Best team to carry you through the game?

"CahirDyffryn;d-164175" wrote:
I want a decent team that can carry me through the (early-mid) game and help me get legendary characters.

One word: Phoenix.

Early to mid-game, phoenix dominate arena
Phoenix will clear your galactic war every day
Phoenix will get you two legendary characters (you need phoenix for thrawn and they'll get you Emperor Palpatine). These two will then have you 40% of the way towards R2D2, who is in turn needed for Commander Luke Skywalker.
Phoenix will give you 2/5 toons to get a 4th legendary character, Yoda.
Phoenix are needed for the Light Side Territory Battle when you hit level 65.

There's no other single squad with such across-game utility. They're not the strongest squad out there and you'll need to move on from them fairly soon but there's no better alternative in the early game.

They won't directly get you any closer to GK, but nor will jedi or clones.

How important is arena to you? Depending on your guild Kenobi could be a long ways away. If your satisfied with only maintaining top 500 in arena clones and Jedi may be viable squads.

I am currently maintaining top 300 with my Jedi squad on my alt account but I'm also using 2 Phoenix Jedi. Ezra is one of the top Jedi in the game and I wouldn't be anywhere close to there without him because high damage is super important, even then I have to be very selective in teams I go against.

To unlock GK you will need to be accepted in a guild that does the AAT raids on heroic level. The better roster in general — the easier you will be accepted into such a guild. And yes, focusing on Phoenix and Empire to unlock legendary characters will show this guild, that you know, what you are doing.

In order to get legendary characters, you will need full squads of Rebels, Empire, Jedi, First Order, and Phoenix plus a guild capable of heroic raids. Phoenix also count as Rebels, which takes your required squads down to 4 and a couple of them are also Jedi. In order to get hero’s journey characters, you need certain specific characters in addition to the teams to unlock the legendary droids.

So there is no single team that will carry you through the game. The best starting option is Phoenix, but if you don’t like them the second best option is probably First Order or Empire.

It's usually full Phoenix (unless you use Chopper/Ezra in non—Phoenix teams). Missing out on a unique, which gets shared to the rest of the team is simply too cripling.

For Thrawn it's definately full Phoenix.

"FailingCrab;c-1504451" wrote:

"CahirDyffryn;d-164175" wrote:
I want a decent team that can carry me through the (early-mid) game and help me get legendary characters.

One word: Phoenix.

Early to mid-game, phoenix dominate arena
Phoenix will clear your galactic war every day
Phoenix will get you two legendary characters (you need phoenix for thrawn and they'll get you Emperor Palpatine). These two will then have you 40% of the way towards R2D2, who is in turn needed for Commander Luke Skywalker.
Phoenix will give you 2/5 toons to get a 4th legendary character, Yoda.
Phoenix are needed for the Light Side Territory Battle when you hit level 65.

There's no other single squad with such across-game utility. They're not the strongest squad out there and you'll need to move on from them fairly soon but there's no better alternative in the early game.

They won't directly get you any closer to GK, but nor will jedi or clones.

That's all right. They are useful at early game and start of mid game.
But later on they become rather useless , since they can be killed in really fast ways.
When i took that advice i went far back in arena.
I thought i was doing something wrong and that was right.
I started farming biggs , lando , wedge , princess leia and boba fett.
That is what really helped me.
DON'T TAKE ADVICE ABOUT USING PHOENIX IN EP EVENT!
They will easily die , get stunned fast , palpatine keeps regaining HP which means infinite loop.
Use Wiggs , Lando , Chirrut , Baze Malbus or Princess Leia.

This is plan you should go on:
1. As the guy said they wont direct you to GK.
2. GK isn't BEST character in game , which means you don't have to farm him until reaching level 85.
3. Use a faction that you mostly like , for example i LOVE rebels , cause of their synergy , so i will use them.
4. Plan ahead what events you are gonna prepare for. If you started already phoenix , and want to make good use of them , use them in EP and GAT events. That's a easier way in farming but harder in battles.
5. Be sure to post your roster , so we can suggest you what you can do.
6. See what events the game has . Then choose which event you will focus on .
7. If you didn't make a squad for arena i suggest you farm them immediatly.
By that way you are just helping yourself in farming future characters from squad shipments.
8. Don't miss any new character events . You can gain mods , crystals and credits which can help you in future , also may get a new good character. I'm waiting for griveous rework which is gonna be maybe around august - september.

I would argue that Phoenix never become really useless. Sure they don't hold up in squad arena, but neither do most units. They're still a necessity for Thrawn and Chimera, they're really useful for Emperor Palpatine, they do well in territory wars and battles, then can do well in certain phases of raids, and they can easily clear GW daily.

If you want to pass on all that because they can't hold top 10 in arena, be my guest.

Uh, my team clears GW just fine. And there's plenty of EP/Vader and Wiggs arena teams I can beat. I also got 5* EP with them. Didn't do 6*/7* because Hera was still 5* at the time.

Are they the best team for everything? Of course not. No one team is. But I don't think you're going to get a lot of support for the Phoenix-is-garbage stance.

I used Phoenix to unlock Emperor Palpatine on the first try. Wedge & Biggs teams can survive in the arena better than Phoenix when facing the current Empire/Sith meta, but Wedge is only accessible starting at level 69. Chirrut and Baze are only an option after level 82 or 83, and they take a while to farm. For players with deep pockets, that combination is definitely great in arena and elsewhere. But for the rest of us, it’s just not accessible until much later.

Phoenix certainly is not the only viable option as a team to start the game, but they are the most versatile. I’ve switched to an Empire team for arena, but I still use Phoenix every day in Galactic Wars. Sure, there are some teams I face there that my Empire arena team can handle better, but there are also teams Phoenix handles better than Empire. So while I understand not everybody wants to use Phoenix and there are other options, they remain one of the more useful teams in the game.