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

"vlad745;949939" wrote:
Lots of good input in this thread, so just to add my 2c. As background I am always no1 at my payout (if have time to play) but can fall to 18th overnight. My fleet is 175K power all ships and pilots are completely maxed out except JC who lacks 3 g11 slots and has no omegas. AA lead poe itp fotp 5s biggs replacements maul JC vader. Have also 8 other 7* ships some of them fully maxed like tie reaper, wedge or boba, some of them still needing some work on g11/omegas like rex sun fac sarge's ship or gs ship.

Needless to say that my shard is quite hellish and from what I hear from my guildmates probably one of toughest. Top 20 players are all from top 20 guilds. We are not whales yet but quite large sharks.

1. Ships are in many ways different than regular toons. Most notable difference is that ship speed is limited so that evens out the play significantly. Second obviously just three leads and not that many ships as regular toons. All this points out to more balanced game than for regular toons.

2. Meta just tells u which ships and leads are most common but the interesting point in ships is that within like 20K power band of maxed or nearly maxed ships u can defeat all enemies and they can defeat u as well.

3. Most common strategies in ships are fully defensive, balanced and offensive. All three work equally well in my experience and in my shard none of strategies will keep you from falling overnight. So my advice is that u choose strategy u like and enjoy your play. My fleet is an example of very offensive and fast squad. I like grinding through enemies quickly, especially with 4x auto. With 4x speed the defensive timeout teams lost what I think was the only appeal they had. But that's just my opinion, lol.

4. All three leads have their own pluses and minuses as well as synergies with specific teams. So u need to try to match the team to the lead ship and ur gameplay style. As I said ships are pretty balanced and for now are the home ships as well.

5. My advice is don't invest in more than one capital ship. Save resources for second round of home ships. I only have Ackbar and sit on mountain of cash maths and droids. A guy in my guild has all 3 near maxed so there are different approaches. He uses Mace and balanced team and is No 1 needles to say. I would also limit the investment in large fleet of ships as new better ones will come so no need to go crazy with breath of ur fleet, better to max out best ships u have.

What he said... lol very good advice.

"SunFacYou;949691" wrote:

"Woodroward;949544" wrote:

"SunFacYou;949353" wrote:

"Woodroward;949265" wrote:
IMO the best all around team is a Mace lead with Biggs, Geonosian Soldier, Boba, FOTP, and Vader (if you have him, otherwise Tie Pilot) Backups would be Fives, Clone Sergeant, Ahsoka, and Scimitar.

So much target lock to aoe spam with mace, give boba many turns, make his special hit everyone, Make Biggs taunt and regenerate **** amounts of protection (they buffed how much he gets recently and boy is it noticeable), etc. etc. All the aoe spam lowers the cooldown on Mace's ultimate and has him go more often. All the tm gain makes boba able to use his ultimate more often. So much utility and offense. With all the target lock Mace should really only ever be casting his aoe or his ultimate. FOTP can spam his special on target locked targets. Scimitar giving Biggs counter attack has him target locking people and regenerating protection as they hit him. Biggs and GeoSol are assisting like mad too... It's a **** fleet.


Best defensive team by far is the full republic fleet starting out, possibly with Biggs in the starting 5, but he's less necessary in rotating tauntville.

Best offensive team? Tarkin with all sith and empire ships, resistance pilot, fives, Geonosian spy's ship for scimitar to target (calls all stealthed allies to assist), and Slave 1.

Tarkin gets massive bonuses for debuffs, This team has a lot of them and as much synergy as you can get with Tarkin. He is nothing but offense.

@Woodroward Geonosian soldier? Why though he brings essentially nothing to that team.. tie fighter in place of him would be much better cuz you would add another target locking ship which is the whole point of this fleet to spam AOEs and its the fastest ship so it will go first most of the time starting out with a target lock. The rest of the team though I completely agree with. I actually run this exact team and its unreal. It wouldnt be anywhere near as effective however if I used genosian soldier instead of my tie fighter. Idk if thats your actual team or not but if it is I'd highly suggest you to switch to tie fighter.. you'd see what I mean.

Well geonosian soldier's ship has an assist, and also assists himself randomly. He's like a relentless weak aoe just being in the group. His basic takes turn meter, so he is randomly taking turn meter from their whole team as well. He ups the damage ante. Tie Fighter Pilot would be good too I suppose, but having that assist handy could mean the difference between killing their ship or not especially since it's pretty much guaranteed to be the bonus damage version for target lock.

Not too long ago having geonosian soldier on your squad would lose you ranks on defense because his ai prioritized his basic attack over his assist... He never used his assist under ai control until a patch in the last week or two. It has been fixed, he is effective now.

Well I'm sure he does fine but what I'm saying is that a team built around target locks needs target locks lol you don't always land them, a extra ship that can add target locks at an extremely high rate with vaders ship in the squad is way better than a few random assists here and there and some tmr. through the length of the battle a few random assists will come nowhere near the amount of damage a target lock will with mace aoe and boba.

