Best DR 5th?

SE trooper (or any other toon with pretaunt like kru, gba) is needed when your opponent dr is faster. If you dont use a pretaunt, the opposing dr will fear your entire team. If your dr is faster then he is not needed. So it depends on how fast your dr is. If its fast then Marauder is the best, if hes slower then SE trooper. SE trooper is the best pretaunt because a full SE team gets a 50% offense bonus. Ep is totally useless cos the opposing bsf will be faster, so she will inflict cbm and your palp's shocks wont land.

A little tip, if your dr is slower try shifting mods to your bsf so that atleast she is faster than the opposing bsf. Landing cbm first makes a huge difference.

Depends on whom you gonna fight. I put Geo Alpha most of the times and it works extremely well against GAS

if you can't get your drev faster or your dbast faster than theirs, use gmy and get him faster than their dbast, which should be easy. I used him and gba for a long time to counter faster SE teams

"Antario;c-2124074" wrote:
At the start of battle, if all allies are Sith Empire they have +50% Critical Damage.

if your drev and dbast are slower you'll get wrecked anyway with all SE. gmy and gba team works great in my experience

At the start of battle, if all allies are Sith Empire they have +50% Critical Damage.

Marauder hits like an absolute truck at g13. And SET isn't a 100% necessity anymore since you won't always be fighting mirrors like when DR was the king of the arena.

"Jarvind;c-2124361" wrote:
Marauder hits like an absolute truck at g13. And SET isn't a 100% necessity anymore since you won't always be fighting mirrors like when DR was the king of the arena.

Basically this, r7 Marauder is amazing. He's like a broomstick or something. Just wipes the table clean with his saber throw. Will usually one hit r7 BSF in his first turn, which is pretty huge in mirrors. With 15 stacks or more he will wipe away pretty much anything with less than 350k HP.

The bit about pretaunters is right too, it's pretty much only useful in mirror matches, and that otherwise useless pretaunter still takes up a fifth spot. However, if OP is on a shard with several other SE teams then a pretaunter absolutely is needed, unless your squad are the fastest kids in the neighbourhood. So it's wholly dependent on the arena shard.

Back to OP's question of best 5th, should be a choice between HK and Marauder, assuming a 4th spot is occupied by a pretaunter. If there are no pretaunters, then both HK and Marauder obviously.

Alternatively, if you live in a perfect world where there are no opposing Malaks, then Sith Assassin is pretty amazing, and pretty much a must in a SE team. But I guess EA had to go and mess that up real good. Such a shame.

"MightyWizard;c-2124995" wrote:

The bit about pretaunters is right too, it's pretty much only useful in mirror matches, and that otherwise useless pretaunter still takes up a fifth spot.

Not only in mirror, also for countering SLKR.