Current "Ships Meta"? - Strongest fleet combination and admiral

"Bendak;94298" wrote:
This is really only directed at people who focus on fleet battles a lot and are near the top of or otherwise dominating their Fleet Arena shard. I am curious about what is the strongest combination and layout of ships for the Fleet Arena. What are good stand-alone ships, and what are strong synergies?

From what I have been able to gather, Ackbar is currently the strongest all-around Fleet Commander, but what are his best ships and synergies? Interested to hear everyone's thoughts, thanks!

Ackbar is probably the weakest if you ask me.

Tarkin or mace with target lockers are by far the best current comp currently

"Maraxus;916853" wrote:

"Bendak;94298" wrote:
This is really only directed at people who focus on fleet battles a lot and are near the top of or otherwise dominating their Fleet Arena shard. I am curious about what is the strongest combination and layout of ships for the Fleet Arena. What are good stand-alone ships, and what are strong synergies?

From what I have been able to gather, Ackbar is currently the strongest all-around Fleet Commander, but what are his best ships and synergies? Interested to hear everyone's thoughts, thanks!

Ackbar is probably the weakest if you ask me.

Tarkin or mace with target lockers are by far the best current comp currently

Agree.

Which target lockers is he strong with, specifically? I assume the two farmable TIE fighters of course, any others that stand out?

"Maraxus;916853" wrote:

"Bendak;94298" wrote:
This is really only directed at people who focus on fleet battles a lot and are near the top of or otherwise dominating their Fleet Arena shard. I am curious about what is the strongest combination and layout of ships for the Fleet Arena. What are good stand-alone ships, and what are strong synergies?

From what I have been able to gather, Ackbar is currently the strongest all-around Fleet Commander, but what are his best ships and synergies? Interested to hear everyone's thoughts, thanks!

Ackbar is probably the weakest if you ask me.

Tarkin or mace with target lockers are by far the best current comp currently

Ackbar is easiest to use on offense to start off with, but once your ships become more powerful he's not as good, and he's probably the worst one defensively in high end fleet arena.

Mace + republic ships (Plo, fives, JC, Clone Sarge, Rex, Ahsoka and then some tankier ships) is a great defensive fleet. They toss around taunts and heal protection left and right making them very hard to kill and very hard to kill in 7.5 minutes. Tarkin + FOTF, Imp TIE, and Boba and some more dark side ships works very well. They can do a lot of damage and FOTF is a huge pita to fight when theres a bunch of target locks being tossed around.

"scuba;916856" wrote:

"Maraxus;916853" wrote:

"Bendak;94298" wrote:
This is really only directed at people who focus on fleet battles a lot and are near the top of or otherwise dominating their Fleet Arena shard. I am curious about what is the strongest combination and layout of ships for the Fleet Arena. What are good stand-alone ships, and what are strong synergies?

From what I have been able to gather, Ackbar is currently the strongest all-around Fleet Commander, but what are his best ships and synergies? Interested to hear everyone's thoughts, thanks!

Ackbar is probably the weakest if you ask me.

Tarkin or mace with target lockers are by far the best current comp currently

Agree.

Disagree ..

What I've seen work very well is AA command

Tie, FoTie, Boba, Biggs, Shore/DT ship

The two ties and Boba lock all the time - AA keeps Biggs alive

Scimitar as primary reinforcement .. His special with AA command continuously healwith retribution

Then have consular and others as to finish off the squad

I run Ackbar but that's only because my Mace and Tarkin are both garbage. Mace is super good on defense and offense, and target lock ships are really good with him. I currently run a target lock/healing hybrid. FOTP, Slave I, Biggs, Ashoka and Jedi Consular. GS and TFP for backup. The first three ships mentioned are really good for inflicting target lock, and once the target lock goes up Biggs can taunt, plus every time a target lock is inflicted he recovers protection. Then JC can help heal Biggs so e continues to taunt while the rest of my team does damage and Ashoka dispels any taunts

I'm around top 10 in my arena despite having a massive power disadvantage. I'm at around 83,000 power, rest of the people in the top 30ish are 100,00. I can handle myself on offense but defense not too good. I'd recommend focusing on Mace and some good target locking ships. They have great synergies

Ackbar is flexible and works with any and all ships. I run Ackbar as commander but I think its the worst. Mace and Tarkin are better. Mace outclasses Ackbar by miles with the right team composition which is something a lot of people lack. Mace needs a lot of tankier ships like the clones which not a lot of people have and run. You can regenerate the large protection pool and keep switching the taunt around and leave Ackbar-led ships into a stalemate or beat them. Mace does really good in defense so its easier to hold rank.

The most hardest and best capital ship would be Tarkin. Empire ships have amazing synergy with Tarkin and they just keep going forever with the TM manipulation with FOTP and TIE fighter while hitting hard as hell. You can throw in a few other republic ships or a third affiliation / synergy with Tarkin-lead and still do good. I think Tarkin and Mace are pretty evenly match when it comes to which is better.

"Tromedlov13;916869" wrote:

"scuba;916856" wrote:

"Maraxus;916853" wrote:

"Bendak;94298" wrote:
This is really only directed at people who focus on fleet battles a lot and are near the top of or otherwise dominating their Fleet Arena shard. I am curious about what is the strongest combination and layout of ships for the Fleet Arena. What are good stand-alone ships, and what are strong synergies?

From what I have been able to gather, Ackbar is currently the strongest all-around Fleet Commander, but what are his best ships and synergies? Interested to hear everyone's thoughts, thanks!

Ackbar is probably the weakest if you ask me.

Tarkin or mace with target lockers are by far the best current comp currently

Agree.

Disagree ..

What I've seen work very well is AA command

Tie, FoTie, Boba, Biggs, Shore/DT ship

The two ties and Boba lock all the time - AA keeps Biggs alive

Scimitar as primary reinforcement .. His special with AA command continuously healwith retribution

Then have consular and others as to finish off the squad

Everytime I battle a AA fleet the capital ship gets very few turns, and when it does it is sending a reinforcement so it might get 1 heal or 1 attack in. I have not seen AA use its ultimate in battle in a long time.

Example. AA took 2 turns 1st was to renforce second was a heal.
My endurance had 4 turns.


On offense he can of course win without problems.

I use akbar now. Switched from mace. Vader Biggs 5s maul jc. Target locks across the board, mauls special on Biggs, hit auto and watch. Easy wins as by the time 5s special comes back it clears whatever is left. Worst case Biggs dies slave 1 comes in and mops up with its special. Not sure how it holds up on defense, guess it depends who maul uses his special on.