Correct Squad Placement is Important - Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes - SWGoH 

You want Daka after zombie. Zombie will still revive on a mass death, and sacrifice for Daka. Having her after Zombie helps with her stun landing from Zombie’s tenacity down.

If you add your credit card in the leader slot, you're guaranteed a win.

4 years into the game and we just now learn this?? SMH

I place my squads in an order in which I'm comfortable with them on the screen, for example, in my Jedi Line-up, I'd have Yoda in position 2 so that he is visible and easier to control. Its very easy in this game to have one character cover up another character and thus you could accidentally press on another character and make a duff move.

This is something that the Devs need to make clear immediatley.

I have waited long enough... Finally, the Geonosian Shoulde has returned

I always wondered about this but was always told just put in the leader & after that it’s all good.

Always a good thing to have a Geonosian shoulder :)

Wtf this is seriously a thing?... 😱 I'm literally shook

Let me translate CG responce: uuuu. ... we messed up so many times and never fixed the bugs so it's such a mess I cant explain it even if I understood it. But ya the order could matter... I think... depending on our many thousands of random screwed up coding (we honest will never fix) that might interfere. So ya Goodluck with that!! Haha.

Great video!! No garbage intro and helpful info, it also seems to take effect when the team has retribution. Thank for the great content keep it up.

Question: How do the in game mechanics work for determining who's attacks land first on mass assists and who takes damage first from aoe attacks, and how does the squad order affect this? CG: Uhm.. it's very complicated... all of those things matter... (We don't really know, our code is so messed up, it's random for all we know....) Mobilegamer: [spends several hours with the community testing multiple scenarios] makes/edits a video explaining with ~99% confidence that this is how squad order is affecting these scenarios, explaining to the rest of the community and probably CG as well. tl;dr - Thanks Mobilegamer! for answering the question that CG could not.

Saving this video to rewatch later when I can sort my teams. All this time I thought only the leader mattered.

I suspect that team order also plays a part in match RNG generation. If I had to guess it deals with the rng seed generation. If you have a distinct turn order and no assist/revive. You can run a match, in my testing with galactic wars, can run a match. Close out before wining/ loosing and fight the same exact team again. If you do the same actions each time the match plays out the same. However just changing team order and running again. Using same actions in same order. Rng checks will play out different, such as status effects sticking or being resisted, evasion etc.

I've done some testing with bounty hunters and it doesn't always seem to go in placement order; Zam won't gain turn meter from popping TD's if the target is dead before she hits them. Her attack will always land last (from what I've seen), even if she's in the second slot.

It’s insane this is a thing.. and even more that CG has chosen to leave it to players to figure it out. I’m really at a loss for words

Damn, I don't think I can measure how helpful this video is, thanks a lot!

Im glad to have been a part of this video's creation, love u as always man!

Geonosian Shoulder, the ultimate badass!

There are 3 mass assists on the padme team with 3p0. 3p0 gk as you said and padmes kick is also a mass assists

8* topcash would be nice, I’d settle for STUN GUNS

This is great. I just got through one more phase of "Secrets and shadows" by simply moving Daka to the second spot

Finally a good, helpful, not negative video. Well done!

So true! I've tested this time and time again. Placement actually does work and matter. It's insane. This has been the difference between unlocking characters and not coming close.

It doesn't make a huge difference but tenacity down gets applied even if the target has got tenacity up, so if Geo Soldier attacks before Sun Fac, Sun Fac can apply his Crit Chance down easier.

Thanks Trevor went through all my squads and fixed the aforementioned issues!

I love that you are bringing this huge thing to light THank YOU!

Wouldn't Zombie need to be in the 2nd slot for the Tenacity Down before the stun

Excellent video. One of the most helpful vids out there. Thank u

I mean, the dev response makes sense. Blasters will probably hit faster than a melee attack, and bug fixes and stance upgrades could matter (faster footsteps for melee attacks). This may always change.

I feel bamboozled that I didn't know this sooner...

What about mass counters like with a CLS lead and Phoenix?

Great video. I’ve suspected something like this for a while

Hey Mobile Gamer.. yeah your spot on with the information, I’m free to play and saw a difference immediately. I asked about this awhile ago: so LEADER, AOE or TANK, AOE and DEBUFF, and SUPPORT sounds about right, Right ? Where does SPEED play a factor? and counter KILL ORDER? Once the information is out everybody knows.. Thanks Have a good GRAND ARENA!!

This blew my mind! I had no idea squad order made that much of a difference. I mean, I heard about the Fives thing but I just thought that was a bug...

& we need more TopCash. I know this is mg’s channel, But we NEED more top cash. 🤣🤣

I just did the geonosian trick with sun fac in #2 slot. It allowed me to unlock Padme with no droids. Granted Brood had two zetas, but I had always heard no Padme without heavy droids. Might still be true for 7*, but to have her and General Kenobi, jka, and ahsoka, I am felling pumped about trying it out in GA or TW.

Once you get updated information can you do this list again and can you go through every single team and what is the best order for every single team

According to some change that happened not too long ago - apparently it doesn't matter what order I put them in as they seem to end up in the exact same place...

I'm sure placement is not everything. My sunfac is last in placement, yet hits first

In the jkr revive example it makes sense that the second slot would be revived because the leader is doing the reviving. In the nightsister example isn’t it possible that the leader would get revived instead of second slot.

My squad placements (for some teams) have been based on getting small characters closest to the camera so they aren't hidden behind taller characters. Now I need to change that? If I have trouble selecting BB8 or GMY for assists, I am going to change back, optimal assist order be damned.

