins will take care of the rest. Then, I'm farming Poggle. Kylo 7* probably tomorrow, then Geo. Here's my current roster:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-ESo0uZMfiPTEFOVm9Bdjh4QVU/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-ESo0uZMfiPa24zNkkxcVYtbzA/view?usp=sharing

Today, I was right behind you, finished #18 with you at #15. Your team is pretty much what I'm working towards:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-ESo0uZMfiPVTNVaGlrZUJtN0E/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-ESo0uZMfiPamE3eklhVE5hODA/view?usp=sharing

If you could replace one of that squad with QGJ, who would it be? Also, who would you build around QGJ as a leader? I'm a big fan of his speed buff, goes well with the current meta.

Edit: I'll use QGJ in place of your Poe for the time being, until I get him unlocked and buffed up after Geo.