How to beat specific arena teams - guides?

"Rotor;c-1240718" wrote:
FO, Resistance, Fénix are not endgame meta teams.

https://swgoh.gg/meta-report/

Most people are not playing in the top 10 or top 50, or even top 100. There is still value in giving assistance to the majority. One may still face these in GW.
I face a few FO teams in the top 100 (haven't been much above 50, so don't know what down there in my shard). I haven't figured out how to beat full FO team (max gear, zetas, good mods) with my zQGJ squad.
Phoenix appears to be an early game squad (based on farm locations), so expect those in early game might use/encounter it in arena or GW.

So I'm a scrub, a nobody. 76th level, one omega'd skill, placing anywhere between high 200's and 500's in the arena (but usually winning). I also typically win out GW.

I run a rebel Rogue One squad minus Baze (too weak right now) with Bodhi in his place.

I *hate* Phoenix squads. Only way I beat them is by knocking out Hera early -- my logic being that removal of their ability sharing is key. If I choose to fight a full Phoenix squad, I usually sub in my 7* Ventress to remove their buffs and seem to be batting .500 that way.

The other cookie cutter formula I see a lot of in my ranks is rebel crews sporting the orange twins (Biggs/Wedge). If I'm particularly unlucky, they'll also have Lando in there. In those scenarios, I make Wedge and Lando my primary targets -- whichever one doesn't get ability blocked by Cassian's shock grenade has a bullseye on his chest.

Empire crews have me beating Palpatine into mush first, followed by either Vader or Nihilus (again depending on who I can keep blocked).

Like I said, I'm a nobody and way less advanced than everyone here, but I thought I'd try contributing.

In my experience,

If Titans (CLS,GAT,GK,Han,R2) use GK,Zarris or RJT
If zEP use Rex(L)
If RJT(L) use NS or use Rex,GK,Han,DN,GAT or zEP
if NS use zEP
if Rex(L) use Titans or RJT
If Thrawn(L) use GK,Zarris

Galactic War key early on if you're stuck on a battle?

If it's your A, B or C team regardless, kill the leader if you feel like you won't take them all down.

When you re-enter the battle with your next group they don't have a leader ability in a leader slot. I.E Hera doesn't exist so they can't share uniques.

FO, Resistance, Fénix are not endgame meta teams.

https://swgoh.gg/meta-report/

You want to beat FO and Resistance, then be faster than them. Kill FOTP first for FO. Resistance probably kill Poe first, or use Rex.

"stohelit;c-1240730" wrote:

"Rotor;c-1240718" wrote:
FO, Resistance, Fénix are not endgame meta teams.

https://swgoh.gg/meta-report/

Most people are not playing in the top 10 or top 50, or even top 100. There is still value in giving assistance to the majority. One may still face these in GW.

I’m fully aware that this will come off as dismissive at best, but the easiest answer to beat those teams is is to farm the meta. There’s a reason why those teams aren’t in the top ten and it’s because they cannot hold. If you really wanted to win and move up then farm what works. Otherwise all you’re going to do is find the anti resistance/FO/Phoenix team. That’ll work while you’re in the 100-200 range but what happens when you’re trying for the top 10 and you don’t have a team that can win?

sying. I guess the difference is I am talking about tactical solutions. (Given the resources one has, how do you handle this team right now.) Whereas you are talking strategy - also useful, and important. However, I know of a lot of resources for strategy (the meta report you mention, various character ranking charts, etc.). I am having troubles finding much about tactics, at least for arena/gw teams.
If there are anti-meta characters which work in a lot of situations, that would also be useful addition to such a guide/guides. (B2?, Sun Fac?, others?)

Thank you for suggestions on tactics on FO, phoenix.

My team are faster than the FO team (FOO is 210, my slowest char is R2 at 236).
I kill TFP first (if I can, with like 25k protection and 15k health it is a challenge).
Then when they finally do get to attack, they make a mess of my team.
zQGJ, zR2(just # crunch), Yoda, JKA, Ahsoka. - I know GK is meta, but have to work with what I have.

http://swgoh.gg/u/monstermash/

Your team is really not equipped to handle a 4-zeta FO squad. I ran FO for many months, and zQGJ leads were easy targets for me.
Kylo does his AOE almost every round which not only removes your foresight, but fills the FO TM. Aside from JKA, your jedi are not very resilient without foresight. Your biggest threat is of course FOTP, and if you manage to retain foresight when it is his turn that will slow him down but won't stop him because he probably has Advantage and will double-tap, removing your foresight and then hitting for effect.
Yoda helps a little by spreading foresight around a little more, but his Tenacity Up buff does not mean much since the FO does not exactly depend on debuffs to win. Against FO, I feel like zBarriss is more effective than Yoda, but in order for her to really stop the FO onslaught is by pairing her with GK. You don't have GK, so you might want to try Old Ben instead.
If you want to stick with a jedi squad, Barriss & Old Ben would probably work better than Yoda & Ahsoka.

You could always try neutralizing FOO too. FOO is mostly there to get everything going; his first turn is usually the most important move he does. He is usually very fast to go first and give Marching Orders to Kylo or FOST, who do their specials and fill the FO TM. So one tactic you could try is stopping FOO's first move. Han Solo shoots first and stuns; FO cannot avoid this. Stun FOO, stop the machine.