Long Term Viability of CLS Teams in Squad Arena

It depends if you’re talking about being “meta” and “working as intended” or working to beat meta teams on offense. It seems like the developers currently want squad arena to be a sea of Revans, and running your own Revan team is the best way to avoid falling too far. With that said, CLS teams can still beat any team in the game if they have superior mods. So you should still be able to climb. If you struggle with Padmé teams, just try to go around them