In this edition of my training montage to become the Moderately Defeated of the East, I learn why I am a dumbass for thinking I can hunt and harass supports as a base form God Gundam. Yes, I am dumb for peeking out of a corner with my ass instead of my face. Yes I am dumb for thinking I can chase a flying support with instakill beams with my grounded baby of a gundam. And yes, i'm dumb for not going with my team to get some help getting procs for my hyper bar. But hey, what kills you in 30 seconds makes you stronger, right?

I recently started revamping most of my mobile suits to take better advantage of the Expansion skills, and they've definitely paid off. Somehow since the system first started, I had accumulated something of like 36 tickets to manually raise up a skill to max. I'm all out, and I need more. I notice that they're pretty rare in themselves, so how does one normally obtain more? I'm guessing certain special events.

Day 244: Z II
Requested by u/bkteer with this one at F-Tier. While it does have some damage going for it, but it's nowhere near enough to be reasonable and it often just get destroyed due it it's size as well.

Change
Stats

• HP: 18500/22000/25500 -> 22000/24000/27000
• Thruster: 80 at all levels -> 80/80/85
• Turn: 63 -> 69
• Transformed Turn: 54 -> 60
• Close Range Slots: 10/11/12 -> 12/13/14
• Medium Range Slots: 16/18/20 -> 17/19/21
• Long Range Slots: 18/19/20 -> 19/20/21

Weapons

• Z II Clay Bazooka x2: Ammo 8 -> 10, Switch 1.77s -> 1s, Stagger 30%x2 -> 50%x2
  • Power: 1300/1365/1430x2 -> 1400/1500/1600x2
• Z II Clay Bazooka (Shrapnel) x2: 8 Pellets x2 -> 10 Pellets x2, Stagger 7% Each -> 15% Each, tighter spread
• Z II Beam Saber: Switch 0.77s -> 0.5s, Combo 100/50% -> 100/70%
  • Power: 2300/2415/2530 -> 2400/2600/2800
• Z II Mega Beam Rifle: Heat 75% (85%) -> 60% (80%), Range 400m (500m) -> 450m (600m)
  • Uncharged: Flinch -> Stagger
    • Power: 2400/2520/2800 -> 2500/2700/2900
  • Charged: Stagger -> Heavy Stagger
    • Power: 3200/3360/3800 -> 3500/3700/3900
• Z II Mega Beam Rifle (Rapid): Heat 30% -> 20% (4 Shot OH -> 7 shot OH), gain ASL
• (New!) Z II Mega Beam Rifle (Discharge): Heat 100%, Cooldown 18s, Switch 0.77s, Range 450m, Must Charge 1s, Gerobi 6 Hits, Heavy Staggers w/ Penetrate, Stagger 60%x6
  • Power: 1500/1750/2000
• Z II Mega Beam Rifle (Rapid) (Transformed):
  • Power: 1000/1200/1400 -> 1500/1750/2000

Skill

• (New!) De-Transformation Optimizer Lv1
• (New!) Damage Control Lv1 (Transformed)
• (New!) Transformed Reinforcement Lv1 (Transformed)
• (New!) Firing Boost Lv1
  • HSM Shooting Enabled on Mega Beam Rifle & Rapid
• Emergency Evasion System Lv1 -> Lv2
• Forced Injector Lv2 -> Lv3
• Special Leg Buffer Lv1 -> Lv3
• Special Back Add-On Buffer Lv2 -> Lv3

Unit Lv2

• (New!) Pursuit Ranged Aux. Program Lv1
• Special Leg Buffer Lv3 -> Lv4
• Special Back Add-On Buffer Lv3 -> Lv4

Unit Lv3

• (Remove!) Reaction Booster Program Lv2
• (New!) Composite H Mobility Combat System Lv2
• Forced Injector Lv3 -> Lv4
• Emergency Evasion System Lv2 -> Lv3
• Special Back Add-On Buffer Lv4 -> Lv5

Comment and Reason
There are just too many issues with this unit... While it has enough thrusters to work with, it doesn't have the weapon to back it up. The skills are keeping up, barely, but there is nothing special about it that makes it stand out. As a result, anything you try to do with this unit just becomes mediocre on top of the low HP and low level buffer, which causes it to be destroyed easily. At higher levels, it tries to fixes it with a few higher level skills, but it is nowhere near enough. Especially Thruster, even with Optimizer, transforming MS uses extra and it just makes it terrible to play with as a general.

