Kanan Jarrus is very underrated
He's a good tank. Pros- Removes buffs from enemy. Grants enemies offense down. Grants allies protection. Grants himself protection Cleanses de-Buffs from allies Decent counter chance Cleans...
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I've been using him on my Jedi squad because I don't have GK yet...he's very situational. A lot of the time his taunt just gets removed after he only takes a couple hits, and due to his speed you probably won't get his taunt up again until you've already lost other characters. Occasionally though I'll run into a fight where they don't remove his taunt off quickly for whatever reason and do a lot of debuffs so he pretty much just stays at full health the entire time, but this is rare.
Overall though I don't think its his speed alone that makes him garbage...I picked up a bit of speed on mod secondaries for him and run QGJ lead so although he isn't a speedster he's still not all that terrible for a tank...its the lack of auto or pre taunt mechanism that make him second tier. Pretty much all the tanks that lack an auto or pre taunt these days are not very viable it seems.
I figure I'll end up putting crit damage mods on him eventually and trying him out as a secondary tank with GK just to see if it makes for an annoying Jedi squad. Even if that idea is a massive flop I don't mind having put resources into him because I find him very useful for a raid tank at various parts and I'll probably use him for his ship at some point. Overall though if I wanted a tank for my Jedi squad until I get GK its kind of silly but it seems like throwing the resources at RG or Shoretrooper would have been a better option.
If I could add one thing to Kanan it would be he gains a 1 turn taunt when he is called for an assist. I think this would synergize well with Hera and Ezra, but would be a trade off as you'd lose a lot of damage calling in Kanan instead of Hera just calling in Ezra or Ezra calling in JKA or Sabine. It would also have more limited synergy with a lot of other characters that call for random assists.
Overall though I don't think its his speed alone that makes him garbage...I picked up a bit of speed on mod secondaries for him and run QGJ lead so although he isn't a speedster he's still not all that terrible for a tank...its the lack of auto or pre taunt mechanism that make him second tier. Pretty much all the tanks that lack an auto or pre taunt these days are not very viable it seems.
I figure I'll end up putting crit damage mods on him eventually and trying him out as a secondary tank with GK just to see if it makes for an annoying Jedi squad. Even if that idea is a massive flop I don't mind having put resources into him because I find him very useful for a raid tank at various parts and I'll probably use him for his ship at some point. Overall though if I wanted a tank for my Jedi squad until I get GK its kind of silly but it seems like throwing the resources at RG or Shoretrooper would have been a better option.
If I could add one thing to Kanan it would be he gains a 1 turn taunt when he is called for an assist. I think this would synergize well with Hera and Ezra, but would be a trade off as you'd lose a lot of damage calling in Kanan instead of Hera just calling in Ezra or Ezra calling in JKA or Sabine. It would also have more limited synergy with a lot of other characters that call for random assists.
