Talk:VT-49 Decimator Expansion Pack/@comment-107.77.75.88-20180314030622/@comment-27029853-20180314145439

Gonna overlap with Wazat here a bit.

They kinda trade places for being the better ship. Currently it's the Ghost.

The main difference to be aware of is the Ghost will more often being the heavy lifter and win you matches with the wingman being a support ship, pre-nerf Biggs, Ahsoka, Lowhhrick, and Fenn being common examples. Ghost will require that support ship to provide defense, although it has some defensive tricks of its own such as Kanan's ability, Sensor Jammer, or the evade action.

The Decimator will often have an ace with it and the ace has to do some heavy lifting as well, examples include Soontir Fel, Countess Ryad, Quickdraw, Inquisitor, and Vader. With the Decimator, there's a partial feeling that the Decimator doesn't have the same reliable defense and it is going down, you're just trying to get it to stay around longer and to get it to do more damage than it takes before going down so that your ace can close out the game. One of these is high PS (helped with VI and Engine Upgrade) can get you to take fewer shots, also helped by Kylo Ren crew (combined with a reliable crit generator like Chiraneau's ability, Vader's Advanced Targeting Computer, or Palpatine) can blind a ship when needed or lower it's PS so that the boost becomes effective. Kenkirk's ability combined with Ysanne Isard used to be used, however I haven't seen it used very effectively in a while, I don't think it's kept up with the hyper offense that's been added to the game.