Current META is to not rely on RNG to win your battle, as the deeper you get into the fight, the more likely it is for rng to work against you. You need to out speed your opponent using a combination of speed mods and turn meter manipulation to set the run order to have your toons go in the sequence that you want, with as few opponent moves as possible. AOE cuts them down, making their taunters like RG and SF irrelevant.
This is why you're seeing less and less RG, QG, and Rey in pvp teams in strong, mature servers.