Strongest Empire Thrawn Team

"Ljaat;c-1128907" wrote:

"Guest;c-1128824" wrote:
Thrawn (l), veers zeta, shore, DT, Stormtrooper. Lot of TM gain, double cleanse with Thrawn + his leader ability, lot of protection gain, TM gain as well, offense Up on 4 chars, crit immunity, defense Up, double taunt, speed up on 4 chars as well, AoE and assist, deathmark, daze, healing immunity, fracture, etc...
I would go for it, it requires 4 zeta in total excluding DT so I would say it's great.
Again it's theory crafting so we'll see

Thinking this as well.. maybe with snow or DK instead of storm. That or switch Veers and Thrawn lead.. just have to test and see what works.

I am thinking thrawn (l) EP, TFP, DT, Shore. Maybe replace TFP with snow.

I just don't see Thrawn lead being too meta. Especially on defense. He will get crushed on defense. The AI will use his leadership skill wrong 8/10 times and on as many empire as possible.

"Olddumper;c-1128571" wrote:

"jackTHErandom;c-1128562" wrote:

"JohnnySteelAlpha;c-1128460" wrote:
Once shards are mature and the majority have Rex / R2 / GK, zDM will seem very dead. He can win some on O still, but vs. elite GK / Chaze / R2 comps that's not at a high rate and on D he gets pulverized.

Had a shardmate that used him yesterday and forgot to switch him out overnight. He woke up outside of the 50 rank from being in the top 5. This is no bum player either - has a 6* G11 ATF, 7* G11 Chaze, etc...Maul just gets absolutely pulverized in a developed arena.

Call him dead not dead - bottom line is he shouldn't be a consideration when constructing teams going forward because you won't see him in D slots much longer if you still are and many players don't want to re-mod teams switching back and forth with multiple characters / builds to even attack with, especially when it's pointless because R2 / GK / Rex work so well anyway.

When someone mentions maul in this context they mean:
Hmm, a thrawn team... Lets use maul to win, then you swap back to your usual flavor of the month for your next match...

Besides, if OP's squad hecomes meta, and zaul is the only one beating it, zaul will become more widely used, which means rex becomes more widely used, which means zaul dies again, for thrawn to re-emerge - until the next best thing comes around

That's not how arena works anymore. The idea is you need a team that beats every team and occasionally wins on D so you can jockey close to payout. Nobody is going to be switching squad when they are going to be a part of 4 different battles in the last 15 minutes.

On a shard which started in the beginning of when game was launched. We all have and use multiple squads to get our rank have been for a long while now. Arena is Rock Paper Scissors you can't expect to beat everything with just one comp. There's times when top 10 only has one matching pair of leaders now. I have 3 squads modded now and ready no time needed to swap mods . Pick what counters opposing enemy the best get my rank then swap in the most annoying on defense . We're very close to endgame material right now and everything has a counter if you only have one comp geared and modded your handcuffing yourself well at least on my shard.

Sounds good. I hate how all Arena battles comes down to speed and whoever goes 1st wins basically.

In a triple cleanse team, would you always go for fracture on gk/baze?

I'm looking at zKrennic(l), zDT, zVeers, ShoreT, zThrawn... LOTS of protection gain, the CC is through the roof and Thrawn can even give ShoreT more protection if he starts to get low. Every crit is 10% protection, every death is 10% protection and 50% TM (troopers) and if you give Thrawn enough tenacity he can shrug off the opening blocks.

"Jonais;c-1129783" wrote:
I'm looking at zKrennic(l), zDT, zVeers, ShoreT, zThrawn... LOTS of protection gain, the CC is through the roof and Thrawn can even give ShoreT more protection if he starts to get low. Every crit is 10% protection, every death is 10% protection and 50% TM (troopers) and if you give Thrawn enough tenacity he can shrug off the opening blocks.

I'm thinking pretty much the same although I'm not sold on Veers here. Might need some more DPS like snow in that spot. Also Strom might fit better than Shore with his TM reduction. Regardless I can't wait to try all the variations that are possible.

Anyone sees the possibility it all boils down to chase again? As in Thrawn+chase.

Thrawn locks down baze and the team falls apart... that seems to be how most chaze teams devolve into... If you can remove/ignore baze, then the team tends to die pretty quickly, unless it's that triple cleanse team... >.< I'm really hoping that Thrawn will allow me to dismantle them.

A good Empire team includes DT. His kit is too wide to be ignored. So, I can imagine a zKrennic or Tarkin lead with DT team can be fun.
If Baze is present, swap TM with DT who will use his grenades, triggering GK's taunt. Fracture GK. Baze won't taunt anymore since he's only taunting if Chirrut is lower than 100% HP or an enemy is defeated. Get rid of Rex of DN or the usual 5th first to be able to use DT's deathmark on Baze or GK.
On Defense, I think Thrawn will fracture Baze, so a different game, but we'll see.