Hey guys...Since many players will probably miss unlocking CLS, the question for me is: How can those counter CLS, who are not able to unlock him. I believe, that Rex is pretty much done and that opens other strategies, which are not viable at this moment because of Rex. My first thoughts are, that tenacity up may evolve into a disadvantage, so Rex, Chirrut and even Yoda may have a hard time incoming. It seems logical to me, that future arena teams may renounce this mechanic. One of the other strengths CLS offers is his 50% Counter chance.The missing of tenacity up and the fact, that Rex will (hopefully) not be used that often, leads me to the following team: -Darth Zader Lead-Sith Assasin-Darth Maul-Darth Nihilus-Palp / Zavage / ZyloThe strategie is, that Sith Assasin is the fastest, feeds Maul turnmeter to 100%, Maul applies daze, Zader places his debuffs, finally Nihilus reduces cooldowns.Due to the lack of most of the cleansers this could be a very devastating team.Meanings?

Possibly DT in that 5th spot. He loves rebels. I run empire, so I'm gearing mine anyways.

My zMaul team that ive still been using since he was the meta is going to be a lot more viable (daze, stealth, no tenacity up, double damage by maul against cls and old ben). The main vulnerability would be raid han stunning sith assassin.

Krennic and dt is a good start....unfortunately dk is a loooong farm

Tenacity up isn't a weakness if you consider Yodas lead. 30% TM gain every time a Jedi ally resists a debuff. So when a CLS lead team gains 5% TM per debuff missing, Jedi will gain 30% (granted OB would cause the Rebels to gain a bit more).Any team with Zariss for her heal on crit and cleanse.B2 to remove all the buffs from the rebelsThere's loads more

I like the idea of this thread and I hope people have a discussion. I'm on an old shard though and most folks can field several near-maxed teams across heroic tank, arena etc... so, if they are like me, they will have a Rex team to roll out whenever they want. Your point though is when they are in bed, how do you knock them off the top spot if they are leading with CLS and I am sure your team would do great. I default to GK, Zarriss, Zylo, Zrawn and Zihilus if I have to fight anything sticky and if I want to have a chance of staying in the top 10 overnight I leave that in there. There's just so much health, defence and prot regen there that I don't think CLS will make me change it as a go-to sticky remover team.

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14 Replies

billcarson1966
8 years ago
Possibly DT in that 5th spot. He loves rebels. I run empire, so I'm gearing mine anyways.
Pantry_B0y
8 years ago
My zMaul team that ive still been using since he was the meta is going to be a lot more viable (daze, stealth, no tenacity up, double damage by maul against cls and old ben). The main vulnerability would be raid han stunning sith assassin.
LukeDukem8
New Spectator
8 years ago
Krennic and dt is a good start....unfortunately dk is a loooong farm
5p0rk3h
8 years ago
Tenacity up isn't a weakness if you consider Yodas lead. 30% TM gain every time a Jedi ally resists a debuff. So when a CLS lead team gains 5% TM per debuff missing, Jedi will gain 30% (granted OB would cause the Rebels to gain a bit more).

Any team with Zariss for her heal on crit and cleanse.
B2 to remove all the buffs from the rebels

There's loads more
Faeyd100
8 years ago
I like the idea of this thread and I hope people have a discussion. I'm on an old shard though and most folks can field several near-maxed teams across heroic tank, arena etc... so, if they are like me, they will have a Rex team to roll out whenever they want. Your point though is when they are in bed, how do you knock them off the top spot if they are leading with CLS and I am sure your team would do great. I default to GK, Zarriss, Zylo, Zrawn and Zihilus if I have to fight anything sticky and if I want to have a chance of staying in the top 10 overnight I leave that in there. There's just so much health, defence and prot regen there that I don't think CLS will make me change it as a go-to sticky remover team.
Kagain123
8 years ago
Zaul should do rather well. I can also see thrawn performing well due to the debuffs ANH will be tossing around. And, believe it or not, ewoks.
Deplaat
8 years ago
Don´t count your chickens before they are hatched. http://www.sebastian-loth.de/bilder/35_josefine/josefine-englisch.png
boulywif
8 years ago
Thrawn lead since New Hope rebels like to apply debuff that will feed Thrawn led teams. Also DT (double tap, daze and stun), Zeb, Teebo's led teams since they cannot counter when stealthed ...
LukeDukem8
New Spectator
8 years ago
-dt, dk, bariss, gk, b2. Although if b2 doesnt apply those debuffs, lookout, plus the counters...ouch. maybe not b2.
Gehen59
8 years ago
"BloodearlGK;d-125435" wrote:
Hey guys...

Since many players will probably miss unlocking CLS, the question for me is: How can those counter CLS, who are not able to unlock him. I believe, that Rex is pretty much done and that opens other strategies, which are not viable at this moment because of Rex.

My first thoughts are, that tenacity up may evolve into a disadvantage, so Rex, Chirrut and even Yoda may have a hard time incoming. It seems logical to me, that future arena teams may renounce this mechanic.

One of the other strengths CLS offers is his 50% Counter chance.

The missing of tenacity up and the fact, that Rex will (hopefully) not be used that often, leads me to the following team:

-Darth Zader Lead
-Sith Assasin
-Darth Maul
-Darth Nihilus
-Palp / Zavage / Zylo

The strategie is, that Sith Assasin is the fastest, feeds Maul turnmeter to 100%, Maul applies daze, Zader places his debuffs, finally Nihilus reduces cooldowns.

Due to the lack of most of the cleansers this could be a very devastating team.

Meanings?

I don't think such rebel team will help much against Siths so we won't see a new rebel meta soon but Luke could be really annoying with such a strong Sith start.

Remember Luke has 100% counter chance, 100% more defense and 100% more tenacity on the first round. You'll make him play extremelly fast since he's getting TM when others are hit, you won't apply anything on him and upon each AoE he'll retaliate and thus apply speed and defense down on each of your Sith.
Plus he'll heal himself each time he'll resist your Siths debuffs, good luck with that !

On your second turn a single Luke hit and your toon is stunned/TM reduced. You'll need a tough tank such as Shoretrooper on your first round, and i'm pretty sure Nihilus will also help a lot to get rid of Luke for now. ^ ^

Luke won't make rebels part of any meta i guess but i'm pretty sure many players will remove Rex and put Luke instead as a lead, combined with R2.