R2D2 Full Review & Character Guide

I've really struggled in arena over the last week. I often found myself losing to zaul teams and sometimes triple cleanse teams with my zQGJ + full jedi team. Today I put R2 into my lineup, with a zeta on number crunch. Team was zQGJ, Zoda, GK, JKA, R2. I won 10/10 battles all very easily against a variety of opponents. Shard mates have said my jedi are a much tougher test on defense against zaul than what they previously were. Would highly recommend for a jedi team!

"Tkoch94;c-1052457" wrote:
I've really struggled in arena over the last week. I often found myself losing to zaul teams and sometimes triple cleanse teams with my zQGJ + full jedi team. Today I put R2 into my lineup, with a zeta on number crunch. Team was zQGJ, Zoda, GK, JKA, R2. I won 10/10 battles all very easily against a variety of opponents. Shard mates have said my jedi are a much tougher test on defense against zaul than what they previously were. Would highly recommend for a jedi team!

@Tkoch94 who did you have in pre R2?
I run zQGJ, yoda, JKA, zarris, and Zylo atm.

I'm about 2 weeks away from GK and 1 week from next Zeta, torn between yoda BM and R2 number crunch.

"Mormanimal81;c-1050506" wrote:
Awesome vid!! I have him GL 10 with double zeta and love him! Run Jyn lead with him Cassian and Chaze. Super fun team!

jyn (L) Chaze Cassian K2SO is a fun and useful team. if only they could be meta again...

I run Zqgj,GK,Ani,zYoda and double zeta R2 at 240 speed and 81% potency.

https://swgoh.gg/u/alec/

Can beat any team easily, including zauls with fast sith assassins and triple cleanse teams and holding much better in defense(not sure if ppl avoid targeting me or not).
It's not like i won't fall beyond top 10 or 20 but it's super fun to play with!

"Level_Padawan;c-1052591" wrote:
I run Zqgj,GK,Ani,zYoda and double zeta R2 at 240 speed and 81% potency.

https://swgoh.gg/u/alec/

Can beat any team easily, including zauls with fast sith assassins and triple cleanse teams and holding much better in defense(not sure if ppl avoid targeting me or not).
It's not like i won't fall beyond top 10 or 20 but it's super fun to play with!

Awesome, r2 is the one who makes sure Jedi can beat zMaul squads :)

After about 15 battles against a maxed R2 in a few different chaze setups, I think R2 deserves an A grade. Even outside of an evasion meta he's potent. Two things:

1. The stat bump for allies is significant
2. And this may be the most sneaky great piece...but that smoke screen when paired with Chaze is very deadly. R2's AI is coded to put Baze as the out of stealth characer - and with additional max health coming from R2 he's like trying to kill The Mountain. That lasts for 2 rounds. Changes your lineup as you must use an aoe cleanser to combat that setup - renders the DN dispel on basic useless in this case - or any buff removal that isn't aoe since it's the stealthed characters that you need to debuff. Sticking disabling debuffs on any other characters - like buff block, shock, etc. is tricky because of the crit dispel on basic and of course Chirrut.

From what I can tell Chaze just got a whole heck of a lot stronger with R2 in play now.

"JohnnySteelAlpha;c-1052739" wrote:
After about 15 battles against a maxed R2 in a few different chaze setups, I think R2 deserves an A grade. Even outside of an evasion meta he's potent. Two things:

1. The stat bump for allies is significant
2. And this may be the most sneaky great piece...but that smoke screen when paired with Chaze is very deadly. R2's AI is coded to put Baze as the out of stealth characer - and with additional max health coming from R2 he's like trying to kill The Mountain. That lasts for 2 rounds. Changes your lineup as you must use an aoe cleanser to combat that setup - renders the DN dispel on basic useless in this case - or any buff removal that isn't aoe since it's the stealthed characters that you need to debuff. Sticking disabling debuffs on any other characters - like buff block, shock, etc. is tricky because of the crit dispel on basic and of course Chirrut.

