Who is an ideal substitute until I get thrawn?

Thrawn doesn't really have a replacement :/ his kit is incredible but I've found he has a similar role to FOO in a FO team: grants TM, prevents others from going and a lot of control; FOO can give TM and tenacity up, reduce cooldowns and enemy TM with pining shot, and has a high crit chance basic with increased crit damage :) I know this might not help too much but thrawn is difficult to compare to any other character

Why not just run og triple cleanse? Rex, chaze, nihilus, GK.

Something to consider is by the time you get and gear up Thrawn, the Threxus meta will be dead (it already is)

Just a train of thought, if your goal is to "stun" a character Han Solo might help in that aspect, but like others have said if you want that TM manipulation as well he really does not have any comparable replacements. Just thought I would give you an idea to play around with.

"ScottyLee;c-1274328" wrote:
Something to consider is by the time you get and gear up Thrawn, the Threxus meta will be dead (it already is)

Who would you suggest on running then? By looking at my characters?

"Jay_1997_C;c-1274315" wrote:
Thrawn doesn't really have a replacement :/ his kit is incredible but I've found he has a similar role to FOO in a FO team: grants TM, prevents others from going and a lot of control; FOO can give TM and tenacity up, reduce cooldowns and enemy TM with pining shot, and has a high crit chance basic with increased crit damage :) I know this might not help too much but thrawn is difficult to compare to any other character

Ah thanks for the reply anyway, just wanted to know if there was anyone similar to him

"Broulan;c-1274326" wrote:
Why not just run og triple cleanse? Rex, chaze, nihilus, GK.

I have chaze but their gear levels are so low and I kind of wanted R2's number crunch to be my first Zeta

"Javik;c-1274516" wrote:
Just a train of thought, if your goal is to "stun" a character Han Solo might help in that aspect, but like others have said if you want that TM manipulation as well he really does not have any comparable replacements. Just thought I would give you an idea to play around with.

Thanks for the reply, I haven't yet unlocked Han Solo but I would definitely love to incorporate him into the team when I get him

TM manipulation is not most important aspect for thrawn..
That "remove one key enemy toon from combat, unmissable, unresistable" is.
Han can stun - but that does not remove taunter from the way.
Dispellers can dispel - but usually they do not remove TM and do not stun.

Thrawn abilities have no substitute. Do not search for substitute.
Rather use whatever supports best the other 4 toons you want to use.