Tanks? ...or no tanks?

I switched out Tarkin for Starck and I think it works even better...
You don’t really want the fight to drag on... so his damage boost for the team is nice. The second AOE stagger also helps keep your team moving ahead of the other squad.
I only dropped to #7 overnight... which may have just been chance (but still I didn’t get knocked down the ranks like crazy or anything)

"Smapty;c-1458624" wrote:
I switched out Tarkin for Starck and I think it works even better...
You don’t really want the fight to drag on... so his damage boost for the team is nice. The second AOE stagger also helps keep your team moving ahead of the other squad.
I only dropped to #7 overnight... which may have just been chance (but still I didn’t get knocked down the ranks like crazy or anything)

People have been loving starck. I'm not willing to work on him just from the looks of his kit but I've only heard good things. Surprising that he out performs Tarkin.

Also I don't get why dark side reworks are always reviewed more harshly. It seems like people expect them to need to hold on D, but it's okay for RJT and CLS to sink like rocks.

If we really wanted just "arena viable" they stomp Titans, nightsisters, Thrawn lead, Rex lead, CLS, GK Zarris and RJT on offense. What more can you ask for?

To me I run the ShT Tarkin comp because NS and Titans struggle vs it heavily. For arena defense, It's better to beat a certain set of squads definitively than it is to be okayish vs everything and never actually win.

GK provides crit immunity to the team even when fractured, which kind of incentivizes the other team to kill him first. If you run no Tank, you'll have success on offense, but you're going to get absolutely wrecked on defense to much weaker squads.

For the past one year I haven't used a tank before on my sith squad which I use for arena cause I don't have a decent tank. I use barriss for defence instead

I’m bringing back the triple tank squads with my arena team! All the JTR squads are struggling to deal with my Talzin/Zombie/Ventress/KRU/GK combo.

Realistically droids were sans taunt for like a whole year. HK IG-86 Ig-88 JE b-2

"Mobewan;c-1458278" wrote:
If anyone thinks a no tank team can hold on defense, just wait a month or two until your shard grows up a little. The first thing your opponent will do is kill/stiun/fracture your biggest threats in order. A taunting tank will protect them.

This. A no-tank thing sounds cool.

BUT - your attackers are going to be sitting ducks. Military 101.

Already ahead of you on this one Smapty :) Was running no tanks when Chaze + GK dominated everywhere.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/comment/1102777/#Comment_1102777

No tanks can work fine if you have speed and the ability to remove TM and / or generate tons of offensive turn meter for your team. Also - O down is key so Tarkin's rework is what allowed this before along with +1 CD removal from DN. Held very well on D also - you don't need tanks to defend. I was holding top 10 for a bit on a Nov '15 launch server. What actually ended it was Thrawn unfortunately - his leader crushed DV's lead. DS taking out DS - kinda like EP does vs. NS now.

You actually may want to try this toon configuration, just with EP and DV switched of course.

@Blizzisme
You take a defensive video by asking your shardmates to make videos attacking you.

So back to the “no tanks” idea...

I’ve just started playing around with this setup... so far like it quite a lot :)

...can auto most meta teams most of the time (now there’s a vague statement)

Fantastic empire team buster ;)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0WA2RHOqnyk