Hounds Tooth is overpowered

I use Home One in fleet arena, which means I rely on a lot of assists. That makes HT a challenge, since each separate attack gives it bonus protection. If your attacks don’t do enough damage, you run the risk that HT will wind up stronger than before you attacked it.

You can work around it though. You just have to adjust your strategy. My main advice is try not to damage it while it already has protection up, unless you can inflict overwhelming damage. I’ll even use non-attack abilities that don’t serve any strategic purpose under the circumstances, just to avoid granting it bonus protection. That and make liberal use of cleanse from Vader/Ahsoka/others.

I face 7* HTs everyday on my push up to top 5 in fleet, and I probably win 70-80% of my attacks on HT fleets using these strategies.

Are you going against 3*ht lol? Because I go against maxed geos everyday and they dontt come close to denting him

"Ededed;c-1692100" wrote:
Tarkin gives offense up

Yeah I saw that now. My bad.

"Kokie;c-1692166" wrote:
Geos are awesome ships in most cases but against the breach meta they are way outclassed. Me and another player sit at 1 and 2 without hardly ever getting pushed out of our positions and we both run bh breach squad with tie advance cassian u wing and phantom ii running with them

I like ur breach squad ideology but ackbar dispells u must have tarkins behind u praying for annihilate to save them lol

"Bulldog1205;c-1692497" wrote:

"Parad;c-1691530" wrote:
I think it doesn't work as intended, because sometimes I can kill it with ease and sometimes it just doesn't loose any health. All those secondary attacks don't do anything.

Probably depends on whether it crits or not. A maxed HT generates 24k Protection Up per hit. It has 45% armor, so that means any physical attack that deals hits for less than 44k damage won’t actually do any damage to HT. There are very few attacks that deal that much damage without being a critical hit.

And that is the bottom line right there....as a player who spent many hours strategizing on both sides of the ht that is the key...which is why I run either ackbar or thrawn with my team for cleanse and heal...

Geotrio and poe d for the kill. That's against a whales HT. RNG always factors in as we all know

"Kokie;c-1692489" wrote:

"2smooth;c-1692487" wrote:

"Kokie;c-1692166" wrote:
Geos are awesome ships in most cases but against the breach meta they are way outclassed. Me and another player sit at 1 and 2 without hardly ever getting pushed out of our positions and we both run bh breach squad with tie advance cassian u wing and phantom ii running with them

I like ur breach squad ideology but ackbar dispells u must have tarkins behind u praying for annihilate to save them lol

No I run home one with my squad.....xanadu blood ensures taunt is never dispelled on ht as it applies breach on entering battle and on basic

the whale in my shard isn’t as good as u his blood starts in battle I dispel then stun issue solved but once blood is finished issue solve always a way just have to be good enough to find it. I will eventually use set up for defense maybe when 2.5 GP not sure how long it will take the free way with other priorities have to have some knowledge to deal with it.

I am maybe a QQing nub but consider this:

I am on a new ship shard(maybe 1 month old).
SOME people just started to get 5* capital, I don’t have the means to keep 1 fully specced not to mention 3 for different encounters.
I got a little lucky and got #3(not to brag but for the purposes that i am up there capable of fighting for top spots) yesterday but usually happy with top 5.
There are 3-4 hound tooths and they are all in top 5. Sure some are whales no doubt ( I bought $5 starter pack but otherwise f2p)
Things started to move much faster now but up until a few days ago, tooths sat at 3-4 stars.
There are probably no 7 star ships that anyone has, maybe a few.
So my fleet of 5-6 star ships against pretty much similar fleet with tooth.
My pilot is better equipped, my ship is higher lvls of upgrades and stars.

And there is just no chance i get a super lucky rolls here and there.

It maybe more balanced when every is lvl 85 and has a variety of ships to select but at my lvl this ship is a game changer and will be for some time.

So how can 1 ship(and undergeared at that) hold so much power?

It has nothing to do with whaling but these whales don’t have a 7* bossk yet.

And I just don’t have a fleet of G12 geos sitting in hangar as a backup to take on 1* tooth and hope for perfect rng

I’d like to understand how when the Ghost is stealthed with no debuffs and Phantom is not stealthed and has foresight, the enemy AI ships can single target Ghost exclusively until destroyed.

It happens with Houndstooth and Geonosians regularly. Pretty sure nothing in any of those kits allows or ignores stealth.

"StarControl;c-1693164" wrote:
I am maybe a QQing nub but consider this:

I am on a new ship shard(maybe 1 month old).
SOME people just started to get 5* capital, I don’t have the means to keep 1 fully specced not to mention 3 for different encounters.
I got a little lucky and got #3(not to brag but for the purposes that i am up there capable of fighting for top spots) yesterday but usually happy with top 5.
There are 3-4 hound tooths and they are all in top 5. Sure some are whales no doubt ( I bought $5 starter pack but otherwise f2p)
Things started to move much faster now but up until a few days ago, tooths sat at 3-4 stars.
There are probably no 7 star ships that anyone has, maybe a few.
So my fleet of 5-6 star ships against pretty much similar fleet with tooth.
My pilot is better equipped, my ship is higher lvls of upgrades and stars.

And there is just no chance i get a super lucky rolls here and there.

It maybe more balanced when every is lvl 85 and has a variety of ships to select but at my lvl this ship is a game changer and will be for some time.

So how can 1 ship(and undergeared at that) hold so much power?

It has nothing to do with whaling but these whales don’t have a 7* bossk yet.

And I just don’t have a fleet of G12 geos sitting in hangar as a backup to take on 1* tooth and hope for perfect rng

If the ht is only 4 or 5 stars, it's probably not a whale. It is ftp farmable. With a 25 crystal refresh it can be farmed fairly quickly with energy.

And if you have tf, vader, asoka, or other ships that dispel buffs, ht is able to be managed without too much trouble.