Ha. I haven't been on here in months and there are still 'droids are dead' threads. Droids are the same as they've always been. They've never been meta but they are good enough to keep you relatively competitive with whatever the current meta is. I started the first month this game came out and run the same droid squad.... HK, 88, 86, Poggle, RG. Yes.... Poggle!! I love my Poggle. Just maxed them all out and have over 48,000 in total power. I just decided to make a run in arena (I stopped caring for a long time because fighting Wiggs after Wiggs after Wiggs is just not fun) and I went from 181 to 60 in a day. When I used to care, they would keep me in the top 50 which is fine. They are not a top 10 team but I don't need them to be. They get targeted a lot simply because they are not Wiggs so they drop overnight but whatever.
Get Jawa Engineer out of there.... he sucks. After round 1 he is useless. Instead, beef up your droids so they survive round 1. Once they get rolling in round 2, that's when I win all my battles. This is where Poggle comes in... he give O and Speed up for the entire rest of the match rather than just the initial speed burst.