So I too was really feeling the pain of grevious and the newly reworked separatist droids.... they just seemed to fall short somehow
That was until I decided to stick BB8 on the team in magma’s place... then it all came together
The initial speed boost for the droids he gives makes them all super fast... so they all move before the other team. This opens up a lot of advantages for the droid team....
Once he gets to the point of illuminated destiny (which happens pretty fast) then thats all she wrote for the other team...
Worst case scenario is that b1 gets marked and dies early... but even in these situations I’ve still managed to pull out the win more often than not...
It’s really an amazing team to use (at least offensively) against the sea of Revan squads in today’s arena... against CLS or others use R2 instead of B2 to focus fire on Droideka (who will have damage immunity for 2 turns already since he moves super fast)
I took a few screenshots from some battles today as I climbed the ranks with ease
I sunk some money into the droids (B1 and Droideka) after I saw they were capable of winning.... but I had pretty much the same success while they were both at only 4*
Good luck fellow droid lovers... and enjoy the team
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Maybe my farming wont be in vein.
thought after the rework of grevious he would be unplayable in other droid teams, especially with light side droids.
had an idea with jawa engineer - one of the fastest hero in the swgoh-universe, but bb8 is much better!
Yeah B2 is next for sure... he should make them much faster
I used the only zetas I had saved up on grevious lead and b1
I think b1 zeta was really significant.... him staying alive longer makes the durability of the team dramatically better.... it like it’s just enough to survive through those tough situations that would maybe cost you the match...
... as long as he isn’t marked he can keep whoever is marked alive long enough to push through it...
The second half of the fight is pretty clear though... and gotta love that 60k basic hit on Kenobi from GG at the end
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A0qWFxmH8B4
I zeta'd b1 the day he came out.
I never thought to use any light side droids because of the grevious unique. Gald you were braver than me.
Have you tried t3?
The mass dispel, and his cleanse/heal sound good and he could help ramp up the damage... i never use him and he is my highest total power character at 23k with both zetas.
It hasn’t happened yet in about a dozen matches surprisingly... it’s usually grevious (primarily) or b1 (which sucks bad) or B2 (which is still fine)
Ive tried T3... and 88 and several other “target lock” combos...
T3 is really good... and I thought I would need him in any droid team to make them work... he boosts their damage a good bit (I’ve hit 70k basics with GG withT3 in there)
But he’s just not as useful as BB8 for the first turn of action and then the illuminated destiny buff later to push them through the survivors... BB8 was the one that made the team really work vs high end arena teams
You could maybe try subbing him for B2... I haven’t tried it yet
I think Revans AI doesn't target a char with taunt with his Direct Focus as long as there are chars without taunt. And since BB8 is hilariously fast with the 40% speed boost and gets taunt when using his Covert Data when all allies are droids, he'll be safe.
my ig-88 is maxed, with zeta, and with the target locks he stops health/protection of the enemies.
and: he has 50% evading against target locked enemies and health steal 50%.
also an idea...
I think since you can immediately gain a taunt on BB8 that he will keep for effectively the entire fight, Revan will never choose to mark him.
Kinda like how the prepared scoundrels are terrible together, but swap out young lando and young han for pretty mhch any other scoundrels and then they work
But still an easy win
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zOe7MdbnYTA
This.
BB8 died in 10/10 pvp attempts vs Revan teams and 1 treya team before I had anywhere near a chance to use his special. I won twice and 1 of those times was barely squeaking out a win versus a 5* treya team with a gear 11 sion.
I'm glad the team works. Sad that it requires an outside legendary character.
Smapty I seem to remember you have god tier mods. Mind if I ask the speeds?
The problem here is the problem for most of these "These characters work" strats. We have no idea on the mods being used, from what I've seen this guy has mods we'd kill for. Could also be going up against Revans who are nowhere near as good modded.
GG can beat Revan 50ish percent of the time already, the thing is, that is still not reliable, that is A LOT of resources to spend on a team that 100% cannot be put on defence in TW/GA. And BB8 still better used on a Resistance squad for those areas of the game. Thing is, you go Revan you keep your spot in arena because you are not being focused. Same as when Palp was meta, you had to have him to stop people attacking you.
Here’s my gg account of you want to look at the speeds...
https://swgoh.gg/p/298548193/
I haven’t bothered to mod the droids properly at all yet... I’m sure I could make them more functional with a little thought into who should get what (I just stole mods off my CLS team and stuck them on them for now)
Awsome. Again good job. I find it kind of ironic that the team with an anti speed Droiddeeka is made functional by MOAR SPEED. Glad you figured them out.
And that stick will be darth revan.
Basic.... insta kill all droids, jedi, and everything but tuskens.
Special 1.... silly fornite dance
Special 2... insta kill all tuskens
Unique.... revive all enemies in order to continue the cycle of insta kill
Or is GG zeta lead better?