I think SWGOH is trying to beef up all characters and teams to find a happy balance between 5 minute battles and teams that don't die in 1 minute.
So with that said they don't want who goes 1st to be the determining factor in a battle.
Until that is achieved, who goes first matters. My arena team keeps me 450-570 zFinn, Zscav Rey, Poe, Trooper, Pilot
on a 3 year old server.... all G11
The reason I can hang there is Poe and Rey's mods Speed Type 4 set. They are both about 250 speed, Poe with potency off set and Rey CC. I took 2 years off... and this team can still do "something" for me cause of mods.
I need Poe to go 1st for his TM removal, especially against empire teams. If he does, sometimes Rey can almost 1 shot Emperor Palpatines with expose on them, which can win me the battle right there with my team not getting stunned. I want to G12 that team and keep modding them just to see how far it can go. It's kinda cool that such a team can still be relevant.
It can't beat NS and Bastilla teams though. Just Empire and CLS.
