The y-wing is a key ship in the squadrons meta. it's a tough ship to fly and the focus of the pk player wrath! i go over the loadouts that might make it work.
Yeah, Y-Wing is the hardest. It's incredibly easy to dunk. Dampener really doesn't do much to help you, imo. Your flying has to do most of the missile lock breaking regardless of your choice here. I think Dampener is a good choice for someone new to the Y-Wing. Gonk suggested Reinforced so I gave it a try. I really like it. Your lock on time isn't noticably more difficult. It's hard regardless. Reinforced goes a long way when you get dunked. The shields are the toughest call. I feel like Ray is overrated on the Y-Wing. Things like Anti-Starfighter will do considerable damage to your shields. Conversion is nice, but I wish there were a way to refresh it. Overloaded also might be good situationally, assuming you are pinballing correctly. There's definitely a point where you can't regen the damage you take, but it's solid IMO. Jet engine all day, everyday!
The Y-Wing shield and hull choices are some of the most discussed and argued about loadout decisions in competitive Squadrons right now. You've got very accomplished, very successful players taking nearly all of the relevant options. For this reason we can't really sit here and point at one option or another as being THE correct choice. Dampener has high value in situations where the Y-Wing is actively evading, and has even higher value in situations where the Y-Wing is not beaconed. The reason why Dampener often doesn't feel useful is because Y-Wings are typically dunked in moments where they are NOT actively evading, such as when they are lining up an AI pack, and in a comp game the uptime on beacons is very high. Dampener still has value even when you're beaconed if you are using cover effectively. This especially includes the Arquitens cruisers during your attack phase. If you're orbiting the cruiser while attacking it, you are constantly frustrating enemy flex players trying to get a missile lock because that fraction of a second of extra lock time required is often too long to reliably get a lock on a Y-Wing that is constantly going in and out of cover. Don't disregard dampener's value. A dunked Y-Wing is a dead Y-Wing and the dampener hull can easily be the difference between a dunk happening or not, even in the presence of beacons. Since you aren't being actively informed about each event where the enemy flex player ALMOST gets a lock but doesn't quite, you aren't being actively informed about how much value dampener is giving you. The answer is 'a lot,' but the question still remains: "Is dampener providing MORE value than reinforced?" That is a very valid question.
@@BenedictSmith12 ray's 25% laser damage reduction applies to the hull as well. A reinforced + ray ywing's hull alone has nearly the effective HP of a reinforced hull TIE. It's kind of awesome, but the lock time help that dampener gives is too good to pass up. Still, ASM damage is still pretty low even with the 50% boost, and that's the only aux you're likely to take hits from in comp (if someone is running ion + conc TIE, they're probably not very good and thus not hitting you anyway). So the tradeoff is pretty solid when it comes to surviving dunks and praying your support gets to you in time.
not a good aux on the ywing tbh. the way they drop is reallly weird and i struggle to get them to hit the shield gen if i'm parked on it. you don't really carry enough on the ywing to get much damage out over torps. the bwing is better with them but even still you want a support to just be feeding you them.
Thanks Timebomb. That new set up is certainly interesting. Great work 👍
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Yeah, Y-Wing is the hardest. It's incredibly easy to dunk.
Dampener really doesn't do much to help you, imo. Your flying has to do most of the missile lock breaking regardless of your choice here. I think Dampener is a good choice for someone new to the Y-Wing.
Gonk suggested Reinforced so I gave it a try. I really like it. Your lock on time isn't noticably more difficult. It's hard regardless. Reinforced goes a long way when you get dunked.
The shields are the toughest call. I feel like Ray is overrated on the Y-Wing. Things like Anti-Starfighter will do considerable damage to your shields. Conversion is nice, but I wish there were a way to refresh it. Overloaded also might be good situationally, assuming you are pinballing correctly. There's definitely a point where you can't regen the damage you take, but it's solid IMO.
Jet engine all day, everyday!
The Y-Wing shield and hull choices are some of the most discussed and argued about loadout decisions in competitive Squadrons right now. You've got very accomplished, very successful players taking nearly all of the relevant options. For this reason we can't really sit here and point at one option or another as being THE correct choice.
Dampener has high value in situations where the Y-Wing is actively evading, and has even higher value in situations where the Y-Wing is not beaconed. The reason why Dampener often doesn't feel useful is because Y-Wings are typically dunked in moments where they are NOT actively evading, such as when they are lining up an AI pack, and in a comp game the uptime on beacons is very high.
Dampener still has value even when you're beaconed if you are using cover effectively. This especially includes the Arquitens cruisers during your attack phase. If you're orbiting the cruiser while attacking it, you are constantly frustrating enemy flex players trying to get a missile lock because that fraction of a second of extra lock time required is often too long to reliably get a lock on a Y-Wing that is constantly going in and out of cover.
Don't disregard dampener's value. A dunked Y-Wing is a dead Y-Wing and the dampener hull can easily be the difference between a dunk happening or not, even in the presence of beacons. Since you aren't being actively informed about each event where the enemy flex player ALMOST gets a lock but doesn't quite, you aren't being actively informed about how much value dampener is giving you. The answer is 'a lot,' but the question still remains: "Is dampener providing MORE value than reinforced?"
That is a very valid question.
@@BenedictSmith12 ray's 25% laser damage reduction applies to the hull as well. A reinforced + ray ywing's hull alone has nearly the effective HP of a reinforced hull TIE. It's kind of awesome, but the lock time help that dampener gives is too good to pass up. Still, ASM damage is still pretty low even with the 50% boost, and that's the only aux you're likely to take hits from in comp (if someone is running ion + conc TIE, they're probably not very good and thus not hitting you anyway). So the tradeoff is pretty solid when it comes to surviving dunks and praying your support gets to you in time.
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Can you make a tutorial on how to use proton bombs please, I’m really struggling to use them on the y-wing! 😅
not a good aux on the ywing tbh. the way they drop is reallly weird and i struggle to get them to hit the shield gen if i'm parked on it. you don't really carry enough on the ywing to get much damage out over torps. the bwing is better with them but even still you want a support to just be feeding you them.