Poe or Fives?

"Qeltar;56347" wrote:
I'm experimenting with the "counter team" but I don't think there are enough countering characters of good quality to make it viable at this time. Kylo's is situational, and ironically, only works well when the other team has counterattackers. Dooku's is of course great and Fives is pretty good too. But it's still really easy to just avoid these guys and focus them down one at a time. A counter team is only going to be great against a heavy AoE team, and there aren't a lot of those at the moment. Plus, the AoEs generally will do way more damage than the counterattacks... you're better off preventing them than responding to them.
The other natural place for Fives would be an assist team. That's easy with Phasma and a couple of other guys... like IG-86 or GS maybe. I don't have those guys leveled up though so I can't really try it out yet. Here too, a human player is just going to burst down the serious damage guys and simply save Fives for the end.
I am continuing to work on Fives, because he definitely could be useful, but I just don't see a real role for him as yet.

I do see what you are saying yeah, on the offense they would he a good team but on defense, they probably work as poorly as most defences.

Slow day at work today so been pondering what teams I would field if using either one.

If I went Fives, for arena I would go;


* Phasma (L)
* Fives
* Dooku
* Kylo
* I'd experiment with this slot, could do FOST as suggested, or Lumi, Sid, Or GS.

This team would do well on attack, especially if RNG favoured me, but on defense as mention, they could be focused down individually.

If I went Poe, I'm not completely sure on the team but I'm thinking;

* Sideous (L)
* Poe
* IG88
* Poggle
* Maybe Maul? I can't farm Maul though so may let me down, Kylo would do well with Poggles buff and that gives me 3 AoEs still, plus if the enemy tries to AOE to pass Poe taunt, Kylo can counter while buffed.

I'm looking to eventually push to the top 20 from the 68-35 range in the arena. So given those lineups, the Poe one would work Better?

Current arena team btw is;

* Sideous (L)
* Dooku
* Poggle
* Kylo
* Lumi

I don't have much trouble winning with this team, sometimes go 4/5 on wins and rarely 3/5.