While I found KRU kit nice overall (lead is great and unique also fits really nicely too) the other abilities seem much more... disapointing.Basic is Ok: tenacity down is nice and also the taunt mechanic, but it hits really really little.Halt should be undispellable: It has no point to have a great two turns stun with all the multiple cleanses there are now in game: Chirrut, rex, ackbar, FOO, kanan, hera, GK, thrawn, finn, talia, bb8... without that is just only a small annoyance.Focused rage hit ok to stun targets, but it recovers health. It should be proteccion just like masked kylo ren. Passive unique recovers health on hit and also halt recovers 10% health, it has no point to recover even more health with this ability.Also, for being a tank with low damage his survivability should be higher (he has low prot and health for being a tank, compared to baze, gk, shoretrooper, sith trooper, etc) and recovering prot with this special would help with that.What do you think?

"Darth_Amarth;c-1396495" wrote:The optimal FO team is KRU, Kylo, SFTP, FOST and FOO. Thanks to FOO, the team can stun everyone like crazy and Gains lots of TM and buffs (that provide Heals if you have KRU Zeta).In my opinion, we need Hux as a viable replacement for FOO that can reduce CDs and cleanse. Also some Offense up will be nice, given the fact that CRIT change/damage and speed are already there.This team can perfectly win against the meta from what I've seen.Damn, why would you post that just when i finally made up my mind to put a zeta on FTP? I was planning to go for kru(L) fost fotp foo thrawn but now i feel i need to consider more...

KRU has a very nice balanced kit imo. And that’s the difference between LS and DS. DS toons are balanced. LS toons are overpowered..

"DeepChu;c-1397207" wrote:That is why he needs something else or FO will never be part of arena meta.There's so much more to the game than arena. You have galactic war, events, raids, heroic raids, territory battles, territory wars, fleet arena... Arena is just one of several co-equal parts of the game. Not everything has to cater to just that one, narrow area.

Hah! Yeah I've had that twice in GW.. From a lowly geared Biggs... Kru hits him like a wet noodle and eventually dies from the repeated counters. Having run both the meta and FO teams and finishing first in arena every day I can say that FO are still some ways off being as viable as several of the other teams currently sitting in top arena. Beating FO is as easy as this.. Stun FOO with zhan. Cls ignore taunt, kill FOO. You win. I could auto most battles using cls meta..FO needs careful strategy ...which don't get me wrong, that's actually quite fun. But knowing that on defense they're a walk in the park kinda ducks. .and drop like a rock comparatively. Heres what i know. In the current era of swgoh if you don't have critical immunity your probably screwed. Either squishy toons need a protection/health boost or damage needs to dialed down. The later will never happen. ..actually neither will.

"lamatoe;c-1398102" wrote:Hah! Yeah I've had that twice in GW.. From a lowly geared Biggs... Kru hits him like a wet noodle and eventually dies from the repeated counters. Having run both the meta and FO teams and finishing first in arena every day I can say that FO are still some ways off being as viable as several of the other teams currently sitting in top arena. Beating FO is as easy as this.. Stun FOO with zhan. Cls ignore taunt, kill FOO. You win. I could auto most battles using cls meta..FO needs careful strategy ...which don't get me wrong, that's actually quite fun. But knowing that on defense they're a walk in the park kinda ducks. .and drop like a rock comparatively. Heres what i know. In the current era of swgoh if you don't have critical immunity your probably screwed. Either squishy toons need a protection/health boost or damage needs to dialed down. The later will never happen. ..actually neither will. Hmm, I’d say you’ve been fighting some crappy FO teams. If you stunned my FOO, my Thrawn would cleanse him next, FOO would give TM to FOST, and it’s business I’d usual. If I happen to be running pure FO, then OG Kylo would be next in line after FOO, and would feed everyone TM. Once FOST and KRU have their taunts up, would you really waste your dispel killing FOO instead of clearing a taunt or hitting FOTP? My point is it doesn’t matter who Zolo attacks first on my team, they are all capable of working as a team of 3 or 4. First Order is still a joke on defense, but if you have them geared and modded correctly, they are capable of beating any team on offense. If you don’t care about having a pure team, get Thrawn in the mix (he’s great with FOO, or replacing him) and they are a top tier team. "Tyrael1701;c-1397492" wrote:I found at G12 he just gets stunned and dies so fast. Against meta, thrawn always fractures him, then cls does his second ability and he dies. I also found Biggs alone can solo him and shut him down. I had multiple matches where these 2 went back and forth until kru was dead and Biggs full health. Kru had 100% counter with taunt, Biggs gains 100% tm after surviving a critical so shoots kru, who counters, Biggs survives a critical and gains 100% tm. Had it happen 4 sepadate times and Biggs just shut him down, so I started avoiding those teams if possible. His basic did no damage to biggs.I find this very strange, as my 4 Star, G11 KRU hasn’t had any trouble with this kind of thing. Sure, he’ll get fractured, but he still heals and definitely has enough hp to win a battle with Biggs. I love it when Biggs picks a fight with KRU or especially FOST, since he will just heal them and kill himself. Naturally, this is assuming you’ve taken out wedge and he’s not calling Zolo on the assists on something. If you link your swgoh.gg profile we may be able to help you figure out the problem, but first thing o would do is make sure he is modded for protection and health first, then offense, crit etc. He doesn’t need potency and in my opinion he doesn’t really need speed with all the TM from FOST and OG Kylo, plus you can always choose him with FOO and/or Thrawn if necessary. Frankly, I consider anything past the pretaunt and his stun to be a bonus, but I guarantee he will do more damage staying alive and countering hard, then going 30 speed faster.

