How to counter CLS in Arena?

"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.