I judge requirements based on the GP cost for matchmaking; the relic tax you have to pay in overgeared characters in order to get a GL.
The requirements for this one is very steep. Imo, units useful for gac at this level will be:
Bad batch r5
Gas r8
Echo, arc and padme at r7-8 are debatable but overgear imo. I don’t see a team than you can beat with them than you couldn’t beat with them at r3. And with bb r5, you may not need 501st for kam anymore.
So you pay the relic tax for:
(Echo r7)
(Padme r8)
(ARC r8)
Embo r5
Tusken r5
Zam r7
Dooku r8 (much lower tax for this one if you have see)
Tarkin r7
Nute r7
We’re not gonna need a bigger bloat.
Glass Half full: Arc is better than Rex at r8, because at least high relics on an attacker is useful.
With the new GL cadence we have higher requirements for the new thing, even if it’s a duo; so we’re probably back to traditional meta, where the new GL is far better than the previous one (and not 2 GLs with similar requirements and similar power). If not, I don’t see the point in getting this one… except, you know… Vader.