Battle timeout issue

I'm not saying it's just you, but many people run and face those teams and are not running into this issue.

Which is why I suggested looking at remodding toons and looking at a different focus for more power.

I dont have a chance to annihilate more than 3 toons and the 3rd is usually just because he gets to that ability in the time allotted. My normal is 2, then hit auto on the last one and see what happens.

You may also want to consider you kill order and damage focus. In this current meta that can play alot into the battle.

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This is control.

The timer is of little consequence.

Who do you focus on first?
Who do you annihilate first?
Who do you kill first?(not annihilate)

What team are you running?

for now... EP DV Sion DN Thrawn
but I'm close to unlock traya, then I will run the same team as everyone else: Traya DN Sion Sith Trooper Nest

Not really seeing a time issue, but things will always vary.

Traya lead will take longer in mirror matches.

May want to look at your mods and things in general, see if you can increase your damage output.

increase damage output is not very easy, without sacrificing speed... but in that case.. you will lose firepower anyway...
the point is... toons are becoming more and more resistant with every new equipment tier, and also the kits of the new toons are more and more powerful (see traya and her team almost immune to every debuff, Nest and her mechanics, Sion and his revive and so on)
put them all together in the same team... 5 minutes are not enough anymore

Without an auto taunting tank like Sith Trooper, you're opening up your Nihilus to Isolate and what not. Protect him and Annihilate up to 5 times with him in 5 minutes.

when I win, I usually annihilate 3 or 4 toons but not always is so easy, and with "easy" I mean do it in less then 5 minutes without make some mistakes that can screw up the entire battle
with more time of course I can annihilate all 5 toons, even 10 or 100

It all depends on the opposition but your mods definitely matter as well. RNG is also a factor. I compete for 1-5 in my payout, but routinely get pushed back every night, sometimes as far as to the 30s if the Shard is particularly active.

I run the typical team, fighting against the same typical mirrors.

Traya v Traya can definitely be much longer than the meta used to be.

However I find when I win, I'll usually win handily and sit there twiddling my thumbs for 2-3 minutes waiting for the final 10 or so seconds.

When I lose... It may often come down to the wire.

Or RNG may screw me and it's over as quickly as some of my own wins.

And these are against the same people, mind you.

The problem isn't with the Meta, not entirely. It's just luck and your own mods.

Like Kyno said, your kill order choices definitely matter as well. Once I refocused who I was going after first, everything else fell into place.

You are playing...hide the nhilus.

That passed about 8 months ago. It is a tactic but isolate and fracture put a crimp in the plan.