General grievous

B2 is utility. Removing buffs, taunts, etc. His damage is negligible. If u want to do heavy aoe damage...and u should, so u can kill opposing hitters regardless of taunts, then you dont want B2. Plus, if u r benefitting from his 100% tm gain on your team being hit, again something is wrong.

HK (L)
88
100
GG
JE

Bring the aoe train, who cares what buffs, taunts they have up when their damage-dealers are dead.

Gg is heavy single target basic and good aoe. I think he does replace B2 but I wouldn't leave it on defense like that. It's a toss up. Plus do note he will use laugh 2nd so the TM reduc on turn 2 is decent but buff immunity is better for the b2 option... It's a hard call

droids users... you will have to fit shoretrooper in to avoid getting ran over by han solo

heads up!!! make room

I've been using a 7* GG for nearly six months and sit comfortably in the top 5 on my shard. I had an issue when the Wiggs/Lando meta turned up and Rex leads still give me trouble but all told, I don't slip much on defense. I have all droids, all maxed (except Omega on 88's basic) and have tried a lot of different loadouts.

I run two variations:
HK, GG, 88, B2, JE - this has been consistently good for me, especially against RG+STHan teams. It's the team I most often leave for defense. One point to note is that B2 can output some of the highest damage in your team. Individually his shots look weak but he can potentially fire 5 blasts in the time it takes one enemy toon to go twice. There's a vid of him in action at the bottom of this post. He starts off pretty badly, as does GG with an early stun. But once he gets going, he's a monster.

HK, GG, 88, 86, JE - I've had to bring 86 out of retirement to give my team the ability to delete Lando or Palpy early. I use this variant if the enemy has only a single tank (even better if it's STHan and not RG), unless that tank's Fun Sac.

The third variant I had months of success with was HK, GG, 100, B2, JE. This is a great team for grinding out evasion or Phasma leads if there are still any left on your shard or if they start turning up when the level race starts again.
https://youtu.be/UWp1jI8n0p8

@SifuSteve from your video I noticed that GG TM bar was fluctuated forwards and backwards thru the entire match. Is that because of STHan? I noticed sometimes it happens with all my toons and sometimes only 1.

@Rotor Yes mate. It's called 'bluff' and it's his passive. At the start of his turn he has a % chance to remove a % amount of TM from every enemy. It took me a while to work out what the 'resisted' tag was on my guys that I kept seeing - I never really noticed the TM loss when it worked though.

If you look closely it doesn't only happen when you where hitting STHan or it was STHan turn. You will notice a small dip in turn meter when is the turn of one of your toons too or when you hit other toons besides STHan.

SifuSteve is 9k on GG basic typical? Maxed?

@Rotor I think what you're seeing is the TM effectively going 'around the clock' from 100% when they hit back up to 50% when it's a critical (+ whatever natural accumulation there is i.e. 2-10%).

@merioonvalhoun GG's gear and abilities are all maxed but he's heavily modded for health with speed and crit chance secondaries. I've tried a crit damage set and an offense set on him and the damage comes out nearer 15K with 10K on each of his AoE hits. The problem I had was that even with the health bonuses from the other droids, he was very brittle. I've been informed by my shard buddies that due to the fear he induces, they always target him first and it's quite easy to bypass his taunt with a solid one-shot that takes him from green to dead. Modding him for health has proven to be more effective because although he does less damage on each shot, he sticks around to make 4 times as many...

Historically I've always run my droids for long-term grinding. This worked really well against the old evasion meta and was much more effective than the usual DPS focus. Recently with the switch to an AoE meta, it's proven less effective so I've had to make changes (benching IG100 broke my heart!). I might revisit making GG into a damage dealer now...

"saule;709430" wrote:
@SifuSteve Have you had any luck using GG as your leader? The anti-critical route seems interesting over the speed route.

To be honest, I've not even tried it. Now I've found the solution to stopping Lando going full beast mode (shoot him the face with the 80s), I'm not sure it'll be worthwhile sacrificing all that speed for a safety net. It would mean I could field an all-droid squad though. I'll try him out in tonights double GW.

My allies have told me he does have a noticeable effect in their LS/DS fights though so his skill is far from useless.