The Chimaera

Nah. I’m consistent ranked 25-15 on my fleet shard with Thrawn, against Negotiators/Malevolences. I’ve beaten Executor with Thrawn/Empire too.

Either you don’t know how to use it, your fleet is trash, or both.

Or your gaming chair is not good...

Hmm weird, the data in my swgoh.gg GAC counter shows Chimaera
vs Negotiator: ~90% win rate
vd Raddus: 100%
vs Home One: 100%

I think the broader point about Chimaera is that it was a meta ship on release but that was a few years ago and there of course has been power creep and meta shifts since. There has been the recent Empire ships that may help it out a bit.

Anecdote alert. My Chimaera actually held during the GAC match that ended yesterday. Probably got me the win.

Home One should beat the Executor, but that’s a different story. Or the actual story. This is just a game.

Maybe it’ll be able to one shot Executor when CG finally releases the A-wing… ;)

"AlFuego;d-261571" wrote:
highly unlikely that in a space battle Thrawn would lose to those guys.

Completely irrelevant.

"AlFuego;d-261571" wrote:
Why is chimaera so weak now? Considering it is a legendary Capital ship, not to mention piloted by Grand Admiral Thrawn(tactical genius) , it’s ultimately the second to worst Capital ship in the game now. You would think being it is “legendary” it would be able to top most basic Capitol ships aside from TB capitals, executor and profundity, yet it does not. It gets smoked by resistance and first order Capital ships, lol. Can’t beat ackbar or tarkin, again, highly unlikely that in a space battle Thrawn would lose to those guys. At this point in the game he’s only better than mace windu when it comes to Capital ships. Just feels off to me. Waaay off. Needs a buff IMO.

With the help of Defender i beat Executor with a very satisfying win rate using Chimaera. Not sure it was intended and it might get nerfed, but Defender making Thrawn shine seems about right.

Defender slaps with Chimaera! Add interceptor and you get much faster access to his ult which is super powerful. I’ve had matches I thought I was about to lose, turn around instantly when I get to the ult. Against Negotiators/Malevolences.

Actually while we’re on this topic - I do struggle with several others on my shard putting Han’s Falcon in reinforcements, and when he comes out he usually cripples my fleet, haven’t figured out a way to deal with that one yet yet. Any suggestions?

If the Imperial fleet needs anything, and this isn’t specific to one capital ship, it’s maybe that it can be very sensitive to bad rng in who gets targeted in the opening salvo by opponents. Very easy to lose a critical ship before you get a chance to get the fleet going, but also my ships/pilots aren’t all maxed out yet, so I can’t comment on that level of play.

Just need to get on my Inquisitor grind and add Scythe to the mix…maybe I’ll get there in maybe about a year or so… heh.. ?

Chimera really isn't the problem, it's a pretty good Capital ship. It needs more ships to go with it. Tie Defender is a good one but not enough yet. If they want to make Chimera stronger, they would release another ship to go with him. I don't think he needs one though. Profundity and Executor are currently dooking it out and it's pretty nice.

FO, profundity, mal can beat Excutor
Executor, mal, empire can beat profundity

The ship Meta is kinda nice,