How is Palpatine getting so many “Power of the Darkside” shocks?

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First post here. Got a question...I’ve always ran Sith/Empire in the arena, even when CLS was prevalent and destroying me. Being a F2P player, you kind of have to go one direction and stick with it. Anyway, I was super happy with the Vader/Palpatine rework. I went from struggling hard to stay around 100 in Arena, to top 10 in two days. Even won 1st a few times. Most of the top 50 are now running Palp lead. Pretty much the zPalp lead, Vader, Nihilus, GK, and the Smurf dude. What I’m seeing with some of the Palps in this combo is him getting multiple “power of the dark side” shocks in quick succession. Like, big shock...normal shock (Lightning Strike)...big shock again...normal shock....big shock AGAIN...etc. This combo often destroys me. The cooldown on his big shock is 4...so what’s cutting down his cooldowns?For my Palp I’ve yet to get that many big shocks. For the record, my toons are slower than these guys by a good margin, but my setup somehow allows me win more often than not: zPalp lead, Vader, Nihilus, ST, Tarkin. (All zeta except Vader’s new Zeta)But my speed wouldn’t account for their cooldowns being removed...Any ideas?

djohns2000 · Answer

Palp gets very fast when his multiple shocks are out in the field. Especially with his other special, which can give an another turn immediately.

That's all I can think off. Thrawn could be giving him turns too but I don't really know how the AI operates so not gonna go there

sprat-1999 · Answer

Yeah, the quick turns I would understand. But shouldn’t he still have to wait four turns before getting it again? I just played another team mentioned above and in three turns he used his big shock twice... :(

sprat-1999 · Answer

On a side note, their Palp’s shock usually stuns 3 to 5 of my toons. (And two of my toons are geared for Tenacity) Where mine will hit two at most. My Palp has 95% potency; theirs usually sit around the 60’s.  Not complaining...I guess tenacity and potency aren’t everything. Trying to figur this one out as well so I can make some changes.

shots74 · Answer

I have also seen this.  Shock after shock after shock.  It actually happens with Dooku as well.  He’ll over counter like 4-5 times where the most mine does it two... so idk. I feel like it is messed up some how.  My palp never double shocks.... ever, let alone triple shock.

krasenyan · Answer

I have noticed that too. I also noticed that palp's basic attacks misses A LOT. I've never seen his basic deflected before the reworks and now its 10-15% deflected doing no damage at all. And the toons in the team miss quite a lot under his leadership with no foresight or evasion up or anything. My Vader even missed on a stuned toon once. All of this is telling me that there are some serious issues here regarding Palp .

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