Using Rebel Fleet to beat Negotiator

"Hortus;c-2146704" wrote:
Bistan to outspeed Eta-2 is important but not exactly mandatory - most typical Nego setup include 5s and 5s usually attacks Bistan giving him TM boost. But:

1. You want Bistan to be beefy enough to outlive at least 5s attack and Eta-2 AOE (even more against Y-Wing).
2. Ideally Bistan must outspeed your own HMF, makes things less rng (if "less rng" can be applicable to HMF fights at all)

In any case survivability of trio HMF-Bistan-Biggs is the key, so the more gear, the better.

Biggs - G12+3 is ok but see above.

4* Y-wing won't help.

Phantom gear is irrelevant, he's not needed there imho. Replace him with Plo - mass cleanse/heal can be life-saver.

Ghost - idk, can work at your gear level but with more gear he will be less likely one-shotted by literally anything.

Cassian - ok.

Bossk - ok.

Ackbar - idk, I never run it against current meta without G12+3.

With your fleet and only better geared Bistan you may expect definitely more than 50% winrate against full R7 Negos without 7* GR Y-wing at the start. GR Y-wing is the problem, winrate will be lower. Any sane Malevolence setup is THE problem, even 5* is like Nego with Y-wing in terms of difficulty in my experience.

You may try HMF-Biggs-Bossk setup but i'm not sure about success rate.

And pray to the gods of Great Random. Lucky assists streak can blow up 7* Malevolence quite fast, while there will be days when you won't be able to kill anyone because assists-crits-target lock just don't happen.

Yeah I haven't had any success against 7* negotiator with HMF-Biggs-Bossk sadly. And just so I'm clear, HMF-Bistan-Biggs as starters with Bossk, Cassian, Plo, and Ghost as reinforcements is the ideal lineup?

Thanks!