Baze or...

"Imagine fives got insta taunt and a dispell, what could go wrong"

I'm finding the pay to win part of the game really took a different meaning with malbus...
He doesn't have a weakness.
Other "op" chars do:
- Wedge is squishy
- RG does no damage and won't stun below half hp
- Han is squishy for a tank
- Lando can fail to land his crits and is squishy
- Even palpatine is incredible op if he attacks, but still, not that fast and very squishy too...
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Malbus on the other hand:
- Very tanky, even more than chewbacca, raw stats wise.
- Malbus has a heavy nuke (damage factor comparable to Rey's third)
- Will start taunting and countering
- Scales incredibly well as the battle goes on
- Dispells your taunt
- Has incredible synergy with another op char that isn't even around too much now

So malbus can be your tank, your qui-gon and your GS. Just wait for his HP to also get equalized by Chirrut.

So is it intended for the game to be that completely broken? I'm ok with having a very low chance to beat players that pay more than me, but malbus just takes that low chance to 0% and feels very frustrating to be in a situation of "join or die" with a single char.

I'm still a lowbie tho (new account, last one didn't live to face malbus), so I'd love to get more opinions

Wait till you see him with Chirrut...

I'm not even FTP, i know i can get malbus too, that's what I meant by "join or die". But my main question is what people think about him. Maybe I'm the only one that's frustrated.

His damage is actually fairly small

"Dyakoff;784771" wrote:
His damage is actually fairly small

compared to other taunt-tanks it isnt, 3.188 factor on his nuke, which is only 3 turns cd is amazing.
His output can be compared with fives (he even counters with speed down)

If you have another tank that can taunt like Shore or RG, I wouldn't bother with him and farm on other characters that you need :)

I came across one of those teams during the last tournament and put my arena team (Rex L, anakin, SF, ayla, Fives) against it out of curiosity. Long story short I didn't kill any opposing enemy lol. Chirrut was rocking 8 stacks of HoT at one point and Baze was taunting every turn as Chirrut's HP dipped and rose from 100% and back. I'm just glad no one on my shard has that duo yet xD.

To be fair, a Wedge, Biggs, Chirrut, and Baze team is effectively playing with several active leader level abilities:

- Wedge and Biggs get more offense and speed when together than Lando, Ackbar, or QGJ's leader abilities give.
- All party members have healing and turn meter gain on crit with Wedge's actual leader ability. Seems comparable to HK's leadership for droids
- half of the characters present basically gain Phasma's leader ability - except it's 100% assist if the buddy is present.
- Baze and Chirrut together get some of Rex's leadership. The HP% is the same and the TM gain is spread into their basic attacks
- Chirrut gives Luminara's leadership healing and healing over time special out for free as a unique to the whole team
- Baze and Chirrut are even sporting some Ima Gun Di leadership qualities with increased counterattack odds.

A team sporting the 4 characters is like running into Ima Gun Di, Ackbar, HK, Phasma, Rex, and Luminara leaders all on one team with damage on par to Rey if not better all around. You also get to have activated taunts, auto taunts, healing, hp equalization, multiple dispels, and cleanse. You get every tool and ability in the game.

If all I'm bringing to the table is some extra HP and TM gain with Rex, or some extra offense with Anakin I don't think it'd be reasonable to expect to win xD

This mean Baze is the guy to get?

Baze is strong, but there r answers to him. B2 is a great answer. Boba can ignore his taunt or execute him while he is full of buffs. TFP goes way b4 him giving him ability block and buff immunity. There r ways.

That's ironic, a lot of people say speed is the most important stat, yet he is the slowest character in the game