Current team: 4* zBastila (L), zzGMYoda, zEzra, GK, 5* zHermit Yoda. All are gold-ringed except Basti and Hermi. I get stopped somewhere around 15-20 in the arena. I started playing Nov 2015 - the month the game launched. So it's a pretty competitive shard.I can take down Emperor Palpatine (L) teams - no problem. Every time.I can take out mirror matches by swapping Ezra out for my G12 zVentress. All it takes is one round where WE have our buffs and they don't (because Ventress took 'em off) and they're done for.I. Cannot. Beat. A Traya lead. For those of you reading this and using Sith, whenever I see someone in the arena running Palpatine lead *but they have Traya in their party* I'm like, BAD MOVE! ...I can crush Palp lead. You should always run Traya lead if you have her. At least against Jedi.Anyway, the team that's killing me is Traya (L), Sion, Sith Trooper, Palpatine, Thrawn. I spend all my time trying to kill the Trooper, and as soon as I do, I'm blocked by Sion's taunt and have to work on him. By the time he's almost dead, he's got his super-resurrect on and it's pointless. Traya's isolated GK, Thrawn's fractured someone (probably Ezra or GM Yoda, my primary damage dealers) and it's game over.I don't know if this is a matter of my Bastila and Hermit not being 7-starred and G12? Or if at that level of arena play, their mods are just better than mine? Or if I'm missing something on strategy or team composition...? I've tried replacing GK with zOld Ben (switching tanks), and zEzra with zOld Ben (TWO tanks), and zEzra for zVentress (to dispell taunts, which is pointless, because they come back too quickly) and zEzra for Visas (but she's not zeta'd yet and only G11, so she isn't impressing me much).Any advice from any of you? And for those of you running Traya lead, feel free to smirk and feel good - that team is a headache and a half!SamUX

I run zFulcrum in Ezra's place, which is also awesome until triumvirate/trooper shows up. The first problem is our debuffs don't stick, thanks to traya, so ability blocking thrawn or sion does nothing. The second problem is trooper is ungodly annoying to deal with. I can beat traya lead without trooper, but that team doesn't exist anymore. Haha. The only real answer is someone like nihilus or probe droid to one-shot traya as soon as bastila clears trooper's taunt. I'm also curious if traya herself can work as the fifth. I'll unlock her tomorrow, so I'll find out soon enough. Either way, it's a dang fun team, so I'll take what I can get with it. The sith bandwagon just bores me.

My Thrawn is geared up nicely! So is my Palpatine! So is my Vader! Etc. I'm not completely averse to dark side, I just (if we're being honest here) get overwhelmed with all the new characters I don't care about and choose to focus on what's fun for me rather than what's meta. Nest is another good example. I didn't love the Young Solo movie and I don't care about Enfys Nest, like, at all, so I'm not bothering with any of them. I know, I know: I've had this conversation a million times. LOL. It's to my own detriment at times. But look at it this way: I spent forever getting all my Jedi to G11 or G12 long, long ago (and I also did NS long before they were popular) because it seemed fun. And now I'm doing okay! So my idiosycratic way of playing comes in handy sometimes as well. Anyway, long story short, I'll try Thrawn, and I'll slowly gear up Nihilus b/c even though I have no idea who he is, canonically, I've seen him used enough now that he looks fun to have. And for me, it's all about the fun, baby. LOL.Just for reference, here's my collection: https://swgoh.gg/u/ahsokatano/collection/Thanks for the advice, guys! It kills me to have to put non-Jedi (especially dark side!) on my all-Jedi team coz I'm a nerd like that, but I'll get over it somehow. I'm so close to top 10 I can taste it!! Worth the effort.SamUX

This seems to be the number one question when it comes to Bastila lead. Traya is the problem with it. I'm closely following the Game Changers on all things Bastila, and so far, the best answer to Traya lead (especially with Sith Trooper) seems to be Bastila, Ezra, GMYoda, HYoda, and Darth Nihilus. MobileGamer made a video on it.https://youtu.be/PxpDKmYJGt8And if you try it and it works, please let me know! There are no Trayas in my shard yet, but I want to be ready!

