Star Wars: Battlefront 2 has been on an upswing these past two months after experiencing a surprising surge of players.
While it takes a lot from the pages of Battlefield 1 and other contemporary DICE games, it is Star Wars through and through, meaning that it had to incorporate its many Heroes. There are quite a few of them in the game, and they vary significantly in terms of power and viability. So, here is our tier list of the Battlefront 2 Hero roster so you know what to camp every time you boot up a match.
All Star Wars Battlefront 2 Heroes, ranked
Heroes in Battlefront 2 range from blaster-wielding gun nuts to lightsaber-swinging embodiments of evil (or good, for that matter), making the roster very diverse. There are also dozens of them in the game, making a proper choice difficult to make, especially when you are low on points and need to know what the best pick is in an eight-year-old game. So, here’s our ranking.
S tier
- Luke Skywalker
- Anakin Skywalker
- Darth Vader
- Yoda
- Han Solo
- General Grievous
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
The S tier is reserved for the best of the best. You will find that this tier is dominated by lightsabers, and it’s a sorry fact of life that precisely those heroes are the most annoying and most powerful in Battlefront 2. The only exception here is Han Solo, whose blaster is one of the best weapons in the game, and there’s no telling how many kills I’ve accrued with him over the past few months.
All of these heroes have exceptional Force-based abilities, lightsaber deflections, mobility, and damage output, which make every encounter with them a dreadful experience.
They’re hard to kill, harder to drive away from chokepoints, and impossible to get rid of permanently as they just keep spawning back in as every single player is camping the character selection screen, waiting to grab them as soon as they become available.
A tier
- Boba Fett
- Bossk
- Rey
- Count Dooku
- Kylo Ren
- Darth Maul
- BB-8
As opposed to the S tier, the Heroes in the A tier require a tad more skill and effort to properly utilize. Boba Fett, for example, is difficult to maneuver effectively, leading the unassuming player directly into the hands of the enemy and, most often, direct gunfire. Bossk is a fantastic crowd-control-oriented Hero, but making proper use of his poison rounds and long-range weaponry is tricky and only suitable for particular spots.
BB-8 is also a great Hero but a niche one, capable of killing anything in its path as much as dying one minute after spawning. Thus, the Heroes included here are still pretty strong, albeit not as strong all the time as the ones in the S tier, which doesn’t mean they aren’t powerful in their own right.
B tier
- Lando Calrissian
- Leia Organa
- Iden Versio
- BB-9E
- Chewbacca
- Emperor Palpatine
As for the B tier, these are Heroes that I find generally ineffective in most scenarios. Lando and Leia can do stuff, but why pick them if Han Solo is available? Some other reinforcement troops are also equally as effective and cost thousands of points less than either of them, making them options only if you really want to play a Her,o but all the good options are already taken.
Emperor Palpatine is probably the worst of the Force users. No deflections means he is constantly open to gunfir,e and his abilities overall are no match for any of the lightsaber Jedis and Siths.
Chewbacca is only marginally better than the Wookie Warrior variants, whereas BB-9E is just a worse version of BB-8 with an equally high skill ceiling. Iden Versio is to me the only effective Hero out of this bunch, as her long-range rifle can make quite the difference in the right hands, though whether or not she’s worth the points is up for debate.
C tier
- Finn
- Captain Phasma
This last bunch I find to be generally useless and worth a skip. Both have abilities reminiscent of nothing more than a reinforcement trooper and lack any sort of unique set of skills that make Heroes Heroes. At the end of the day, they are Heroes, meaning they have the HP on elimination passive and high damage output on their weapons, but those aren’t reasons that warrant spending so many points on them when you could just pick up a Rocket Trooper or some other Hero that might be available.
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