Replacing Old Ben with Chopper as a Rebel Tank

Usually you don't want chopper as a tank. He has a one turn taunt and he is fast so that one turn is over very quickly. What's more there is a three turn colldown. I suppose you can speed the cool down slightly by using ezras watch and learn (chopper is a support) to charge meter a little.

Also if you are facing buff heavy teams chopper can cleanse them off (recharging protection and draining turn meter). The 10% turn meter reduction on all enemies per buff on the targeted enemy can really buy some time.

In balance I expect it to be a bad idea but you can play with it if you like. I think it's more likely to work with bb8 r2d2 rjt team.

Chopper has a taunt. He isn’t a tank.

It’s there to pull aggro momentarily when you know a power move like a fracture from Thrawn or CLS’s dispel/BI combo is coming in. He can’t and won’t take sustained damage, but he adds a lot of control to a team.

"ProximaB1_;c-1419322" wrote:

"Lesspopmorefizz;c-1419310" wrote:
Chopper has a taunt. He isn’t a tank.

It’s there to pull aggro momentarily when you know a power move like a fracture from Thrawn or CLS’s dispel/BI combo is coming in. He can’t and won’t take sustained damage, but he adds a lot of control to a team.

With that logic only old been is a tank. Everyone else gets fractured and is irrelevant.

No, because lots of other tanks have tools to get back to taunt ASAP and keep it up.

Ignore fracture in the equation if you like. The point of Chopper isn’t to take sustained hits. The point of chopper is to take a hit or two for a breif moment. It’s a different utility.

"Ariben;d-153431" wrote:
This might be crazy but I'm exploring maxing out Chopper to replace Old Ben on a CLS, raid Han, R2, Ezra, and Old Ben arena team.

Having Ezra and R2 on there means they get buffs and get reduced cooldowns.

My main concern is that Chopper has only a one turn taunt.

Will the reductions on R2's cooldowns be enough to keep stealth up?

Is this a crazy/**** idea?

https://swgoh.gg/u/ariben/

Bad idea for that comp, you're better off keeping Ben.

"ProximaB1_;c-1419322" wrote:

"Lesspopmorefizz;c-1419310" wrote:
Chopper has a taunt. He isn’t a tank.

It’s there to pull aggro momentarily when you know a power move like a fracture from Thrawn or CLS’s dispel/BI combo is coming in. He can’t and won’t take sustained damage, but he adds a lot of control to a team.

With that logic only old been is a tank. Everyone else gets fractured and is irrelevant.

He actually isn't a tank though. He's identified as a support.

"Ariben;d-153431" wrote:
Is this a crazy/**** idea?

Yep. Silly idea.

It is not a silly idea. If you have other droids in the mix (like R2 and BB8), Chopper also gives them random buffs. He dispels, he counters, he taunts, he has health and protection up, etc. He isn't a direct replacement, but in the right composition, he works very well. AnhaldT101 just put out a great video with Chopper and Nebit on a JTR team. It works well. Chopper gets a bad rap from some, but it is a good toon!

Chopper works well with enough other Phoenix or droids. But he’s not a tank and trying to replace a tank with him is going to result in him getting splatttered fast.

I don’t think anyone ITT is saying chopper is bad. Hell, I use him on my top ranked arena team. But he doesn’t fit where OP wants to put him.

Not so crazy idea:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=x71_jOfqBoY

The only issue I actually see with this, is that Chopper is not actually a tank. That's fine mostly, but the issue comes in with Ezra's Watch and Learn, because he can get extra protection from a tank, so that'll be missing, but on the bright side Chopper will provide TM. That would be the biggest pitfall I see with this.