BB-8 the answer for grievous?

@Tuftedpaper85 I agree, overall grievous isn't bad just needs to be faster and maybe a tiny bit more stronger his basic attack does ok damage and the fact it cant be evaded or countered makes it even better but grievous wounds ( his second ability) is a little pathetic I mean instead of inflicting healing immunity it could maybe burn the enemy or perhaps daze them for a little more than 1 turn. As for sinister laugh I think it should remove more turn meter maybe 50? If not 100 I mean most characters now can regain it so fast I.e CLS so grievous should be able to equal some,and maybe instead of inflicting health down maybe grievous gains offence up and speed up for 2 turns. His other two abilities I don't know what they should do but these days they are truly shocking.

As for everyone that's commenting I'm not saying when bb-8 arrives grievous will be Better I'm just saying with bb-8 he maybe more usable because he can grant droids protection and health.

"BigBP;c-1283568" wrote:
BB-8 won't change the meta. They need to reduce that 70 turn cooldown. Games don't last long enough to make that ability viabile. Secondly there are too many droid counters in the game currently. Third, droids have no defense stats and get wrecked quickly outside maybe R2-D2(maybe) or B2. Droids need a Shore trooper like auto taunter at the begining of game with stun immunity to ever be viable or they will remain trash for as long as this game is around. Just saying

A 70 turn cooldown with a droid team is really only like 5 turns (I'm talking about 5 turns for droids here though). So the game will definitely last long enough. You really only need to use your droid's AOE twice for some of them, if you even need the 2nd round of AOEs from them. Add B2 in there and it will be done in no time. Droids are still very weak, but you will have R2 to stun enemies (and BB-8 when be counters) so you will almost definitely have 1 person stunned at all times, but more likely you'll have 2 stunned enemies. Then you have R2's stealth so enemies can't counter attack, and BB-8's heal when be evades (which will happen probably ~5 times per match or more). Basically what I'm saying is that you'll need really bad luck for you to be dead (or even to lose 2 or more of your team) before you can use Illuminated Destiny (the 70 turn CD ability). And then when you do get to use it you pretty much won the match from there from the offense up and crit damage up. Just imagine how hard your droids will hit for :)

"Moicaliss;c-1283412" wrote:

"Maztoras;c-1283192" wrote:
Gg was one of the worse chars on day 1 release. Now...forget about it. They really missed the ball big time on gg....hopefully they learn big time from mistakes and get us a gg we been wishing for from day one. Powerful, feared, quick.

I dominate arena for 6 months with gg, on a December 2015 shard.

Hk,88,gg,je,b2/ig-100

At that time, my 88 was aoeing for 18-19k, my gg was aoeing at 16-17k....

Welcome to sep 2017

Grievous was supposed to be a jedi killer. Can't be evaded or countered, inflicts heal immunity, removes tm. On paper this sounds great against jedi. He just doesnt fit with the classic hk/88/86 team. Needs a seperatist rework, not a bb8.

Gg is useless in this game. I'm still waiting for him to become viable, but bb8 isn't gonna make that happen. Gg just needs a whole new kit, and so do the rest of the Seperatists. The General was in so many scenes in Star Wars and he is doodoo in this game, but Wedge and Biggs were barely shown and they have way better kits...don't make sense

"DanielOng;c-1284097" wrote:

"Moicaliss;c-1283412" wrote:

"Maztoras;c-1283192" wrote:
Gg was one of the worse chars on day 1 release. Now...forget about it. They really missed the ball big time on gg....hopefully they learn big time from mistakes and get us a gg we been wishing for from day one. Powerful, feared, quick.

I dominate arena for 6 months with gg, on a December 2015 shard.

Hk,88,gg,je,b2/ig-100

At that time, my 88 was aoeing for 18-19k, my gg was aoeing at 16-17k....

Welcome to sep 2017

And?

"JDIII;c-1284293" wrote:
Gg is useless in this game. I'm still waiting for him to become viable, but bb8 isn't gonna make that happen. Gg just needs a whole new kit, and so do the rest of the Seperatists. The General was in so many scenes in Star Wars and he is doodoo in this game, but Wedge and Biggs were barely shown and they have way better kits...don't make sense

Every time someone says some grand sweeping statement like "useless in this game" I have to shake my head. Yes, I'm one of the fools who 7*'ed and gear 11'ed GG. Here's where he's useful:

The ewok event: I would much rather have another AOE droid with IG-88 rather than IG-86 taking GG's place.
Phase 2 of tank: I would much rather have another AOE droid with IG-88 rather than IG-86 taking GG's place.
For a time he also helped a bit in GW against Zaul teams with his can't be dodged move.

He has decent base stats compared with any other attacker droid. What makes him useful is not that his kit is good, but that he can be paired with IG-88 as another AOE droid (which also lays down debuffs that 88 can use) and, rarely, he can't be dodged.

If you meant "useless in arena", yes, I agree. 86 over GG in arena any day.

"Dretzle;c-1286017" wrote:

"JDIII;c-1284293" wrote:
Gg is useless in this game. I'm still waiting for him to become viable, but bb8 isn't gonna make that happen. Gg just needs a whole new kit, and so do the rest of the Seperatists. The General was in so many scenes in Star Wars and he is doodoo in this game, but Wedge and Biggs were barely shown and they have way better kits...don't make sense

Every time someone says some grand sweeping statement like "useless in this game" I have to shake my head. Yes, I'm one of the fools who 7*'ed and gear 11'ed GG. Here's where he's useful:

The ewok event: I would much rather have another AOE droid with IG-88 rather than IG-86 taking GG's place.
Phase 2 of tank: I would much rather have another AOE droid with IG-88 rather than IG-86 taking GG's place.
For a time he also helped a bit in GW against Zaul teams with his can't be dodged move.

He has decent base stats compared with any other attacker droid. What makes him useful is not that his kit is good, but that he can be paired with IG-88 as another AOE droid (which also lays down debuffs that 88 can use) and, rarely, he can't be dodged.

If you meant "useless in arena", yes, I agree. 86 over GG in arena any day.

Grievous was my 2nd gear 12 character. R2 was my first :)

Maybe after TLJ they'll focus on the factions that need some lovin'

"SWGAMER6;c-1286342" wrote:
Maybe after TLJ they'll focus on the factions that need some lovin'

Rebels, most likely.