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Yep that makes sense.

Awesome and congrats to your guild, glad to hear this helps! :D

I haven't seen that but I'm a few days behind on my YT viewing. Is this one of the ones put out by BitDynasty?

Looking forward to dusting that off! The expiration of Set 16 makes CRex feel like a free agent again.

I believe it!

I know you're right, but what is the threat condition created by the cron on the Rey team? I can't remember now lol.

@@tassenixgaming I think it was a time out risk because L3 keeps on coming back. There may be enough power creep now to shut it down completely. I guess we will see.

His successful gambles never fail to impress. We did have TomFord as a Special Guest a few months back! Aesop would be a great guest but he's so busy IRL and I appreciate the time he makes every couple months for the Datacron Set Guides.

@@tassenixgaming I feel like I watch all your vids so can’t believe I missed it! Keep up the good work!

Much appreciated!

@@Kimmiebabi1468 haha, thank you for the devoted listening!

Delighted that this helps you, thanks for watching! :D

@@Mathias-yz9hh Haha thanks for watching!

Glad this helps and thanks for watching!

@@tassenixgaming ofc.

Thanks for watching! If I end up with one I'll hold onto it but I don't think there's anything suggesting new Old Republic characters in the near future to make Carth slap. That said, honestly I really just don't see the value. At the point in the game where you're engaging datacrons and getting level 9s, are you really relying on a team as antiquated as Carth on either defense or offense? Seems like a strong B-tier team at best with the cron, at a point where the GAC board overflows with A/S-tier teams, at least here in Kyber 1.

@@tassenixgaming i have 1 brain cell on that subject,i am just a sheep folowing you .An old fart enyoing game and your content.Sory for typos,not an Eng native

No problems and I like the question! Your English is just fine.

Probably the single most exciting cron in this set for me, at least until Baylan is announced!

@@tassenixgaming dude before some minutes i fully unlocked my fist set 18 dc and it was Starkiller,im excited 😁

You're going to love it if you've ever lamented that SK seems slow to ramp unless he had someone like EP or DV to call him to assist often. Now you have more freedom in the Sith you can use!

Doing well, thanks for watching! I think Dengar synergizes well with Aphra in this set, especially with the 10% Max Health damage on debuffs level 6 ability. However like you say, I am usually able to make Aphra work against Jabba in most datacron metas so it will need to be tested as to whether or not he's a value-add to end that fight with higher banners, or if he could be more profitably used as a plug-and-play elsewhere. I wouldn't want to squander him as a "win harder" character if Aphra still does the job well without him.

You're very welcome and thanks for watching!

Love to hear this is being shared and thanks for watching! I actually think that the bulk is probably better, in that moment on the video I was thinking about how I might apply this and that's the first and only thing that really jumped to mind. However yes, I think that the dark side bulk level 3 is likely the way, running Jabba without Skando so you take both Embo and Boba to max those bulk gains.

I appreciate that, thanks for watching! Datacrons aren't so bad now though! When they were first announced I was really negative about them because I saw it as a way to pay to make certain teams immune to lesser counters. The first two sets were overpowered at first confirmed my suspicions, but since then datacrons have been toned down and now offer reasonable power spikes to different factions in each set, keeping the strategy fresh and the desire to play (at least for me) evergreen.

Much appreciated and thanks for watching!

Yeah we had more to discuss than I expected! Thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching! That was my first time using this Maul counter, it would seem that the assist damage from Gar/ISC and the True Damage from Maul make this possible! I wonder if this counter is still valid after the Set 16 datacron expires.

You may be right that KRU/SLKR will be dead as a counter when Set 16 expires, but I expect something new to be enabled by Set 18. As far as that MM counter, that first stack of Frustration prevents assisting, so that's why I used Luthen's 2nd special. The first special would free up the Commando but that wasn't what was going to win the fight. I spoke with a couple other players that have used this counter and they said the RNG was poor for me that POW got stunned, and I never got to take a turn with MM or HRS. The one critique they told me is that I can feel free to ignore the Shield Generator using Pao with the Pao cron, so if I try it again I'll just go all-out for Nass at first.

@@tassenixgaming I use MM with Pao cron mostly on Leia but I wanted to try on Gungans. So basically the massive damage can take out the gungans even if the generator is there? Didn’t know, that’s great info thanks a lot! Hope you get a few more real K1 opponents next round so that you can post the GAC vids. Of course a few easy wins are always good to take😁

That's a pretty clever nuanced idea, I will consider it. The middle is a good choice since it hits twice, and sets the stage for the next usage of the ability after enemies die. If they have Foresight on that second usage then the first strike is wasted but the second would will be devastating. Still I like your point, 40% offense off POW would be interesting...

@@tassenixgaming if they have foresight both instances of damage will be evaded. also there's not much point using it on the first turn, they'll have recovered all the protection by the time Bane gets round to another turn anyway, and they don't have enough buffs on his first turn for it to do any real damage. I don't see how it sets the stage much, compared to Bane getting 40% offense, or gaining 50% TM so his turn comes quicker and they have less chances of regaining foresight.

