Tanks? ...or no tanks?
So with all the tank busting and taunt avoiding characters that are so commonplace nowadays... Is it really worth running a tank anymore in arena? It's almost gotten to the point where using a ta...
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"Nikoms565;c-1483880" wrote:"Banj0;c-1483874" wrote:
So after all the reworks and new releases what is the consensus? Tank or no tank?
I honestly think some of it depends on your shard. If you have the fastest team by a large margin, you can go no tanks. But the issue with no tanks is, if the speeds are close and the other Vader gets a turn fairly soon, then, because of the whole "if everyone hits 100% TM, RNG decides" issue, things can go south fast for a No Tank team. Any Palp lead team becomes VERY easy to beat once Palp is down. Even with his zeta unique, he is still squishy enough to take down without a tank protecting him.
My November 2015 has almost all EP lead w/tank teams. Some actually have 2 tanks - (GK/ST, GK/Sion or even Sion/ST). Some will run EP/Vader/DN. Others prefer Thrawn in place of DN.
Some of that might be to prevent "tank switching" to beat them. What I mean is, many were running 4 DS + GK - but will swap in a g12 Shore on offense, just to outspeed the teams with GK. But much of the top 20 in our shard have very strong speed mods and have fairly similar teams.
I have a fairly old shard not real sure when I started playing but it was shortly after the release. I have been running Palp, Vader, Thrawn, Tarkin and Raid Han all with zetas. I just now switched out Tarkin and Han for Shore and zStrom. Fought a JTR team with GK and zHan and barely scrapped by with the win. They even had 2 illuminated destinys go off (how I survived idk). I don't have Nihillus or GK arena ready but would like to run with them. My arena like yours has very strong speed mods which make it difficult but the tanks can absorb a lot of the initial blows. I guess I will have to wait and see how they do on defense before committing to the team.
