What is the best way to Luke in the current meta? What is his current role amidst all the squadron options available to the Rabble?

If he is meant to farm early Dodo crits, he'll still get walled by Contain. If he is meant to burn ship hull, he'll need Yavaris and BCC support and even then he can't consistently get 4 damage a turn. If he is working with a bomber group, why not downsize him to a X/Y-wing assisting Norra? Norra+bombers seems more synergistic in taking down the target ship, unless its a max bomber ball and Luke moves to the side of the target so that his friends have enough room to sit in the front arc and burn it while he byasses the side shields, or he goes attacking something outside of the Norra effect.

By no means saying he is bad, but wanna know what's the best way to use him?

Small ship duty - things like Raiders, Corvettes, Frigates and actually certain larges like the Onager and Liberty. He is really good at punching that one-two damage through to finish something off.

Kinda like how people treat the Kittens' as a "finisher", Luke is still like that. He is ok by himself but can really shine when you support him. Of course BCC is great, Yavaris etc.

But also Hera, Jan do pretty good with Luke. I wish Officer Wddge worked on him but that would prob. be too OP.

With a bunch of other stuff that bypasses shields. APT, prox mines, engine techs....

Combine him and Mart Mattin with some hammerheads running boarding engineers

Matt Martin, sabine wren, proximity mines, adar tallon, yavaris. It is hilarious when an ackbar pickle dies before getting a shot off.

Luke, Nym, and Dodonna is a good combo. Sent in Nym first (BCC and Toryn to fish for the blue crit), kill their Contain, then hit them with Luke. Especially if you're Yavaris double-tapping them, though as mentioned by @eliteone Hera is another way to go hunting.

In squad heavy lists he can be a powerful start up for farming the Precision Strike and Fighter Ambush objs. they run. Precision strike may feel lackluster with Luke feeling the need to land the hit/crit but just landing the hit opens up other attacks from ships and bombers to produce obj. tokens.

On 2/26/2020 at 3:50 PM, Akhrin said:

Luke, Nym, and Dodonna is a good combo. Sent in Nym first (BCC and Toryn to fish for the blue crit), kill their Contain, then hit them with Luke. Especially if you're Yavaris double-tapping them, though as mentioned by @eliteone Hera is another way to go hunting.

Could use nk-7's to ditch contains. Might be easier.

A Sato fleet, with ships with red dice & Proton Torpedoes ? Change the red for black. Fish for crit, ping a few damages under the shield. double down with Luke.

Just an idea...

5 hours ago, Ginkapo said:

Could use nk-7's to ditch contains. Might be easier.

True as well, though depending on what they're set up with and what else you're attacking with they may choose another token. Still, gives them tough choices.

19 hours ago, Hyperspace Ninja said:

In squad heavy lists he can be a powerful start up for farming the Precision Strike and Fighter Ambush objs. they run. Precision strike may feel lackluster with Luke feeling the need to land the hit/crit but just landing the hit opens up other attacks from ships and bombers to produce obj. tokens.

Nice point. I had initially swapped out Precision in favour of Surprise Attack as my bomber fleet can get toasted by enemy ships wielding that extra CF token. But maybe I'll give it another Luke 😉

10 hours ago, Ginkapo said:

Could use nk-7's to ditch contains. Might be easier.

Well technically, since the opponent chooses the token to discard, it is not a guaranteed Contain remover, but with the threat of Luke around it does give the opponent more dilemmas, and more dilemmas leads to more mistakes 👍

The Rabble don't really have a good long range engine to proc NK-7(like Raiders). Maybe an MC75AC or MC80SC with WBT?

5 hours ago, Coranhann said:

A Sato fleet, with ships with red dice & Proton Torpedoes ? Change the red for black. Fish for crit, ping a few damages under the shield. double down with Luke.

Just an idea...

So Luke and APT Hurraheads? Luke and friends can Escort Hurra, maybe. Or not: equip TFO on the hh for when Hurra dies.

I was thinking of 2 apt mc30, possibly with spinal and ord.exp., with 2 transports both with BCC, and one with Adar Talon.

Under Sato, it means between 0 and 8 damages going below the shields per turn.

Is it efficient? Probably not. But it's the most use of "Damage under the shield" from Luke I can think of.