Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes General Grievous Review

General	Character Guide & Stats	Shard Location	Team Combo	Galactic War	Arena	Keycards
Jedi Consular	Talia	Poe Dameron	Luke Skywalker	Barriss Offee	Darth Sidious	Mob Enforcer
Mace Windu	Jawa	Count Dooku	Hk-47	Old Daka	Darth Maul	Nightsister Acolyte
IG-86	IG-88	Luminara Unduli	Ahsoka Tano	Ewok Elder	Darth Vader	Lobot
Asajj Ventress	Nightsister Initiate	First Order TIE Pilot	Savage Opress	Poggle the Lesser	Dathcha	Royal Guard
Qui-Gon Jinn	Princess Leia	Obi-Wan Kenobi	Storm Trooper Han	Chewbacca	General Veers	Lando Calrissian
Aayla Secura	Boba Fett	Captain Phasma	Coruscant Underworld Police	CT-5555 "Fives"	Geonosian Soldier	Kit Fisto
Kylo Ren	Admiral Ackbar	Biggs Darklighter	Cad Bane	Clone Sergeant - Phase 1	Eeth Koth	Jedi Knight Guardian
Ewok Scout	Finn	First Order Officer	First Order Stormtrooper	Grand Moff Tarkin	Greedo	Jedi Knight Anakin
Hoth Rebel Scout	Hoth Rebel Soldier	Rey	IG-100 MagnaGuard	Ima-Gun Di	Nute Gunray	Grand Master Yoda
General Grievous	Magmatrooper	Resistance Pilot	Plo Koon

General Grievous is the newest addition to SWGOH. He is an attacker with AoE abilities and wields 4 light sabers. Let’s see what he has to offer to your team.

Type: Droid, Attacker

Side: Dark

Synergy: Anti-Critical, AoE Damage, Healing Immunity, Health Up, Health Down, Turn Meter Gain, Turn Meter Reduction, Unavoidable Damage

How to Get[Shards]: Shard Shop

Skills and Abilities

Note: All skill descriptions are based at max level. The bracket denotes the level required to upgrade that skill.

Basic Skill: Furious Assault – Deal Physical Damage to target enemy. This attack can’t be evaded or countered.

• LvL 2: +5% Damage(16)
• LvL 3: +5% Damage(26)
• LvL 4: +15% Damage(36)
• LvL 5: +5% Damage(46)
• LvL 6: +15% Damage(56)
• LvL 7: +5% Damage(66)
• LvL 8: +15% Damage(76)

Special Ability 1: Grievous Wounds – Deal Physical damage to all enemies with a 50% chance to inflict healing immunity for 1 turn. (4 Turn CD)

• LvL 2: +5% Damage(18)
• LvL 3: +15% Damage(28)
• LvL 4: +5% Damage(38)
• LvL 5: +15% Healing Immunity Chance(48)
• LvL 6: +5% Damage(58)
• LvL 7: +5% Damage(68)
• LvL 8: +15% Healing Immunity Chance(78)

Special Ability 2: Sinister Laugh – Inflict health down on all enemies for 2 turns, with a 40% chance to remove 30% turn meter. This chance is doubled against Jedi Enemies. (4 Turn CD)

• LvL 2: +2.5% Turn Meter Reduction(20)
• LvL 3: +15% Turn Meter Recuction Chance(30)
• LvL 4: +2.5% Turn Meter Reduction(40)
• LvL 5: +2.5% Turn Meter Reduction(50)
• LvL 6: Cooldown -1(60)
• LvL 7: +2.5% Turn Meter Reduction(70)
• LvL 8: +15% Turn Meter Recuction Chance(80)

Unique Ability: Tactical Retreat – Grievous has +9% max health for each living droid ally. in addition, whenever grievous falls below 50% health, he will dispel all negative status effects on himself and force a random ally to taunt for 1 turn if no ally is currently taunting for him. if he does, that ally also gains 100% turn meter.

• LvL 2: +1% Health(24)
• LvL 3: +1% Health(34)
• LvL 4: +1% Health(44)
• LvL 5: Add Dispel all negative status effects(54)
• LvL 6: +1% Health(64)
• LvL 7: +1% Health(74)
• LvL 8: Taunt effect also triggers when Grievous falls below 25% Health(84)

Leader Skill: Daunting Presence – All enemies have -17.5% Critical Chance and -20% critical damage.

• LvL 2: +2.5% Critical Resistance(22)
• LvL 3: +2.5% Critical Resistance(32)
• LvL 4: Add 10% Critical Damage Reduction(42)
• LvL 5: +2.5% Critical Resistance(52)
• LvL 6: +10% Critical Damage Reduction(62)
• LvL 7: +2.5% Critical Resistance(72)
• LvL 8: +5% Critical Resistance(82)

 

Base and Max Stats

Thoughts

General Grievous is a very strong character to have against Jedis. With a good number of Jedis in the game, he really does shine. His basic attacks cannot be avoided. He has 2 AoE skills. The first AoE skill can inflict healing immunity and the second can reduce enemy turn meter + the chance is doubled against Jedis.

His leader skill is also very unique. It is made to counter critical teams. That puts people like Luke Skywalker/Darth Sidious/IG-86 at a slight disadvantage due to having less damage.

Now, he is quite squishy with a low health pool. However, that can be offset if you run a droid team, which would allow him to gain 9% hp for every droid ally.. HK-47 would be a great leader along with Poggle, IG-86 and IG-88. Now the droid team only lacks a good droid healer.

He is hard to get though, especially for free to play players. Good luck farming him!

Rating

[usrlist “Campaign Map:5” “Arena:4.5” “Galactic War:4.5”]

Verdict: Farm and gear him. He is a very good and well rounded character. Good luck farming!

References: SWGOH, SWGOHDB