While I agree that making sure you have target lock is a high priority, I don't see any more people being or getting target locked with TFP over GS. The reason being is that 4/5 starting pilots and the command ship all inflict target lock on their basic attack and one of the ships makes target locks automatically refresh. It's not like you have to worry about that ship dying either because no one is going to get through Biggs's ship before they've lost 3. I could take another target locker off of this team and still have the entire enemy team perpetually target locked by the end of turn 2.


After a certain point stacking the same thing has diminishing returns and it is time to stack something else. Throwing another target locker in that squad won't make it more powerful at this point. Throwing some OTHER utility in there will, like tm reduction and continuous assists (he auto assists at a 50% rate and has a regular assist on a 3 turn cooldown. That averages out to over 8 extra attacks every 3 rounds of combat. Having averaged 10 basic attacks altogether in those 3 rounds means he has taken (at least) 150% turn meter from the enemy (or as much as 450%) in those 3 rounds.) You just aren't appreciating how powerful he actually is.

To be fairly honest, I don't think there's a meta for ships.

But if you want to know, I agree AA is not that good. He's used by people who stared him and geared him as the rebels meta is quite a big deal in Arena, but in Ships, he worth nothing more than the other.

I love using Fives ship who gives TM to the opponent while I'm using Mace immunity. Plus, you can make a pretty good combo with Fives and Maul plus Mace, you put Taunt on Fives, use protection gain and retribution on him with Maul ability and then you tank all the way down the other ships, if you're in danger you can give protection with JC, etc... And speed up, evasion up and defense up on your entire team with Plo, Ahsoka and JC is quite fun to use.

Clones synergies between each other and the more you use republic ships, the better you get bonuses.

I don't understand ships much. I am AA lead and always top 10. Prior 120k power, I couldn't touch Mace lead, so I went after AA lead. After 140k, I couldn't touch AA lead, but 90% win against Mace lead. Wonder what happens after 160k power.........

I run AA Cap; with my starting 5 of Ahsoka, TFP, 5s, Biggs, and Wedge. Reserves are JC, Boba, and Sun Fac.

TFP goes first almost always (i have him maxed) and he gains foresight. Then I run Ahsoka's special which usually kills the target, or i finish them off with 5s special to grant taunt to biggs. Then my Wedge goes before AA, so I can typically kill 2 ships before their cap ship moves. I will lose biggs quickly, but that lets me bring either boba or jc into the fight and severely damage a 3rd ship by ally calling wedge (and getting his tmg, extra power, and hopefully dots).

Very stable team on offense and decent on D.

"Fedegalante1891;950230" wrote:
Btw, just curious, anyone ever seen a Falcon???
Not one of the top players on my shard has one, and i was on the top 5 untill 3 weeks ago. Now im top20-top10 and still not a sight.

And some whales there that im guessing bought a ton of packs, cause they have everything maxed since first week

7* Falcon is extremely rare i have blueprints to 7* all ships from chromium packs except Falcon that is at 5.5* when I decided it is not worth pursuing. At 5* it was severely underperforming compared to top common (as opposed to "rare") ships but perhaps she is a late bloomer lol. None of players in my shard have it and top 20 are all 7* ships with few exceptions that run vader at 5*. Another top gun in my guild has it at 5* also not using it.

"Fedegalante1891;950247" wrote:

"vlad745;950246" wrote:

"Fedegalante1891;950230" wrote:
Btw, just curious, anyone ever seen a Falcon???
Not one of the top players on my shard has one, and i was on the top 5 untill 3 weeks ago. Now im top20-top10 and still not a sight.

And some whales there that im guessing bought a ton of packs, cause they have everything maxed since first week

7* Falcon is extremely rare i have blueprints to 7* all ships from chromium packs except Falcon that is at 5.5* when I decided it is not worth pursuing. At 5* it was severely underperforming compared to top common (as opposed to "rare") ships but perhaps she is a late bloomer lol. None of players in my shard have it and top 20 are all 7* ships with few exceptions that run vader at 5*. Another top gun in my guild has it at 5* also not using it.

Rare means at least someone has it lol
Havent read any posts in the forum saying so

I think most people gave up, highest I've seen is 5-6*.

Necro threads much?

you dug this up from 2017?!?!

Ships is broken, and power ratings mean nothing. My power rating is close to 480k and the RNG manages to lose a battle to someone with a power rating in the low 300ks. When I play that player I beat him/her in 45 seconds..... There is no meta in fleet because we have been stuck with the same dang crappy ships for the longest time, and the new ships are IMO worthless. Looks great on stats but totally worthless. Basically on a good RNG day you can beat anybody.

It’s basically RNG. I land target lock one time out of six, AI opponent with the exact same ships but 50-60k less power gets five out of six. There’s no skill or control, just luck. It’s the Vegas section of the game.