One team doesn’t beat everything it’s Rock Paper Scissors you have to change squad to beat Trayas . There many options rex lead titans and Thrawn lead Magma plus 3 empire is best trayas counters . Beat Trayas get your rank then after just switch back to your Jedi lead . Multiple squads are needed to play this game at a high level you can’t put all our eggs in one basket hope advjce helps

"Yerff_Caasi;c-1613811" wrote:So far, the best answer to Traya lead (especially with Sith Trooper) seems to be Bastila, Ezra, GMYoda, HYoda, and Darth Nihilus. Yyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeah. I never got Darth Nihilus! LOL. Whoopsie. I mean, I HAVE him, but he's like 3-star G6 or something horrific like that. I'll slowly work him up, but it's gonna be a hot second. Any other bright ideas?

Hitting a wall with Bastila - help me beat Traya!

Rmaxtpmx
7 years ago
I run zFulcrum in Ezra's place, which is also awesome until triumvirate/trooper shows up. The first problem is our debuffs don't stick, thanks to traya, so ability blocking thrawn or sion does nothing. The second problem is trooper is ungodly annoying to deal with. I can beat traya lead without trooper, but that team doesn't exist anymore. Haha.

The only real answer is someone like nihilus or probe droid to one-shot traya as soon as bastila clears trooper's taunt. I'm also curious if traya herself can work as the fifth. I'll unlock her tomorrow, so I'll find out soon enough.

Either way, it's a dang fun team, so I'll take what I can get with it. The sith bandwagon just bores me.
SamuraiUX
7 years ago
My Thrawn is geared up nicely! So is my Palpatine! So is my Vader! Etc. I'm not completely averse to dark side, I just (if we're being honest here) get overwhelmed with all the new characters I don't care about and choose to focus on what's fun for me rather than what's meta. Nest is another good example. I didn't love the Young Solo movie and I don't care about Enfys Nest, like, at all, so I'm not bothering with any of them. I know, I know: I've had this conversation a million times. LOL. It's to my own detriment at times. But look at it this way: I spent forever getting all my Jedi to G11 or G12 long, long ago (and I also did NS long before they were popular) because it seemed fun. And now I'm doing okay! So my idiosycratic way of playing comes in handy sometimes as well. Anyway, long story short, I'll try Thrawn, and I'll slowly gear up Nihilus b/c even though I have no idea who he is, canonically, I've seen him used enough now that he looks fun to have. And for me, it's all about the fun, baby. LOL.

Just for reference, here's my collection: https://swgoh.gg/u/ahsokatano/collection/

Thanks for the advice, guys! It kills me to have to put non-Jedi (especially dark side!) on my all-Jedi team coz I'm a nerd like that, but I'll get over it somehow. I'm so close to top 10 I can taste it!! Worth the effort.

SamUX
Yerff_Caasi
7 years ago
This seems to be the number one question when it comes to Bastila lead. Traya is the problem with it. I'm closely following the Game Changers on all things Bastila, and so far, the best answer to Traya lead (especially with Sith Trooper) seems to be Bastila, Ezra, GMYoda, HYoda, and Darth Nihilus. MobileGamer made a video on it.
https://youtu.be/PxpDKmYJGt8
And if you try it and it works, please let me know! There are no Trayas in my shard yet, but I want to be ready!
jim887my
7 years ago
One team doesn’t beat everything it’s Rock Paper Scissors you have to change squad to beat Trayas . There many options rex lead titans and Thrawn lead Magma plus 3 empire is best trayas counters . Beat Trayas get your rank then after just switch back to your Jedi lead . Multiple squads are needed to play this game at a high level you can’t put all our eggs in one basket hope advjce helps
SamuraiUX
7 years ago
"Yerff_Caasi;c-1613811" wrote:
So far, the best answer to Traya lead (especially with Sith Trooper) seems to be Bastila, Ezra, GMYoda, HYoda, and Darth Nihilus.

