Best Jyn Erso Squads

The chaze meta was all about them being able to hit for 40K crits and heal to full and being really hard to kill together (not great now). It didn’t rely on jyn or any other rogue one squad members

Not sure you can call Chaze squishy when Baze is not only a tank, but adds 20% bonus health to both of them, taunts whenever Chirrut falls below 100% health, and gains health during each and every character's turn in addition to all the hots from the beginning of their turn.

Chirrut can hit pretty hard, especially with his special. Baze not hit as much, but his AoE special does bonus damage against Empire and non-buffed enemies (so twice against non-buffed Empire), and that can go along ways.

The other benefit to chaze is that the whole point of a zeta Jyn lead is to get lots of buffs to restore protection, which Chirrut passes around.

That being said, none of this is counter to the current meta. Unless you happen to not have R2's 2nd zeta, all the cleanses proc tm for the enemy. Likewise your Han cleanse will give them tm.

The benefit here is Cassian's starting tenacity up, but it only applies to tanks, so unless you're running STHan lead, Baze, Old Ben, Pathfinder, Cassian, that won't help much. Chirrut's t-up could be useful, but good luck getting in before Vader.

Jyn's immunity to stun would be nice, but Vader, at least, is immune to tmr now. You could maybe still get in and whack Palp right away with truncheon strike, but then Kenobi or Sion taunts anyway. Jyn is also not immune to fracture.

Any rebels you want to run against would be raid Han and CLS, probably with CLS lead, and if you want to throw Jyn in there to have someone immune to stun, and also more tmr and a reviver, that would work. R2 is still a solid rebel toon...yoi could make this work on offense maybe, but don't expect it to be a hard counter.

I've been of the opinion that the classic rogue 1 team with R2 subbed in for Baze would be extremely righteous. R2's auto cleanse and smoke screen fill in 2 of K2's 3 big holes making him a very hard tank to get past. Baze isn't that great really. He's the weakest part of the traditional Rogue 1 squad by far.

You were talking about Captain han for Chirrut too, but that isn't a good idea if you plan on keeping K2 as your tank. Chirrut's HoT on damage is practically essential to K2's continued effectiveness in that squad for 3 reasons:
1. It heals him automatically, which is practically needed for a tank these days. Captain Han is only on his turn and only if he's full.
2. With the Jyn lead not only is he recovering health every time he gets hit, he is recovering protection too because Chirrut heals him through buffs every time he gets hit, which means an extra 5% protection for him
3. It assures he taunts, as he has 100% chance to taunt while buffed, only 75% chance to taunt when not buffed.

With R2 and Chirrut combined under a Jyn lead, CLS can use his special move on K2 and he will just counter, cleanse the buff immunity, and gain a HoT to ensure that he is taunting, while regaining 10%-15% protection for the 2-3 buffs he will get (the 75% taunt can still proc in addition to the buff related taunt giving him 2 buffs). Then smoke screen forces focus on K2, so even if he gets dazed or fractured he will still have to be attacked by the enemy.

So that's my opinion. Jyn lead could be quite good still, but requires dumping that waste of space Baze for the amazing R2.

@Woodroward Thanks. Do you have Jyns zeta? How does it work out?

Thanks for the post. I misremembered K2's kit. You are right he might be really awesome with R2.

I started using zJyn lead again today in arena. Current team CLS, R2, Cassian and raid Han. I think it works decent. Here's why:

Stuns: Han, Jyn, R2, CLS. And if anyone is stunned, you can use Cassians special to apply that stun to someone who isn't (and all the other debuffs).
TM reduction: Jyn, Han, CLS
Cleanse: R2 (both zetas)
Revives: Jyn
Ability block: Cassian
AOE debuffs (to get exposes) Cassian, R2
Buff immunity: Cassian (basic), CLS

Not to mention buffs. R2 with stealth gets 5% protection recovery for the group and another 5% for the target. Han gives 15% protection on his special. Jyn gets 5% on her basic.

My Jyn is g10 and Cassian g11, so room for improvement. But overall I like all the ways to stop the other team.

"VonZant;c-1547546" wrote:
@Woodroward Thanks. Do you have Jyns zeta? How does it work out?

Thanks for the post. I misremembered K2's kit. You are right he might be really awesome with R2.

I do have Jyn's lead zetad. Haven't really run it much outside of galactic war and territory wars and battles but I've been strongly considering trying it in arena once I get my other priorities geared up enough to be able to gear the Rogue one squad up the rest of the way... which basically means taking Cassian and Jyn from G11 to G12.

When CLS first came out I switched to a CLS lead with R2, Chirrut, K2, and Leia. K2 was practically impossible to get past... unless you had thrawn. Worked really well for me for some time. I actually built the squad around K2 CLS to give K2 extra counter and defense, Leia to give him a buff and extra crit chance to work with R2's auto cleanse, who also gave buffs and forced focus on K2, plus all the HoTs from Chirrut and the extra cleanse... He was always countering, always taunting, always debuff free and had 57% armor or something like that when I maxed it out.

Raid Han was pretty prevalent in that era, and he would hit my K2 for like 5k a pop instead of the 20k he hit everyone else for.

One of the best damage dealers for a Jyn lead is Princess Leia. As she gives CC up on basic, which she can basic 3 times. So in 1 turn she can potentially give each ally 15% protection regen. OB is who I always ran with K2 under zJyn. His TMR, ability block, taunt, and buffs he gives to your team makes him PERFECT under her.

Who would be the damage dealer in that squad?

yeah, idk. who was the damage dealer in the chaze meta? i'm guessing it relied mostly on the expose.

Cassian can create a lot of exposes with his grenade and hits really hard and is a pretty good killer.

I was thinking Jyn Chaze CLS and Raid Han. Raid hans buff would be a pretty nice heal as it gives 3-4 buffs. Maybe Pao and take out Chirrut? He grants offense up and would heal, and his grenade adds defense down and another potential expose. Or Cassian for the reasons stated with his grenade.

Let me know how it works. Assuming you have Jyn zeta? Also Jyn lead gives potency buff, so I would go full damage mods.