Empire semi-infinite move combo

Gideon48 · December 22, 2017

Combo 3: Empire Infinite Move Combo

Leader: Emperor Palpatine

Attacker: Darth Vader

Support: Grand Moff Tarkin

Other: any other empire character

Emperor Palpatine has a leadership skill that grants empire characters a percentage of turn meter gain for every debuff inflicted on an opponent. This obviously is supposed to work well with Darth Vader's Force Crush skill that when leveled up to max will inflict Speed Down and 3 Damage over time effects for 2 rounds. With no cool down this gives Darth Vader the ability to continuously inflict damage over time, over and over damaging them in the process. As the opponent stacks damage over time Darth Vader can finish them off with Culling Blade. Culling Blade deals physical damage, it will dispel all debuffs, but when upgraded to max it deals 50% more damage for each effect dispelled and grants Darth Vader 100% turn meter on a finishing blow to continue to finish off everyone else. I've been able to damage opponents up to 90,000 hit points at times with the stacks of debuffs.

Grand Moff Tarkin has an additional debuff ability called Intimidation Tactics that will inflict the debuff critical chance down and offense down which will give him an additional turn to use his Ultimate Firepower skill that at max will remove 100% of the opponent's turn meter.

Drawbacks, challenges and opponents:

Darth Vader's infinite turns totally depends on his ability to inflict debuffs on opponents. if you kill all but one or two he might not be able to inflict enough debuffs to perpetuate his turns. It is recommended that you make sure your last two opponents have enough debuffs stacked on them to use culling blade on them. By doing this you guarantee another turn for Darth Vader next round.

Reviving opponents such as Boba Fett or HK-47 will prove to be a problem. If they die by Darth Vader's Force Crush and revive, they will start with no debuffs and more than likely have full life. The best way to deal with them is to use force crush several times until they have a good stack of debuffs and use Culling Blade early and then continue with Force Crush. By the time the other opponents are weak enough to use Culling Blade, you should have enough debuffs stacked on the newly revived opponent to Cull them as well.

Grand Master Yoda as a leader or support he proves to be a challenge and can be a real headache. When he is leader he grants his group increased tenacity (higher tenacity means one is more likely to resist debuffs). His leadership also makes it so when one resists a debuff they gain a percentage of turn meter which will stop Darth Vader's perpetual turns when their turn meter reaches 100%. On top of that, Grand Master Yoda has the ability to grant the buff Tenacity Up essentially shielding his allies from debuffs, which works well with the leadership skill increasing their turn meter consistently. The best way to deal with him (aside from some luck and high level) is to debuff as much as possible before his turn meter reaches 100% from resisting some of your debuffs and then use Culling blade on him. You might not kill him out right, but you will more than likely do a lot of damage to him, enough to perhaps finish him off with the next few blows.

The Grand Master Yoda and General Kenobi combo is a difficult one as well. First I am going to say that General Kenobi needs to go first no matter what. He has the ability to dispel all debuffs from all allies and then give them the opposite of that debuff. So if Vader stacks up 52 damage over time, General Kenobi will turn the debuffs to 52 heal over time for two turns basically making it impossible for you to take out any of the opponents. When combined with (General Kenobi no longer has the ability to dispel and switch debuffs, the creators have since changed this.)

Many of the new characters that have been released have a huge advantage against Empire and Resistance debuffs. Bastille and Jedi Knight Revan are rock solid against debuffs, So is Padime's team combo. Darth Vader and Palpatine combo are still good against rebels and ewoks, however. There are other situations that they can be used as well.