Best Defensive Team? GW/Arena

The other thing you need to be aware of is that nightsisters may get nerfed again. They’ve said they are going to make changes to the paper zombie strategy. I’m not trying to dog on nightsisters. They are an excellent team and probably one of the most fun teams in the game to play offensively. They are also the best team in p3 and p4 of the sith raid. Personally I’m just cautious about spending valuable resources on them right now considering everything that has happened with them recently and the devs saying they are still looking at the paper zombie strategy.

"Ikky2win;c-1638717" wrote:


152m so nearly double yours. If I had to take a guess I would say around 110-120m nightsisters become less effective on defense as more people have Troopers.

I think that's exactly it. At a certain point, folks will have completed their "Core" teams, and start working on the teams that help their guild get more stars in Territory Battles, and pull double-duty in Territory Wars. Imperial Troopers and Bounty Hunters are among these types of teams. Once you've got roughly 50 Imperial Troopers squads that are developed enough to get through the later stages of the DS TB table, nobody can afford to mess around with Nightsister Walls anymore. They just get eaten alive, which is a huge waste of valuable resources. Instead, those guilds save their roughly 50 NS teams for the offense, where they can pick a target (like JTR walls) to decimate, instead.

Cookie-cutter teams aren't great on defense, because we've all faced the standard teams so many times that we know how to counter them. The best defensive teams are the weird ones, and anyone who has a great weird defensive team should be smart enough to keep it to him- or herself.

"VonZant;c-1638182" wrote:

"Ninjah9;c-1638061" wrote:
So besides cls, who are other great characters to hide in weak teams?

ZSavage.

Not even. I literally just watched a video of my ZSavage on defense as he ignored the opposing Nihulus when he was under 50% and just used his basic instead of his Overkill finisher. What a huge disappointment too and a huge liability in the hands of the outright AWFUL AI DEFENSE.

"Crazygone510;c-1640179" wrote:

"VonZant;c-1638182" wrote:

"Ninjah9;c-1638061" wrote:
So besides cls, who are other great characters to hide in weak teams?

ZSavage.

Not even. I literally just watched a video of my ZSavage on defense as he ignored the opposing Nihulus when he was under 50% and just used his basic instead of his Overkill finisher. What a huge disappointment too and a huge liability in the hands of the outright AWFUL AI DEFENSE.

Which sucks, but has absolutely nothing to do with his viability as a TW defense team.

You should not be using zSavage in arena anyway and especially against a team that is good enough to have Nihilus.

TW is not about having the best or most unbeatable team. It is about having a team good enough that it causes your opponents to spend greater resources to defeat it than it costs you. Vandor teams, Phoenix Teams, and zSavage +4 trash are all such teams. My zSavage regularly gets 3-5 wins after he is the only one left. He is perfect for TW defense.

Does he have to be the leader to be effective?

"Ninjah9;c-1640342" wrote:
Does he have to be the leader to be effective?

I personally Run him under Sidious lead, but I think his lead will be better.

"Crazygone510;c-1640179" wrote:

"VonZant;c-1638182" wrote:

"Ninjah9;c-1638061" wrote:
So besides cls, who are other great characters to hide in weak teams?

ZSavage.

Not even. I literally just watched a video of my ZSavage on defense as he ignored the opposing Nihulus when he was under 50% and just used his basic instead of his Overkill finisher. What a huge disappointment too and a huge liability in the hands of the outright AWFUL AI DEFENSE.

@Crazygone510 Savage on AI Defense never uses the Omega version of his OVERPOWER skill, he does however use his Basic version. And no, they’re probably not going to fix his AI, and he’s not the only one with lousy AI Defense programmed.

Oh so hes not programmed to attack with overpower when an opponent is at half health?

No he isn’t, it’s been well documented ever since the good old Zaul days.