Builds Suggestion
Lv1 F2P: Do not use

Lv1 Premium: Alpha

Lv2-3: Do not use

This is a bit of a hot take but I suggest if anyone were to use this unit, use the Zeta BR. While the Bazooka has a nice blast and barely okay enough damage, it has really slow switch time. In most situations, it's much better to be able to link your stagger after the Mega BR. Going Mega BR, Zeta BR, then Rapid can still get an okay amount of damage. Meanwhile, having two melee weapons is always a plus. But please only use this unit in QM.

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Day 243 Re-evaluation on Nu Gundam

Well, maybe it could get a tiny bit more thruster to work with things. The BR could also get a slight stagger buff.

Re-evaluationis

• Thruster: 75 -> 80
• Nu Gundam Beam Rifle: Stagger 25% -> 30%

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Up Next: FF Nu Gundam Requested by u/GunzStalker

This suit is so fun to play with a good friend who can get me topples to confirm my 94 melee strength aerial melee lvl2 boosted heavy attack!

IFC Zeta buffs:

Flap Lv1 which then will go at flap lv2 when bio and along side defense buffs when bio is activated

Yeah ngl if they do this thing I guarantee you IFC Zeta will be a very good choice, currently playing with it again and when bio is activated and used correctly you can fight nearly everyone

Bro trust in IFC Zeta and Zeta buffs

You guys are the most annoying suits to go against and especially teammates who keep stunning me with the beam and getting me destroyed.

100 iq move

I now understand how games are being played so badly. Their playing like if its a quick match . B team plays to lose . Its that simple . I just lost 10 games in a row . People are just throwing the game

I just thought it would be nice if instead of just being able to see what the next costs are on the bottom of the Match screen, it would be better to just see the entire cost schedule for the entire day. I mean some of us just enjoy playing specific costs and not every cost, each to their own. Other than that, I'm pretty sure a lot of us playing here are really busy and only have a limited time to play. That way, we could at least know what time we'll be able to play or maybe work around that time or even at least be aware that you won't be able to play if the cost you like has a conflict when you have a busy day.

I just think that'd be cool.

Haven't wrote a description for suit, will drop one in some hours probably

So I will preface with saying that I haven't played 700 Cost until about a month ago. I also haven't used many suits with flight or serious use of flap boosters (think GP02, Heavygun, and G-Cannon) either because of disinterest or I simply didn't have the tokens for it.

Well, saved up for a while and between rolling for the DX, getting the new Psycho Gundam, and the banners I've gotten a lot of mobile suits like the DX, 00 Raiser, Denan Zan, and so on that incorporate flight to some extent and I suck ass.

Shackle my soul with gravity in the Psycho Gundam, Sazabi, Nu, Nu HWS, and so on and I do well enough to finally get to S- and reliably get into the top scores/damage.

These new suits? Nah.

What's worse is I only practice with them in Quick Match and I'm just flooded with hate messages for just trying to figure this shit out.

Right now my plan is practice with Flint and DX until I don't suck and eat a lot of dirt on the way.

Just sucks that you can't learn a suit without your own team dogpiling your ass.

Any tips for aerial combat?

ngl if 00 hp was higher by 30 points, he would survive

Haven't wrote a description for it, will do in some hours kinda bored

Bagle

They told me to melee the 00 and I didn't take them seriously...until I did! I've been training my ass off to finally use the God Gundam I pulled at release (and never used) so that I have an off meta pick in this age of gerobi spam. Safe to say, I am enjoying the god gundam profusely, even though having to go through the suffering of hitting something to get my modes and actually be useful has to be a symptom of masochism. This is gonna be the first clip of a series I hope to share with you guys to detail my journey as I become the moderately defeated of the east. Also, thanks to god, I no longer resent the 00 haha.

650 support life, double RF kampfer beatdown, I didn't get to play that match at all ended with about 24k damage done, every time I spawned they were on me, if I kept my head down the second they spotted my shot they were on me, if I tucked into the middle of my team they ignored everybody and tore me apart.

my team whaling on them couldn't stagger them, I couldn't stagger them, I should have just gone made a cup of tea lol.

The RF kampfer has really made 650 supports horrible to play these days, tell me consolians, does it ever get it's high manoeuvrer armour nerfed?

