Jin's Droid Factory: An in-depth look at R2D2 in a Droid arena team
Ok, you've unlocked R2 and levelled him! He synergizes with galactics, rebellious, resistant, and droids. Yes, R2 is a Droid and specifically alters their composition with his synergy. First things first, R2 gains 10% max protection bonus for every Droid present which is a HUGE bonus. When zeta'd his Number Crunch shares 10% of his protection, offense, health, and potency with all your droids. Poor Jawa Engineer doesn't get a thing. Well, you could Zeta his other unique but I'm not sure it'll work because JE's thermals may not crit the same way other basic attacks crit and if they do they take so long to go off he'll probably be dead.
For this composition I have R2 at gear 10, 203 speed, in a team of HK lead, Jawa Engineer, B2, Ig88, and R2 of course. Opening move is recalibrate and then things get fun. All my droids are over speed 160 which means they tie for first go. It's a random choice but ideally you want B2 to go first to remove any opponent pre-taunts, Hk to go next to possibly get defense down on someone, R2 to hit them with Improvise, then Ig88 to absolutely wreck them/ability block with his Aoe. This is devastating. Absolutely utterly devastating.
Now, assuming you're fighting a regular non-zaul team your R2 critted at least twice and now has an extra turn right after burning. What to do? Here's where it gets tricky. You can smokescreen and give everyone but say, JE or B2 stealth. But if other droids haven't gone they'll waste the stealth by taking their extra turn off of their AoE. I find that immidiatly stunning someone like Boba Fett, Palpy, Nihlius, or Rex works far better. Save smokescreen for when your droids are in their second phase of attack. You also get 40% TM with smokescreen so if your R2 is super fast (and he should be) then stun someone else! That basic does a massive 12-16k with my R2 if they're burning. And he isn't even max geared with all the strength stuff you could give him gear 11.
If your opponent is a Zaul or ZaiGon where their team has stealth/can't be critted or forsight on everyone, chances are R2 won't get to take a free turn after Improvise unless you can crit twice. This is where you may want to weigh in with using Smokescreen first if none of your droids can crit and take that free turn. But hopefully B2 will have gone before R2 and given him some crittable targets. Remember, you get an additional 10% crit chance with R2 hanging around and +30% with Hk! All I saw were crits.
Gah, but what about rex? Yes you'll run into Rex teams that will cleanse burning and Baze to blast away your stealth. Time to change your team up a bit. You can drop 88 for K2so and really mess with the counters. And if you zeta R2's other unique you will wipe debuffs from K2SO every time he crits, almost guranteeing him that taunt. Dazing Churro while B2 ability blocks Bazzle from taunting you can stun and kill him. And if you stunned/dazed Rex right off the bat and lit him up, well it's suddenly a mess. Even with their constant cleansing you're still stunning and stealthing constantly with a fast R2 protected by K2SO.
For this composition I have R2 at gear 10, 203 speed, in a team of HK lead, Jawa Engineer, B2, Ig88, and R2 of course. Opening move is recalibrate and then things get fun. All my droids are over speed 160 which means they tie for first go. It's a random choice but ideally you want B2 to go first to remove any opponent pre-taunts, Hk to go next to possibly get defense down on someone, R2 to hit them with Improvise, then Ig88 to absolutely wreck them/ability block with his Aoe. This is devastating. Absolutely utterly devastating.
Now, assuming you're fighting a regular non-zaul team your R2 critted at least twice and now has an extra turn right after burning. What to do? Here's where it gets tricky. You can smokescreen and give everyone but say, JE or B2 stealth. But if other droids haven't gone they'll waste the stealth by taking their extra turn off of their AoE. I find that immidiatly stunning someone like Boba Fett, Palpy, Nihlius, or Rex works far better. Save smokescreen for when your droids are in their second phase of attack. You also get 40% TM with smokescreen so if your R2 is super fast (and he should be) then stun someone else! That basic does a massive 12-16k with my R2 if they're burning. And he isn't even max geared with all the strength stuff you could give him gear 11.
If your opponent is a Zaul or ZaiGon where their team has stealth/can't be critted or forsight on everyone, chances are R2 won't get to take a free turn after Improvise unless you can crit twice. This is where you may want to weigh in with using Smokescreen first if none of your droids can crit and take that free turn. But hopefully B2 will have gone before R2 and given him some crittable targets. Remember, you get an additional 10% crit chance with R2 hanging around and +30% with Hk! All I saw were crits.
Gah, but what about rex? Yes you'll run into Rex teams that will cleanse burning and Baze to blast away your stealth. Time to change your team up a bit. You can drop 88 for K2so and really mess with the counters. And if you zeta R2's other unique you will wipe debuffs from K2SO every time he crits, almost guranteeing him that taunt. Dazing Churro while B2 ability blocks Bazzle from taunting you can stun and kill him. And if you stunned/dazed Rex right off the bat and lit him up, well it's suddenly a mess. Even with their constant cleansing you're still stunning and stealthing constantly with a fast R2 protected by K2SO.
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Jedi teams to include Barris zeta and/or GK?
Fought one of those already. As long as you have Ig88 to heal immunity you're good to kill Barris first. Then it's smooth sailing. R2 stuns GK and Fives rendering them useless.
Isn't Ig88's healing immunity still bugged? Doesn't actually stop any healing, just counts as a debuff?
It's still bugged yes... But it actually works on Barris' unique..
It never works on zylo. Only if it's a regular Kylo lol. Basically it stops normal heals, but doesn't stop health steal or protection recovery.