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Odinoah's avatar
8 years ago

Wiggs mystery solved

It has dawned on me that in the movies, Wedge and Biggs don't really have any link other than being on the same 6-man team. So why do they have one of the best synergies in the game together?

The answer is that the developers are secretly Final Fantasy fans. If you recall FF6(or3) had Wedge and Vicks(later named biggs) as reocurring character names. The duo is usually bad guys, like Rocksteady and Bepop. However, in those games they always have synergy since they are usually like brothers. Even though FF stole the names from the original Star Wars trilogy(they were fans of SW), the synergy between those names is best established in FF.

So to conclude; SWGOH gave a respect nod to FF by creating a synergy so strong it was meta.

If this isn't the truth, then where is the Porkins synergy?
  • Finished my wookieepedia dive. Meh. Like everything else in fandom, it fetishizes minor characters and makes all of them major heroes (apparently in the original EU canon he stole the Death Star plans, for example). But he and Wedge flew a lot of missions together before Yavin 4. So their synergy stands to reason.