How would GMY's foresight prevent the second instance of damage from Bane's first special? Regarding using the middle first, I do think that perhaps this has less impact than using his basic as you suggest. Using the third ability first would really only give that TM gain, as you wouldn't have any stacks of Siphon built up to siphon max health.

Thanks for watching! You either win or you learn, and clearly I was in a learning mood!

​@@tassenixgamingI learned that JKR, GMY, Barris, Jolee, and Bastila with Barris Cron is surprisingly nasty. Completely ruined my bane and Quadme and was what ended up losing my GAC

Wow yeah I'd be shocked to lose Bane vs JKR, regardless of the cron.

@@tassenixgaming my thoughts exactly. Simply couldn't make a dent into their health. Barris was definitely the issue but I'm not quite sure how I could have played it differently to win it

You should post footage in the Discord if you have it and we can have a look!

Great question. The main reason to use the third first is to set back the enemy's cooldowns, but QA forbids this. The other reason to use it is to stack his max health, but that doesn't make much difference for this matchup. The first special does two hits and dispels buffs, doing more damage per debuff dispelled. This feels like a more meaningful use of his turn, and then once the enemy team kills DV I follow up with another middle.

@@tassenixgaming Hm 🤔, main reason for me to use third over middle would be that you take 50% of their turn meter, you gain 50% and also get speed up, offense up etc., take away 20% defense and tenacity. Another thing is it feels like the third would deal more crit damage than the second special, which weakens you due to QA‘s leader ability.

Assuming you have all omis, Bane takes a bonus turn at battle start which means all enemies are at 0% TM, so the TMR is wasted (furthermore, the TMR can be resisted and most us don't stack potency on him). The 50%TM for him and Sith allies does mean you may be able to follow up with Bane's first special before your allied Sith is dead, and it should also allow your allied Sith to get at least one turn in, so it's not a terrible idea. That said, I've played this matchup plenty both ways and found that early in a battle, I could occasionally outright kill an enemy with Bane's first special, whereas the second almost never does.

@@tassenixgaming Interesting, I only lost battles when I didn’t do third first, that’s why I always use it at the start. May reconsider, thanks man, appreciate it!

Great discussion! There are merits to both, I encourage you test either way!

I love hearing that, thanks for watching!

Yeah that level 6 ability is nuts!

Yeah he's a long time coming but hopefully gets any corrections early on.

Looks like TIE Dagger buff instead

Which matchup are you talking about?

@@tassenixgaming Well, let’s say you placed a very weak Jedi team on defense with that lv6. Many teams nowadays start with an attack that is supported by other team members. If your opponent isn’t careful enough, he may kill your toons very quickly, but since 20% of that attacks are thrown back on the attackers, they very likely will end up without 100% protection or health - hence lose those banners if they don’t have a way to regain health/protection. For example if you just take QGJ and the retaliate cron and look at the banners, there aren’t many with 65, regardless of what combination.

@@tassenixgaming So in this way you would eventually even benefit from a weak team, because you wouldn’t give your opponent the time to regain the health/protection.

I can see it for sure as a banner stripper!

Oof tough week but a dub is a dub!

Thanks for watching! :D

Glad you enjoyed them, thanks for watching!

My pleasure and thanks for watching!

You're welcome and stay tuned!

That's the plan!

Not so long as we have the Set 17 Nightsisters long-text Level 6 ability + Great Mothers cron. Merrin brings defensive dispels and a lot of health/protection restoration which I think is redundant for now. When this Set 17 cron is gone Merrin may have a place here to defend against whichever non-GL counters emerge, but I'd be loathe to give her up from my Mother Talzin team as Jabba and Finn/Zorii teams are still pretty common to see on opponents' boards. Great question!

@@tassenixgaming yeah was thinking in the same direction to free her up for the Talzin squad. Thanks a lot!

Yeah, basically.

@@tassenixgaming was a nasty surprise when it lead to a Jabba utterly wrecking my DTMG attempt.

Oof, sorry to hear that! He's not what he was 3 weeks ago lol.

@@tassenixgaming yeah, sadly. But, probably for the best they nerfed an infinite combo

Hope you enjoy it and thanks for watching! :D

And that few dattacron rerolls? He's absurd lol.

I love hearing that, thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching! I don't usually hold KAM for offense myself so I definitely didn't have that top of mind.

It's true. Set 16 continues to be the generally better set but now that we have a mature roster of Set 17 as well, there's definitely merit in thinking it out. Set 18 had better bring something big or the loss of Set 16 will be so deflating.

Much appreciated and thanks for watching!

@tassenixgaming was awesome, I especially liked the night sisters conversation

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching! :D

RISE UP!

I like 3v3 more than 5v5. Yes, my crucifixion has already been scheduled

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

Much appreciated, will do!