Kit Reveal: Cal Kestis - SWGOH.GG (2024)

UNIT NAME: Cal Kestis
ALIGNMENT: Light
CATEGORIES: Support, Unaligned Force User

BASIC: Overhead Slash

Final Text: Deal Physical damage to target enemy and inflict Defense Down and Speed Down for 1 turn. While Cal is at certain Health thresholds, this ability gains different benefits:

• - While at or below 75% Health: Gain Health Steal Up for 1 turn
• - While at or below 60% Health: Attack again and inflict Critical Chance Down for 1 turn
• - While at or below 40% Health: Attack a third time and inflict Daze for 1 turn

Final Text: Dispel all debuffs on target ally and they recover 45% Health. If the target ally is full Health, they recover 30% Protection instead. If the target ally is full Health and full Protection, grant them Critical Hit Immunity for 2 turns instead. If target ally is Light Side, they gain Accuracy Up for 2 turns.
SPECIAL 2: Not So Fast (CD: 3) (Zeta)

Final Text: Inflict Evasion Down, Speed Down, and Tenacity Down on all enemies for 2 turns and all allies gain Critical Damage Up and Speed Up for 2 turns. All Unaligned Force User allies gain 3% Turn Meter for each debuff resisted by enemies. If an enemy already had Speed Down, they are Stunned for 1 turn.

UNIQUE 1: I'm Persistent (Zeta)(Omicron)
Final Text: At the start of battle, all Unaligned Force Users gain 30% Max Health and 30% Tenacity. Whenever an ally is critically hit, they and Cal recover 5% Health and Protection. If the ally is also a Light or Dark Side Unaligned Force User they and Cal gain Protection Up (10%, stacking, max 50%) for 2 turns.

For each Special ability used by each other character, Cal gains a stack of Persistence, which can't be copied, dispelled, or prevented. If an opponent takes the first turn in an encounter, Cal gains 15 stacks of Persistence.

Persistence: At the start of his turn, Cal does the following based on the number of stacks of Persistence that he has:

• - 10+ stacks: He and all Unaligned Force User allies gain Foresight for 2 turns
• - 20+ stacks: He and all Unaligned Force User allies gain Defense Up and Protection Up (30%) for 2 turns
• - 30 stacks: He inflicts Ability Block and Buff Immunity on all enemies for 2 turns, which can't be evaded or resisted, and all allies gain 50% Turn Meter, this effect is doubled for Light Side Unaligned Force Users; stacks of Persistence are reset

NEW EFFECT
Persistence: Applies different effects at the start of this character's turn based on the number of stacks they have

• Sets the groundwork for an Unaligned Force User squad that will be lead by Cere Junda
• Doesn’t like to go first in battle (save your speed mods!)
• BD-1 is adorable

Inspiration:

• Cal’s kit draws from the original game Jedi: Fallen Order by Respawn Entertainment. If you haven’t played it, go play it!
• Not So Fast is Cal’s Burst Slow ability that he uses throughout the game, with familiar sound effects JFO veterans will recognize. This is fairly unique to Cal Kestis, drawing on his ability to focus intently on slowing his enemies’ movements, as if meeting their movement with a resistance of his own.
• Help Me BD-1 is a direct line from Cal when he gets a healing stim from his droid companion
• Cal’s new effect, Persistence, is paying homage to the rivalry he has with Second Sister throughout JFO
• We wanted to avoid the “go first” win condition many squads have in our game

Strategy Tips:

• Use Cere Junda (our next character release) as the leader to get full use of Cal’s kit
• While waiting for Cere, Cal can slot into a Starkiller squad
• Mod for stats other than speed - Cal benefits from other units taking turns before him

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Question Deadline:03/07/2023, 11:59 PM PT