A fully firing Australian attack looks formidable, with spearhead Starc returning this week from a foot injury to vie for a place with Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Coulter- Nile, Jackson Bird and James Pattinson.
With England's top order largely unproven, Starc said it could be much like the 2013-2014 Ashes, when the mustachioed Johnson took 37 wickets with terrifying pace as Australia won 5-0.
"We've got a really solid attack and we complement each other," he said in the Sydney Daily Telegraph Wednesday.
"It'll be much like that attack did when Johnno took all those wickets, I think we complement each other really well.
"Throw in Jackson Bird, and Coulter-Nile is back bowling really well. So we've got five really good guys there and if Patto is fit to go, six."
With Starc again raring to go, Pattinson is the only injury cloud with inflammation in his back. But England are in a state of disarray ahead of their arrival in late October.
Starc believes there is a chance for Australia's bowlers to land early psychological blows on England, whose top order is relatively inexperienced aside from Alastair Cook and Joe Root.
"They've obviously got Root and Cook up the top, who have played a lot of cricket and are probably their main guys with the bat," he said.
"The guys in the top order around them are pretty inexperienced and, hopefully, we can exploit that here in our home conditions."
"He probably makes their team a bit more balanced but he's not the be all and end all of their team. There's plenty of guys we need to worry about.
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