Stormtrooper or Shoretrooper?

Here's my 2 cents. I have the exact same team you are talking about. https://swgoh.gg/u/dogamidstwind/
That is for proof. But if you have veers and the other 3 already 7 star and geared to 10g or higher, go storm trooper. If you are just starting them and they are all less than 9-10g, do shore.
If you have stormtrooper 7 star already, he will be easier as you do not have to farm him. I believe it took me 6 months to get shore from the hard battle starting him at around 100 shards already gotten (from the tournament's they used to try and run but failed miserably). If you have a lo e star shore and quite a while to gear and get shards for others, go for him, but if not, storm is easier in a pinch.

Both tank heavy amounts, both are used in IT teams, go for the easier one now, and start farming the other so it is ready when necessary.

"Naraic;c-1511464" wrote:

"Name;c-1511434" wrote:

"Kiritoismyname;c-1510936" wrote:
Shore. My reasons are:-

1. Auto-taunt to protect other troops.
2. Special gives buffs to everyone. Buffs gives tm to IT. Useful when combined with 3.
3. Can spam his special due to his cooldown reduction when buffs expire, and the plethora of buffs he gains.
4. Well, he *seems* to be tankier than storm.
5. Reaper.

I. I’m not sure that the auto-taunt is an enormous leg up, as stormtrooper’s taunt cooldown is 4 and he taunts for 3 turns

The pre taunt means you can get in ahead of the other team. It's very good against a raid Han or a Vader who opens with force crushing culling blade and a glass cannon is dead or assuming troopers is a b squad for tw against a fast Biggs pulling a quick treble attack or any a half dozen scenarios where someone opens strongly.

On an IT team, store's taunt comes off cooldown faster if it is removed however. For every buff that is lost ( either enemies removing it or it running it's course of x-many turns) it reduces the cooldown of his taunt by 1 turn each. Length is negatable on a IT team. If you take storm and he loses tsunt, you are SOL for 3 more turns.

"Vertigo;c-1511472" wrote:

"Naraic;c-1511464" wrote:

"Name;c-1511434" wrote:

"Kiritoismyname;c-1510936" wrote:
Shore. My reasons are:-

1. Auto-taunt to protect other troops.
2. Special gives buffs to everyone. Buffs gives tm to IT. Useful when combined with 3.
3. Can spam his special due to his cooldown reduction when buffs expire, and the plethora of buffs he gains.
4. Well, he *seems* to be tankier than storm.
5. Reaper.

I. I’m not sure that the auto-taunt is an enormous leg up, as stormtrooper’s taunt cooldown is 4 and he taunts for 3 turns

The pre taunt means you can get in ahead of the other team. It's very good against a raid Han or a Vader who opens with force crushing culling blade and a glass cannon is dead or assuming troopers is a b squad for tw against a fast Biggs pulling a quick treble attack or any a half dozen scenarios where someone opens strongly.

Pre-taunt does nothing to Raid Han as Raid Han's shoot first can avoid taunts now.

Shore is a bazillion times the better choice, but is a bazillion times more difficult to get as well.

My shore is not up to 7* yet but he is by far better in my trooper squad thssn storm ever was, all the above noted reason are spot on. See my swgoh.gg https://swgoh.gg/u/stryker667/collection/

Storm is one of the best tanks in game. In this game only Storm can survive 3 counters from full Rebel team under CLS lead in one fight. Shore cannot do this. Shore is different but very good also and his ship Reaper is excellent. Farm both but Shore is long farm, took me around 6 months to 7 stars. Shore can be also used in HAat in phase 3. The only thing which I dont like about Storm is his zeta upgrade. The most stupid upgrade in this game.

Luckly i'm serious farming shore accidentaly when they put reaper in the same node. Now they are life happy ever after with *7 rate

*put salt on wound :wink:

This is great information and I thank you all for sharing it. Let me add a bit of information that I left out in the first message. I am only looking to use the Imperials for DSTB and mainly for the future heroic sith raids we’ll be running. I’m just curious about the damage difference between using Storm or Shore in an Imperial team in the sith raid. Any thoughts?

Your 4 and 5 troopers should be stormtrooper and colonel starck, since you need starck for ds tb and overall he's a good support trooper.

As others have said, farm shore in the hard node. Use him when he's ready but don't rush his farming

For TB alone storm is fine. Definitely hits harder than shore. If the pre-taunt and healing aren't needed, storm would be the better choice.

This is great information and I thank you all for sharing it. Let me add a bit of information that I left out in the first message. I am only looking to use the Imperials for DSTB and mainly for the future heroic sith raids we’ll be running. I’m just curious about the damage difference between using Storm or Shore in an Imperial team in the sith raid. Any thoughts?