Which Taunt for droid team?

You must mean 5th Spot. Current meta is HK, 86, 88, JE, 5th spot tank or droid for more speed.

If you are going to use a taunt then RG is the best way to go for defense, Han is great when your attacking but is easily dealt with on defense. JE has really lowered the utility of Poe in droid squads since he now moves dead last in your squad.

4th man should 100% Jawa Engineer from guild shipments, he is a godsend for droids even as a 4*

Currently my droid squad is HK(L),88,86,JE,Daka
Im using daka because testing showed that my gear 10 daka scares my arena shard more then my gear 9 RG or Sth

I run Hk(l), 88, 86, JE and 100. I have played with RG in place of 100 on my last battles for the added defense overnight and i have noticed no real difference in how many spots i drop. If you have JE, you should be running 4 droids(b2 or GG being optimal) to take advantage of the speed and assure your team gets as many turns as possible up front.

If you have no JE than i can see the need for a tank in which case Han is best on offense and RG is best for pure protection. If you have no JE than throw in RG and Grievous. Despite what some may say about JE and his horrible basic, he really is the key to mowing down Rey right at the start.

Aoe,assist,aoe...bye bye Rey. With no JE, i don't believe it is possible and you end up making the fight longer than it should be.

I run HK, GG (6*), 88, 100 and JE and can sit comfortably in the top 50 with a push into top 10 possible if I want to reload.

I have tested several different setups dropping one of the AoE droids for either 86, B2 or RG and have seen no real improvement. I have also enjoyed success dropping JE for 86, running an all-droid squad, but I get hammered in defence.

I see a lot of droid squads with RG and they do very well against my team. I have now taken to dropping 88 for B2 when I face them so I can block RG's taunt.

Never seen STH with anyone but Old Ben. Certainly not with droids but there's no reason he wouldn't work. I've just found you need to act fast with droids yo get an early lead and STH is too slow to keep up once JE turns the ignition and the crits start firing.

"SifuSteve;521523" wrote:
I run HK, GG (6*), 88, 100 and JE and can sit comfortably in the top 50 with a push into top 10 possible if I want to reload.

I have tested several different setups dropping one of the AoE droids for either 86, B2 or RG and have seen no real improvement. I have also enjoyed success dropping JE for 86, running an all-droid squad, but I get hammered in defence.

I see a lot of droid squads with RG and they do very well against my team. I have now taken to dropping 88 for B2 when I face them so I can block RG's taunt.

Never seen STH with anyone but Old Ben. Certainly not with droids but there's no reason he wouldn't work. I've just found you need to act fast with droids yo get an early lead and STH is too slow to keep up once JE turns the ignition and the crits start firing.

St han gives tm when he taunta and when he gets hit ;) so if the ai attacks qgj and removes him first on defence it will be a nightmare
Btw i was thinking of a hk lead 88 86 j.e and poggle for the raids phase 2 or 3

If you have tried this team before how mny points did you earn?

t7 mode!

"Xenith;521654" wrote:


Btw i was thinking of a hk lead 88 86 j.e and poggle for the raids phase 2 or 3

If you have tried this team before how mny points did you earn?

t7 mode!

Yeah, tried that and when it goes off, it's monstrous but it's VERY rare that you'll get to keep the buffs: They're usually bellowed into oblivion. It's not really worth the payoff either: 3 guns firing super-duper charged isn't as effective as 4 guns firing super charged.

I have more success running A and B droid teams:
A: HK, GG, 88, 100, JE
B: Poggle, Sun Fac, 86, B2 + whoever escapes from team A or Daka if no-one made it.

I currently am running HK, 88, 86, Poggle, and Gamorrean Guard. I know a lot of people would would sneer at getting GG over JE in guild shipments but I thought it was the best 2 turn taunt I could easily get. He's definitely exceeded my expectations. His ability to put DoTs on everyone makes IG-88 that much more powerful. At level 67 I have a bit over 24k arena power and I'm consistently beating 29k+ opponents.

"CaptainDil;522744" wrote:
I currently am running HK, 88, 86, Poggle, and Gamorrean Guard. I know a lot of people would would sneer at getting GG over JE in guild shipments but I thought it was the best 2 turn taunt I could easily get. He's definitely exceeded my expectations. His ability to put DoTs on everyone makes IG-88 that much more powerful. At level 67 I have a bit over 24k arena power and I'm consistently beating 29k+ opponents.

That is different, but whatever works and makes you happy, man.

As for OP... I am top 20 every day on a December shard, top 10 (even #1 a couple of times), without refreshes running HK (L), 86, 88, JE and Sun Fac. I would get JE ASAP. As others have said, even at 4* he's a game changer for droids as he makes them go first.

As for your taunter, Sun Fac is hard to get unless you want to spend $$$ (I got lucky and pulled him from multiple chromiums when I spent some cash around the 5/4 bonus holiday, then finished him off with the shipments), but he is freakin' awesome. GGuard would be an interesting choice, but he competes for Guild currency with JE, so I'd focus on RG. STH is too squishy and Poe, even though he has the highest Poe-tency in the game, his Potency isn't enough to make him top tier since his nerf.

Happy hunting.

Wow guys, thanks for all the feedback. All great things to look into. I'll start farming JE now while I'm finishing up HK. And I'll aim for HK, 88, 86, JE, & GG.

I'll have poggle, 100, and RG as back up

I would use Poggle as the fourth slot because he can speed up the pretty slow droids and give them more devastating hits to add to that. IG100 is almost useless as a tank that doesn't taunt, he also does very little damage. His speed up unique isn't good, but just an annoyance. Grevious would not work with 86 & 86 because he can force a taunt on very weak allies. The last slot (taunting tank) should go to STHan because of his taunt granting allies turn meter. Pairing Han with Poggle would make the droids incredibly fast. Poe is not useable, unless he is on a resistance team because his potency is not great and his expose would mostly be resisted. Royal guard is more for a Phasma team because he slows the game down. With droids, you try to hit the enemies hard instead of slowing the game down.