What ships do you hate to see in a tournament?

By Hrathen, in X-Wing

I don't know how many of you go to tournaments. But when I go there are always one or two lists that I really hope I don't have to go up against. Of course this changes as the meta changes. For me right now It is the Dengar Manaru, my heart just sinks and I know I am going to have to fight it.

I wonder what lists or ships do you just not like seeing at a tournment, or at least when you see it there, you hope you don't have to face them.

Used to be yt1300 and vt49s

Which i saw at least 50 of the time in every wave 5 tournie because they were broken as ****

After mov nerfs and wave 7, i posted dingdong the witch is dead on my local fb

Nowadays literally NOTHING can even approximate the crap feeling from the dark ages of xwings when your manuevers didnt mean ****

Even dengaroo is fodder (or has been to ARCs, tailgunner ruins him) in comparison

Torpscouts are a little annoying though, mostly because theyre too much health to guatanteed damage through :(

Jax.

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Anything with regen, especially corran.

Han, and any ship with that pesky R2-D2 astromech. (And thanks to Poe, R5-P9)

I just hate seeing my own squad there. It's like showing up to a party with the same dress as another girl ... or at least, I think it would be. Being a guy and having never worn a dress, I can't say for sure.

Edited by Budgernaut

Brobots and anything with torp/missiles on it.

Double VCX is my boogie man list right now. There is a guy in our local group that plays it really really well and that has made me wary of seeing them on the table across from me.

Bombers.

I am so sick of every time I click on a YouTube video it's Palpaces or Jumpmasters fighting.

Oddly, I don't want to see a Tie Phantom in my opponents list. For some reason it psyches me out, I assume anyone willing to fly a phantom in a competitive setting is awesome at flying them (wether that's true or not). So far there is still nothing in the game as frightening as a well flown phantom to me.

Jumpmasters. In any combo. (And I fly one)

I am so sick of every time I click on a YouTube video it's Palpaces or Jumpmasters fighting.

And it just drives me up the MFing wall when the opponent leaves the Palpmobile alone, loses, and is a known whiner about the brokenness of Palp Aces.

Kill the ******* Lambda.

I just hate seeing my own squad there. It's like showing up to a party with the same dress as another girl ... or at least, I think it would be. Being a guy and having never worn a dress, I can't say for sure.

Was about to post on here nothing because anyone can fly what the please but this is too perfect lol.

I used to hate seeing Oicunn/Whisper because I have a friend who runs it really well.

Now Triple Defenders are bothersome. In a recent tournament it was the only list I lost to and couldn't do enough damage to kill one due to cold dice.

I have not played Triple Jumpmasters, but actually kind of look forward to trying my hand against it.

1) R2-D2 Corran

2) Palpatine in a shuttle

3) Omega Leader

6 HWK-290 Rebel Operatives, 1 has an Engine Upgrade :)

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Probably mostly because my builds typically don't have an answer to it.. and it's not too present in the meta right now anway

but man I do not like SuperDash with Kanan crew.

I just hate seeing my own squad there. It's like showing up to a party with the same dress as another girl ... or at least, I think it would be. Being a guy and having never worn a dress, I can't say for sure.

I hate seeing a mirror of my list too. The last tournament I flew in, I ran 5 TAPs with Prockets, Guidance Chips, and Title. My first game was against 4 TAPs with PtL and Title. 9 TAPs on the board at once! Several times I lost track of which ones were mine and the game was grueling! It went to time(I won- I killed 3 of his and he only killed 1 of mine) and wasn't much fun. If it had been later in the day, when I was really tired, it would have been killer.

I don't hate any one list. I hate when everyone has the same list. The word "metagame" makes me cringe, because I know that right now, it's reduced to the question "should I fly U-Boats, or Palp Aces? Man this game is easy! I only have two options for what to fly."

Early on, I flew against three fat Han lists in one day.

When phantoms came out, I went to a tournament and flew against phantoms three times in a row.

Last tournament I went to, 70% of fleets were some variant on Palp Aces.

My favorite thing is wandering around in a tournament and being able to see every single ship that's ever been made! This game has an amazing assortment of (relatively) well-balanced ships. I wish people were just brave enough to try unheard-of combos!

Any meta list that tends to win. I mean come on folks why don't people only play with OT ships and HWK-290s without those noob turret upgrades :P

TIE/D Tractor Vessery. I don't know what it is. I know he's a relatively squishy target that I absolutely must focus down immediately, but somehow he manages to scrape by with a couple of hull then utterly wreck my list. Meanwhile I take him and lose him in the first round of combat every time.

I feel you, FGD.

Edited by Zefirus

My go-to list right now is my Kath/Bossk list, and, as long as dice aren't absolute zero, it has done remarkably well against almost everything that's come up against it. However I dread the day it must face triple-scouts, though, because the opening round and the alpha strike would decide the game: whether Bossk could shoot twice or not is pretty much the deciding factor.

Besides that, x7 defenders. They are super durable and very difficult to mow down. A list with two x7s and The Inquisitor are Kath/Bossk's only loss (though it was mostly my terrible red dice and my opponent's brilliant green dice). I especially dread the day when I have to fight an x7 ace with Stealth Device.