Strategy to maximize banners by using Negotiator vs Malevolence

Both Negotiator and Malevolence have been released for more than a year now as fleet meta.  Today I want to give a quick strategy overview how to maximize your Grand Arena Championship (GAC) banners by using Negotiator vs Malevolence.

1. Use BTL Y-wing Starfighter (Ywing), Anakin's Eta-2 Starfighter (JKA), Umbaran Starfighter (5s) as starting 3 fleets.

2. Bring Plo Koon's (PK) Jedi Starfighter (mandatory) and Ebon Hawk (EW) (optional especially if you really need banners in GAC to win the match).  In the video I also put Ahsoka Tano's Jedi Starfighter and Hound's Tooth which were not necessary at all.

3. Use 5s' basic attack on Hyena Bomber (HB) to give HB 20% Turn Meter (TM) so HB can move and use Synchronized Salvo to inflict Buzz Droid (BD)

4. JKA targets Sun Vac's Geonosian Starfighter (SF) and use Impeding Assault to inflict Buff Immunity on SF so SF can't taunt.

5. Negotiator targets HB and use Mobilize to inflict Target Lock (TL) and daze opponents.  If you have good RNG, you can inflict TL on all three opponent's fleets.

6. Use 5s' Umbaran's Missile Pods.  This attack deals +20% damage per opponent with TL.  So if you have good RNG, you should be able to take out at least one fleet.

7. Call out PK first to recover Health and Protection and dispel (BD).  Use PK's Inspiring Charge so your ships can gain TM.

8. Kill HB and then deal with SF.  

8a. If you have great RNG, you should be able to kill SF before Malevolence brings out his first reinforcement.  Great RNG depends on couple things: 

Do you get TL on all opponent's fleets when using Mobilize?  In the video I didn't, but at least I got TL on 2 opponent's fleets. 

Does Malevolence use Charging Malevolence on SF or HB or VD?  In the video Malevolence used Charging Malevolence on SF to dispel on debuffs on him.  Sometimes Malevolence will pick HB which HB will also help dispel debuffs on another ship.  That's the worst RNG.  

8b. In the video, Malevolence calls out Han's Millennium Falcon (MF) which is common in arena but not in GAC.  MF will give foresight to every opponent ship which is why you need to EW as next reinforcement to dispel those buffs.  Then you just need to focus on taking out MF to win the battle.  

You can see at the end of the video almost all of my ships have full health and protection.  In GAC, 67-69 banners is doable by using above strategy.

Negotiator is really a great Capital ship and I recently upgraded him to relic 8.  It's a great counter against Malevolence with potential 67+ GAC banners.

May the Force be with you.