Anyone run the falcon in ship arena?

"Damodamo;d-156497" wrote:
I just got it to 5* seems a decent jump in power from 4* but haven’t seen it other than a very soft 4* version. Worth persevering with other than for platoons?

Way too squishy. Even when it does thrust reversal, it still dies really, really fast. Especially to a FO Tie. I tried it as a reinforcement and main line, pretty much died in 1 hit every time (85, 7*, G12 rey, g11 finn). 72k health, 19k protection, which is less than my FO Tie.

Moved to strategy section.

I want to like it more, it's a good ship, but just doesn't have a place in the main lineup. As with many ships coming into battle with crit damage up (from thrawn) it can deal some good damage.

have you just estimated when you will reach the 7 stars for this ship on only 1 hard Node ?
Just count and decide afterward :p You still need 185 shards it should be around 5 months

I’m not stressed about the grind, and I place top 3/4 in ships everyday with my current line up, I’ve been grinding it for platoons, it just jumped up in power rating so thought I’d ask, the 4* I’ve seen and squished kind of put me off. But if and this is the theory, I get a target lock off first (most of the time) then it’s behind a Biggs wall so will get the buffs so will hit two or three on all of the bad guys?
Or am I thinking this wrong somewhere?

In theory yes. But unless you defeat someone or damage them enough to get them down to yellow. Thrawn will use his aoe, before your next turn so you will be down one.

I bring it out of reinforcements when I still have Biggs alive, then get 3 attacks and crit damage up, almost always.

"Damodamo;c-1442477" wrote:
I’m not stressed about the grind, and I place top 3/4 in ships everyday with my current line up, I’ve been grinding it for platoons, it just jumped up in power rating so thought I’d ask, the 4* I’ve seen and squished kind of put me off. But if and this is the theory, I get a target lock off first (most of the time) then it’s behind a Biggs wall so will get the buffs so will hit two or three on all of the bad guys?
Or am I thinking this wrong somewhere?

Maybe depends how new or old your shard is. Mine is all G12 Thrawn, biggs, fo tie, tie, reaper, vader. I've finally placed 1st 2 times this week, but their FO Tie will go before mine most of the time. Maybe 1 in 6 matches, defense FO Tie will one shot my FO Tie. When I ran falcon, enemy ai really focused it down fast, so I gave up on it.

"Kyno;c-1442484" wrote:
Thrawn will use his aoe

I don't have the Ghost or Phantom unlocked but now I really need to get on that!

There are literallly only two thrawn teams on my shard that I have trouble with, prob not something I’m going to try as it’s not broken etc. Maybe worthwhile for guild v guild as a defense fleet.

Just curious :)

It's not good to keep in your arena lineup because of it's poor defensive properties, but it has it's uses.
https://i.imgur.com/ClupX8I.gif

I have Falcon at 6*, Finn and Rey and G12. I think I noticed a difference when I went from 5* to 6* in regards to survivability...