How Good is Nihilus for Early Game?

Ok, so first of all, NEVER buy character shards for crystals out of the shipments. its a big waste of your crystals.
if you want a character, you will have to farm him from the respective node, and yes, that can take a long time.
Use your crystals on energy refreshes (the first 3 refreshes for normal, ship and mod energy only cost 50 crystals each, and not only will that accelerate your leveling by alot, it will also help you get more characters/gear. Cantina energy refreshes cost 100 for the first 3, but they are also worth it, becouse you get cantina shop currency as well, and you can buy characters from that shop)

now that we have that out of the way, you want to play a sith team, but for that to work, and help with your sustain issues, you should get emperor palpatine, he is one of the best Sith leads, and fairly easy to get.
To get him, you are gonna need 5 rebels. I would recommend getting the phoenix team for that (Hera, Ezra, Zeb, Kanan and Chopper), thoose will unlock you EP and then later also unlock you thrawn. and they are also great in galactic war.

So for your other characters you right now try to use: sidious sadly is a very very bad character, and he wont help you much in the longer game, so putting many ressources into him will hurt you, when you notice you dont have the ressources for a different and beter character. same kinda goes for savage.
Dooku has some potential and isnt a bad character at all.
So once you get EP, the Team you are gonna use for a while is gonna look like this:

EP, Vader, Dooku, Tarkin and Thrawn (the lead from EP also works for empire characters), and this is gonna be a reasonable strong team for a while.


Also you are gonna unlock fleet soon, so you should prepare for that, you will need 5 dark side ships at 4* to unlock tarkins capital ship at 5*, and you need that ship, to unlock the zeta challenge, and for that you need 5 ships at 5* (they also can be light side).
So id look at the following ships and pilots for that:
Geonosian Soldier + Ship
Geonosian Spy + Ship
Sun Fac + Ship
KRU + Ship (both on the same node)
Vulture Droid

If you wont get vulture to 5* by lvl 78 (thats a possibility) you should probably just farm buy ahsoka tano shards from the cantina store, and get her ship to 5* instead, alternativly you can just farm the regular tie

Basically what Arva said. DN is great, but not as lead.

How's that potency working out for you?

"Tyranoraptor98;c-2252981" wrote:
Oh no you misunderstood, I'm not having trouble actually beating the levels once I'm there. I'm getting bottlenecked by EXP right now.

And that is the other reason to spend energy - in addition to character shards / gear salvage, you also gain XP.

"TheChild_eats_eggs1;c-2253054" wrote:
G7 gives you protection, so Idk why you aren’t going for it

I.... I may or may not have literally just found that out.

My profile btw if anyone cares:
https://swgoh.gg/p/356893396/characters/

I don’t see how that would hurt you at all. Play your Opress and not Chew if you do

Nihilus is 1 of the best characters in the game when it comes to what he is for:

Eliminating non-Galactic Legend pains-in-the-gluteus
- slow tenacity Enfys Nest
- Darth Malaj

And, the best part is that Nihilus can be left out of your anti-Geonosian Sith Triumvirate. You only need Traya and Sion for that, so you can save Nihilus for other pains. You just need to pair him with a tank that can help ensure (like Sith Empire Trooper) that Nihilus will stay alive long enough to use Annihilate. Which gets to another point, in this situation it is possible that a zeta Nihilus lead with SET, Maurauder, Dooku, and a 5th would be a good team if using E palp Vader Empire elsewhere, and Traya Sion elsewhere. It's not that zNihilus lead is bad, just that there are usually better choices. However, there are situations like above where Nihilus could be your best remaining team.

Whole point = do not ignore Nihilus, especially if Malak nd Nest poses problems for you. Edit, oh, and since you are early game you may not yet realize how they are a problem as they are are definitely level 85 for a few months characters, but they are massively difficult to beat without hard counters and you will be seeking forum advice to do it. Having Nihilus ready to go when you start hitting them will make you appreciate him later, and will likely be the reason you don't lose those GAC rounds.

Lol, you can probably see that my light side team is absolute trash right now. I was rather hoping to avoid a long drawn-out grind for an entirely new team for this but okay, I guess if I have to.

"Mephisto_style;c-2250176" wrote:
Nihilus is 1 of the best characters in the game when it comes to what he is for:

Eliminating non-Galactic Legend pains-in-the-gluteus
- slow tenacity Enfys Nest
- Darth Malaj

And, the best part is that Nihilus can be left out of your anti-Geonosian Sith Triumvirate. You only need Traya and Sion for that, so you can save Nihilus for other pains. You just need to pair him with a tank that can help ensure (like Sith Empire Trooper) that Nihilus will stay alive long enough to use Annihilate. Which gets to another point, in this situation it is possible that a zeta Nihilus lead with SET, Maurauder, Dooku, and a 5th would be a good team if using E palp Vader Empire elsewhere, and Traya Sion elsewhere. It's not that zNihilus lead is bad, just that there are usually better choices. However, there are situations like above where Nihilus could be your best remaining team.

Whole point = do not ignore Nihilus, especially if Malak nd Nest poses problems for you. Edit, oh, and since you are early game you may not yet realize how they are a problem as they are are definitely level 85 for a few months characters, but they are massively difficult to beat without hard counters and you will be seeking forum advice to do it. Having Nihilus ready to go when you start hitting them will make you appreciate him later, and will likely be the reason you don't lose those GAC rounds.

All of this is no consideration for someone who isnt even close to 85 yet. And he was considering buying him with crystals, something which is a BIG nono. So at his current point, i wouldnt waste a second thought on him, for now. way more important to get the early game going.