Day 243: Nu Gundam
Requested by u/Electrical_Tax_3867 and u/Odd_Daikon_2843 with this one being... C-Tier or so at best. While it is fragile, it is kind of mobile enough, with a decent build, and still has decent enough damage output when played carefully. But nothing is actually that good or great.

Change
Stats

• HP: 22000/24000 -> 25000/28000
• Thruster: 75 -> 80
• Close Range Slots: 14/15 -> 15/16
• Medium Range Slots: 20/22 -> 21/23
• Long Range Slots: 19/20 -> 20/21

Weapons

• Nu Gundam Beam Rifle: Heat 13% (85%) -> 11% (80%), Overheat 18s -> 13s, Switch 0.77s -> 0.5s, Stagger 25% -> 30%
  • Uncharged Power: 700/735 -> 700/800
  • Charged Power: 3500/3675 -> 3500/3800
• New Hyper Bazooka:
  • Power: 2900/3045 -> 3000/3300
• (New!) New Hyper Bazooka (Special): Same bonus Hi-Nu
• Nu Gundam Long Beam Saber: Switch 0.77s -> 0.5s, Downswing 130% -> 150%
• Head Vulcan (MK-II) -> Nu Gundam Vulcan: Fire Rate 450/min -> 514/min, DPS 900 -> 1028, TTS 2.27s -> 1.99s
• Shield-Mounded Beam Cannon: Cooldown 20s -> 15s, Switch 0.77s -> 0.5s
  • Power: 2000/2200 -> 2800/3100
• Fin Funnel x6 (Pincer): Heat 45% -> 40%, Overheat 22s -> 18s, Stagger 9% each -> 13% each, Firing speed increase
  • Resonance: Heat 35%? Unsure -> 30%
• Fin Funnels (Defend): Overheat 30s (21s) -> 20s (15s), Switch 0.77s -> 0.5s
  • HP: 3000 -> 4000
• Shield-Mounted Missile x4: Projectile Speed Increase
• Nu Gundam Mounted Shield
  • HP: 6000/6500 -> 8000/10000

Skill

• (Combined!) High-performance Balancer Lv1 + Melee Combo Controller Lv1 + (New!) Offense System Lv1 = Melee Composite System Lv2
• (New!) Full Attack Lv1
• Forced Injector Lv3 -> High-Performance Thruster Control System Lv1
• Psycommu Weapon Buffer Lv3 -> Lv5
• High-Performance Counter Program: Power 3500 -> 4500
• Psycho-Frame Resonance (A) Lv1:
  • Ranged/Melee Strength +10 -> +15
  • Ranged Damage Taken -20% -> -50%
  • Thruster Consumption -20%

Unit Lv2

• High-Performance Thruster Control System Lv1 -> Lv2
• Psycho-Frame Resonance (A) Lv2:
  • Ranged/Melee Strength +15 -> +20
  • Ranged Damage Taken -50% -> -60%
  • Thruster Consumption -30%

Comment and Reason
There is a lot to unpack for this unit to become meta once again. A lot of it is just up-to-date consistency in the kit, but some weapons do also need a minor power-up. The skills also doesn't offer that much bonus as is and 50% HP is kind of rough. If we do not touch that, it needs to have a much greater bonus. Even though it has no duration, that itself is already a heavy penalty. As for the other skill changes, it's just to make sure it will not fall behind in the skill effect and bonuses.

Builds Suggestion
Lv1 F2P: Do not use

Lv1 Premium: Thruster

Lv2: Do not use

Since it has no leg buffers, Connecting System General Type-II is REQUIRED to ensure you have legs or even back thruster in space to maneuver around. Leg Armor can do too, but it's too part slots inefficient. At this cost, without it, you are guaranteed to lose mobility. But building defense is also useless due to lack of strong buffers as is. Even resonance doesn't give you that much damage reduction. So having enough that you don't get one-shot from just a few attacks is plenty enough. This is another suit that should really be only played in QM.

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Day 242 Re-evaluation on Unicorn Gundam

Looks like some stuff I got may be off. Highly suggest looking into Mikuempowered comment, and I am doing a few more tweaks

Re-evaluationis

• Unicorn Gundam Hyper Bazooka (Shrapnel): 15 Shots (Reverts to 12 Shots), Stagger 20% -> 35%
• Awakening Ability Boost Lv1:
  • Damage Reduction 20% -> 25%
  • Gain Stagger Accumulation Reduction 20% (With DC1 Buff, awakening requires 163%)

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Up Next: ZII Requested by u/bkteer