From what I can tell Chaze just got a whole heck of a lot stronger with R2 in play now.

That scares me. I don't have either Chirrut or Baze, and I am holding off as long as I can as I prefer dark side. The gearing to Baze and them both having 5 abilities(no matter how awesome) is daunting. I face a lot of R1 chaze's and Wiggs' chazes in arena daily. I beat them 50/50 depending on RNG. I haven't snooped on the top 50's rosters since R2 to see how many got him, but if that's the case, I bet they all add him.

"Billcarson66;c-1052753" wrote:

"JohnnySteelAlpha;c-1052739" wrote:
After about 15 battles against a maxed R2 in a few different chaze setups, I think R2 deserves an A grade. Even outside of an evasion meta he's potent. Two things:

1. The stat bump for allies is significant
2. And this may be the most sneaky great piece...but that smoke screen when paired with Chaze is very deadly. R2's AI is coded to put Baze as the out of stealth characer - and with additional max health coming from R2 he's like trying to kill The Mountain. That lasts for 2 rounds. Changes your lineup as you must use an aoe cleanser to combat that setup - renders the DN dispel on basic useless in this case - or any buff removal that isn't aoe since it's the stealthed characters that you need to debuff. Sticking disabling debuffs on any other characters - like buff block, shock, etc. is tricky because of the crit dispel on basic and of course Chirrut.

From what I can tell Chaze just got a whole heck of a lot stronger with R2 in play now.

That scares me. I don't have either Chirrut or Baze, and I am holding off as long as I can as I prefer dark side. The gearing to Baze and them both having 5 abilities(no matter how awesome) is daunting. I face a lot of R1 chaze's and Wiggs' chazes in arena daily. I beat them 50/50 depending on RNG. I haven't snooped on the top 50's rosters since R2 to see how many got him, but if that's the case, I bet they all add him.

I'd recommend finding some and testing purposely early on so you can prep before everyone else gets R2 in place. DS user as well, especially Sith - and my winning % is way down from before. I had 95% win rate vs. the 3x cleanse / Rex meta with using my own DN lead, could beat other zDM teams easy with own zDM comp - elite DN leads with zDV were no problem. On a Nov '15 hard-launch server and take top spots daily - it's always been a competitive shard - so I wasn't facing cupcakes. However....

I'm going to need to retool in some fashion - I've started down the Trooper / Veers route since they have high damage and high health / tanking ability. Control teams that rely on debuffs (like Sith) just got squeezed even more what what I've faced.

R2 also presents a debuff issues since he's so fast and has a very high chance to stun you with a basic attack. The smoke screen though I think is an incredibly under-rated skill on first glance - when paired with the right characters it can be so deadly.

"JohnnySteelAlpha;c-1052739" wrote:
After about 15 battles against a maxed R2 in a few different chaze setups, I think R2 deserves an A grade. Even outside of an evasion meta he's potent. Two things:

1. The stat bump for allies is significant
2. And this may be the most sneaky great piece...but that smoke screen when paired with Chaze is very deadly. R2's AI is coded to put Baze as the out of stealth characer - and with additional max health coming from R2 he's like trying to kill The Mountain. That lasts for 2 rounds. Changes your lineup as you must use an aoe cleanser to combat that setup - renders the DN dispel on basic useless in this case - or any buff removal that isn't aoe since it's the stealthed characters that you need to debuff. Sticking disabling debuffs on any other characters - like buff block, shock, etc. is tricky because of the crit dispel on basic and of course Chirrut.

From what I can tell Chaze just got a whole heck of a lot stronger with R2 in play now.

This, but it just highlights how OP imwe is. I think R2 is well balanced to be honest.

Say welcome back to the wiggs meta with R2chaze2.

@JohnnySteelAlpha I'm 4 mats from a zeta Vader. I was gonna up my SA so I go first and get those permanent dots up. DN dispel an cooldown increase, EP to shock Baze so he can't taunt again. Shore to heal and soak damage/R2 stuns. Vader to AB as many people as possible. SA to stun R2. In a perfect RNG world....