I like to sprinkle in single target attackers in my team when there's a case like a revenger. Since they won't revenge if you only attack them, you can take them out first and then focus on the others.
Since I don't hang out with the grown ups in the top 50, I can never understand the so called defense boost that everyone talks about. Some bugs I can understand, but everyone I attack gets incapacitated and then taken out no matter what they bring with themselves. Topside is I pulled PoM Eddie today and his fury is pretty great when you want to level the playing field. Too bad he doesn't do much damage but then again he has no shards on him yet so I'm sure that will change.