You could move the defense boost off of the leader ability and into a passive like many of the other faction/racial bonus driven characters in the game (jawas with speed/evasion per living jawa, droids with crit per living droid) and I miiiight be happy.
I played around with him and my other clones last night in some of the tier 8 light side battles, taking turns poking the dooku bosses with each team member and watching the incoming damage on the counterattacks. With him as leader he definitely received an average of 1-2k less damage per incoming blow which didn't "seem" trivial and might be scaling with his shallow health pool more? That said, this is only if he is leader - and with all of the reys and droid teams critting like crazy - Rex is just flat out better. At which point Cody does not have access to this added survivability and is threatened with the usual first turn knockout.
I am torn on the defense boost though - were the "cushion" added into his HP instead of his defense he'd synergize better with his teammates (Rex and Echo) in terms of their %HP based bonuses.
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