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8 years ago

Tank Counter team

I'm planning a team with huge health pool, but still having high damage by utilizing synergies.

- Leader: Gar Saxon (zeta) - 100% assist on counter attacks; empire allies get 5% heal on counter or base attack.

- Fives (zeta): 85% counter and some turn meter bonus. Since he, Gar and Royal Guard all apply slow, he is likely to retaliate 4 times when hit.

- Vader: Not a tank but huge health pool. Gets 50% counter chance and heal on counter/base attack. Bonus 40% defence.

- Royal Guard: Gets heal on counter; applies slow which works great for Fives and also for Gar. Heals self as well so more health restore. Bonus 40% defence.

- Kanan: Has 70% counter chance and applies offence down. Cleanse, shield and taunt. Heals self on debuf.

Later I can replace Royal Guard with Shoretrooper and possibly Canan with zKylo, but that would take some farming and will damage some synergies. Kylo is not on retribution all the time, and both don't apply slow which would constantly reset Gar's countdows.

Using AoE attacks on this squad will be devastating. Hopefully more so than Phoenix.

Fives being zeta wouldn't help much but he is part of 1 of my top 3 squads anyway:
- Clones
- Phoenix
- Empire/Sith: Palpatine(lead), Vader, Royal Guard, Sidious, Tarkin

Not looking for a top arena spot, but I think this squad will be a good all purpose squad: War, cantina, even fleet since most are crew.

Irony is, that with this squad I could get 3 stars in shoretrooper node, but only light side characters can be used.

What are your comments on this squad?

18 Replies

  • Should I consider the Super Commando then? He's an attacker and will have low health but has a 100% chance to counter and heal 5% under Gar. Also 40% defense. And will probably add the strongest attack to this squad.
  • One more question for experienced players:
    I went to this list to see who else is a 100% counter chance (like supercommando under Gar) and I saw a lot of characters that don't actually counter or can counter under some special conditions of which I am unaware.
    https://swgoh.gg/characters/f/counter/
    How can Ahsoka and Fulcrum counter? Under counter leaders? In that case all Jedi, Rebel and Empire characters should be listed. Also Grievous and Maul are shown as countering characters, but how can you make them counter?
  • Most teams will outdamage them
    Zeta Barriss = instant loss
    Most teams have at least one of; Luke, Han, or R2. All of whom stun, or Thrawn who can fracture
    R2's stealth prevents his team from being countered
    If you insist on a counter squad this may work better:
    CL lead
    Raid Han
    Saxon
    R2
    Gen Ken
  • "Stan_Mal;c-1289949" wrote:
    One more question for experienced players:
    I went to this list to see who else is a 100% counter chance (like supercommando under Gar) and I saw a lot of characters that don't actually counter or can counter under some special conditions of which I am unaware.
    https://swgoh.gg/characters/f/counter/
    How can Ahsoka and Fulcrum counter? Under counter leaders? In that case all Jedi, Rebel and Empire characters should be listed. Also Grievous and Maul are shown as countering characters, but how can you make them counter?


    This is an error in how swgoh.gg tags each character. It's an automated system that does a Ctrl-F for keywords.

    Ahsoka is mistakenly tagged "Counter" because of her Daring Padawan unique:
    Ahsoka has +45% Health, +45 Speed, and +15% Critical Chance. When Critically Hit, she loses one effect. When she defeats an enemy, she regains all of them. If Jedi Knight Anakin is present, Ahsoka gains Critical Hit Immunity for 2 turns at the start of each encounter and whenever she uses a Special ability.
    "Encounter" --> "counter". There are other similarly mistaken tags for lots of characters.
  • Thanks a lot guys!!!
    I know now that if I want to boost Gar Saxon, that would be just for my own fun.
    If I want to advance in the game seriously, I should focus on getting the meta characters such as General Kenobi, Commander Luke and R2D2.
    BTW how does one obtain General Kenobi?
  • If you wanna run a decent ftp counter team. Go with Nihilus lead dooku sith troop kylo and SA. Not all counter but dooku, Sith troop and kylo will and provide alot of damage.