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9 years ago

My Roster Review: Royal Guard

This video went live the day before the Mods Update. My Roster Review Videos will be more interesting going forward with mods in the mix. I'm also working on a video summarizing Mods. If you want a notification on that video when it goes live, subscribe to my channel!

Royal Guard is one of the top contenders for best tank in the game, and definitely a top finisher in the running for best F2P tank.

Royal Guard is a very long farm, he starts out with only one hard mode until Dark Side 5-F. After you unlock DS HM 5-F, you can't farm him anywhere else until you hit level 76 and unlock Cantina battle 7-C.

Despite the difficulty in farming Royal Guard, he is an extremely viable option for your Arena Squad, even at 4 Stars. His health is one of the highest in the game, his gear is not absurdly difficult, and his basic attack has an 80% stun chance. This is also accompanied by a very decent 70% base potency, upgraded to 110% at Gear 9, likely higher beyond.

His slightly below average speed is offset by his ability to gain 15% TM whenever an ally takes damage on any turn, regardless of whether Royal Guard also took damage (AoEs). In addition to his TM gain, he has a small health gain as well.

Royal Guard is a MUST HAVE Tank for teams with squishy DPS like Rey, Princess Leia, or IG-88. His automatic taunt also makes him one of the best utility tanks, as he doesn't have to use a turn to taunt. He automatically taunts whenever his allies drop below 50%.

Royal Guard is definitely a must-have for EVERY player, even more critical for the free-to-play. Getting this character to 7 Stars is very rewarding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jigD7sHcCvI

2 Replies

  • Rey squishy? If fought a modded Rey with over 50k in health and protection. She hit for over 20k damage and she had a modded 47% accuracy so out of my Dooku led team she missed not ONE TIME. She struck and and a toon died or was on the brink of death.
  • "Gaidal_Cain;555091" wrote:
    Rey squishy? If fought a modded Rey with over 50k in health and protection. She hit for over 20k damage and she had a modded 47% accuracy so out of my Dooku led team she missed not ONE TIME. She struck and and a toon died or was on the brink of death.


    I made this review before the travesty that was the mod update... I've faced a Rey that single handedly destroyed my entire roster in GW. Literally 1-shot my Barriss. My gear 9 RG may have survived 3 his, I'm not sure. Mods have broken the game. I think they've fixed GW, though. My last 2 GW 12th nodes have had zero mods.