How do you beat Phoenix squad in arena?

Lando and Boba will make them all counter. Make sure to only use their AOE's if STHan has his taunt up. Kill ezra first.

how do you beat Phoenix?
your team shows up ;)

I am so jealous you atleast get to fight agains other than CLS rebels with Han and that damn robot!

Of course r2 and chaze will help. So would cls and thrawn. I dont think he has access to those characters yet. If he did, he wouldnt be having trouble with phoenix

"EventineElessedil;c-1338304" wrote:

If you make Wedge go first, you are gonna have a bad time. On defense, he will AOE first and against a counter team like Phoenix, that triggers an instant group hug filled with pain. Biggs must go first to increase the chance that Wedge is still around to assist.

I have been playing with wedge and biggs from the beginning of my game. I have tried both setups, and i can guarantee you that when wedge goes first, the enemy dies faster and that is without a major loss in defense.

On defense, any toon with aoe is terrible, and the AI is worse than terrible. For a wiggs team to perform better on defense, you need an autotaunt like GK or Baze. Furthermore, you would be better off adding r2 to the mix so that when wedge does his silly aoe on defense he is cloaked, but it still gives turn meter to Rex teams.

Offense is easy in this game. A team that can beat you with your biggs first cam beat you with your wedge first. I have experienced what you are describing for myself, and i can say without a doubt that inflicting defense down and killing the opposing g12 wedge or g11 kanan or whoever dps they have and climbing with easy is far better than worrying about how the AI will deal with these two characters.

The OP is having trouble on offense, so he needs to deliver more damage. Defense down is one of the best debuffs in the game.

If you have trouble on offense, that team will crush your defense, so you need to make some changes.

With wiggs, i now use r2, leia and GK. I put r2 first, then leia to make sure she gets her omega cloak benefits. But then wedge puts defense down before biggs special. In this case, i get less damage from leia's first attack, but even on offense, if wedge crits he will give TM to Rex teams that might spoil leia's perma-cloak and offense up. But wedge should always go before biggs in my experience.

One of the problems you guys are running into is Jedi Consular. JC is fine for a starter hero; we all used him, we all appreciated his healing ability. But there comes a point when you realize JC is just holding you back. He does not heal enough and he does little damage. Lumi is better because she is a better attacker, but eventually you need to drop her too. And you replace both of them with damage dealers.

There is a point where healing specialists have no place in Arena, and you instead just go for straight damage.

We can discuss zeta-Barriss later, but for now I think you may be better served to dump the healers and bring the pain.

You are going to have to avoid them until you get some high damage deals. Talia is a bad idea to upgrade.

I could beat the phoenix squad with Lando (L) , STHan, Leia, Luminara and Boba Fett. With Lando as leader you should start attacking first (G6 and rank 1 mods at least, btw I'm level 51)
1. Use Leia stealth skill.
2. then use boba execute with chopper to remove taunt.
3. Taunt with STHan.
4. Lando AOE (all gonna attack STHAN and he should survive first attack wave)
5. Heal team with Luminara.
6. If AOE did crit, Chopper should be near dead so use Leia on chopper to finish him.
7. Your next move should be kill Hera with Boba to prevent she uses his special on any teammate (His special revives the ally with 100% health).
8. Next move should be kill Ezra (your STHan maybe is already dead so don't use AOE or they gonna counter you, if STHan isn't dead, attack Ezra with STHan then Lando's AOE)
9. Ezra should be dead by the time you do your next move, so your next target is kill Kanan or Zeb (I usually kill zeb first due his protection skill, then kill Kanan)


Doing this, when you have already killed Chopper, Hera and Ezra, your alive team should be Lando, Lumi and Boba (Leia probably is dead or nearly dead cause she is a bit weak out Stealth)

TIPS: As someone said only use AOEs if STHan taunt is up, and use Boba's execute skill every time you can to remove taunts and Ezra buffs. I think that with TIE Fighter Pilot should be easier cause his special ability prevents that the enemy get buffs, but you should change your entire team cause with this one it shouldn't work very well.

I hope this helps and sorry for my bad english :P.

Facing Phenix on over gear IX, speed over 200 and with zeta sabine and zeta kanan is a true nightmare. Easy to defeat them, but in a way more than 5 minutes, which is frustrating in Arena. my F2P team is Zopress, Zylo, 6* Thrawn, 6* Nihilus, 7* R2D2, can wipe them but time out T_T

I found Ackbar lead to be a massive help. Combine that with a couple of hard hitting rebels (Leia is perfect for this) and a few healers/supports. The trick is to avoid using AOE damage and debuffs. You can cleanse any daze plus if you do an indirect attack they can't counter it so use as many non-attacking moves as you can and let Leia take them out.