Padmé tier 5 is stupid hard

"MartinHatch;c-1853209" wrote:
I managed to unlock her after about 200 attempts with a Gear 9 team, unremarkable mods, and only one zeta (on GG lead ability - not sure if this is actually necessary or not).

Line-Up, Gear and Purpose:



GG(z)(L) - G9+1

• "Marks" the Droideka so your team can avoid all damage
  
• Stuns
  

Asaj - G11+1

• Removes enemy debuffs (v.useful to remove GK taunt)
  
• Stuns
  

Dooku - G9+1

• Stuns
  
• Ability Blocks
  
• Shocks (cannot gain buffs)
  

B2 - G9+0

• Immunity Block
  
• Immunity Block
  
• Immunity Block
  
• Target Lock
  
• Immunity Block
  

Droideka - G9+1

• Hides behind his shields
  
• Does crazy high damage
  

Mods: Nothing too special.. mostly blue and purple

• GG : Health and Speed above all else
  
• B2 : Potency and Speed (once I got his Potency north of 80% things got a lot easier!)
  
• Droideka : Offence, Protection - and AVOID SPEED at all costs - he has 97 speed!
  

The Droideka is a special case.

he can't critically hit - so Offence is vital (don't bother with Crit Chance OR Crit Dmg)

The more "charges" he gets (by the enemy taking turns before he goes) the more damage he does

The greater the difference between his speed and his target - the more damage he does!


For reasons (2) and (3) above .. low speed is the killer (literally! He can 2-shot Padme!)

Kill order:

Padme (to stop protection up)

Anakin (to stop him one-shotting my team)

Healer (to stop revives)

GK (FTW!)


Strategy:
There a number of stars which need to align for this to work .. and this took a LOT of attempts to make it happen ...

Droideka needs to be Marked by GG - if this doesn't happen (and/or you lose toons in the first few turns) then just quit and start again.

Go "shields up" with the Droideka - he is now the only target, completely immune to damage, and stacking "charge" for high damage shots

B2 needs to apply Buff Immunity on BOTH Padme and GK (hence the high potency) - This stops Padme getting protection up, and stops GK from taunting. Ideally you should also get Healing Immunity on Padme to stop the healer from restoring her health - if GK is taunting when your Droideka turn comes around, just quit and start again!

Keep Padme stunned and/or ability blocked (Asaj / Dooku) - otherwise she will remove debuffs and heal

Once Padme is dead - stun / ability block Anakin - if the Healer revives Anakin kill him immediately or he will one-shot your team


This took an AWFUL lot of attempts .. I really lost count.

The Ideal Start


I CAN HAS WINZ!

This seems like good advice, except they seem to pretend buff immunity isn't there even when the icon is there and half the time it goes away far too fast.

"jonnydeathstar;c-1853478" wrote:

"Tbirds01;c-1853467" wrote:
Hey everyone, those of you who’ve lost hope thinking it’s only possible with the new separatist droids, well I have good news for you! I beat it with Grievous, magnagaurd, b2, asajj, and poggle, yes, poggle! And only gear 8 on asajj. I beat tier 7 with that team. Now, I did have three zetas on my droids, sonthat helped a lot, but it was like the C3PO event, you almost need chirpa's lead to be zeta’d to beat the event.

I appreciate the optimism, but can you please post some pics or swgoh.gg link to your account so we can see how you modded, etc.

@jonnydeathstar sure, here you go!
https://swgoh.gg/p/842694912/

All I'm gonna say is tier 6 is a walk in the park after tier 5, difficulty is definately gated for unlock

"Mephisto_style;c-1853923" wrote:
Not all bars are meant to be reached by most

No, as soon as you meet the star requirement and have your chars at g8 (I think g9 was max gear back in Mar 2016 when the GMY event launched) you're entitled to own the latest legendary char.
Oh and it should be doable by pressing the auto button, anything else would be unfair! :)

I did T5 with this. So it’s entirely possible to do without new droids or without Ventress/B2 to clear buffs.

Strategy was simple: Poggle’s special to put Offense Up on Spy, use Spy’s special when Amidala had 5 stacks of Protection Up, explode her into a fine mist. Chip away at Kenobi (this team can’t deal with his taunts) then repeat the Poggle-Spy love on fishface so you don’t have to deal with his dumb resses.

This thread should be deleted: tier 5 of padme event is not stupid hard, it is OK

Tier 7 is hard but not tier 5

I think this thread was created 5 min only after event started or something, so it is completely wrong. Please close it and create new one about tier 7.
Or just rename the title with « tier 7 » instead of « tier 5 »

"vincentlondon;c-1854279" wrote:
This thread should be deleted: tier 5 of padme event is not stupid hard, it is OK

Tier 7 is hard but not tier 5

I think this thread was created 5 min only after event started or something, so it is completely wrong. Please close it and create new one about tier 7.
Or just rename the title with « tier 7 » instead of « tier 5 »

2 days ago:

"vincentlondon;c-1852524" wrote:
We can only beat this with all separatist droids gear 12 full zetas

"vincentlondon;c-1852530" wrote:
This event is for whales only.

They should write in requirements « whales only »

Can you just log out and forget your PW?

Definitely manageable!

Took a lot of tries but I got a 7* Padme using a GG lead team.

G12 zzGG
G12 zB2
G12 ventress
G10 Magnaguard
G8 Sunfac

It took me many attempts but eventually I cleared t5 running dooku lead with this squad. Assaj was g12, dooku g11, grievous and b2 g9 and sun fac g8. B2 was the real MVP's if you can keep him alive long enough

It’s stupid easy when you have your characters geared did t7 in 7 try’s ZZGG ZB2 Zdooku Magnaguard ZAsaj . All g12 but dooku at 11 . I’m ftp I like droids so started gearing after the G rework everyone hated