Ig-86 vs ig-88
I own a fully upgraded ig88 and i thought hed be the best droid cause hes prb the most recognized...however every time i play a team with ig86 i have to say im impressed
So whose better overall ig86 or ig88? 2nd question which is the best droid overall to upgrade?
So whose better overall ig86 or ig88? 2nd question which is the best droid overall to upgrade?
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Yup. 86 has zero utility. Everything he has is pure DPS. 86 has silence plus AoE and potential for good damage on the right team.
Shutting down the whole team's specials is pretty great and if you combine him with anyone else that causes a status effect, he hits a lot harder than 86.
86 does damage. That's it. No utility, just damage.
86 will live longer thanks to his gear 11 protection and assists are never bad (unless they call jawa engineer... booo).
86 has a stronger basic attack. All his bonuses to damage. At max, he as +50% crit chance and a total bonus of +65% damage. 88's basic is healing immunity chance. Though I'm not sure if 86 still has the strongest basic.
88 is better for the new GW, even on a non droid team. I will remove my droid team when they are damaged, but still use 88 on a new team, because the TM change gives him first first turn quicker where it matters, and because of his self-heal.
86 is better with a speed/assist team, although he is second tier in a non droid team. 86 gets you so far, then there's better. Although I saw such a team make first place the other day. 86's unique gives him crit with other droids, so he is kinda gimped when he's not with other droids.
88's unique abilities make him massacre with his AOE when paired with debuffers. This can be huge in GW. But very few of the non droid combos will work in Arena, because 88 is slow without Poe, poggle, or JE and will get focus fired before he gets a shot. Even with poe/poggle, many squads can kill him before he acts.
I think you got the right one. 88 is insanely unbalanced and OP if it were not for his low speed and health. He is a nuclear bomb when facing 5 enemies, esp if there are 2 or 3 toons with a debuff. Since the new GW makes the slowest of toons often act before enemy Dooku/Rey/Leia, even, he gets to drop a lot of bombs he would ordinarily not get off.
88 has a stronger basic if the opponent has any debuff man. I did 12k earlier when all 5 were debuffed (sure thats not common, but I am saying it CAN be the strongest given the circumstances). IG 86 is solid and I omega'd his assist... it's really good (especially when calling in IG 88 / GG).
86 is better for raids b/c of the assist.
Ig86 is better everywhere else.
Basically ig86 is the one you can throw in any team and he will do well so he's the better of the 2 IMO.
Idk but once you get jawa engineer with a droid team speed teams like that are easy pickings.
Whose?
88 is in Arena shipments, 86 in GW shipments, JE in Guild shipments
However, under certain circumstances, namely when HK is leading with omega lead and adding jawa engineer, I believe 88 will be far superior. Engineer will go first, giving 50% TM and crit up to droids, poggle will offense up, 88 will aoe and likely will gain 250% TM from HK leader (50% TM on crit) which is 2.5 turns, and aoe a second time back to back, all within the first turn. 86 will have had a turn after that along with HK who, with doing his aoe will likely get 250% TM as well, giving him 2 turns. I'm wondering though, does +250% TM warrant TWO turns granted? That would be even sicker. Anyway, all that will happen in the first round before the other team moves. =/