Theorycrafted Zader team for use in arena
So Zader has fallen out of favor in arena due to many things... mostly rebel related, but there have been new additions to the game since he was deemed not viable for arena. The additions that I am...
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I considered having Sidius in the group, but I thought Tusken Shaman would be more valuable.
Zader leads fell from favor in arena because they were too easy to blow up. So IMO the way to make Zader arena viable again is to improve his survivability. Unfortunately, doing so usually means sacrificing the effectiveness of Zader's gimmick, which means the team probably won't be able to kill anyone fast enough to survive. Hence the necessity of Tusken Shaman... the only toon that can increase the Zader lead's survivability and damage all at once.
I've faced Zader with Shore, and it's better than without him, but not that great. The inclusion of Thrawn makes it so that the opponents team gets gimped in some form or another early on, which gives the Zader lead a few more turns or another round or two, but when you include shaman, all of a sudden they are getting another big heal... that makes the whole team hit harder, and the extra DoTs also power the whole team up. I feel like the team wouldn't have any legs without him. Considering that lack of survivability is what drove Zader out of arena, it's a bad idea in my book. Seeing that they redid him so that he is no longer squishy is what inspired me to think that Zader could be arena viable again.
If all we wanted or needed was DoTs, then Zader wouldn't have left arena to begin with...
Zader leads fell from favor in arena because they were too easy to blow up. So IMO the way to make Zader arena viable again is to improve his survivability. Unfortunately, doing so usually means sacrificing the effectiveness of Zader's gimmick, which means the team probably won't be able to kill anyone fast enough to survive. Hence the necessity of Tusken Shaman... the only toon that can increase the Zader lead's survivability and damage all at once.
I've faced Zader with Shore, and it's better than without him, but not that great. The inclusion of Thrawn makes it so that the opponents team gets gimped in some form or another early on, which gives the Zader lead a few more turns or another round or two, but when you include shaman, all of a sudden they are getting another big heal... that makes the whole team hit harder, and the extra DoTs also power the whole team up. I feel like the team wouldn't have any legs without him. Considering that lack of survivability is what drove Zader out of arena, it's a bad idea in my book. Seeing that they redid him so that he is no longer squishy is what inspired me to think that Zader could be arena viable again.
If all we wanted or needed was DoTs, then Zader wouldn't have left arena to begin with...
