Tanks: almost useless after the spread use of CLS?

hold on now, why is everyone making it seem like taunting tanks are useless and have been useless for quite some time while pretty much everyone still runs a taunting tank? Up until recently quite a few teams ran 2 taunting tanks.

"leef;c-1234635" wrote:
hold on now, why is everyone making it seem like taunting tanks are useless and have been useless for quite some time while pretty much everyone still runs a taunting tank? Up until recently quite a few teams ran 2 taunting tanks.

lol yah I don't see a team in my arena without some kind of a tank

new meta is... GK + R2D2 + any 3 others... we can call them GR2!

Dont know why you cry...
Stun at begining? We had that with Sassasin.
Taunt ignore - Bobba.
Dispel- double tank

Keep calm and fight that rebel scum:)
With Thrawn lead you get TM for debuff.
Im close to f2p and i manage to take first place. Why? I read and use brain...

Besides Kenobi, there are more tanks in this game that are far from useless.

Shoretropper - pretaunt, heals, cast taunt and (a lot better) crit immunity for all of your squad. Hello Leia and Raidhan. :yum:

A fast Shore- and Stormtrooper under an Thrawn lead can become really anoying.

Baze has also its uses in the right Team-Kombination and even Scarif Pathfinder is now seen more often under CLS.

"leef;c-1234532" wrote:
considering that general kenobi is the 2nd most used character by players ranking #1 and top10, 3rd most used character used by players ranking top100 according to swgoh.gg's meta report, i'd say atleast one tank is far from useless.
I foresee healers becomming more usefull in the near future, but don't see tanks becomming utterly useless.

Agreed. Shoretrooper (w/ Thrawn) is another useful tank. CLS, Thrawn, and DN provide weapons against taunts (especially Baze). However I wouldn't recommend running a no taunt team unless you want to fall quickly on D.

Tanky taunts needed to take a bit of a step back - they were dominating every meta. That's why hide the Nihilius was a thing for so long - just stick him among a bunch of spam taunters.

They are far from useless though - I use 2 tanking taunts (Shore and Storm) vs. CLS teams everyday. They just aren't an "easy button" anymore, which they never should have been. Game is actually more properly balanced now.

Tanks useless? Tell that to my GK + zeta'ed FOST combo that has allowed me to keep up with the CLS meta. I wouldn't last a day in this meta without my tanks.