SWGOH: Baylan Skoll Community Questions, Dev Answers

A Q&A addresses player questions about Baylan Skoll, his Mercenary team, and his upcoming event.

Event and Unlock:

• Event cadence is currently planned at approximately 3 months.
• Baylan is a 7-star unlock, like Bo-Katan.
• The battle is completed 3 times to earn the full 330 shards (110 per completion).
• Baylan will not unlock a planet or unit in TB.

Team Composition:

• Marrok and Shin are confirmed for 3v3.
• For 5v5, many Mercenaries can be tried. Internally the team had fun with Hondo and Qi'ra.
• No plans to update Mercenary Bounty Hunter payouts (such as Boba Fett, Scion of Jango) to activate under Baylan's lead.
• Baylan is viewed as both a defensive and offensive team.
• Recommended mods focus on Defense and Health for survivability.

Soldier of Fortune (SoF):

• The Leader ability's doubling of Mercenary allies' current SoF stacks happens after the initial stacks granted by Baylan's Unique 1.
• There is currently no cap on SoF stacks. Shin, Marrok, and Baylan have ways to reduce stacks under certain conditions.
• The SoF benefit ("5% Health Steal and 2% Defense per stack until the start of next turn") refers to the affected unit's own next turn.
• Baylan gains 1 SoF and loses 3 every time he Taunts, not only on the first application. There are many reactive ways for him and allies to regain SoF.
• Losing 3 SoF on Taunt is intended; not Taunting costs more SoF generation overall.
• Inspired stacks (such as from Rey's lead) each grant the inspired effects, and they stack.

Leader Ability rulings:

• The "non-Galactic Legend Ahsoka enemy" clause refers to any Ahsoka Tano who is not a Galactic Legend: Ahsoka Tano (Snips), Commander Ahsoka Tano, and Ahsoka Tano (Fulcrum). The GL is named "Ahsoka Tano".
• Against a GL enemy, only the Doubt-on-Taunt part of the Leader ability is disabled.
• The Fear clause's "All allies gain 50% bonus Max Protection" grants bonus Protection only, similar to Traya's bonus Protection. It does not increase the actual Protection pool.

Other ability interactions:

• "Mercenary allies can't be instantly defeated" applies to Baylan himself, since a unit is always an ally to itself. Excluding self uses "other ally" wording. Baylan cannot be instantly defeated by Commander Ahsoka Tano.
• On Special 2, Galactic Legends resist Stun by default; if the Stun is resisted, the 100% turn meter loss does not apply.
• Special 2 will dispel Tenacity Up before attempting to apply Stun, as dispels generally happen before damage and debuffs.

Design notes:

• The hardest part of designing Baylan was making him feel as powerful as he did in the Ahsoka show: strong, confident, and tanky.
• The Leader ability text length is intentional; a longer version was considered.