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therealAlFuego
2 years ago

The Chimaera

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.
  • therealAlFuego's avatar
    therealAlFuego
    2 years ago
    "KDC99X;c-2404165" wrote:
    1) That data you showed isn’t a ranking of the ship meta or which fleet beats which. It just how many of each fleet are in the #1 ranking in shards. Those are not the same thing.

    2) I usually run x1, Fighter, Bomber in the starting lineup, and then Interceptor, Shuttle, Gauntlet, and Defender in reinforcements, who gets called first varies. Not sure if it’s the optimal lineup or not, I’m still playing with it, Interceptor is nice bc it reduces ALL cap ship cooldowns by 1 if x1 is present and it’s in reinforcements, however it does limit your fleet to ONLY Imperial/Sith/Inquisitorius. I haven’t tried using Defender w/o Interceptor yet. As I said, I can usually beat Negotiators consistently except when Han’s Millenium Falcon is in reinforcements - considering trying dropping Interceptor for HT and see if that helps with this. Malevolence near 100% win rate if you play it right. Same against Home One. Slapped the snot out of a 5* Executor the other day but lost to a 7*, I think it may be somewhat dependent on how the opening breach/mark goes down.

    For reference my ships/pilots are:
    7*x1 / r7 DV
    7* Fighter / r5 TFP
    7* Bomber
    5* Interceptor / 6* g11 2S
    5* Shuttle / r7 EP, r5 RG
    7* Gauntlet / g7 GS, 6* g8 ISC
    5* Defender / g11 IV

    So as you can see, still quite far from optimal, yet quite potent nonetheless.


    Right and that’s exactly what I said it was, I never said anything about GAC counters, that was someone else. I was speaking about fleet arena, and how it’s not in the top anymore, someone else said that GAC counter stuff.

  • KDC99-X's avatar
    KDC99-X
    Rising Rookie
    2 years ago
    I never said anything about GAC either.

    Again, number of #1 placements IS NOT relative ranking of fleet strength, which is what your asserting. Several of those fleets have 0 in #1 spots, so their positioning on the list is completely interchangeable.

    As just mentioned, if you’re talking strictly about how well a ship holds defensively, that’s different, and yeah Chimaera is not the top defensive fleet - but that’s NOT the same as saying it’s the second weakest fleet in the game.
  • therealAlFuego's avatar
    therealAlFuego
    2 years ago
    "Deathbringer59;c-2404153" wrote:
    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,



    I hadn’t even gone against a profundity because I just assumed I would get smoked, like I do against executor, however I just beat 2 in a row. Used Executrix though, couldn’t get it done with Chimaera, I think once I add the interceptor into the mix that might help with Chimaera more. I will say it was an easy win with Executrix, OG Tie and Defender we’re dodging way more often than without the defender in the mix.
  • therealAlFuego's avatar
    therealAlFuego
    2 years ago
    "KDC99X;c-2404173" wrote:
    I never said anything about GAC either.

    Again, number of #1 placements IS NOT relative ranking of fleet strength, which is what your asserting. Several of those fleets have 0 in #1 spots, so their positioning on the list is completely interchangeable.

    As just mentioned, if you’re talking strictly about how well a ship holds defensively, that’s different, and yeah Chimaera is not the top defensive fleet - but that’s NOT the same as saying it’s the second weakest fleet in the game.


    I am simply going off the fleet meta, that is what I’m discussing, not GAC, defensive quality or anything else you keep adding to the conversation. I corrected my self when I said second worst and that it should have been fourth worst, in the meta. I’m 100% sure of how the stats for the meta read. It’s pretty basic, and to boot my point if the ship was that good still it wouldn’t see so little usage and so few rank 1 leaders. Executrix and Finalizer heavily outrank it in fleet arena when it come to top score, and they’re not legendary, I just believe that Chimaera being legendary, it should see higher representation amongst the fleet meta. And it does not.

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