Rey or Kylo

If only comparing Rey and Kylo, Rey is absolute garbge. Rey needs more non-faction toons to field her best offense and defense versions for GAC/TW/Arena. She is a bit higher of an investment (though I would argue this is largely irrelevant since in the grande scheme the investment is fairly minimal. The problem is that while at release they each seemed to have their area to shine, the way CG has handled balancing them post-release has left Rey significantly short. Depending on how exactly they approach the announced buff (that will stop 5s from working) it is likely that you will require JKR and GAS at high relic to be able to reliably climb against all SLKR variants. And for defense in GAC/TW you're probably gonna want L337 at a minimum, so assume you will need to relic them as well. Compared to SLKR who appears to only use Malak from outside their faction for arena and you've got a situation where one of your options basically has their whole team pulled from the toons needed to unlock vs Rey who requires multiple non-faction teams (and worse, leaders) available if you want to use her to reliably take down SLKR.


She's ridiculously OP in a vacuum, but is shit in the actual meta. If you go straight for her just plan on literally never winning a single round of GAC again. She will bloat your roster to hell and you don't have the GP to absorb that without it ruining your matchmaking. You will gain rey, your opponents will have relic'd GAS, Padme, and Sep Droids. You don't have the teams to reliably beat those 3 squads, so they will be able to block both their front zones while you will only be able to block 1 of yours. SLKR will at least let you have 2 good offense squads, (Hux and solo SLKR) and also will let you easily take 1st in heroic sith. And 1st in heroic sith is so, so much more gear than 10th.

The singular advantage Rey has is that she's usable in LSGeo while SLKR is not. But thanks to bugs she is not a guaranteed 4 waves completed, and even if she was the rewards for reliable t3 or 1st in Heroic Sith >>> the slight increase in rewards you may get from completing any extra waves in LSGeo. (and given your current roster, it'll be a long time before you can get into a guild that is doing LS)

Honestly, I recommend you to go for other key toons like JKR, DR and GAS first.

I just smashed another player in the last GAC round. He had a Ultimate SLKR but no GAS, no JKR and no DR. It was so easy to beat him even though I don't have a GL because of his slim roster.

Okay but i dont really care about GAC...i win like 90% of my games atm and would like to get better in arena HSTR and TW/TB

kylo has more counters in pvp compared to rey. check your arena range who are your enemies. otherwise go for kylo better in pve and pvp if his counters are not there

"Mirkraag;c-2134072" wrote:
So why are you asking ? Rey is useless in HSTR and have multiple counters for TW and arena while struggling defeating kylo on offense.

Go for Kylo, wayyyyy better in every aspect of the game

Rey beats kylo on offense. Add gas echo fives wat and press auto. Enjoy.

Kylo is cheaper to acquire ???

he is not lol

"Darth_Tomsteros2707;c-2134143" wrote:
Well for Rey you need JTR dont you?so you have to get her toons up too

Absolutely - goes back to the opening reply of making sure all the other events are done first before looking at the GL's. You build up a lot of great teams doing it this way to help in TB / TW and other areas.

But your FO's are looking strongest if that's the way you are going. For JTR, only "extra" character you would need to gear up is Vet Han (to G7/8) - others are all used for the Rey event.

"Darth_Tomsteros2707;c-2134143" wrote:
Well for Rey you need JTR dont you?so you have to get her toons up too

Did you check what are the JTR required toons? They are the same already required for GL Rey
Except maybe Vet han but dont tell me it s hard to get

"Nitrogen;c-2134255" wrote:

"ConnorMcLurk;c-2134196" wrote:
I own Rey (yeah the one that gets new counters in the face on a daily basis), so after saying that I would now totally go for Kylo because:

1. The toons to farm for him are much less useless than Reys, actually FO is decent on defense in GA and TW
2. Kylo solos all raids, while Rey is completely useless raidwise
3. Rey gets no developer love/attention whatsoever from the devs, while Kylo gets buffed
4. There are 4-5 solid and reliable Rey counters that do not involve GLs your own. For Kylo there is one, but that will be nerfed shortly so only Rey and Kylo will be able to take him down again.
5. New Rey counters like I said are released regularly now with JKL and Vader being the newest.

I farmed Rey because of the only viable reason: To make progression in LSTB Geonosis.

There is no decision I have made in this game, that I regret more and I know that about 90% of the Rey owners share that feeling.

So go for Kylo, if you wanna chase a GL

I also went for Rey and could not agree with you more. It is incredibly discouraging.

Ditto