What are the best ships?

Whichever ones you have level 85 G11 characters for.

Biggs, vader, fotp, slave 1, fives/TFP is a good starting lineup. Then on the bench, maul is key.

I am a Vader diehard fanboy. I have ran Vader in arena since I unlocked him. I built my team around him and will always run him. That being said, I don't like his ship. It is reliable for target lock and that's it.

I should say that I run ackbar. Perhaps he would be better with Tarkin. For a pilot with over 60k health and protection, his ship is super squishy. I take 1st regularly, except when RNG hates me and 0 target locks stick(ironic because Vader is a sure TL), and it upsets me greatly that I can't use it.

I run Ashoka, two ties, slave, and Biggs, with SunFac, 5's and Wedge backup. It's an awesome lineup. I'm building Maul/Schimitar to replace wedge. It will be first reinforcement, the SunFac, then 5's

Good pilots > good ships

Tarkin and Mace has the best capital ships. Tarkin's perhaps a bit better.

Perhaps the best ship strategy is to use Biggs' ship and surround it with ships that can inflict target lock. Tie fighter, first order tie fighter and Slave I are excellent. Umbaran starfighter is also a good one to have in your starting lineup.

If you use Tarkin as your capital ship, your first reinforcement should be Sun Fac's ship, as it auto-taunts and counters and inflicts target lock whenever it attacks out of turn.

Scimitar is also a great one to have as a reinforcement, as it will immediately give an ally retribution up, and stealth all other ships.

Besides these ships, Jedi Consular's, Geonosian soldier's, Wedge's and Ahsoka's ships are all pretty good. Ahsoka's is nice to have as your third reinforcement, so you can pick her if you need her during an attack.

Target lock is king. Biggs taunts, Vader unresistable on basic, Boba applies it on basic and uses it in aoe. Maul gives biggs retribution (which gives him protection and counter) JC keeps biggs alive. Everyone target locked when biggs dies, bring in 5s and aoe with him and boba or use bobas siesmic charge and boomtastic. Ahsoka is great for dispelling as well.

"Boreas;c-1148152" wrote:
Home One (Ackbar) lead along with Biggs and target lock inflicting ships, which are mostly dark side as for now, is a beginner line up, it's effective early in the game, if you want to be effective in the end game, I'd recommend Galactic republic team.

Boba is also bery effective under ackbar, double tapping siesmic is beastly.