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5 years ago

Padme/3PO Prot Up Mechanics Qts for community

Facing Relic Padme squads in arena...some with GMY and some with 3PO

Using a EP Empire squad (g12) to easily beat the ones without 3PO.

Opening move is my turn with Vader and I use his force crush:
- against a team with GMY the debuffs mostly land and the TM train rolls on and I win easily.
- against a team with 3PO only a couple debuffs land and most of the team gets Prot up so no further debuffs are possible.

What is the mechanic of 3PO that I am missing in his abilities that allows this to happen?

(I checked his "Intermediary" ability and whenever "Galactic Rep allies gain a different, Non-Unique, Non-Protection BUFF they gain 15% Prot up; since Vader applies only DE-BUFFS, not BUFFS, I didn't think this applied since it didn't specifically say Status Effect(s))

Maybe i'm reading this wrong, or I probably missed something else.

thanks for the help.

4 Replies

  • First off, adding 3PO to Padme hard counters Empire teams, always has. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure the reason is a combination of the ability you quoted (gaining prot up with unique buffs) and GK's unique that gives Crit immunity to any ally that gets crit. So if vader opens with a few crits, those characters now have protection up and boom, tm train is dead.
  • C3PO starts the battle with Translation. Because he has a buff at the start of battle, Intermediary applies:

    All allies have +10% Defense Penetration. Each time a Galactic Republic or Ewok ally gains a different, non-unique, non-Protection buff, they gain 15% Protection Up for 2 turns (does not stack with itself). For each stack of Translation, Galactic Republic have +10% Defense Penetration, doubled for Ewoks.

    He then has Protection Up right off the bat, so he resists everything from Force Crush. If anyone else gets critically hit by the initial physical damage from Force Crush, Kenobi taunts, that ally gains Crit immunity, which then, because of Intermediary from C3PO, gains them Protection Up. They then resist the debuffs from Force Crush, because of Padmé's leadership, which are applied after the damage.
  • So in stages:

    Battle starts
    - C3PO has translation
    - Intermediary adds Protection Up
    - Vader does Force Crush
    - physical damage from it crits a GR ally
    - GK grants them Crit Immunity and then taunts
    - intermediary adds Protection Up to GK (from the taunt) and anyone that gained CI from him.
    - Padmés lead makes them all immune to debuffs
    - Force Crush attempts to apply debuffs and they fail against anyone that has Protection Up.
  • Ok...got it. Its a chain effect based on the Intermediary ability in conjunction with GK taunting and granting Crit Immunity - which give Prot up.

    Thanks!

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