Why are Jedi so weak

Right now I'm running 5* Yoda Lead/ 7* Lum/ 7*JC/ 7* Eeth Koth and 7* Poggle. This works well against the Sid/Duku/Phasma/Daka/Kylo teams that have spread like wild fire over my server. I rarely get hit with healing immunity, plus all extra resist make my team go fairly fast for the first couple round, which are the only one that really matter. The only reason why this team works is because Yoda is a direct counter with stacking both his leader tenacity up and battle meditations. Oh and Poggle is big key, no way a F2P full Jedi team can do well on squad area... I'm doing well on offense in the squad arena but Jedi are horrible on defense. I can get down to top 50, probably further but i refuse to spend shards on squad arena. The problem is I can go from top 50 to over 200 in one day because defense is so terrible. Jedi Master Ailan is a P2P player who has a popular youtube channel with daily SWGOH videos. He is in top 5 in his server and shows in some of his recent videos that Jedi Squad doesn't work for P2P either, once again because the defense is so bad. The only way i see this improving is by making each Jedi have some sort of anti-sith passive's and fixing all the broken/useless Jedi.

Here's some key F2P Jedi character changes that are crucial and easy to fix:

- Ashoka needs way more speed, she is flat out useless. Her leader ability is also trash, it might be viable if EVERYONE got turn meter on evade, similar to Duku offence up.

- Mace Windu needs a better package (See character feedback on him, there is a lot he is still falling short with). His IA mechanics don't work either. When he finally does expose and doesn't get resisted he often doesn't even attack that character. He might be slightly usable if this got fix but even then, in no way is he a strong character.

- Ploo Koon is another badly broken character, Shit all damage and has offence down move with almost no potency. Explain that one lol.

- Barris's passive doesn't work, I've never once seen her passive remove a neg status effect. She could also definitely use more damage, i'm sorry but that noodle she hits with just doesn't cut it. The ONLY real role she plays in is leader in GW, not very viable when a character has only one use.

- Jedi Knight Gardian is still way too slow and with no taunt does no ware near enough damage. Another useless Jedi


Long story short, EA has a fair amount of changes to make before making Jedi a serious force to be reckon with in Squad Arena. Simply putting Yoda in the game does not make up for all the broken and lack luster
F2P Jedi characters. The really disappointing part is I spend all my time, efforts and in-game currency towards developing Jedi because to me Jedi is what Star Wars is all about. Only to find out that as F2P they can't seriously compete in Squad Arena. Having said all that I will still continue to work on my Jedi Roster primary in hopes that all the character flaws get fixed in the future.

Thanks if you took the time to read this rant lol.

Cheers!