Sounded exactly like Watt when you said this is not a scam lol

Thanks for sharing the info! I did a roster fix with the video, all of my teams were wrong, love it CG!

If this is true then I’ve been accidentally playing my Ewoks the right way this whole time the others not do much lol.

Great video but I’m a little confused. It sounds like your turn order depends on what order you place them in before battle however I thought that’s where speed comes in.

If I remember right... squad order has been a thing since we were first learning to master the pit raid...

Thank you! I will be using this as a reference

(dev post in short) CG: Well no, but yes

Can't wait to get my geonosian shoulder geared up!

Can you prove this?

Thank you. Probably one of the most important finds in a long time . You know the stuff CG doesn't want you to know. Lol

"eh" -Clash Apparently Clash took a 1x video, and slowed that down 10x, and determined that it doesn't really matter, and what's more he determined that no matter where you put Poggel, he will always go last.

in the FO team with Hux and Sith Trooper, you want Kylo before Panda. That way Kylo will debuff and Panda will crit and gain advantage

This is clutch info MobileGamer A+++++ content buddy!

I think Nightsister Zombie should be 2nd then Daka, since Zombie can apply tenacity down first from Mother Talzin's mass assist.

CG and their mom’s spaghetti code...

I legit have been playing for 6 months and just found out about the first slot a week ago

Real surprise mechanics.

Thank you man

I too love geonosian shoulder lmao

The revive thing is real. But i think the attack order also depends on animation speed

Excellent video on a topic I haven’t seen addressed in any other forum except live streams in quick passing because it seems people that know don’t want anyone else to have this information. That’s shady AF and you, my friend, get an A++ for the best topic I’ve seen in the community posted in a long time. I hope you follow up on this unless the whales get to you and make you sleep with the fishes. I’ve posted in several dischord servers that this needs addressed and seemed to be ignored. Most impressive. You get an 8 star GL Jedi Luke. This is not a scam.

So what? Speed no longer matters? What?

So I'm wondering now what order my Qi'ra team should go in. Or does it not matter since I set them on defense? Are all of the teams he mentioned teams that he's using on offense?

First time I heard/read that placing is important. I'm still playing the game after many years, but I don't even care enough anymore to switch squad order.

I had no idea this was even a thing

If its zombies unique for nightsisters couldn't you put her second for the tenacity down for Daka's stun or does that not matter when it's a 75% chance to inflict stun? I never really know when it comes to that so just wondering.

Finally, someone made a good video on this. Thanks!

This is fascinating. Informative and intelligent. Content I strive to make one day.

i don;t get it.. i play with Shaak Ti and clones in arena vs Darth Raven and echo or rex gets shocked and fives sacrifice himself but doesnt apply his unique even if he's in the 5th slot... so he dies for nothing even if he has full hp

This is all well and good for squad arena and attacking in any mode. But isn't it important to set leaders up in descending order? For example on my revan team I have revan 1, hk-47 2, thrawn 3, then sith trooper and bastila. This is so that on defense hk-47 will become the new leader if revan dies on their first attempt and they have to attack my team a second time. Does this even work this way?

Need to run some serious test, not only spread the rumour. What is the mass assist has to do with the overall town's speed? What if the revive mechanism just prioritize the strongest toon? Better to confirm

For resistance with c3po I put bb8 for the tenacity down/daze then r2 for the stun the c3po then Finn

Isnt turn order determined by speed?

I thought speed was the factor..

speed, all you need is speed and you win.

Personally I've always set my teams as Leader, Tank, Damage, healer/support like I would if playing an RTS or something similar -- I figured it was just my OCD but there may be something to it. I think this needs real clarification from the devs.

Can anyone suggest Jawa placement. Thnx in advance!

Wow thank you for this I never even knew.

Have you played the new lego unlocked game yet? Similar structure to swgoh kinda cool!

As clear as mud

IT'S BS we don't still have MG bringing the Thunder down on swgoh ⚡ & adding some fun gameplay!

If only my shoulder was geonosian

Hey, my team is.. Lead: qui gon 2nd: Ezra 3rd: asohka 4th: luminara 5th: kana I have only been playing for 2 months, can someone tell me how I should place my team?

what would be the order for a talzin lead ?

Just recently got 5's Zeta and used a Clone team in STR. Cody died and there was no sacrifice which had me confused. Ill try this and do more testing to make sure. Great timing on the video lol

I understand the logic behind this and according to the responses, this has made a difference. BUT how does the toon speed factor in here. I ask because if I can get FBS to go first on my sith team, theres almost no NS team that i cannot beat. Yes even reliced toon. As always thanks for you sharing the knowledge of the game.

What determines turn order if all units have 100% turn meter? Also, I went against a mirror match of Han Solo vs Han Solo. My Han was faster but the other team’s han went first with it’s shoot first unique, stunning my (Faster) Han?!?

For geonosians i would put spy first to clear foresite and then sunfac (unless brood alpha attacks first then my previous statement is invalidated)

I always thought speed determined when a character gets a turn....if placement decides that, what does speed do?

Astar here confirming based on guild testing we're positive it's a thing

I thought this was a joke

The biggest Problem is: Characters has not the same attack animations so its not defineable where are the optimal position

Why would order matter? You wouldn't need speedmods if that was a factor, right?

thanks for sharing and making this video

This is a good video, thanks for sharing

This video actually helped me get C-3PO

I have seen savior trigger with raven jedi team. Not once. They just die

Great video, super helpful!