https://swgoh.gg/u/onlyzuul/My arena has become extremely competitive. (It’s an 8/17 shard) I am bouncing between 500 - 250, but I wonder if my roster has more potential that I’m not utilizing. Do I have the makings of something stronger? I’m currently running CLS, OGHan, Chaze and R2.Lately I’ve been concentrating on HAAT squads to get my guild over the hump. We only have a few really dedicated raiders. In addition to my arena team I am also interested in developing some second string squads to fill gaps in HAAT and STR. Do I concentrate on Sisters? Troopers? FO? I’m open to suggestions.Thanks in advance!

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.

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Ikky2win
7 years ago
Echoing what others have said it’s your mods that are holding you back. Speed, speed, and more speed. Consider this: I’m on a late November 2017 shard and here are my speeds:

Bb8 +125
JTR + 111
R2 +108
Thrawn +105
GK +92

Arena is all about turn order and going first so to be successful nearly every character aside from a few outliers (like Resistance Trooper) need max speed. Going first dictates the entire fight. You can stun, fracture, remove tm, etc. before your opponent gets to do anything and you gain a massive, usually insurmountable advantage. Almost every character should have a speed primary arrow and all your other toons should have as much speed as possible on secondaries. For your arena squad your speed secondaries should all be in the double digits for the most part.
MickeyMakay
7 years ago
Alright. Thanks guys. Mods is my new #1 goal.
MickeyMakay
7 years ago
When 99% of the mod challenge drops look like this, it is very discouraging.....
KaiMulai
7 years ago
Hang in there. You’ll get good mods eventually
DVZR
7 years ago
Yep. There is also the mod Store where you can get good ones but they are 3.93M credits for a gold mod, and its no guarantee it will roll well.
Dracarys78
7 years ago
If i was you i would prolly change to RJT team RJT,bb8,r2d2,scavenger/trooper and cls as soon as you fix Thrawn replace scav rey and gg. Get some god speed mods and you are set for at least top 50.
edit: you miss 3-5 zetas for that team tho but should get you in top 100 at least.
sainte5
7 years ago
"sying;c-1578725" wrote:
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.

About 8-10 Sith Triumvirate squads (about half with Palp...so kinda Nightmare w/o Thrawn & Vader), a handful of JTR squads...the most prevalent is Rex mashups with Wampas, Enfys, Talzin, GK, Nihilus, etc. :)
Drazz127
7 years ago
The team you run is fine while you work on your mods. It's a pretty solid lineup. EP meta has been in place since Feb. Best to hold out for the next one at this point.
syingl
7 years ago
"Dryff;c-1578990" wrote:
"sying;c-1578725" wrote:
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.

About 8-10 Sith Triumvirate squads (about half with Palp...so kinda Nightmare w/o Thrawn & Vader), a handful of JTR squads...the most prevalent is Rex mashups with Wampas, Enfys, Talzin, GK, Nihilus, etc. :)

That’s what my shard looks like now. It was a lot of rex before traya.

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