Rarities & Variants

Two ladders, not one

Every droid sits on two ladders at once, and confusing them is the most common new-player mistake:

• Rarity — which droid it is: Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary, or Mythic. Rarity is fixed; it sets the droid’s base credits per second (CPS) — the passive income it earns while working.
• Variant — how upgraded it is: Default → Gold → Diamond → Rainbow → Beskar (some community guides call the Default variant “Base” or “normal”). Variants are something you change, with Upgrade Chips or lucky Sandcrawler pulls.

Default → Gold → Diamond → Rainbow each doubles CPS. Beskar, the top tier, scales differently depending on rarity:

Variant	Common/Rare	Epic	Legendary
Default	1x	1x	1x
Gold	2x	2x	2x
Diamond	4x	4x	4x
Rainbow	8x	8x	8x
Beskar	12x	34x	24x

So a Rainbow Common is still a Common — but it earns 8x what it did at Default, and some high variants of low droids out-earn Default variants of higher-rarity ones. Note the Epic Beskar anomaly: Epics get the biggest Beskar jump (4.25x over Rainbow), which makes Epic Beskars some of the best value-per-chip in the game. Beskar is the top variant — added in a recent update and the current endgame chase; per-droid Beskar numbers are in the Droid Glossary.

What each rarity looks like

• Common — your starting collection: Mouse, Pit, Gonk, CB, R3, R5, B1 Battle, and friends. Individually weak (2–6 CPS at Default), but several are Rebirth requirements — on both requirement paths — so keep them.
• Rare — the early-mid workhorses: BDX Explorer, ARG, BU-4D, R9, B1 Security, HOV-R (15–66 CPS at Default). Rebirths 2–8 lean heavily on Gold/Diamond Rares.
• Epic — where income gets real: Groundmech, LO, BB, R2, AMP Walker, B1 Heavy, Proto-Roller (120–970+ CPS at Default). A Rainbow Proto-Roller clears 7.7k CPS.
• Legendary — the late game: Mecha-Droid, Mono-WLKR, BB9, R7, B2-RP, Cyclo-Grav, Opti-STRK (900–1.5k CPS at Default, up to 12k at Rainbow). Rebirths 12–20 run through this roster. A new Legendary, CB-23, is listed in the Nova Shop but not released yet.
• Mythic — the showcase tier: BB-8, Mister Bones, and IG-11 Marshal. Mythics break the rules: instead of fixed CPS they boost your total income by a percentage (+5% each so far), which scales with everything you build. They’re Default-only (no variant upgrades). Each debuted in its own event, but since the June 9 update they’re also purchasable as Iconic Droids (30 Nova Crystals at the Nova Shop, via Super Rebirth) — BB-8 now, the others “at a later date.” Miss an event, and there’s finally a permanent path back. (The unreleased CB-23, first seen in the Iconic vendor, turned out to be a Legendary — not a fourth Mythic.)

Upgrade Chip costs

Chips are the variant-upgrade currency, and costs scale hard with rarity:

Rarity	→ Gold	→ Diamond	→ Rainbow	→ Beskar
Common	5	10	15	80
Rare	30	50	75	250
Epic	120	180	240	5,000
Legendary	400	1,200	4,000	12,000

The tail is brutal: an Epic’s Beskar tier costs 5,000 chips (20x its Rainbow tier!) and a Legendary’s costs 12,000. Where chips come from matters just as much — they’re earned by selling Gold-and-above droids (no longer from missions); the per-sale chip values are in the Droidex, and the fastest farming loop is in Strategies. The free daily Pit Droid roll in the Cantina is a percentage chance at a free variant tier — odds scale with rarity and tier — which is why you always spend it on your rarest droid (details in Strategies).

Which tiers to actually chase

• Early: don’t chase — collect everything, upgrade Commons/Rares only when a rebirth requires it (chips are cheap there anyway).
• Mid: Epic variants for income, plus whatever the next two rebirth levels demand.
• Late: the Legendary roster, one Rainbow at a time — then the Beskar tier (see the Droidex for the numbers) and event-window Mythics, because spawn timers and event odds beat normal-day grinding by a wide margin.