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Vaderizer
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6 years ago

Beating Han's Falcon without Han's Falcon

Immediate disclaimer: I am not saying the Falcon should be nerfed. I'm working on my Rebel ships, but it's going to be a while before they're in ship-shape (ayyyyy).

Anyway, has anyone found a way to reliably beat a Rebel fleet with the Falcon in it, other than mirror-matching it? I'm honestly at a loss. My starting lineup currently consists of Hound's Tooth, FO TIE, and TIE Silencer. I'd heard that stunning the Falcon can work, but I tried that and no dice; it recovers from stun before their Ackbar moves, then Ackbar uses the LOLASSISTFRENZY ability and my FO TIE is dead before I've even got my first reinforcement.

Attacking Hound's Tooth first doesn't do me any favors either, nor the third, which is usually Biggs or Bistan's U-wing. Basically I have to hope that I get extremely lucky and don't lose a ship to the AOE ability from Ackbar (maybe one out of ten matches), otherwise it's impossible to win because I just can't overcome the combination of the Assist Festival plus HT losing taunt due to the Falcon's auto-cleanse and dispel.

Any advice? My ship options are very limited beyond what I already use, but profile link just in case: https://swgoh.gg/p/918597557/ships/
  • Either way the current Han Falcon, HT, Biggs setup with Phoenix reinforcement is just stupid. I cannot say it any other way. The developers need to take another serious look at balancing.

    I just had an encounter where the assist triggered 6 shots!!!

    Not even talking about the breach bug and all the other crazy buffs etc.

    And I know that the people playing this combo now will come out and tell me that I just don’t understand the strategy and/or logic of all the effects or that I just need to build up my fleet etc.pp.

    But that doesn’t change that the Falcon (especially in the Rebel fleet combo) is WAY to OP.
  • I just won against the falcon, ht, ghost and biggs. Falcon wasn't maxed and the other ships - I don't remember but its top 3 so. Im using what I have: tfp, biggs and sun fac(g9) + vader and kylo. I freaking oblitareted him. Then when I play against the guy who is 1st place without moving down from it for 2 weeks I was killed in seconds cuz his ships are fully upgraded and he is a whale.

    But it does work against weaker falcons.
  • "Rake6;c-1771135" wrote:

    But it does work against weaker falcons.


    Unfortunately no weak Falcons in my shard :-(