Went to my last Store Champs of the season today. This was the list.

Prince Xizor (47)
Virago
Expertise
Fire-Control System
Autothrusters
Inertial Dampeners
Advanced Proton Torpedoes

Tel Trevura (52)
Punishing One
Push The Limit
Unhinged Astromech
"Gonk"
Hull Upgrade
Burnout SLAM

I honestly don't remember the last time I had this much fun playing X-Wing!
Only went 2-3 in the end, but the 3 losses were against Tier 1 meta stuff and 2 of those games were so close that if it wasn't for the brokenness of K4 on torp Jumps the day could have easily gone 4-1 (though my parking Xizor on a rock at just the wrong moment during that 3rd loss was probably a major factor too )

In conclusion StarVipers are awesome (yes even ones not named Guri), and there are non-broken ways to play the JM5K.

tl;dr fly this, it's fun.

Xizor's ability is among the top 3 reasons to play the game at all

it's so flavorful and fun

and it counters your *** green dice!

Just now, ficklegreendice said:

Xizor's ability is among the top 3 reasons to play the game at all

it's so flavorful and fun

and it counters your *** green dice!

It's even better when the guy you're dumping it on can regen!

idk, there's a certain pleasure to consigning some non-regen ship to doom simply because they're disposable

really makes you feel like royalty

31 minutes ago, Stevey86 said:

It's even better when the guy you're dumping it on can regen!

Once the new expansion pack drops one of the first lists I want to run with be Xizor with a bunch of scyks and/or Kihraxzes with Pulsed Ray Shields.

6 minutes ago, Herowannabe said:

Once the new expansion pack drops one of the first lists I want to run with be Xizor with a bunch of scyks and/or Kihraxzes with Pulsed Ray Shields.

If I had the Scyks I'd probably run 4 Light Tans Vets with Mindlink and Xizor.

Makes the "just shoot the wingmen" tactic harder when they've got 3 agi and token stacks.

Fit a PRS on Xizor somehow and that list could be really annoying.

"No, this round I think I'll take that damage on Tel and regen 1 shield on Xizor. No no, this round I'll take a damage on Xizor and use Gonk to regen on Tel..."

This is my standard Tel loadout:

And you'll get 3 more points and options after that new Starviper title drops

4 hours ago, piznit said:

And you'll get 3 more points and options after that new Starviper title drops

I know.

Part of me wants to slap VI and Adv. Sensors on him with the new title for insane manoeuvrability at PS9, but he'll hit nowhere near as hard.

I made a few changes to your original list and tested it against a hotac crack Swarm. Xizor and Tel smashed it. I'm definitely going to give it a shot next time I have a chance.

Xizor, Expertise, Virago, Advanced proton torps, fcs, at (46)

Tel, Expertise, r5-p8, Gonk, Hull upgrade, title (54).

Tel bit the dust, but after a full gonk regen they went for another joust and ploughed through them. Xizor took no damage at all!