Sith Fifth

I'd go for Maul. With all the AoE, he'll get buffs from the defeated enemies.

I don't have Traya but with 2 tanks guarding him, Maul with daze would be my guess. It really screws up the other 2 common meta teams.

Why go with a Sith ? Why not use nest?

Nest is not difficult to counter on offense if you know what you're doing. She's very good, but the biggest thing she brings to this particular lineup is her AoE Daze. Maul can do that while getting full synergy benefits.

Of course maul can, But maul is inherently slow, and nest tends to be on the insane side of fast.

Actually, I'm not looking for speed. Don't get me wrong, my current Arena team all runs +108 to +128 speed but w/ 2 tanks, tm gain for Triumverate, DN zeta debuffing each opponent that takes a turn so his special sticks when he does go...I'm good w/ playing the long game. Just need my DN to go b4 an opposing DN, otherwise I'm good.

i run Trio+zKRU+Thrawn. simple reason: kru auto-taunt will guard you from DN isolated, and thrawn is just best support option. his fructure will do better than any Sith you can think about.. this team win 100% of time, and do great on def aswell.. i guess SithTrooper can do the same as KRU about eating that isolate, but KRU can offer 2 turn stun on non-sith or isolated sith, which sithtrooper cant even come close to. so the auto-taunt will be sitting useless for all game, and its good enough to win, but KRU > SithTrooper imo for this kind of team.
regarding the 5th, if you dont want thrawn (because hes in meta for too long, i totally understand if you dotn want use him) you can use Hoda (i remember you used Jedi teams for long time, so maybe you have him g12 and ready to rumble) because of his master training buff. putting it on DN/Traya will call them to basic, and those basics can change how game goes (CD to annihilate -1, or traya big damage and inflicting tons of debuffs) and on Sion, 25% tenacity offense defense is really big, especially when you have hatred up. little heal aswell, but mostly the master training buff makes Hoda actually really great as 5th there.
just fyi, i tried Trio+Auto-taunt + 5th with lot of 5th - wampa, zhan, palp, vader, sa, Shore.. after lot of stuff, i just realized that DN + 2 supp + 2 tanks : where 1 supp is traya and 1 tank is Sion , are probably the best hide the dn variation there is. i still havent lose on offense, even against better modded or better geared teams (g12 sions) and even when RNG is horrible for me, this team is just amazing and reliable. on defense, its not as good as the Palp+Thrawn+Trio, but that team isn't 100% offense wins for me, because it relies on having the Top mods and if not, relies on some RNG, while my team doesnt.

"SithTrio_PO;c-1592275" wrote:
i run Trio+zKRU+Thrawn. simple reason: kru auto-taunt will guard you from DN isolated, and thrawn is just best support option. his fructure will do better than any Sith you can think about.. this team win 100% of time, and do great on def aswell.. i guess SithTrooper can do the same as KRU about eating that isolate, but KRU can offer 2 turn stun on non-sith or isolated sith, which sithtrooper cant even come close to. so the auto-taunt will be sitting useless for all game, and its good enough to win, but KRU > SithTrooper imo for this kind of team.
regarding the 5th, if you dont want thrawn (because hes in meta for too long, i totally understand if you dotn want use him) you can use Hoda (i remember you used Jedi teams for long time, so maybe you have him g12 and ready to rumble) because of his master training buff. putting it on DN/Traya will call them to basic, and those basics can change how game goes (CD to annihilate -1, or traya big damage and inflicting tons of debuffs) and on Sion, 25% tenacity offense defense is really big, especially when you have hatred up. little heal aswell, but mostly the master training buff makes Hoda actually really great as 5th there.
just fyi, i tried Trio+Auto-taunt + 5th with lot of 5th - wampa, zhan, palp, vader, sa, Shore.. after lot of stuff, i just realized that DN + 2 supp + 2 tanks : where 1 supp is traya and 1 tank is Sion , are probably the best hide the dn variation there is. i still havent lose on offense, even against better modded or better geared teams (g12 sions) and even when RNG is horrible for me, this team is just amazing and reliable. on defense, its not as good as the Palp+Thrawn+Trio, but that team isn't 100% offense wins for me, because it relies on having the Top mods and if not, relies on some RNG, while my team doesnt.

An aside, gosh I love how technical some people are in the game...really admire it.

All I'm capable of is lining a team up and making them try to blow up the other team lol.

"GhostTruckin;c-1592257" wrote:
Of course maul can, But maul is inherently slow, and nest tends to be on the insane side of fast.

Enfys is faster agreed. Maul has a shorter cooldown on his aoe daze. If he's disabled by stun or slowed, Traya cleanses it, plus he gets crit avoidance and potency to help stick Daze due to Traya lead. Maul vs. Enfys in this particular set-up...I have to go w/ Maul.

I appreciate all the input. Thx to those that responded. Maul's my boy 4 this team.

"CoastalJames;c-1592306" wrote:

"SithTrio_PO;c-1592275" wrote:
i run Trio+zKRU+Thrawn. simple reason: kru auto-taunt will guard you from DN isolated, and thrawn is just best support option. his fructure will do better than any Sith you can think about.. this team win 100% of time, and do great on def aswell.. i guess SithTrooper can do the same as KRU about eating that isolate, but KRU can offer 2 turn stun on non-sith or isolated sith, which sithtrooper cant even come close to. so the auto-taunt will be sitting useless for all game, and its good enough to win, but KRU > SithTrooper imo for this kind of team.
regarding the 5th, if you dont want thrawn (because hes in meta for too long, i totally understand if you dotn want use him) you can use Hoda (i remember you used Jedi teams for long time, so maybe you have him g12 and ready to rumble) because of his master training buff. putting it on DN/Traya will call them to basic, and those basics can change how game goes (CD to annihilate -1, or traya big damage and inflicting tons of debuffs) and on Sion, 25% tenacity offense defense is really big, especially when you have hatred up. little heal aswell, but mostly the master training buff makes Hoda actually really great as 5th there.
just fyi, i tried Trio+Auto-taunt + 5th with lot of 5th - wampa, zhan, palp, vader, sa, Shore.. after lot of stuff, i just realized that DN + 2 supp + 2 tanks : where 1 supp is traya and 1 tank is Sion , are probably the best hide the dn variation there is. i still havent lose on offense, even against better modded or better geared teams (g12 sions) and even when RNG is horrible for me, this team is just amazing and reliable. on defense, its not as good as the Palp+Thrawn+Trio, but that team isn't 100% offense wins for me, because it relies on having the Top mods and if not, relies on some RNG, while my team doesnt.

An aside, gosh I love how technical some people are in the game...really admire it.

All I'm capable of is lining a team up and making them try to blow up the other team lol.

its more like seeing how crucial auto-taunt is by fighting someone else and not being able to get anywhere near fighting him, combined with someone else using Traya and seeing the survivability, combined with experience and trying stuff, combined with talking to friends and in shard group and understanding the weak/strong spots of those lineups.
i would never guess this is gonna be my lineup before i unlocked traya. never. i would think i'll go 5 sith, something with vader and palp, something like that.
but cant be happier now. winning against harder opponents, no RNG needed, 100% winrate, doing fine on defense aswell.