NS Initiate or Acolyte

"Bulldog1205;c-1334547" wrote:
It really depends on how much you are relying on Asaj. I don’t like zombie dying, because it means she isn’t taunting. That means Thrawn can Fracture someone like Talzin or Daka. It means Han can stun someone else. It means CLS can remove TM and give buff immunity or stun someone else. I personally want Zombie absorbing at least some of those blows. So I want max tenacity and speed on her.

One thing you are forgetting is you have 2 characters in ns who stun and if you play the match right you can keep 2 to 3 of the other team stunned. Just get potency up Daka has a 108 potency in my team.

"Bulldog1205;c-1334595" wrote:

"Nuriela;c-1334554" wrote:

"dreamer05;d-141445" wrote:
So I've been a hardcore Nightsister loyalist from the very beginning. I've suffered through staying between rank 250 and 380 staying to loyal to my girls. It's finally our time to shine! I'm loving the rework, and I've gotten Mother Talzon to 7* G10.

I'm currently using:
MT
Daka - g11 (almost 12)
Ventress - g12 and completely zetad
Talia - g12
NS Initiate - g12 not zetad yet

I have NS Acolyte g10 (almost 11) who has always been waiting in the wings. She's been completely useless since launch for the most part. My question is; should I switch out NS Initiate for Acolyte? I'm not sure how the strategy would work. Initiate is very tanky, and her buff immunity is useful, but overall I find her rework underwhelming, and her damage not as good as it used to be.

Any suggestions? Should I switch her out for Acolyte? If so, what strategy do I use with Acolyte?

Thanks!

Most definitely you should put acolyte in instead and beef her speed up as high as you can get it. I have several videos up a few of which show me climbing the ranks and beating team with 108k arena power with ns. Nsa is a huge benefit to ns and having zombie with ns is great too my zombie is 3 star atm and the nsa zombie combo can win you some tough fights. Also in the raids I have had my acolyte actually out damage my Asajj who was hitting for over 100k per basic hit.

Youre right about nsi her rework is underwhelming. If you want to see videos let me know I can post them, I managed to get in the top 10 and nsa was a huge part.

"Bulldog1205;c-1334547" wrote:
It really depends on how much you are relying on Asaj. I don’t like zombie dying, because it means she isn’t taunting. That means Thrawn can Fracture someone like Talzin or Daka. It means Han can stun someone else. It means CLS can remove TM and give buff immunity or stun someone else. I personally want Zombie absorbing at least some of those blows. So I want max tenacity and speed on her.

One thing you are forgetting is you have 2 characters in ns who stun and if you play the match right you can keep 2 to 3 of the other team stunned. Just get potency up Daka has a 108 potency in my team.

With a Talzin lead potency isn’t an issue for sure. I have had much more success subbing in R2 for Ventress. Now opponents have to make a choice with their opening Han stun. If they don’t stun R2 he stealths all the NS and they have free reign for 2 turns. If they stun R2, then at least that has kept the stun off Talzin and Daka. Obviously Baze, Ventress, or Deathtrooper would put a halt to that strategy, but right now I don’t have much of that in my arena shard (and if you force an opponent to change up their team, that’s a huge plus because most people are too lazy to do that and will just go around).

I was originally hoping Acolyte and/or Talia would help dispelling the opening stun, but so far the feedback has been that Acolyte never uses her special on defense and Talia treats hers as a heal only.

The Talia never uses her heal on allies unless someone is below 50% she doesn't treat it like a cleanse. It's a bug that has been reported.