Nobody talks about Han

"DarthMasterShawn;21519" wrote:

"Coz;2787" wrote:
Everyone goes to get Sid from arena shipment, but nobody talks about Han. And I see I'm the only person using it in arena. My Han is only 5* working to get him to 7*. He's actually very unique and powerful tank. He can turn a battle around when other team can not attack because of losing turn meters. It's like turn meter aoe and when he taunt he adds trim meters to your team. Now I have phasma as leader, my kylo, vader can easily kill any one first without taking much damage (maybe only Sid can aoe my team in the beginning, but that's it) I have old daka as healer, not much as healing, but a stun helper and reviver. By the way, I'm not in a low new server, all top 200 are 60 or close to 60. When timing is right, I can easily get rank 1 and I actually was rank one three times last week with maybe two, three times rank two or three.
Feel the power of Han!

I do not have Han, I have borrowed him twice at LVL 50+ and he just did not do it for me. I have faced a team like yours on GW and in the arena. It was Phasma lead, Han, Daka, Kylo, and Lord Vader. Honestly the did not give me much trouble at all. I ran Sid(lead) Lum, Vader, Lando, and Leia. Sids AOE and Leia ended Daka, Lando AOE and Vader AOE plus a Lum hit took took out Han. I hit Kylo with Sid then Lando AOE again struck and I finished Kylo with his god, Lord Vaders Culling blade. Leia hit her 4x on Vader and I used Lum force blast and goodbye Vader. I then simply swarmed Phasma and by round 3 that team was done and my team was pretty full on health yet. Vader works best with a team that can add the buffs and make Culling blade hit hard. Leia, now that she is less squishy makes everyone hit harder. Her with Lando with his Crit increrase and DD ability to increase damage 50% and no cooldown makes fights go very fast. I just whipped a just a hair under 20K team level 60 in arena with my 16k lineup at lvl 53-55 in 2 rounds with that lineup.

Han on the right squad with his abilities though would be bothersome. Him with like Dooku, Phasma(lead) Sid and Vader. That stun and ability block with the heal immune and buff building for Culling blade with the slowdown could really make it tough on a team.

Your talk of Han though has me thinking I may have to go for him to test it out. I'd like to, for fun do a Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando team.

Happy Holidays

i think a DD toon like Old Ben + Han is where he's incredibly deadly to make a trap. Imagine a Jinn leader making Ben fast...with Han in the team as a taunt. Ben locks in the ability blocks + 2x damage down and now you're looking at the next 2+ rounds trying to kill Han with a gimped squad all while the other team's turn meter goes bananas.

That team above is a nice collection of toons individually that don't fit really well together. To utilize Phasma's speed manipulation properly you need a big hitter - Vader can be that guy with culling blade, but the AI is terrible using Vader. Ideally you want a big AOE bomb there to pull forward. Kylo and Vader don't have big AOE boms. Additionally, no damage down for Han in that setup to protect him and paired with a mediocre healer like Daka isn't the place to make him shine.

And Happy Holidays to you as well :)