Borrow-A-Hero Tips & Mechanics Explained
Here is some general information about the Borrow-A-Hero mechanics and how to progress in difficult LS/DS/Cantina battles:
I hope this helps, if you're stuck on a specific battle, post your roster and what level you're having issues with and I will try to give you some advice on how to beat it. Here is a video I created of me doing this exact process to complete the Hard Area 7 Dark Side Battles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp26niibV3Y
- It is more important to look for quality over quantity when it comes to adding allies. If you're stuck on the later campaign missions it can be very helpful to borrow a maxed out character from one of your allies. If you don't have any strong allies, you can look for some players to add here and here.
- The most recent leader you used to complete a battle within an area (LS/DS/Cantina/Challenges) will be the leader that your allies can borrow from you for their respective areas. For example, if you complete a Light Side mission using Qui-Gon Jinn as your leader, your allies will be able to borrow your Qui-Gon the next time they attempt a Light Side battle. The system does have bugs as occasionally it will offer you a leader to borrow that your ally doesn't even use or have.
- You can only borrow characters which were not a part of your team in your most recent battle within that area. For example, let's say you complete a Dark Side battle with Sidious, Royal Guard, Geo Soldier, Phasma and IG-86. None of those 5 characters will be available to borrow as a leader the next time you go into a dark side battle. Since Sidious & Phasma are the most common dark side leaders, you will likely not see a lot of your allied leaders to borrow.
- Usually after borrowing a hero from an ally there is a 4 hour cooldown before you can borrow a hero from the same player again. However, if you complete a gear challenge (AGI, INT, STR Gear Challenges) then that cooldown is reset, allowing you to borrow a leader from the same user repeatedly until you run out of challenges. This is especially useful if you have few allies with strong heroes worth borrowing.
- In my opinion the best Dark Side heroes to borrow are Old Daka & Royal Guard and the best Light Side heroes to borrow are Barriss Offee, Ewok Elder & Old Ben. Also taunting characters are good to borrow as well, since your borrowed leader can die during a battle and as long as the rest of your team is alive at the end of the fight you will still 3-star the battle. Basically any character that helps your characters survive a round of attacks from the enemy. Unless of course you already have a tanky team composition that can survive a long time in which case you should be borrowing the highest damage dealer.
- You can 3-star a mission without a full squad of 5 players. This is beneficial if you have 2-3 really strong characters on your LS/DS teams but a big power gap between your next most powerful characters. You actually only need 1 character on your team to three-star a battle. I completed areas 1-3 on my alt account using only a single tanky leader and an OP maxed out character borrowed from my main account.
I hope this helps, if you're stuck on a specific battle, post your roster and what level you're having issues with and I will try to give you some advice on how to beat it. Here is a video I created of me doing this exact process to complete the Hard Area 7 Dark Side Battles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp26niibV3Y
