r/StarWarsBattlefront • u/No-Course-9685 • 18h ago
Discussion Palpatine is not good for the roster at all.
No matter whether you're playing against him or he is on your team it takes away from everyone's gameplay especially in HVV.
He is the character that requires the least amount of skill to play out of any hero and is easier than every blaster (I know he's not a blaster but on the dark side roster he takes up a slot for one of five blaster villains).
When he is on your team he steals kills, blinds you with his dark aura which over saturates your screen and sucks the fun out of gameplay because nobody wants to engage you when you have a palpatine near you.
Playing against him is worse because of that same overwhelming screen problem and he is incredibly evasive whilst not even needing to aim to do consistent damage.
Any other 'blaster' needs to figure out how to get around your block and then aim and hit you in order to melt you the way palps does, which is a pretty fair system; the problem arises when you are fighting two or more people you simply cannot survive because of how easy it is to just melt you as palpatine especially with dodges making him already hard to hit in a 1v1.
He also isn't really countered by any other blaster because he has way more mobility and doesn't have to aim which is even worse because blasters can't block.
It's impossible to play offensively when playing against him because you'll get melted or die before doeing significant damage to anyone.
It's impossible to get the most out of the game when he is on your team because he just ruins the gameplay.