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Imrahil6
7 years ago
"DeepChu;c-1396050" wrote:
"Minowara;c-1396010" wrote:
If you don't like him, that's fine. I continue to run him at the top of arena with a pure FO team.

One comment you made though is odd -- that his hp/prot is low. It's not really. He has 67k ehp (effective hp, for those who aren't familiar with that acronym).

Compare that to:
KRU: 67k
Baze: 68k
GK: 76k
Shore: 75k
ST: 72k
Sun Fac: 74k
Stormtrooper: 61k
FOST: 63k
Chopper: 61k
STH: 53k
Finn: 64k
K2SO: 71k

His number isn't unreasonably low. There are plenty of tanks below him.

I do like him, really, but in my shard there is no way I can do top with a pure FO squad.

Answering to your list I compared him with the TOP tanks:

Malbus has 20% more health for his passive + r2 is usually there with number crunch to increase that more.
GK kit is just awsome and highest pool and his super "everybody attacks at my order and destroy that guy".
Shoretrooper puts crit immunity + 10% max health for his passive.
and ST has +100% defense plus protection up.

All of the above have an effective health + prot pool higher or much higher than KRU.

Of course there are plenty tanks below him, that's not the point.

He is a good tank, and has improved FO team a lot, but it is not enough for top arena, that's all.

I guess I just disagree. I don't think you should include other characters in the team (r2) when evalutating a tank. Also, those others do have passives that help their survivability, but so does KRU. He gains 8% health whenever he is damaged and gains 10% health when he uses Halt. For me, he holds up great. (Dec 2015 shard) When paired with FOST with KRU lead, the two are very hard to bring down.
SakMoiKak
7 years ago
He's not CLS, but he's not bad if you zeta him.

Oh, and his new ship is awesome
DarthAmarth011
7 years ago
The optimal FO team is KRU, Kylo, SFTP, FOST and FOO. Thanks to FOO, the team can stun everyone like crazy and Gains lots of TM and buffs (that provide Heals if you have KRU Zeta).
In my opinion, we need Hux as a viable replacement for FOO that can reduce CDs and cleanse. Also some Offense up will be nice, given the fact that CRIT change/damage and speed are already there.
This team can perfectly win against the meta from what I've seen.
DarthAmarth011
7 years ago
"starplatinum;c-1396722" wrote:
"Darth_Amarth;c-1396495" wrote:
The optimal FO team is KRU, Kylo, SFTP, FOST and FOO. Thanks to FOO, the team can stun everyone like crazy and Gains lots of TM and buffs (that provide Heals if you have KRU Zeta).
In my opinion, we need Hux as a viable replacement for FOO that can reduce CDs and cleanse. Also some Offense up will be nice, given the fact that CRIT change/damage and speed are already there.
This team can perfectly win against the meta from what I've seen.

Damn, why would you post that just when i finally made up my mind to put a zeta on FTP? I was planning to go for kru(L) fost fotp foo thrawn but now i feel i need to consider more...

I thought about Thrawn as a replacement for FOO, but Officer reduces cooldowns. Kylo can stun people before the first stun you placed is over. SFTP can stun more frequently as well, plus FOST can taunt before his taunt is over. Imagine potentially permanent Speed up and Defense up as well. All thanks to One ability.
Mullato616
7 years ago
I agree. I feel his stun should be undispellable, and maybe make it 1 turn instead to not be abused. Idk he needs something.
cronosuriel
New Spectator
7 years ago
"Mullato;c-1396813" wrote:
I agree. I feel his stun should be undispellable, and maybe make it 1 turn instead to not be abused. Idk he needs something.

Unfortunately, i don't think they will update his kit to be on par with legendary rey's abilities. But there's still hope with a future FO support! Let's imagine one has a zeta on unique granting that all stuns inflicted by FO allies cannot be dispelled until they expire. That would make FO squad sick!!
ShaunyVee
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
How do you avoid raid Han from pooping on FOO's head, and thus negating your +120 speed mods every single arena match?

Are we supposed to be modding FOO with prot/HP??
tharduskafka
7 years ago
"Shaunyvee;c-1396983" wrote:
How do you avoid raid Han from pooping on FOO's head, and thus negating your +120 speed mods every single arena match?

Are we supposed to be modding FOO with prot/HP??

Well, if you give OG Kylo or FOST a decent set or mods, they can easily break 250 under KRU. So if FOO gets stunned, you have KRU taunting to protect him until one of them feeds the team TM.

Another awesome combo is FOO and Thrawn, with them modded to be roughly the same speed (easily 260+). Then you have a cleanse, heal and 100% TM ready to go no matter who Zolo stuns.

Honestly, CLS is much easier now against KRU, than Phasma was against Maul. Now that was a bunch of RNGBS. Kind of like the new Rey.
Cgabrielse
7 years ago
"DeepChu;d-150079" wrote:
Halt should be undispellable

You’re asking for another Fracture.
BTTripleZero
7 years ago
"DarthApok;c-1396872" wrote:
KRU has a very nice balanced kit imo. And that’s the difference between LS and DS. DS toons are balanced. LS toons are overpowered..

My arena shard disagrees. They whine about how OP my NS are all the time.