Summary
Star Wars Villainous takes its own spin on theDisney Villainousformula, adding plenty of complexities to match a galactic confrontation. And as expected, you’ll take the role of the most famous antagonists from Star Wars lore, from Darth Vader to Boba Fett.
With several villains to choose from, you might wonder who is the best one to use against your friends. You can always choose the one from your favorite movie and have fun, but these villains aren’t completely balanced with one another, making some ideal for beginners, while others take a lot of effort to reach the desired victory.
8Kylo Ren
The Conflicted Villain
Kylo Ren’s objective fits perfectly with his character arc in his movie trilogy, since he lives in a constant state of conflict between the light and dark sides. To represent this, he has six Destiny Tokens, each moving towards the dark side when he vanquishes heroes, but those same Tokens can be moved towards the light by his Fate Deck.
Like all decks in Star Wars Villainous, Kylo Ren is a lot of fun, especially for fans of the movies, although he is extremely hard to win as. If he’s Fated often, he’ll lose all progress toward turning to the dark side, meaning that winning as Kylo in a 1v1 scenario is nearly impossible.
7Moff Gideon
Chasing Baby Yoda
Fans of the Mandalorian might flock to the opportunity to play the villain of their favorite show, especially with how every aspect of that show is portrayed on the cards. However,while Moff Gideon can be satisfying to play, he isn’t for beginners of the Villainous system. In fact, if you want to win as Moff Gideon, you’ll have to read through his whole deck carefully. You might think that to be true for every single character, but you’d be surprised how many Villainous characters are easy to pick up and immediately play.
With Moff Gideon, you need to capture Grogu and then have both Laboratory Samples and Doctor Phershing at the same location. If you capture Grogu too early, your opponents can simply Fate you a couple of times and either move or even rescue Grogu altogether, setting you back significantly from winning the game.
6Seventh Sister
Classic Villainous Formula
Seventh Sister is one of the three villains included in the Scum and Villainy expansion for Star Wars Villainous, and she’s the one that resembles the other editions of Villainous the most. Her objective is to simply Vanquish three specific heroes, not unlikethe objectives for Hook or Scarin Disney Villainous.
The catch is that, for the Vanquish to count towards her objective, she needs to pay five ambition Tokens (a new currency for Star Wars Villainous) to remove the hero from the game, otherwise they would just go to the discard pile. While Seventh Sister isn’t doing anything radically new, she’s a great way to transition between editions, particularly from Disney to Star Wars.
5Darth Vader
The Perfect Introduction
There’s no denying that themost famous character in all of Star Warsis Darth Vader. As such, a lot of players might want to start off learning his deck, and fortunately for them, Darth Vader is the easiest one to learn from the whole cast.
The card Your Hate Has Made You Powerful removes all Fate cards in play, but it doesn’t affect Heroes, so it doesn’t remove Luke from the board.
This doesn’t mean that you’ll win with Darth Vader every single time, but you’ll always know what steps to take to further your objective. All you have to do is get Luke to the Throne Room, so the Emperor can defeat him; there are a lot of steps involved to get there, but it is easy enough to understand that you can just pick up Darth Vader and start playing.
Take The Final Shot
Cad Bane is a character that’s easy to understand but hard to execute: you need to Vanquish or Remove Heroes with Target Tokens on them, and once you collect five of those, you win. As expected, you have cards that instantly Remove Heroes with Targets on them, and Fate cards that take the Target Tokens away.
The card That Is Not A Clone Trooper requires your opponent to play an ally to activate, so when playing against Boba Fett, his Mercenaries count as Allies as long as they are played at the bottom of the board.
This makes him a fun but hard character to master since he is more combo-oriented. Instead of playing your hand slowly, you should save your effects for when you can play them all at the same time, earning Tokens at the same turn as you target any Heroes.
3General Grievous
A Collector’s Dream
General Grievous is a collectionist at heart, so his objective is simple: collect the eight Lightsaber Tokens to win. You’ll gather most of these by Vanquishing Heroes, with some giving up to two Tokens when Vanquished, making Grievous a hard villain to counter.
Save the card Add To My Collection for the endgame so you can gain the final Token without being countered.
He’s one of the most fun characters in Star Wars Villainous, since he’s all about hunting Jedi, so you’ll be in a very active role for the whole match. The only way for you to lose progress is with the Fate Card Captured, but that’s rarely a concern, since if someone is attacking you, they’ll often be more a help than a hindrance.
2Boba Fett
No Allies Here
Boba Fett has a unique deck since he has no allies. Instead, he’s helped by Mercenaries, although these characters can be placed in either the bottom or the top parts of the board, meaning you’re able to block your own board without using the Fate Deck.
This is because Boba Fett’s objective is to complete four Bounties, and a lot of them involve Vanquishing Mercenaries. This makes Boba Fett stand out from the whole Villainous roster, be it Disney or Star Wars, since his deck needs to be approached differently than any other existing villain.
You can’t play the Bounty War Of The Bounty Hunters while Boba Fett is in any spaceship since that Bounty requires you to play Chewbacca at Boba Fett’s location, and Heroes can’t be played in Deep Space.
This also makes him one of the hardest characters and certainly not one for beginners. Since Bounties can only be played on Contacts, you need to keep track of a lot of characters and their effects in order to win, having to juggle your attention between Heroes, Mercenaries, Contacts, Bounties, and spaceships.
1Asajj Ventress
Combining All The Goods From Star Wars
Asajj Ventress might not be the most well-known Star Wars villain, but she manages to outshine all other characters thanks to her active and involved deck. She isn’t hard to understand, but she also comes with some complexities that are ideal for people with quite a few Villainous games under their belt.
She’s similar to Boba Fett (or Pete in Disney Villainous) in that she has to complete a few missions from a bigger total, but unlike Boba Fett, she has more control over the mission and fewer steps to get started. Asajj can just complete the missions without needing to play them into other characters.
The biggest pain from playing characters that need to defeat a specific Hero is finding that Hero, but Asajj avoids this issue since her mission cards summon whatever heroes are necessary for her to win. And it remains balanced because she needs to complete three missions total, so there’s ample time for the other Villains to do their thing, ending with everyone having fun.
