Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes Poe Dameron Review

General	Character Guide & Stats	Shard Location	Team Combo	Galactic War	Arena	Keycards
Jedi Consular	Talia	Poe Dameron	Luke Skywalker	Barriss Offee	Darth Sidious	Mob Enforcer
Mace Windu	Jawa	Count Dooku	Hk-47	Old Daka	Darth Maul	Nightsister Acolyte
IG-86	IG-88	Luminara Unduli	Ahsoka Tano	Ewok Elder	Darth Vader	Lobot
Asajj Ventress	Nightsister Initiate	First Order TIE Pilot	Savage Opress	Poggle the Lesser	Dathcha	Royal Guard
Qui-Gon Jinn	Princess Leia	Obi-Wan Kenobi	Storm Trooper Han	Chewbacca	General Veers	Lando Calrissian
Aayla Secura	Boba Fett	Captain Phasma	Coruscant Underworld Police	CT-5555 "Fives"	Geonosian Soldier	Kit Fisto
Kylo Ren	Admiral Ackbar	Biggs Darklighter	Cad Bane	Clone Sergeant - Phase 1	Eeth Koth	Jedi Knight Guardian
Ewok Scout	Finn	First Order Officer	First Order Stormtrooper	Grand Moff Tarkin	Greedo	Jedi Knight Anakin
Hoth Rebel Scout	Hoth Rebel Soldier	Rey	IG-100 MagnaGuard	Ima-Gun Di	Nute Gunray	Grand Master Yoda
General Grievous	Magmatrooper	Resistance Pilot	Plo Koon

Poe Dameron is a tank with the ability to expose enemies as well. We will be looking at what he offers compared to the rest of the characters.

Type: Tank, Resistance

Side: Light

Synergy: Tenacity, Taunt, Self Heal, Expose, Offense

How to Get[Shards]: Data Cards, Cantina Shipments(400 Cantina Credits)

Skills and Abilities

Note: All skill descriptions are based at max level. The bracket denotes the level required to upgrade that skill.

Basic Ability: Challenging Shot – Deal physical damage to target enemy with a 40% chance to inflict Offense Down for 2 Turns. This chance is doubled if the target is suffering any negative status effects.

• LvL 2: +5% Damage(16)
• LvL 3: +15% Offense Down Chance(26)
• LvL 4: +5% Damage(36)
• LvL 5: +5% Damage(46)
• LvL 6: +5% Damage(56)
• LvL 7: +5% Damage(66)
• LvL 8: +5% Damage(76)

Special Ability: Resistance Bravado – Taunt for 2 turns and remove 25% Turn Meter from each enemy, with a 50% chance to Expose all enemies for 2 turns. (5 Turn CD)

• LvL 2: Add 10% Turn Meter Reduction(18)
• LvL 3: +15% Expose Chance(28)
• LvL 4: +5% Turn Meter Reduction(38)
• LvL 5: +5% Turn Meter Reduction(48)
• LvL 6: Cooldown -1(58)
• LvL 7: +5% Turn Meter Reduction(68)
• LvL 8: +15% Expose Chance(78)

Unique Ability: Stand Firm – Poe has +35% Tenacity and recovers 7.5% of his Max Health whenever he resists a negative status effect.

• LvL 2: +5% Tenacity(22)
• LvL 3: Add 5% Max Health recovery on resist(32)
• LvL 4: +5% Tenacity(42)
• LvL 5: +5% Tenacity(52)
• LvL 6: +2.5% Heal(62)
• LvL 7: +5% Tenacity(72)
• LvL 8: +2.5% Heal(82)

Leadership Skill: Ace of the Resistance – Resistance allies gain 25% Offense and 15% Potency.

• LvL 2: +2.5% Offense(20)
• LvL 3: +5% Offense(30)
• LvL 4: +5% Potency(40)
• LvL 5: +5% Offense(50)
• LvL 6: +5% Potency(60)
• LvL 7: +2.5% Offense(70)
• LvL 8: +5% Offense(80)

Stat Growth/Increase Per Level Table

Base and Max Stats

Thoughts

While Poe Dameron doesn’t have any strong heals as a tank, he is primarily built for offense. His 2 turn taunt comes with a chance to expose all enemies. Expose means the enemy loses 20% health on the next attack , allowing AoE skills to deal more damage.

Therefore, he is best paired with AoE damage characters like IG-88, HK-47, Captain Phasma, Kylo Ren, Jedi Anakin. Lando, Darth Sidious, Ugnaught, Kit Fisto, Underworld Police, Boba Fett, Jedi Knight Guardian, Darth Vader, Dathcha, Jawa, Snowtrooper, Clone Sergeant and more.

His only glaring weakness that his 2 turn taunt will often put him at red health. It is dangerous to taunt a team full of offensive units. He will get destroyed unless you have a good healer to keep him healthy. He is very useful in the arena to soak up damage as long as you have 2 decent healers.

As for Galactic War(GW), he is a poor choice since it is all about survival. However, you can use him in GW to taunt a very hard battle, let him die to attacks and burn enemy cooldown. Then you retreat and sub a strong character in to take advantage of the already burnt cooldown characters and carry on your assault. 🙂

Rating

[usrlist “Campaign Map:4” “Arena: 4.5” “Galactic War:3”]

Verdict: Only max him after your core characters(JC, Talia) unless you want him exclusively for the arena.

References: SWGOH