I've been playing for awhile now (Level 81) and have noticed a lot of hate on the forums towards the ewok faction. However, my experiences with an ewok squad have been great. In fact, I couldn't finish a galactic war until I had a full squad of them. The squad I'm currently using is: Teebo lead (G9 7*) with Chirpa (G8 5*) Scout (G8 5*), Elder (G8 6*) and Paploo (G8 3*) which seems like a very underwhelming squad on paper. The synergy is crazy how good it can be if the abilities are timed correctly though. Many times I've been able to dominate (full health and zeroed cooldowns on all ewoks) teams with a much higher power rating.Paploo was the key to surviving the first turn of the opposing team (which usually there is only 4 or 3 left). I have to imagine there are other players who have an ewok squad that is more powerful (and may have better synergy). For the other ewok lovers:What ewok squad do you use? Are you farming any of the new ewoks? How viable is an ewok squad for HAAT raids?Thanks and gotta love those murder bears!!

Problem is they do little damage and rely on crits which a zeta Barriss or Kenobi stops

From what I've experienced, the small damage is an advantage in longer battles because ewoks take 2-4 turns (resetting special cooldowns) before the other side takes one. I could see some ewok teams relying on crits but this squad only has the scout who crits on a consistent basis.

The problem with them is that they rely on TONS of assists and quite literally every non-unique buff in the game to do pretty much anything. If the opponent has B2 then you already lost. Sure they do good damage when they have Crit Damage Up and Offense up, but without that they are terrible. And without HoTs and assists they can't sustain themselves either. They can work occasionally, but against CLS and Rex lead they are the worst possible team you could think of to use since they will counter attack you to death within 2 turns, literally, and you'll just feed Rex lead an insane amount of turn meter (you can daze them with Logray but they'll almost always have R2 on the team so it won't matter after 1 turn anyway). My advice to you is to not waste resources on ewoks. Just go for rebels, the devs love giving them new OP characters all the time and it won't stop, so if you farm rebels you'll always be at the top. Or find a way to counter the meta, its a lot harder but its also a lot more fun than using rebels. For example, I still use my droid team in arena on an old shard and with BB-8 I'm back in the top 10 :) I don't win every fight (probably 7 to 9 out of 10), but If the enemy team doesn't have Raid Han, or 2 team cleansers, I have a really good chance of winning.

I agree with what you are saying about them having "arch enemies" that can shut down their flow but Teebo can prevent that toon (usually two for about 5 turns) from ever taking a turn.Teebo goes stealth to start the encounter granting 100 percent turn meter to everyone else. Chirpa can mass attack to remove turn meter from one toon (also granting speed up). Teebo can then attack a second toon removing all turn meter. Because of speed up and Elder granting additional turn meter, Teebo can remove TM at least one more time and often a second time. By then his stealth is refreshed, which restarts the TM plus speed-up train. They seem to be very effective as long as the correct enemies are controlled while you whittle away at their health.

"They can work occasionally, but against CLS and Rex lead they are the worst possible team you could think of to use since they will counter attack you to death within 2 turns, literally, and you'll just feed Rex lead an insane amount of turn meter (you can daze them with Logray but they'll almost always have R2 on the team so it won't matter after 1 turn anyway)."A Teebo leads grants stealth to the entire team on a regular basis so counter attacks are usually not a problem.

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jarhead733
8 years ago
Problem is they do little damage and rely on crits which a zeta Barriss or Kenobi stops
Grrrrrrrrrrreer
8 years ago
From what I've experienced, the small damage is an advantage in longer battles because ewoks take 2-4 turns (resetting special cooldowns) before the other side takes one.

I could see some ewok teams relying on crits but this squad only has the scout who crits on a consistent basis.
STRlKEBOMB
8 years ago
The problem with them is that they rely on TONS of assists and quite literally every non-unique buff in the game to do pretty much anything. If the opponent has B2 then you already lost. Sure they do good damage when they have Crit Damage Up and Offense up, but without that they are terrible. And without HoTs and assists they can't sustain themselves either. They can work occasionally, but against CLS and Rex lead they are the worst possible team you could think of to use since they will counter attack you to death within 2 turns, literally, and you'll just feed Rex lead an insane amount of turn meter (you can daze them with Logray but they'll almost always have R2 on the team so it won't matter after 1 turn anyway). My advice to you is to not waste resources on ewoks. Just go for rebels, the devs love giving them new OP characters all the time and it won't stop, so if you farm rebels you'll always be at the top. Or find a way to counter the meta, its a lot harder but its also a lot more fun than using rebels. For example, I still use my droid team in arena on an old shard and with BB-8 I'm back in the top 10 :) I don't win every fight (probably 7 to 9 out of 10), but If the enemy team doesn't have Raid Han, or 2 team cleansers, I have a really good chance of winning.
Grrrrrrrrrrreer
8 years ago
I agree with what you are saying about them having "arch enemies" that can shut down their flow but Teebo can prevent that toon (usually two for about 5 turns) from ever taking a turn.

Teebo goes stealth to start the encounter granting 100 percent turn meter to everyone else. Chirpa can mass attack to remove turn meter from one toon (also granting speed up). Teebo can then attack a second toon removing all turn meter.

Because of speed up and Elder granting additional turn meter, Teebo can remove TM at least one more time and often a second time. By then his stealth is refreshed, which restarts the TM plus speed-up train.

They seem to be very effective as long as the correct enemies are controlled while you whittle away at their health.
Grrrrrrrrrrreer
8 years ago
"They can work occasionally, but against CLS and Rex lead they are the worst possible team you could think of to use since they will counter attack you to death within 2 turns, literally, and you'll just feed Rex lead an insane amount of turn meter (you can daze them with Logray but they'll almost always have R2 on the team so it won't matter after 1 turn anyway)."

A Teebo leads grants stealth to the entire team on a regular basis so counter attacks are usually not a problem.
templarphoenix
New Spectator
8 years ago
They needs to be farmable first.
Grrrrrrrrrrreer
8 years ago
"Phoenixeon;c-1292513" wrote:
They needs to be farmable first.

Completely agree regarding the new ewoks. Can't wait to see how durable Paploo is at 7*
taytayh
8 years ago
Don't let the nay sayers distract you. No one in my top 50 uses B2 and I think the meta report backs up how rare that droid is. Logray can AOE daze and, like you said, stealth is anti counter as well.

There's a counter for every squad so if you find something that works against most of what's currently used, you're on to something useful.
NicWester
8 years ago
There's an Ewok team on my arena leaderboard that I'm sure to avoid every time it comes up. Ewoks used to be a pushover, but run into a maxed out Logray and just go do something else for five minutes because that's how long it'll take for you to get a turn...
Grrrrrrrrrrreer
8 years ago
Thanks for the great feedback guys!

"NicWester;c-1292859" wrote:
There's an Ewok team on my arena leaderboard that I'm sure to avoid every time it comes up. Ewoks used to be a pushover, but run into a maxed out Logray and just go do something else for five minutes because that's how long it'll take for you to get a turn...

Logray definitely looks interesting but I haven't been able to gear him up enough to be viable yet. I'll need to start working on him and Wicket soon.

Thanks again and long live the murder bears!