Kit Rework: HK-47

"SmurfLAX28;c-1807019" wrote:
So they rework his lead to ensure that they don't need to work around it... And yet they specifically work around his old lead in his new kit?!?

No, they didn't. HK using his own AoE to get another turn was not the issue. The issue with his lead was that it limited design space for other characters. Not letting HK's AOE crit doesn't affect TM from IG-88, B2, Grievous, Magnaguard, R2, or T3-M4's AoE, nor from IG-86, Chopper, 3PO, or BB-8's assists, nor from BB-8, Magnaguard, K2-SO, or L3's counter attacks, nor from any interactions that may come from future units who HK-47 hinders the design space of. HK-47's lead is likely a large contributing factor to why so many droid attackers are just bad. And why the only two we've gotten in a very long time can't crit.

Removing crits from HK-47's lead did not "fix" anything. It would still have to change.

And while I am not fond of how they changed that lead, it did need to change. Just... not necessarily this much.

Though honestly, it's almost arbitrary. With this rework, even if HK's lead didn't change, he'd join R2, BB-8, a substantial number of the separatist droids, and L3-37 in the club of droids who are too important to other factions/teams for it to be really worthwhile to use them on an HK led droids squad.

In a few months, when Devan round 2 comes around, most of the people who've been around long enough that they either have a leftover droid meta team or have had the extra zots to kit an HK droids C team will get their hands on Devan, and HK-47 looks to be an integral part of the Devan lineup, making him too valuable to keep on that C list team, and it would fold anyways to the point where the only thing that would bring it back is a major exploit loop that should be fixed anyways.

It's unfortunate, but honestly arbitrary.