Sith team Nihilus lead

I went for Zaul in my first Zeta, thinking it would be formidable. For the most part - it is. Now, bear in mind this is after I ran a DN lead for weeks and was top of my arena shard.

Once I ran Zaul with DN, SA, Dooku and EP, I was still dominating rebel teams but Chaze teams managed to break through at times, maybe due to favorable RNG or maybe because I put all my fastest mods on everyone but Zaul.

So I went back to DN, jacked up the speed on the team (DN/SA/EP/Dooku) and jacked up protection on Shore. Now it's far more favorable for me again to retain position.

Really thinking now given how my shard is I'm going Zihilus next, especially if I can get Sith Trooper to gear X soon.

"Ajunta;971041" wrote:
You mean zMaul lead is definitively better than zNihilus lead ?

Yes. I was running DN lead and people could pick me off at #1. Anyone running Zader, EP or Zaul could beat me. This lineup is very effective against R1 or GK/zBarris because of the no crits. Teams with EP/Zid would crush my team because of the health block.

Switched to Zaul and now the frequency of getting beat has gone down. I just subbed DV for Baze 2-3 days ago and no one has been able to beat me with AI.

It is important to note that my team is max gear, double zeta.

I am nowhere near fully leveled, starred and geared, but I went with a DN lead for arena as soon as I unlocked him and have been able to climb up my arena from just under #2000 to #121 yesterday in a month.

I get that Sidious loses some of his special aspects under DN but he has been a solid member of my quasi-Sith team and he works well with his high speed mods to lay down the first debuffs for DN to do his thing, and then also apply healing immunity to key enemy units using his basic during the course of the battle.

I am working on Maul when I can find shards, so he will definitely slot into my team when I have him at the level and gear I need.

For your setup I would go with DN lead, Vader, Palp, SA and ST if you have SA and ST geared well.

I run DN lead, Vader, Sidious, Boba and either SA or Phasma for TM gain for the heavy hitters. I have not found need for an outright tank due to the health steal of the Sith members.

Speeds: Sidious first, DoTs - then Boba to apply AB, then Vader (if there is squishy enemy with couple of debuffs by now I can easily culling blade and go again to lay down more DoTs with Vader). DN is high on tenacity so usually withstands enemy AB on first round, when he goes he can force drain and I end up annhilating one enemy member every battle, as well as fequent dispells using his basic. By the time Phasma runs her Victory March very few of most of my opponents' team has gotten off any special attacks and my guys can go again.

Agreed tank is not a must but having sit in he works wonders for my arena as well. DN (L) sid, ep, sa, st I went from 800's to 58-89 in just this month of meta all gear 9 except sid sitting at 10. You will not be disappointed if you added sit and sa with high speed on sa