Anakin as Non-Leader?

He's 'OK', but I run him as lead. He doesn't have a debuff like QGJ, so unless the AI gets to the tank ahead of the taunt, on defence you'll get stuck on the taunt. The AI opens with his special on defence.

I find if you play around with the relative speed of your squad you can have fun. I run JKA, Rex, Rey and others. Fastest is JKA with mods, speed 200, who does his AoE, gives offence up and then Rey, speed 199, hits hard. 3rd fastest is Rex, speed 195, who clears the expose if needed and gives tenacity and TM. This still works if JKA is not lead. So on your squad you could have offence up ahead of Leia kicking in with the right squad, but watch out for ackbar as he may try to clear the JKA expose instead.. Non lead he hits around 6-7k, but as lead with the various buffs he can hit 12k and aoe around 10k.

"Haldol;580116" wrote:
I have yet to run JKA in the lead. It is always Fisto or Princess L in the lead for the lights and jedi teams. PL as a lead means JKA's offense up is very likely to proc. Throw in Ayla Secura, and Fisto, and wow, will you see counters'.

Leia's leadership ability doesn't apply to Anakin. And I'm talking about arena anyways.

I've recently been running Old Ben (L), Anakin, Rey and both Han Solos...

Anakin fits well into the group for ability block on tanks, offense up and solid damage (this team is fantastic btw)

Its possible! See:

Lando (L)
JKA
ST Han
Sun Fac
EP

I like him as non lead, the righteous fury AOE's pack quite a punch, and he gives offense up and lands buff immunity on occasion. A solid dps w quite a bit of health. Currently running
Palps (L)
Ani
Lando
SF
RG

Anakin is amazing in any team line up. Lead or non lead. Dude is a beast

"Zooey;58334" wrote:
Has anyone had success with JKA in a non-leader role, for his offense up and counter attacks? I'm trying to determine whether he'll be good or not in my Ackbar Leia squad in place of QGJ.

I run Wedge (L), Biggs, Anakin, Han, Lando most of the time now and Anakin is pretty great despite not leading. He does good damage, both single and AOE, and his buff blocking lands often enough. Plus because I have a squishy team, he gets lots of extra attacks when they get hurt or die.

I've also had success with Anakin in an Ima(l) team, and some other variants.

A particularly nasty team on my shard uses either Lando or 88 in the lead with Anakin.

Rex, Ani, Sarge, Sun, 5555 holds me top 10. The extra TM gain from Rex lead has Ani going quite often

Ani under Rex, Ani under Emperor, Ani under Ima Gundi w/ Aayla and Kit...all great ways for him to fit in.

Thanks for the necro guys, but it's pretty clear to me now that Anakin is strong enough to fit in almost any composition.