Droid Killer Team

Ugnaught has anti droid abilities :trollface:
Out of curiosity what droid teams are you having trouble with? In my shard nobody runs droids anymore.

My droid hunting team was/is QGJ lead, Yoda, EK, Dathcha and Jawa. QGJ lead gives enough of a speed boost to EK so you can stun the biggest threat (used to be Poe but can be Rey or HK etc).

Mind you I ran this team before the level cap was raised to 80 and the upper gear limit was mostly 8. Still, it got me very good results even though Jawa was only 5* (the rest were 7*).

Not sure how it will fair with the recent introduction of Jawa engineer though.

"Pindasauskanon;429908" wrote:
Ugnaught has anti droid abilities :trollface:
Out of curiosity what droid teams are you having trouble with? In my shard nobody runs droids anymore.

Hk 47(L) 86 88 Poggle with either a Poe for a nasty expose/taunt or GS with Poggle lead instead.

It's pretty brutal, dudes droids were lvl 74, my team is all lvl 79 and I got smoked hard on multiple occasions. So instead of crying for nerds I'll both join em, and beat em :p

Lol at Ugnaught

"Sir_Whooty;42154" wrote:
So I've been getting absolutely destroyed by droid teams lately. And I've decided to farm up my own jolly team of Jawa death. (And finish my droid team). But can't decide on the 2 missing slots in my future roster. Maybe a good leader and a tank? I like themes though but that can't be helped with only 3 Jawas.

Was thinking Ima and Koth, but Droids have anti Jedi abilities so im not sure about that. Missing a tank and a taunt, but a fainter will get smoked so fast against a droid team. Would Bobba Fett be a good leader? It's going to take awhile to get the Jawas up in star ands gear level so I'll start 2 toons from scratch if need be.

Your best option for leader against droids is Datcha himself. My guess is, that with the rise of JE, there will be a lot of teams with HK (l), JE, 86, 88 + one of RG or Han (maybe the occasional 100). They boost JE's speed by 40 (or even by 50).
If you want your team to counter that, you'll have to at least match (better surpass) their speed (of 193 or 203, once JE is fully geared). If they go first your team should be down at least one, if not two toons and the battle is lost. Therefore you will need at least one, ideally two more ally that up your JE's speed. That leaves you with (how ironic) droids. As you are planning to farm them anyways, that shouldn't be a problem. 86 and 88 will supply the damage you need to kill the biggest threats (themselves or the taunter) that you couldn't stun or block with your AOEs. Also not using droids wastes JE's revive and other allies wouldn't profit from his turn meter bonus either.
Therefore I would go for Datcha (l), Jawa, JE, 86 and 88. Be warned however, that while that team should be great against droids it will make you a priority target for anyone else.

Thank you! That makes perfect sense actually, I probably wouldn't leave them on defense but my shard has an unusual amount of droid teams so we will see.

"Sir_Whooty;429932" wrote:

"Pindasauskanon;429908" wrote:
Ugnaught has anti droid abilities :trollface:
Out of curiosity what droid teams are you having trouble with? In my shard nobody runs droids anymore.

Hk 47(L) 86 88 Poggle with either a Poe for a nasty expose/taunt or GS with Poggle lead instead.

It's pretty brutal, dudes droids were lvl 74, my team is all lvl 79 and I got smoked hard on multiple occasions. So instead of crying for nerds I'll both join em, and beat em :p

Lol at Ugnaught

That's easy to beat actually. Use a speed team and kill ig88 first. After that kill ig86 and it's all over

Work Jawa Engineer Droids go first sp Speed Teams will only work unless JE is avaible.

I'll farm HK-47 and put him as my droid team leader, but for that I'll use my designated droid members.

For this team I'd mostly like to use in GW, or to bust through the wall of droid teams in the Arena. I fell from 23 to 60's overnight after being down there for a few weeks and now it's tough to get into the 30s again because of all the Droid teams, which my current setup isn't set up for. Jawas are the supposed anti droids, Dathcha is a flash farm, Jawa is quick too with the Cantina and Hard nodes. And already have a 7* 86 and working on 88 to 5* so it's not a terrible reallocation of resources.

Also, on a side note about the Droid team. Any of you have experience with Grievous? I know he's slow but Poggle gives speed so that's not a terrible issue. Since there's no one after Dathcha I don't have that I'm interested in I'm thinking of banking shard shop credits

My usual strategy against droids is kill 86 first (I use a speed team QGJ lead) or take his health down (depending on crit, etc.). I use Lumi so when she's up, I silence the tank if it's anybody but RG. After that I'm usually able to have at least 86 down and 88 on the ropes or dead as well.

If I can't silence the tank and they gain speed or TM, then my wild card is Yoda spreading foresight. And that turn usually gets me what I need to still pull off the W. Obviously if I can't silence the tank or spread foresight, then it's all over for me. But honestly that doesn't happen very often.