What am I doing wrong with Thrawn Event?

Also if someone can move this to Squad and Character Strategy go ahead, I realized this is probably in the wrong place sorry!

Take out Death Troopers first and hit Thrawn with Zeb every chance you get, including calling him on assist. This will keep him debugged and hopefully stunned. Save Thrawn for last.

Plus 80-100 speed on Hera, With offense and/or crit damage sets on Sabine and Ezra (with as much speed as you can get on them as well).

Mod for potency on Hera, Kanan, and Zeb.

Health and protection are a little more important than speed for Zeb and Kanan.

Use Hera and Ezra's assist attacks as much as possible.

It's totally doable with good mods and a little strategy with your current gear level.

Definitely use Sabine not Chopper

I had to use arena mods. 75-110 speed on everyone. Junk mods won't cut it. Didn't have Sabine. It wasn't an option for me to get her that quickly. All were gear 8 except that I pushed Ezra to gear 10. He was my only DPS, so I had him at max crit damage. I might have been able to squeeze by without gearing him to 10, but I didn't have all day to try.

The omega on everyone's uniques made a huge difference. Ezra got a big damage boost from his stacking bonus by the last round. And Kanan/Zeb/Chopper's uniques give so much healing that you could surge back to full health from nearly dead in no time.

Zeb stunning dazed targets was VERY useful. Keep Thrawn stunned if you can.

Juggling taunts between Kanan, and Chopper kept everyone alive, and I'd keep Hera's Rez buff ready in case someone got low.

The Stormtrooper on the last round kept taunting too. Having Ezra, and Chopper both to debuff so I could stay on the Deathtroopers was great.

Lastly I would auto battle on basic only through the first 3 stages. You're team will self heal a ton, and you're going to have to try repeatedly to get good RNG. That was the quickest way to get through to the last brutal stage to try again. Just take it off auto right before the last guy on stage 3 goes down. Full healt/protection, and all abilities ready to use every time. I want to say it was someone on the SWGOHindepth.com podcast suggested that last part.

my gear was the same as yours, gear 8. my levels were all 5 toons were lower than yours. nobody was above 72. i also didn't have a choice to put in Sabine, so i used chopper

I put my middle of the pack 5 star mods on them tho and i made sure they were all lvl 15

this is just for the 6 star version. I was getting beaten badly by Thrawn alone. i could get him down to himself but then he'd basically kill whats remaining (usually 3 toons left) by his lonesome. i tried 3 times and didn't seem to dent him at all.

i suggest you try what i tried, which is just auto it while you're watching tv or something, and check back every 10 mins. so what if you lose 20 times. 'cause magically at my 4th or 5th try my team AUTO beat thrawn! yay 6 stars. i have no idea how but it worked

several people have alluded to this already but it very much sounds like mods are your issue. if you have very little increased speed through your mods it's not gonna cut it. so either use your arena mods or if your arena mods are pants - you really need to get to work on mods in general. i'd describe half decent mods at arena level as +60 speed per toon. have you got that?

Omega on Kanan's unique is what made the difference for me in the end, for 7* at least. I had several of my Arena mods for super fast Chopper, Ezra with crit damage/chance, Zeb with Potency, Hera with speed, and Kanan with protection. Hera's lead was omega but none of the others, and I still couldn't get past both Death Troopers. Once I boosted Kanan to give a better counter attack chance, it took several more tries but it ended up working for me with less than 12 hours left. DTs first, then ST for taunt, then the healers, then a Thrawn for last. Good luck!

knowing how to play them make the difference. but also god mods make you clear this event

I did it with G8 Hera (6*) and Ezra (6*); and G7 Kanan (7*), Garazeb (7*) and Chopper (6*). All level 80. I only omegaed Hera's leadership skill. Took me about 5 tries to get it right.
At battle 4, I left Thrawn until the end. Didnt touch him until i killed the other toons.