Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes

Ships gain power from both stars and the strength of their pilots. The pilots stars, level, abilities, and mods can impact ship stats.

Ships also benefit from improving their own abilities.

This! You ideally want your pilots all on 7 stars, reliced and with 6 dots mods. At least throw any shitty 5 dot mods on them if you are still struggling with mods. The stats don’t matter for the ship.

That said there are also a few ships that hit especially hard (like anakin, kylo or the falcon f.e.) and a few that can take a good beating (bossk, hyena and the empire bomber) while most ships really don’t stand a chance while hit on.

Look up the meta fleets on swgoh4life, grandarenascience or swgoh.gg and start building towards them. They are meta for a reason. If you can’t afford going for grievous‘ or kenobis ships I think the empire fleet is a good one to start with.