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Tbirds2001
7 years ago

Gamorean Guard?

Hey y’all,

What does everyone know about Gamorean Guard? He seems a little underrated in my opinion (so is CUP, but I’ll jusr leave that there. Don’t want to get kicked out of the forums for supporting CUP.) Anyways, is Guard good paired with Big Z and Mission? All of those dots, double tanks, both have retribution, Guard, Z and Mission regaining protection from possibly a Qi’ra lead, z's zeta, and Guard's first special. Plus he looks cool.

Since he’s got one of the highest base health or protection pools in the game, what about modding him a little more for speed to put out his full potential instead of being like a terrible version of sith trooper, sits buts doesn’t move.

By the way, I’m talking about arena. I like to have fun in arena instead of doing all of the metas, so don’t worry about wasting your time telling me how bad scoundrels are in arena, I know they’re aren’t the best, but they can work.

So what do y’all think? Can Guard work with Z and Mission?
  • Tbirds2001's avatar
    Tbirds2001
    7 years ago
    "Killbot5000;c-1681001" wrote:
    Gg is a great with scoundrels- l3, vandor, and nest.... but there are way better scoundrel tank options.
    It takes l3 and and vandor to keep him alive. His dots and counter attack are great. Zaarbal is a similar kit, but way, way better. The only use i can find is the combo exposes from him and nest.... but yeah, he is kinda crappy.
    Mine is g10, 7 star, and not as tanky as other tank options unfortunately.

    If they changed his taunt from just him recovering protection, to the whole team, that would be legit. Thats his main problem, he doesnt add synergy to anything..... better than clone chewie and royal guard, but thats about it.
    I think he looks cool, so i will probably keep gearing him regardless.


    Yeah, I think he looks cool as well.? Wish He were better. Maybe if Jabba ever gets released maybe he’ll have synergy then.
  • ButtrmlkPncakes's avatar
    ButtrmlkPncakes
    7 years ago
    Thing is, he had more potential when he came out but since then everything he does is outclassed by someone else imo. He can do expose on his special? Resistance with JTR and zFinn laugh at that pitiful one expose every 3 turns as does Nest with her expose on basic with counter attack. He can counter and apply dots on basic, but so does Wampa and Wampa gets 150% protection up on his daze aoe special which makes him equally tanky if not more. I have a 7* Gam Guard at g8 or g9 because I kept hoping he was just underestimated and secretly awesome in the right team...but he shows up in platoons in dstb every month so I've got that going for me which is nice :)
  • Player_7ctrhms9's avatar
    Player_7ctrhms9
    7 years ago
    "Tbirds01;d-185980" wrote:
    What does everyone know about Gamorean Guard?


    I know he's basically useless :)

  • YKMisfit's avatar
    YKMisfit
    Seasoned Novice
    7 years ago
    I don't have him, but I hope you're right. I'd love to have any excuse to farm him.

    IG-88 (lead), Wampa, Mission, Zaalbar, Gammorean Guard. Sign me up!
  • Tbirds2001's avatar
    Tbirds2001
    7 years ago
    "YKMisfit;c-1680826" wrote:
    I don't have him, but I hope you're right. I'd love to have any excuse to farm him.

    IG-88 (lead), Wampa, Mission, Zaalbar, Gammorean Guard. Sign me up!


    That team sounds awesome! Now we just need to have ig88 have the same lead as Vader mixed with his own to make it super viable and op
  • VaexquaGer's avatar
    VaexquaGer
    7 years ago
    Bring him to lvl 50 to park 6 mods on him, everything else is a waste of resources and time.
  • evoartsinc's avatar
    evoartsinc
    7 years ago
    Gg is a great with scoundrels- l3, vandor, and nest.... but there are way better scoundrel tank options.
    It takes l3 and and vandor to keep him alive. His dots and counter attack are great. Zaarbal is a similar kit, but way, way better. The only use i can find is the combo exposes from him and nest.... but yeah, he is kinda crappy.
    Mine is g10, 7 star, and not as tanky as other tank options unfortunately.

    If they changed his taunt from just him recovering protection, to the whole team, that would be legit. Thats his main problem, he doesnt add synergy to anything..... better than clone chewie and royal guard, but thats about it.
    I think he looks cool, so i will probably keep gearing him regardless.
  • evoartsinc's avatar
    evoartsinc
    7 years ago
    On a possitive note, when paired with l3 and vandor he is a self cleansing, self protection recovering tank, which makes him better then pretty much any tank with a non scoundrel faction tag (from a pure meat shield perspective), minus maybe zombie.
  • ThickMucus's avatar
    ThickMucus
    7 years ago
    The thing you have to remember is how fragile his taunt is. Once its dispelled he is pointless. Slow and will take forever to get his taunt back. In the mean time all he is doing is hitting a few DoTs here and there barely supporting the team even on a full DoT squad. In regards to rocking a double tank with Z I think its very interesting on paper but realistically I think Guard just serves no purpose without his taunt and it would be way too easy to take that off and make him pointless. Good thinking though!

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