Unpopular Opinion

The team I use is Executrix, Hounds Tooth, Tie Silencer, Ghost start. Reinforcements are Phantom, Cas’ Uwing, Kylo’s command Shuttle, Slave 1. Slave one would ideally be replaced by anikan. But the trick is that I stun Han, then 9/10 times the enemy HT will attack either silencer or ghost which will trigger the turn meter gain of my HT so that I can taunt. Depending on the protection bonuses of enemy HT, I will either kill it first if they’re low or Biggs if they’re at 3 or higher. The trick is to get phantom out first and then Cas’ uwing our to remove all buffs and then hard target Han. Without Han, rebels go back to being obsolete.

Sounds like a solid plan. Now show us your swgoh.gg profile that we can see that we're talking about endgame with G12+ and G13 pilots and maxed out ships.

Ok, you’ll have to forgive me as I’m new to the forum, but how do I do that?

I also don’t have any G13, my command shuttle is still at 5* and some of my pilots are G9 or G10 with a few even being 6* toons

And here we go. First you need to go to the side swgoh.gg and register yourself, after that just put the link to your profile here.

Now that we know that you're nowhere close to endgame you should be careful with assumptions about the difficulty of ship arena, you really can make people upset with being arrogant. Your strategy might work for now, with all high gear pilots this may look different.

I don’t see how it would be different. The concept remains the same with stronger ships, if theirs were stronger then mine would be too, abilities don’t change, and AI still targets in the same way. Once I get up into high rankings in arena, my team is very easily beaten. But I’m able to climb that way in the first place because of AI. My entire point is that people spend thousands of dollars on this game and to the people like myself who won’t spend a dime, I’d like to be able to see them do something with fleet arena knowing that they can rather than just calling it a lost cause because, they don’t have the meta ships. I wasn’t trying to troll, even though through your defensiveness I guess that maybe it could be considered as such. I just don’t believe that fleet arena is unbalanced. Like in any game, digital or tabletop, people will always follow the meta like blind sheep instead of trying to figure out ways to beat it, and then get mad when they have the same build as someone else and can’t seem to get ahead.

"Puetypoo_1;c-1919374" wrote:
I don’t see how it would be different. The concept remains the same with stronger ships, if theirs were stronger then mine would be too, abilities don’t change, and AI still targets in the same way. Once I get up into high rankings in arena, my team is very easily beaten. But I’m able to climb that way in the first place because of AI. My entire point is that people spend thousands of dollars on this game and to the people like myself who won’t spend a dime, I’d like to be able to see them do something with fleet arena knowing that they can rather than just calling it a lost cause because, they don’t have the meta ships. I wasn’t trying to troll, even though through your defensiveness I guess that maybe it could be considered as such. I just don’t believe that fleet arena is unbalanced. Like in any game, digital or tabletop, people will always follow the meta like blind sheep instead of trying to figure out ways to beat it, and then get mad when they have the same build as someone else and can’t seem to get ahead.

Wrong. Ships and toons scale differently as they level.

"Puetypoo_1;c-1919374" wrote:
I don’t see how it would be different. The concept remains the same with stronger ships, if theirs were stronger then mine would be too, abilities don’t change, and AI still targets in the same way. Once I get up into high rankings in arena, my team is very easily beaten. But I’m able to climb that way in the first place because of AI. My entire point is that people spend thousands of dollars on this game and to the people like myself who won’t spend a dime, I’d like to be able to see them do something with fleet arena knowing that they can rather than just calling it a lost cause because, they don’t have the meta ships. I wasn’t trying to troll, even though through your defensiveness I guess that maybe it could be considered as such. I just don’t believe that fleet arena is unbalanced. Like in any game, digital or tabletop, people will always follow the meta like blind sheep instead of trying to figure out ways to beat it, and then get mad when they have the same build as someone else and can’t seem to get ahead.

It’s good that you are able to do well in the game without spending. I agree that this is one of the better games from a free player perspective.

Still, creating a thread to complain about the complainers or say “get good” is not helpful to players who are struggling. A better approach would be to start with your second post and title the thread “here’s a new way to beat the Falcon” so players who are having trouble can try it.

lol OP doesnt realise that hes in a shard that doesnt care about ships hahahaha

"Puetypoo_1;c-1919374" wrote:
I don’t see how it would be different. The concept remains the same with stronger ships, if theirs were stronger then mine would be too, abilities don’t change, and AI still targets in the same way.

When ships will be close to maximum you will meet HMF teams which reap through you setup before you even have a chance to call the first reinforcement. The closer to high-end, the lesser valid anti-meta strategies exists. They still exist, yes, but it's much easier to grab your own HMF this days.