Unrealized potential?

How old is your shard? Mine is december 2016. You have a good team.

I run Sith, but your gear is way better than mine. I hover 30-70. There are plenty of CLS teams at my level. Even with Chaze. The glaring thing that stands out to me is your R2 speed. He needs to be above 210 at least.

Maybe Sub in Nest for R2 when attacking if you are having trouble with Sith. Test leaving her in or R2 and see who falls further on D.

"VonZant;c-1578511" wrote:
How old is your shard? Mine is december 2016. You have a good team.

I run Sith, but your gear is way better than mine. I hover 30-70. There are plenty of CLS teams at my level. Even with Chaze. The glaring thing that stands out to me is your R2 speed. He needs to be above 210 at least.

Maybe Sub in Nest for R2 when attacking if you are having trouble with Sith. Test leaving her in or R2 and see who falls further on D.

This is what I don’t understand. My shard is August 2017. My opponents starting around rank 200 are almost exclusively full gear 12 ... 5 meta characters ALL gear 12. Am I swimming with whales??

No probably not. People around me are all g12 with 4-8 zetas per team. I have 2 zetas and until 2 weeks ago everyone was just g11. I win because of Speed frankly.

Somone told me this when I asked basically the same question you did. Every weekend spend ALL of your cantina energy on farming mods. They dont have to be speed mods but those help. But 5 dot mods and gear your people up with all the speed secondaries you can. My team is only 88k, but Thrawn is 257 speed and my Vader is 230+. Everyone else is over 220. That is why I win because lots of folks will field a full g12 100k team that has a 170 speed Vader or R2. To save credits you can only upgrade purple and gold mods with speed secondaries. I did blue mods too. Wasted a lot of credits but I have some pretty fast TW B teams that do very well as a result.

There are people above me that are even faster. I wont ever catch them probably. Also I think potency mods are overlooked on a few characters.

Just my opinion. Good luck.

Also I see you have Thrawn. Gear him and sub him in for R2 and test. He is amazing even at 6*.

"OnlyZuul;c-1578525" wrote:

"VonZant;c-1578511" wrote:
How old is your shard? Mine is december 2016. You have a good team.

I run Sith, but your gear is way better than mine. I hover 30-70. There are plenty of CLS teams at my level. Even with Chaze. The glaring thing that stands out to me is your R2 speed. He needs to be above 210 at least.

Maybe Sub in Nest for R2 when attacking if you are having trouble with Sith. Test leaving her in or R2 and see who falls further on D.

This is what I don’t understand. My shard is August 2017. My opponents starting around rank 200 are almost exclusively full gear 12 ... 5 meta characters ALL gear 12. Am I swimming with whales??

You may be (swimming with whales), but you should still be able to beat full g12 teams with yours. I’m a free player running a Nightmare team with g10 understarred Nihilus and Sion and only 1 g12 character (Thrawn). And I consistently stay in top 50 of my December 2017 arena and usually better, and regularly beat full g12 teams. https://swgoh.gg/u/kaimulai/
Your arena weakness isn’t characters, but mods. It looks like your 4 fastest mods are on non-arena characters. I’d go through your mods and prioritize your arena characters to be your fastest. Regarding speed order in your arena team, I’d put R2 fastest, then Luke, then Han, then Chirrut. Baze doesn’t need speed, but all the rest should be over 200 speed in order to be competitive in arena.

Technically, you're running an anti-meta team. It may be worth considering farming up your Nihilus and Sion. You could put together a Nightmare team (Palp(l), Vader, Thrawn, Sion, Nihilus), which is the current meta.

That said, remodding your arena toons for speed is probably the ticket. I'm doing the same right now, and instantly I'm moving higher in my shard.

A team of well—geared characters with synergy underperforming? My first thought was that it would be a standard case of poorly modding. And yes, you can gain a lot from sorting out your mods. F.ex. Han scores a lot if crits due to his crit chance up buff. He should have a crit dmg set and crit dmg primary triangle mod. Furthermore he's a damage dealer and should have an offense primary cross. With his current mods you don't use him to his potential. And...potency sets for CLS who has that high potency bonus from his abilities? Furthermore, you would want your R2D2 very fast for an early smoke screen and with high protection/health to boost the bonus he gives through number crunch zeta. The circle mod from ST Han should definately go to R2D2 instead.

You can improve VERY much simply by moving the mods you already have around.

But ok, assume that you've focused on farming veterans instead of mods, and that gave you JTR, which is really well done :—).

The filtering option on swgoh.gg is a great tool for sorting your mods:

https://swgoh.gg/u/onlyzuul/mods/?stat1_16=1

https://swgoh.gg/u/onlyzuul/mods/?slot_5=1&stat1_56=1&stat2_5=1

https://swgoh.gg/u/onlyzuul/mods/?slot_6=1&stat1_56=1&stat2_5=1

Good luck.

"Yerff_Caasi;c-1578556" wrote:
Technically, you're running an anti-meta team. It may be worth considering farming up your Nihilus and Sion. You could put together a Nightmare team (Palp(l), Vader, Thrawn, Sion, Nihilus), which is the current meta.

That said, remodding your arena toons for speed is probably the ticket. I'm doing the same right now, and instantly I'm moving higher in my shard.

@OnlyZuul Agreed. Mods are the biggest issue here. Crit Dmg on Raid Han, Protection (arrow, triangle, cross, and circle) on Baze. Speed and Protection on R2...you're also missing two zetas on CLS and one on R2. That's a HUGE deal in top arena. There's one person in my top 20 that runs the exact team as you, and that's on a near launch shard.

@Yerff_Caasi FYI the current meta is already shifting (or has already shifted on older shards) from this team...my arena currently only has 5 Nightmare teams in the top 30 :)

I’m going to echo what’s already been said with mods.

Everything is shard dependent so take some things with a grain of salt. You can switch to a JTR team as well. Those teams are more successful on my shard.

@Dryff what’s the meta on your shard and when did your shard launch? Mine is late January 2016. We’re swinging back around to nightmare teams now that Traya is appearing a lot more.

OnlyZuul - WORK ON YOUR MODS. They are holding you back.
They all need to be fast except for Baze. CLS and Raid Han both should have CD triangles. Offense cross and secondaries are also great on Han.
Speed is what matters most in arena. Master modding your characters and you can make it to the top.