So I'm assuming GK-Zarriss is gone for good?

Not gone at all. Just get lucky on some good mods with high speed secondaries. Any team is beatable.

The GK/Barriss meta threatened to disappear once and then came back. I wouldn't discount it and right now it's very effective elsewhere.

Would not shock me in the least to see it on the comeback if/when jedi get reworked. It's one of those combos that isn't reliant on 4-5 specific team members and can slot into teams in a variety of ways.

"Waqui;c-1467210" wrote:
GK, Zarris, R2, DN and Zolo still beat RJT easily on offense (but drop further on defense than before JRT and EP/Vader reworks).

But that's the crux of the entire question regarding arena viability. Most teams that have decent synergy can win fairly consistently on offense (unless, of course, they are have bad RNG or run into a whale god-modded team or the perfect counter team). The issue is will it "hold" on defense. And "hold" really only means "not paint a huge target on your back" because of the first point.

Arena viability is not so much about winning on offense as it is looking scary enough on defense that people would rather attack someone else. Zarris no longer scares anybody. Palp lead with a fast Vader at his side does. That's why the latter holds, while the former drops like a rock.

GK/Zarriss dead?

Didn't they say they same thing about Rex lead teams?

I wouldn't even try to make here usefull in arena right now. That said, she's a nice addition to any roster. Like saraleb said, she's still usefull outside of arena. I zeta'd her recently just for TW.

Gone. Completely. NO meta team struggle against them (If the player knows who to kill first)

"JaggedJ;c-1467111" wrote:
The GK/Barriss meta threatened to disappear once and then came back. I wouldn't discount it and right now it's very effective elsewhere.

Would not shock me in the least to see it on the comeback if/when jedi get reworked. It's one of those combos that isn't reliant on 4-5 specific team members and can slot into teams in a variety of ways.

I agree - all it takes is for the devs to throw out another lame Rebel crit-heavy meta, which they like to do (Wiggs first, then CLS / Han after that). So when lame Rebel crit damage team version #3 with +150 passive speed boosts from uniques comes out and 85% of the top 50 runs this team...then GK / Barriss will be money.

https://swgoh.gg/meta-report/#all

3% on the current meta report. Still there. And that doesn't sound like much, but she's above Acolyte, just to pick one out.

GK, Zarris, R2, DN and Zolo still beat RJT easily on offense (but drop further on defense than before JRT and EP/Vader reworks).

... aaaand Zarriss' healing neutralizes plague from NS.

"Waqui;c-1467210" wrote:
GK, Zarris, R2, DN and Zolo still beat RJT easily on offense (but drop further on defense than before JRT and EP/Vader reworks).

... aaaand Zarriss' healing neutralizes plague from NS.

Problem is I bet most JTR teams will just press auto against zarriss. Zarriss is meant to be the counter to NS but they can beat Zarriss as well.