Best Rex arena team

"angrythumbs;936197" wrote:
does rex lead really work against zaul teams? the daze prevents TM gain and if he gets stunned or ability blocked by the zaul team EP/boba (which tend to get a speed boost from zaul), you cant use any dispells, regardless if AA, rex, chirrut, GK

Um....yeah xD It works itself out lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkvL87ZxKMU

"angrythumbs;936197" wrote:
does rex lead really work against zaul teams? the daze prevents TM gain and if he gets stunned or ability blocked by the zaul team EP/boba (which tend to get a speed boost from zaul), you cant use any dispells, regardless if AA, rex, chirrut, GK

It does. The opening attack is generally not Zaul (since he's the slowest sith). It's an AOE crit, which is full TM boosting. Even if Rex is stunned, generally by the time Zaul goes, Rex has been able to go or is close to full tm.

"Mewingloki;934284" wrote:
Been running Rex(L), Kylo, Boba, Palpatine, and Baze for a couple weeks as a counter to the maul squads that have saturated my arena group.

It's been very effective against maul/sith teams, zader teams, and everything in between.

It's been ineffective against a zeta QGJ, zeta yoda, kenobi jedi team.

But you gotta pick your battles haha. One guy running the jedi team, and 10 running maul so i'm hedging my bets xD

I run Rex (L), TFP, Boba, Palp, Shore. Pretty much the same experience as you. Against the zQGJ teams without Kenobi, I'm 100%. Against the one with Kenobi, I have to switch out to a Palp lead, and replace Rex with B2, and it's maybe 50/50. But, there's one of those, and a whole bunch of other teams, so I can generally just avoid that team.

Also, as with anything else, mods make the team. You can see mine here: https://swgoh.gg/u/indominable%20j/

Started farming Rex from guild shop the moment he was made F2P. Just got him to 7*, and gear 11 this week. Rex lead, Kenobi, Zarriss, Anakin, Boba Fett has been great to take down Zaul teams. Honestly Rex lead with Kenobi and Zarriss is great with any two attackers you want in the last two spots. Critical hits are sweet nectar to my team.

Would Rex mix well with Yoda for Zaul or Zader teams, or is that just a waste? I'd imagine B2 would have a tougher time clearing the tenacity up.

Rex (L), GK, Chaze, Zylo. No Sith team can touch that.

"Shooting4life;936564" wrote:
The best counter to Rex lead is a fast boba. I'll take out my fast tfp so boba goes first and ability blocks Rex for two turns and everyone else.

My team is usually

Vader L
EP
Bobaz
Shore
GK

I'll change GK for tfp to outspend empire teams
If I'm slower than their tfp, which is rarely then I use magma trooper instead GK

I ran a very similar team for a while and versus a triple cleanse team, you need extremely good luck to stun/ability block all 3 cleansers. Plus, because Rex gives TM on crits, you don't get a chance to use EP right after Boba.

I'm working on this team: ani (L) rex, sgt, 5s and plo.

I like ani's offense, and plo's tm boost for the clones. Have plo modded so he does a little damage.

Any thoughts? Is this team going anywhere? I'm f2p so be a while to get echo, cody, etc.

Rex is gear10. Sgt, 5s and plo are 9. Ani is 8.

"Unimatrix010;938261" wrote:
Is there a cheaper way to make it work?

Also could someone explain the idea behind a Rex lead a little further? What teams should I be facing mostly to make it really good? I'm in a young shard (lvl 81 atm) where Wiggs and Empire fight for dominance still and I'm starting to wonder if Rex lead might be something I want to work towards. Seeing that I don't have Shore to make Empire work and my wiggs won't be good enough much longer unless I find holy grail mods.

If someone feels like enlightening me I'd greatly appreciate it!

Rex lead is pretty straightforward. Whenever one of your people gets hit with a crit, your entire team gains TM. So against Wiggs, for example, when Biggs calls his assist attack, someone on your team is getting hit with 3 crits. Any clone (including Rex) gets 45% TM. Any non-clone gets 22.5% TM. When Rex goes, you use Squad Discipline for tenacity up and additional TM gain, so your entire team then goes.

It's a solid lead against any team reliant on crits (Wiggs, Droids), or any team reliant on AOEs/Debuffs (Empire, Sith).

"Unimatrix010;938839" wrote:

Makes perfect sense, thank you. Problem is, I need a bunch of guys who can actually take the hits then. Might be a problem since I run wiggs myself atm and my plan is to outspeed them and kill them first.

How am I gonna changed that? Pretaunter mandatory?

As you advance to level 85, pre-taunts will become mandatory. Even without, however, a Rex lead allows some balancing. If the enemy goes first, and you lose someone, your team goes next and they lose someone. Depending on turn order and a bunch of other factors (including who you lose), you could end up going from 4 v. 5 to 4 v. 3 pretty quickly.

Rex is a solid lead against Rebels, and he will be more helpful as your shard shifts to empire/sith.