One weird trick to balance the meta

By jep, in X-Wing

Stop complaining about things that aren't broken. There are counters already in the game you can use against Paratanni, and Dengaroo is on its way out anyway. All your "fixes" just introduce more problems than it solves, and any mindlink list not paratanni suffers greatly at the hands of the mindlink haters.

Dengaroo doesn;t use mindlink ;)

Parattani is very strong, probably the strongest single list to have arisen as yet, but I think the thing that makes it so strong is not mindlink per se, it's the synergy between mindlink and manaroo allowing huge token stacks. Without that synergy it would be a lot weaker

Just now, ScummyRebel said:

Stop complaining about things that aren't broken. There are counters already in the game you can use against Paratanni, and Dengaroo is on its way out anyway. All your "fixes" just introduce more problems than it solves, and any mindlink list not paratanni suffers greatly at the hands of the mindlink haters.

WHat are the counters to Parattani? People keep saying this but I still haven't seen anyone give a good answer.

9 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

WHat are the counters to Parattani? People keep saying this but I still haven't seen anyone give a good answer.

If you shut down their ability to use that token stack, they become much less effective. In MN, a popular list that has come out of the rise of mindlink is the Fangaroo build. Manaroo with Fenn and Old Teroch. He discards their token stack and then you focus fire on that one. Rinse, repeat.

Carnot Jax can likely be used for similar effect for the imperials.

I never said they were hard counters - you still have to fly better than the paratanni player. But the biggest advantage paratanni brings is that token stack and you can find ways to short circuit it.

Carnor and Teroch both counter Parattani to some extent, yes.

But they're also worse than it at countering everything else in the meta...

Sample list my friend run yesterday. Super cool to fly, thematic, quite unusual - neither a real swarm nor a proper fighter wing.

• Serissu
M3-A “Scyk” Interceptor
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Attanni Mindlink
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“Heavy Scyk” Interceptor
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“Mangler” Cannon
24 points
Tansarii Point Veteran #1
M3-A “Scyk” Interceptor
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Attanni Mindlink
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“Heavy Scyk” Interceptor
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“Mangler” Cannon
24 points
Tansarii Point Veteran #2
M3-A “Scyk” Interceptor
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Attanni Mindlink
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“Heavy Scyk” Interceptor
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“Mangler” Cannon
24 points
Tansarii Point Veteran #3
M3-A “Scyk” Interceptor
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Attanni Mindlink
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“Heavy Scyk” Interceptor
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“Mangler” Cannon


Do you really think this list need mindlink nerf? The scyks dont even have especially good dial to shed the stress if one of them decides to take a Kturn.