So Royal guard seems to be the hit of this patch, but magnaguard seems to be the hidden gem. He gets tons of turn meter reductions and stuns and offense down and seems to be a good fit on droid teams. Assuming you had him 7* and max gear, would you find a spot for him on your team? A poggle(L), 88, 86, MG, RG team seems pretty tough (assuming all 7* max) but easily countered by the awe inspiring dathcha, jawa, ugnaught, eeth team. So what are your thoughts on magnaguard?
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Even with the speed boost IG-100 is still way too slow.
Running Lobot gives +23 leadership speed bonus but even with that, MG is too slow. I'm aiming at Lobot (L), 88, 86, HK and either Poggle or Poe In 5th.
MG subbed for Poggle / Poe would give Lobot an extra 5.5% speed and a couple tenacity boost and increase the odds of a droid assist for 86 but without either Poe as meat shield or stacking Poggle speed buff and offense up, I don't see the droids as viable and I'm loth to give up the +23 speed and 10% potency plus the debuff cleanse of Lobot.
Haven't looked at how MG might work in an HK led droid squad though, perhaps the extra turn meter on any crit from the AoE might help, not sure.
What would be really useful is a droid healer / attacker on par with Lumi (R2-D2 maybe? Gonk droid? Lol)
That's 6 characters. You'd have to drop RG or someone else.
He doesn't have stun.
I currently run all 4 droids and poggle. This team melts face nicely.
When my Lobot gets to a decent *, I'll probably switch him in instead as HK for leader.
This is definitely a buff for the upcoming inclusion of General Grievous so I wouldn't suggest new/F2P players start farming this one right away. But for those of us who have him on a quickly dying droid team HK-47 and MagnaGuard are salvageable units to counter the new paradigm.
Ohhhhh yeah I forgot about grievous. Hopefully it's an easy farm. I have the shards to get him, but I'd rather not get 2 shards a day. Hopefully it's more like 20 shards for 3000 currency. Depending on his skills, him and MG might be a good fit with 86 and poggle plus a 5th.