#32. GNK Droid Nicknamed the “Star Wars trashcans”, GNKs are in fact generators that provide energy. They’re ugly, and serve as a punching bag for the Jedi in Jedi Knight 2. To place them anywhere other than last would have been a disrespect to their status as the most useless droid in the galaxy.#31. Training DroidA hovering sphere that fires lasers to hone your skills with the lightsaber, that’s what the training droid can offer. Except there aren’t many Jedi anymore, so these droids are becoming completely obsolete. At least they’re not ugly and you can play handball with them.#30. TT-8L (Guardian Droid) First appearing in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, TT-8L is an eye with one arm on a tripod. This droid only exists to verify the identity of visitors, and can do absolutely nothing else. It is therefore normal that flirts with the depths of the ranking, far from the overpowered battle droids. #29. Pistoeka Sabotage DroidThese small spheres are able to deploy and attach to ships and then, as the name suggests, sabotage them, making them somewhat dangerous. We see them for the first time in Star Wars, episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and it is R2-D2 who stuffs himself with these droids that we will try to forget after reading this paragraph.#28. D-0 Yeah it’s a hair dryer on a wheel. Curious, this droid is apparently good at understanding human emotions, allowing him to be a moral support to intelligent species. In Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, D-0 becomes friends with BB-8, then nothing. It will be remembered as a bathroom accessory and nothing more.#27. RA-7 Droid (including AP-5) These bug-faced droids make their first appearance on the Jawa ship in Episode 4. While little is known about them, AP-5 from Star Wars Rebels tells us actually find out more about this model by betraying the Empire and joining the Rebellion. For this act of bravery, it’s a 27th place.#26. Scorpenek Annihilator Droid That’s a nice piece. Looking more like a big military vehicle from a pro-US sci-fi movie starring Will Smith than an actual Star Wars droid, the Scorpenek Annihilator deserves nothing better than the bottom of the rankings. But since he also looks like a steroid version of a Droideka, we don’t put him last. Count yourself lucky to be here Scorpenek Annihilator.#25. IT-O Interrogation DroidsA soccer ball and created solely to torture people, that’s a yes. Alas, IT-O serves no other purpose, and this life of suffering in the name of the Sith Empire can only lead this droid to a poor retirement and a very unstable state of sanity.#24. Viper Probe Droid No weapon and no combat skill for this jellyfish first seen in The Empire Strikes Back. In charge of probing and tracking down its targets, the Viper Probe is in fact only a scale that snoops everywhere to find poor rebels before going to tell everything to its little Sith Lord. And me personally, scales make me sick.#23. EV-9D9A supervisor by trade, EV-9D9 is a pernicious bureaucrat who feels nothing but disdain for his fellows. In Star Wars, episode VI: Return of the Jedi, it is he who sends R2-D2 and C-3PO to work without a contract or Social Security in Jabba’s palace. Besides, he’s crazy, bro, you don’t even have a chin.#22. Tactical DroidThis is the awesome Clone Wars cartoon featuring Tactical Droids. Members of the Separatists, their true worth is in managing battles against the Republic without the need to call upon biological beings. In Star Wars: The Bad Batch it is explained that they are programmed to adapt and learn from each battle experienced. Despite the little importance they have in the overall work, their dangerousness is to be respected.#21. BX-series Commando Droid BXs operate in squads and are tasked with infiltrating enemy forces. While their simplified B1 versions are just cannon fodder, the BXs are more trained and pose a real challenge to the Republic clones. Nothing to add here because they are sorely lacking in humor.#20. AZI-3 Seen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, AZI-3 is on a mission to heal clones on Kamino. His role, although lesser, still marks the minds of fans, but only in the “too cute droid” category. And I need more to climb the rankings so it’s a 20th place.#19. The Pit droids (including WAC-47) They are golri in real life. Used only for comic relief, Pit droids are very poor mechanic droids. We can observe their prowess in The Phantom Menace, especially during the scene of the race of the podracers.#18. MSE-6-Series Repair Droid If you’ve played many Star Wars video games, then you know the noise these mouse droids make. Certainly they have no weapons, but their real strength is to be able to repair everything in the ships of the Empire. Without them, no clean corridors in Star Destroyers. Without them, no stable Empire. No eggs, no cakes.#17. Professor HuyangOnly featured in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Huyang is a true icon of the droid game. Responsible for teaching young Jedi how to make their lightsabers, he has been fulfilling his mission for over 1,000 years. He even taught Yoda, so clearly the dude weighs in. #16. R4-P17R4-P17 is to Obi-Wan Kenobi what R2-D2 is to Anakin Skywalker. R4 has long accompanied the Jedi Master in his various missions and has thus become a sure guy. Alas, he loses his life at the start of Revenge of the Sith, boned by a sabotage droid. RIP little angel.