Mynock special?

By frisco, in X-Wing Squad Lists

Let's talk about the my nock special how you run it is it good thanks for the advice

I was running it before it was given a dumb name

Sorry always hated that name

Edited by Krynn007

Doesn't hold up in this meta

Its still good, but if you face a Dengaroo you're toast. I flew it for awhile and dengaroo is just demoralizing.

To work it best, you have to park the shuttle in a corner and fly whisper and OL in such a way that the shuttle bumps for 4 or 5 turns. You can alternate greens, bump, then do a stop. But you're basically looking for your opponent to make a decision through or around the asteroid field. I don't think you were ever meant to joust with the shuttle, just keep it close enough that Whisper or OL can K/sloop and Yorr can pull the stress, leaving them able to take actions. Take 3 debris tokens because that trick works over those too (use Palp if you roll a crit). Create a pretty tight debris/obstacle field. OL should target lock their heaviest hitter or targets of opportunity. Whisper does whisper stuff and dodges almost everything, working really well in the obstacle field. Use Yorr as bait and the other two to flank.

Practice practice practice doing the oddball K turn and keeping Yorr at range 3 to pull the stress. If whisper is outside that and gets a stress, its bad news.

Right now with the popularity of Zuckess you will have a bad time. Palp and an evade from Whisper means she will probably get hit, and hard. Homing missles also suck, as do TLT's which eat up Whisper. Asajj or Ketsu will hurt like holy hell (free stress or tractor beam) and Rebel Captive has always hurt. Have a plan for flying against those things and you'll do alright with the list. Always take initiative if it matters at 9, you want Whisper to have that cloaking token before they fire back, unless you're more comfortable arc-dodging with just a barrel roll.

Pretty hard list to do well with, but worth it if you can!

Whisper, omega, and yorr is a tough battle against dengeraoo. I've lost twice flying against dengeraoo with whisper, omega, and yorr. I have however beaten it twice with omnicron, whisper and gamma vet with crackshot, ion bombs and homing missles, and lrs