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeah. I never got Darth Nihilus! LOL. Whoopsie. I mean, I HAVE him, but he's like 3-star G6 or something horrific like that.

I'll slowly work him up, but it's gonna be a hot second. Any other bright ideas?
SamuraiUX
7 years ago
"Rmaxtpmx;c-1613818" wrote:
I run zFulcrum in Ezra's place, which is also awesome...
Either way, it's a dang fun team, so I'll take what I can get with it. The sith bandwagon just bores me.

Yyyyyyeeeeeeeeeahh, I never got Fulcrum either. I mean, I HAVE her, but she's in the same condition as Nihilus. I've always WANTED her!! I mean, my name is Ahsoka Tano! But she's never been strictly farmable... wherever it is that she occasionally pops up, I use that currency for something else. Zetas, maybe?

But I agree with you: I've only ever wanted to have a badass Jedi team and now I do! All my Jedi are strong now (G11 or higher, everyone except Guardian) and I have tons of fun using all of them in various places in the game!
RamiElBatal
7 years ago
"Rmaxtpmx;c-1613818" wrote:
I run zFulcrum in Ezra's place, which is also awesome until triumvirate/trooper shows up. The first problem is our debuffs don't stick, thanks to traya, so ability blocking thrawn or sion does nothing. The second problem is trooper is ungodly annoying to deal with. I can beat traya lead without trooper, but that team doesn't exist anymore. Haha.

The only real answer is someone like nihilus or probe droid to one-shot traya as soon as bastila clears trooper's taunt. I'm also curious if traya herself can work as the fifth. I'll unlock her tomorrow, so I'll find out soon enough.

Either way, it's a dang fun team, so I'll take what I can get with it. The sith bandwagon just bores me.

thrawn can be ability blocked... he is not a sith
Yerff_Caasi
7 years ago
"SamuraiUX;c-1613817" wrote:
"Yerff_Caasi;c-1613811" wrote:
So far, the best answer to Traya lead (especially with Sith Trooper) seems to be Bastila, Ezra, GMYoda, HYoda, and Darth Nihilus.

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeah. I never got Darth Nihilus! LOL. Whoopsie. I mean, I HAVE him, but he's like 3-star G6 or something horrific like that.

I'll slowly work him up, but it's gonna be a hot second. Any other bright ideas?

Ugh, bummer. I mean, I don’t have him either, but I figured if you’d been playing that long, you would.

That’s the only team I remember seeing that could really handle the Traya lead. Bastila, Old Ben, Ezra, Talzin, Nest is a variation I’ve seen, but it still struggles badly against Traya lead.

Sorry. :(

If I come across another, or remember one, you’ll be the first to know.
Yerff_Caasi
7 years ago
I assume you have Thrawn at least? This lineup is a little weird, but I just saw it take down two Traya leads in this video: Bastila, Ezra, GMYoda, Hoda, Thrawn.
https://youtu.be/F5A-d9wSTKk
I’ve never tried it, nor have I seen a Game Changer discuss it.

That’s all I could find for you. :(
Phil76ks
7 years ago
Nihilus is great against any sith combinations. If you gear him, you can make him work at low stars. Use extra to feed him tm. Ezra and GMY will still be your main damage dealers, but with tm buff from GMY, your Nihilus will get a head start to annihilate. You really just need to keep him alive to increase cooldown, then annihilate Sion. Anything beyond that is bonus. The lower stars will make it a bit harder because of lower health/protection, but if you can keep him protected with foresight and restore health/protection with HY, should be able to make it work. May be able to swap out HY for GK or Old Ben for added protection. Won't hold up well on defense, so you may want to swap it out after last battle, but will make your climb easier.