#15. BB-8When I think of BB-8, I think of the worst Star Wars trilogy. Disney completely spat on the license, and alas this soccer ball created to sell toys could not catch up with the very undercooked dish that are the three films. Although he remains an endearing droid, BB-8 represents the failed sequel so much that it cannot be placed higher. #14. 2-1BDMedical droid, he appears in The Empire Strikes Back. It is he who treats Luke Skywalker’s hand and installs a pretty bionic mimine allowing him to face his daron in a return match. From there to conclude that it is thanks to 2-1B that the Empire fell, there is only one step that I cross cheerfully.#13. R0-GRC’s a B1 droid making cookies what more do you want?#12. C1-10P “Chopper” Part of the reason Star Wars Rebels is a good cartoon is this C1-series astromech droid, a member of Ghost. Loyal, protective and devilishly helpful, Chopper succeeds in becoming the R2-D2 of Star Wars Rebels. A real achievement in the world of droids.#11. B2 Super Battle DroidsWith its reinforced armor, strong arm and red eye, the B2 is one of the droids with a face. During the Clone Wars, the B2 Super Battle Droid poses a real threat to Republic and Jedi units, sometimes giving the Separatists the edge in some battles. The B2 is a must have within your ranks if you want to invade the galaxy.#10. B1 battle droids The Battle of Naboo in The Phantom Menace revealed them, the Clone Wars series took care of making them go down in history. Simple cannon fodder destined only to be cut in half by lightsabers, B1s are endowed with a subtle sense of humor and very weak survival instincts. Without them, the Prelogy would not have had the same flavor.#9. L3-37 Featured in Solo: A Star Wars Story, this protocol droid accompanying Lando Calrissian stands out for its individuality and strong character. Her real strength is her intelligence, leading her to become an activist freeing the droids from the yoke of their masters. If the spin-off on Han Solo is a good film, it is partly thanks to L3-37, which fully deserves its place in the top 10.#8. B2EMOWith its small wheels and its binocular strabismus, B2EMO is my favorite. A Wall-E version even cheaper than the Pixar model, sad and somewhat depressed, who struggles to perform the slightest task to serve Cassian Andor and his mother. He was only there for three episodes of Andor, but he was enough to touch my heart.#7. IG-11Shooting everything in sight in The Mandalorian’s first season, IG-11 starts out as a bounty-hunting droid before becoming Grogu’s babysitter. And this double hat charms me. A droid that knows how to aim and how to take care of Baby Yoda is like Herta 4 slice ham with rind, it’s top quality.#6. Guard Magna IG-100 No aftershocks, no decision-making abilities, but skills to take down a Jedi in a duel, that’s what an IG-100 model is. Bodyguard of General Grievous, the IG-100 is surely the best infantry unit, far superior to the B2. And then look at this design: a cape, a hood and an electrostaff, it’s straight from 10/10.#5. BD-1Here begins the ranking of the elites, the best droids in the Star Wars universe. We open the ball with BD-1, the small bipedal assistant Cal Kestis operating in the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Accompanying the beginner Jedi, BD-1 is an essential companion, as endearing as it is useful with its ability to map the planets. A real success that we hope to find in Fallen Order 2.#4. K-2SO (Rogue One) If stand-up existed among droids, K-2SO would certainly fill all the rooms in France. In the dark and hard film Star Wars: Rogue One, K-2SO is the humorous and sarcastic touch essential to the good development of the adventures of Cassian Andor. Endowed with great independence, he nevertheless does not hesitate to sacrifice himself for the rebel cause, thus allowing the Rogue One mission to recover the plans of the Death Star. Where the top three in the rankings needed screen time to stand out, K-2SO only needed one movie to reach the top.#3. Droideka First seen in The Phantom Menace, the Droideka was immediately acclaimed for its cool and dangerous aspects. The backbone of the Separatist army, the Droideka is the only droid model to force two Jedi Knights to flee, sending it directly to the third step of the podium. A droid as complete in attack as in defense deserves its own cycle path in the streets of Paris. I call Hidalgo immediately.#2. C-3PO So yes he is unbearable, yes he is slow and soft, yes he is fearful, yes he has no arsenal giving him the ability to destroy armies. But C-3PO can speak more than 6 million languages. C-3PO survived all of the events of Republic and Empire up to Episode IX without even hurting, destroying, or killing. And above all, C-3PO is the only droid to have been raised to the rank of god by a species of too cute cubs (but which swept away the forces of the Empire with stones). Respect to him.#1. R2-D2Obviously he’s prime. Who but him could sit on the Metal Throne and wear the crown of the best droid in Star Wars? Present since the first film and accompanying the Skywalker family, R2-D2 shows throughout the saga courage, determination, heroism, but also humor and sarcasm. He knows how to fight, disarm, sabotage, infiltrate, pilot, repair. Its sound effects are legendary and its design inscribed in marble. If there was ever a droid spin-off, it would have to be R2-D2.
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