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Kylven's avatar
Kylven
9 years ago

SWGoHCantina's Hero Ranking List

A very common question is, “Who should I invest credits, remotes, shards, and gear into first?” The answer really varies depending on which type of gameplay (damage, healfest, tanky, zombies) and synergies (Droids, Nightsisters, Ewoks, Jedi) you enjoy. Your fan favorite Heroes or who you unlocked may also be a factor despite actual in-game performance. In order to help you in developing a roadmap, I present this character ranking list. Keep in mind, most Heroes can synergize and perform well in a proper squad which makes this list very difficult to produce. You can’t just pull the top 5 and do well, you’ll need to assess abilities, stats, and synergies as well. Feel free to use this general assessment to get an idea of which characters are a worthwhile investment.

SWGoH Character Rankings

I look forward to the debates and the Community's assistance in fine tuning the Rankings.
  • Qeltarr's avatar
    Qeltarr
    9 years ago
    Thanks for doing this. A lot of work, and of course people are going to dispute various choices, but overall I think it is solid.
    One thing that struck me were some of the GW ratings. Dooku at 70? He's one of the most useful characters in the game in GW. Tie Pilot I haven't used yet but I would imagine also would be very handy in there. Chewie gets a 90 but is actually of limited value in GW, all he is really good for is soaking up hits and I don't think many people would use him very much there. Taunting isn't really a great skill in GW.
    I think IG-86's overall rating is too high but I guess he's bumped up by availability.
  • KWW75's avatar
    KWW75
    9 years ago
    "Kylven;29327" wrote:
    Let's be honest here...this ranking list is not for the player that spends time going through the abilities and stats to create a squad with ideal synergies and counters to opponents. This is a baseline list for the hundreds of Community members that post their character rosters and ask, "what should I invest in?" These are the folks looking for options without getting into the nitty gritty of the meta game and spending hours developing an edge against those on their server. They just want something that works and won't be a severe disappointment later in the game. Are the rankings based on opinion, of course. Does it provide value to that certain casual to mid level player, I believe so...and that is the target audience.


    Might be worth polling people... I know one guy om the marvel puzzle quest game used to have a site set up in which people entered their rankings of characters from best to last.... And then he plotted a couple of graphs to get a mean rating and then listed them in order of popularity.

    Think it was some freebie polling site he used, not sure though
  • Kylven's avatar
    Kylven
    9 years ago
    All great comments...thanks. I'll make adjustments as time goes on. I was very hesitant to create this to be frank. It generally stifles creativity and out of the box thinking, but getting 10-20 pms a day asking about a ranking list caused me to cave in. I've also been requested to add a Squad ranking feature where players can build a potential squad and the community up or down ranks them. However, that would generate quite a bit of cookie cutter squads and may not be a benefit to the game in general. I don't know...I'll follow the lead of the Community as to what you all want next as a resource.
  • dalmutie's avatar
    dalmutie
    9 years ago
    "Kylven;29811" wrote:
    All great comments...thanks. I'll make adjustments as time goes on. I was very hesitant to create this to be frank. It generally stifles creativity and out of the box thinking, but getting 10-20 pms a day asking about a ranking list caused me to cave in. I've also been requested to add a Squad ranking feature where players can build a potential squad and the community up or down ranks them. However, that would generate quite a bit of cookie cutter squads and may not be a benefit to the game in general. I don't know...I'll follow the lead of the Community as to what you all want next as a resource.


    I saw a similar concept used in the eve online community with ship fittings. You'd think it would be all cookie cutters but it became good for alternative fits and a home for theorycrafters.
  • Nubsors's avatar
    Nubsors
    9 years ago
    Can't really agree with a lot of it. The fact that Kit Fisto is considered higher value than Kylo Ren has me shaking my head.

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