Royal Guard

Got rekt today by a Dooku (lead), Rey, GS, Daka, RG squad. All maxed out. Really annoying! If you manage to oneshot someone before RG taunts, Daka will just revive. If you try to kill RG first it will take a while (17K health) so Rey and GS will kill of your heroes. And with some bad rng you'll miss some shots at RG because of the Dooku lead. Hard to find a good strategy vs this.

"Mephisto_style;209540" wrote:
Can taunt be ability blocked? If so Lumi's fblast would solve his taunt.

RG has 52% tenacity while lumi has 0% potency. lumi's speed also makes it somewhat awkward for her. RG's taunt is usually up before she force blasts.

Most of the non-whale teams on my shard that have a chance of beating RG teams usually run sid lead/phasma lead. A lot more luck is needed with sid lead from experience though.

"Zekex;224524" wrote:

"Mephisto_style;209540" wrote:
Can taunt be ability blocked? If so Lumi's fblast would solve his taunt.

RG has 52% tenacity while lumi has 0% potency. lumi's speed also makes it somewhat awkward for her. RG's taunt is usually up before she force blasts.

Most of the non-whale teams on my shard that have a chance of beating RG teams usually run sid lead/phasma lead. A lot more luck is needed with sid lead from experience though.

You can't ability block the taunt. He uses it automatically when someone gets below 50% health.

"Sysy;209101" wrote:
I have not fought so many royal guard teams. esp those with good dps. But one way to work around the taunt of royal guard is to bring poggle, whose offense up buff can help gs/86 one shot targets with their special. My team is Phasma lead+ poggle, poe, 86, GS. I deliberately use my GS to normal attack my opponent's dps, then Phasma's victory march will give my GS another turn. GS's normal attack is followed by a buffed up assist attack from 86. This will kill one dps. The 2nd round GS can nearly kill RG with an assist attack. Just one more scratch and he dies.

I just tried this team, and it's pretty potent. Nice strategy!

Added a video as well. I'm not a super low rank, and I have some work to do, but it's a very viable team on my server. I think this is my new team moving forward. I could also sub Poggle as the leader as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZTEIpTIUk0

I just finished maxing my RG to 70, lvl 7 abilities, and max gear today, still 5* but I am holding a top 10 spot pretty easily now since I started using him a few days ago.

Today I replaced Poe by Kylo Ren, because I was having some problems against teams with QGJ as leader, Yoda, GS, Dooku and Lumi, I need more power attack against these teams, and only using Royal Guard as the tank and replacing Poe by Kylo Ren it's better against these teams. It is a video recorded the day 03/19/2016 as example, today I got the rank #1 with this team and I want see if it's better to defend the rank, because with Poe and RG in the same team I'm losing around 15 positions.

https://youtu.be/njqYGTHzYwQ

AoE with good speed is what I use to beat teams with RG. Normally Sid leader, IG88, Dathcha, Poe and Poggle, sometimes switch Poggle with Luminara or Dooku. After first round normally at least three opponents dead and the rest have just a little left. Only problem is if the opponent gets in a Daka och Dooku stun on the wrong char in the first round.

"Simda;214255" wrote:

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"Awakened1130;209090" wrote:
Nice - I just got 6* Yoda myself. Working on gearing him up - he could be helpful in Arena against Dooku.

Yoda Helpful against Dooku? I thought it would be the other way around.

Ha! True - I guess it's a matter of who goes first. With QGJ as leader Yoda can do Battle Meditation giving the entire team Tenacity Up before Dooku can get off his stun.

True, but only on offense. He always does his basic attack on defense as his first move.

True, that is a sheer nerf to yoda on the hard coding, defence side. Not cool.

Why should sidious use his aoe on his first turn but yoda...

His basic attack gives him foresight. If he's then ignored his battle meditation gives everyone foresight. Gives everyone a free pass from being hit. It's not a bad play for the AI.

"Mattiaslasson;227850" wrote:
AoE with good speed is what I use to beat teams with RG. Normally Sid leader, IG88, Dathcha, Poe and Poggle, sometimes switch Poggle with Luminara or Dooku. After first round normally at least three opponents dead and the rest have just a little left. Only problem is if the opponent gets in a Daka och Dooku stun on the wrong char in the first round.

I don't think this will work vs a dooku lead with Rey, GS, Daka, RG. Probably two of your heroes dead before they can move.

@Pindasauskanon Haha, I think I see what team that is... LeKit right? Somehow I got lucky and got through today... Maybe I had a lucky RG assist on my QGJ opening on Rey that stunned her (which then doesn't trigger his RG, and I managed to finish her before it was too late). But then I failed on the other quite similar team (saber): swap Daka for QGJ, and that team is basically all-offense-up from the second turn onwards.

Well, more generally I too have a hard time adjusting to the new Dooku fashion (which, at the moment, is 9/10 of our top-10, the last one being me -- I don't have Dooku). He certainly has won hands-down the award of the most annoying toon ever! And now, not only is he annoying, but his whole team has a chance to be annoying too!

Well, back to the original topic (RG), it takes a bit of trial and error, but basically find the max amount of damage you can deal their attacker so that he stays above 50%, then one-shoot him with an assist. Alternatively, spray offense-down or mass-damage on everyone, then finish with an assist. Or trigger the taunt early then steal it with QGJ's humbling blow. Or oppose your own RG so that it becomes a race on who's exhausting the other one first. Or stun any urgent threat while you deal with RG (there are few fast stunners I can think of).

Of course, RG with a Dooku lead adds (a lot of) spice to all of the above.