Adaptive F2P Guide 2.0

"ManuG;c-1460426" wrote:

"metikulous;c-1460399" wrote:

"Kai_Mulai;c-1459600" wrote:
If you're running Palpatine in arena, he should be the leader and your other characters should be either Empire, Sith, or interchangeable. Since a Phoenix team needs Hera to be leader, I don't know a way to fit the Emperor into your current team without wrecking their synergy. For a different vibe to your existing team, I'd throw in a more interchangeable or plug and play character, like Thrawn or Boba Fett. They're good on any team and can fit a role even in an established team.

Just for funsies I used 2 of my arena battles way before payout time to see how it would work. Shock is just disgustingly powerful against Phoenix. The damage done, especially to kanan and ezra, along with healing/buff/tm immunity leaves only protection to get through. Hera (l), ezra, zeb, kanan, palpatine with all assists going to palpatine. Land shock first on kanan, the only cleanser on the team, and you have free reign to do what you want. Save backup plan and protection ups for palpatine if needed but with all the shocks/stuns you should be fine.

Defense, on the other hand, is probably an entirely different story. Palp won't have the health/protection regen, terrible AI, and players will rush him down. It was fun though. I'll see how far I fall with him slotted before trying to climb again for payout.

Can't wait for my empire squad to get rolling. Might even spend some saved up shards for shore.

Edit: maybe switch out zeb for chopper on defense for another taunt to help palp.

Removing one phoenix member from the squad reduce considerably his potential imo. There are a two guys in my shard who are running phoenix squad + Palpatine/Thrawn as their fifth and I have to admit they are easy targets. From my point of view, they key for those as me who are in a fresh shard running phoenix is to start farming your Empire toons as soon as your phoenix are 7* and use them as your main arena squad.

There are a few guys in my shard who are currently running Empire squads with 20-30k of power and they are destroying us easily. Consider that my shard is between 40k-50k max of power.

I agree. Average power level in my range is 47k - 57k power getting in to top 50. Just growing tired of having to fight other Phoenix teams and getting a stalemate if things don't line up to take someone down. I might try boba this weekend and see how his ignore taunt and execute might help but mostly wanted to try something different.

Do you think Palp(l), vader, boba/ezra, stormtrooper, and KRU would be decent? Eventually I'd replace boba/ezra with another empire character like thrawn or tfp when I can 7* them. KRU is mostly because I've been working on his ship for fleet. Decent toughness and some self healing. Checked crystal cost on Shoretrooper and just to unlock him is like ~$30 at 3* much less getting him to 7*.