Do I need Phoenix for ships?

The Phantom is one of the best ships in the game due to its reinforcement ability. You definitely should get it.

"TVF;c-1876475" wrote:

"Spharynx01;c-1876176" wrote:
Best Line up : MFalcon, Hound's Tooth, Biggs, First call Phantom II, Ghost and finall Bistan.

So yes, farm them ;) My pheonix are not high as **** but with decent gear, they are still very effective in ship arena...

What's your win rate?

Cassian makes it essentially 100% (save a once-a-month dodge fest or something else screwy) so I find it hard to believe the best lineup doesn't include it.

You don't need a lineup outside of Bistan HMF Biggs and cassian off the bench.....

"VonZant;c-1876432" wrote:

"Jarvind;c-1876401" wrote:

"VonZant;c-1876255" wrote:
I'm at 3.5M GP and had people stumble on my g10 phoenix team more than once.

I had the same happen around 2.9m with a g9 Phoenix team. Sometimes with my absolutely pitiful g7 Sabine instead of Ezra, even, since I sometimes save him for offense with Jedi. I'm around 3.3 now and they haven't put up a W recently, but I still use them on defense since I know they can still force an opponent to use up a solid character or two.

Eventually I'll probably take them all to g11 for fleet reasons, though i dunno if I could justify ever spending zetas on them.

My Hera is g11 now. Everyone else is g9 or 10. I use them in fleet and can take #1 muliple times a week. My Cassian is g8.5. Reinforcements dont have to be max gear.

Oh totally. I took Cassian to g11 to max out his ship ability (guaranteed crit on both attacks) but Jyn is g10 and K2 is like, g8.

I did notice that after I took Ezra to g11, though, Phantom's 2nd special can now hit hard enough to damage Hounds Tooth past its Prot Up, and sometimes its basic can too. So I figured I'd beef it up a bit more. Plus getting Chopper to g11 adds Speed Up to the buffs it can give itself, and more speed is always good.

Phoenixes ships are essential for current rebel fleet meta. You just can’t pass them

"Vinniarth;c-1878183" wrote:
Phoenixes ships are essential for current rebel fleet meta. You just can’t pass them

They are useful but not essential for the meta which is HT, Mill.F, Biggs/Bistan, RI Cassian.

Who do you bench with phoenix?
I took the less usual path of farming Sabine early, she was also my first zeta - back in the 150 GW days.
Chopper is my least developed, but Ezra has been seconded to jedi. At some point Ezra will make way for GK or Hoda, as yet I have neither; again leaving me the question of who to bench

"FenrirsFirstborn;c-1878686" wrote:
Who do you bench with phoenix?
I took the less usual path of farming Sabine early, she was also my first zeta - back in the 150 GW days.
Chopper is my least developed, but Ezra has been seconded to jedi. At some point Ezra will make way for GK or Hoda, as yet I have neither; again leaving me the question of who to bench

Probably Chopper and use him with droids. But if you are using them on D maybe bench Ezra. If Chopper is fast he can cause problems for people especially if you have Sabine and Kanan zetaed.

Chopper can go to droids as VonZant said. Ezra or Sabine can drop in to any other Rebel squad. Even Kanan and Zeb can fit in other teams. Only Hera really loses her purpose outside of Pboenix squad.

I drop Ezra and use him with Ackbar (L), Hoda, YOLO and QGJ for a surprisingly effective offensive team.