How do you beat Phoenix squad in arena?

I find wiggs works really well. Wedge helps provide endurance to keep up with phoenix but with superior dps to eventually burn them down. R2 also helps boosting stats and stealth to hide characters that are low on health. Aoe dps doesn't really work since 4 will basically regenerate all the hit points you remove while you use single dps basic attacks to burn down the 5th (so stacking high dps single target toons is best).

I never had luck with SThan who was always just too squishy. Either a pretaunter like baze or a self reviving taunter like scarif are probably good. The key I think with tanks is to have a very durable tank like baze paired with a healer or a self reviving tank like scarif so you can counter the Phoenix taunt stacking long enough to burn their major threats down.

Phoenix has no pre-taunt. That is the weakness.

Use Wiggs. Get Biggs super fast so he goes first. Triple nuke ezra.....profit?

I disagree.
Wedge first to put defense down. Then biggs and everyone else do massive damage.

the problem with wedge going first is the triple nuke at this level will kill the toon anyway. So having wedge go first, then the nuke is just overkill. I find it better to have the nuke first and then wedge AOE right after. This ensures that, if the nuke doesn't quite kill them, the AOE will. Or, if the nuke did kill them, the AOE will damage the next toon you focus on.

Also, Biggs fastest is better on defense.

"Mobewan;c-1338208" wrote:
I disagree.
Wedge first to put defense down. Then biggs and everyone else do massive damage.

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.

Minimize AoE uses. Start with either Kanan to remove counter if you heavily rely on AoEs, if not Zeb to get rid of protection regen

Use toons with high crit with no debuffs so you don't trigger the kanaan heal once you break protection. Also focus their DPS down first (ezra, sabine) and/or Hera before touching the tanks. Stun, daze, stagger are murder on PS in general so use them to help control the group while you burn the dps and hera first.

Lumi, Jc. This is not good idea to use them. Leia, Biggs, Wedge are much better against Pheonix. Also Rey can do much more dmg than Jedi. Palpatine can also be very helpfull.

Good to see this thread lives on. I'm at level 75 and replaced JC with Wedge around level 70. I've found PHX squad success to be highly variable. Speed mods have been a big help. If STHan goes first, followed by Boba with death from above, followed by Biggs with comrade in arms improves chances hugely. You can take out Ezra or Hera before the other team goes. Single shots are a more reliable strategy, but sometimes AOEs can work before STHan dies. All that said, some PHX squads get their tanks engaged fast and then you're pretty much done for with no chance of success.

Empire with r2, stuns then vaders 2 specials, then keep stunning and killing one by one