Rex lead. Will it ever end?
So Maul had a brief run at the top before getting a hard counter in R2 - and arguably Rex was already a counter to zMaul anyway. So how come Rex just keeps rolling on and on seemingly without end?
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"AlexTheG;c-1195115" wrote:
Not frustrated by Rex, although admittedly Sith teams struggle on my arena shard, more the point I made about zMaul. Given a brief run then hard counter but Rex seems impervious to any real counter. Unless Thrawn is it (who I don't have, alas) :(
I think there's a couple of good reasons for this: Zeta Maul is very faction-specific. Also, dodge was very annoying and broken. (No, Maul dodging 7 out of 8 times, consistently in my playing, does not equate to the 45% evasion he was supposed to have.) He was broken to the point that the top 20 had become nothing but Zaul teams for many shards. He needed a counter, because CG has a policy of no nerfs that aren't bug fixes.
Looking at the arena today, Zaul teams struggle a bit more, but can still make it.
Why is Rex blamed as being OP or needing an "end to the reign of Rex"? It's not solely because his leader ability is overpowered or broken. It's because he is one of the few leaders that fit well with the powerful characters with interesting abilities that people want to play. We have Nihilus, Thrawn, GK, Chaze, R2, you could add in Kylo or Shoretrooper. You can form a team with 5 of them but you won't have a decent leader ability that helps the whole team. Rex fits in with not only a team-wide applicable leader ability, but also a halfway decent move kit.
Other leaders need a dedicated team built around them: ZGJ, Thrawn, Tarkin, Zaul, Zader. The closest you can get to a mix team with a leader other than Rex that I've seen so far is a GK lead, usually just because that makes GK a little tankier, sometimes with a Zarriss alongside him.
The difference between Zaul's reign and what people like to call Rex's reign is that Zaul before R2 basically didn't let anyone else play in the top 20. Rex is sitting in the top twenty alongside a handful of other leaders that I've mentioned.
Rex isn't exactly king of the arena anymore. If he is in your shard that's just because you don't have others that have desired to think outside the box and build other competitive teams.
