Savage For The Winjun fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Oct 10, 2017

• Don't let yourself get sucked into the mentality that being on a lower cost suit means that you're free to die more. While technically correct, if you pick a 200 or a 300 and zerg in and suicide you risk making the game immeasurably harder for your teammate, who now has to play significantly more cautiously. Generally, due to overcost mechanics, you want the higher cost person on the team to die first, which means that the lower cost suit needs to be relatively adept at movement and positioning to make sure they don't get popped with their lower performance.
• Following from that point, don't be afraid to try and learn higher cost suits. They might feel intimidating, but they are actually pretty nice for new players because their high performance means you've got a lot more boost to play around with, and almost all of them have a much more powerful and versatile arsenal to work with than lower cost suits.
• Pay attention to your movement. Efficient movement is the heart and soul of getting good at these games. A mechanic the game does not adequately explain is that your recovery time on landing is directly proportional to how much of your boost gauge was remaining when you landed; this means that the more boost you expend before taking a landing, the longer your recovery time before you can begin moving again. Low boost and overheat landings are highly risky and are what your opponents will be watching for to shoot you in the face. To prevent this, you want to move efficiently, try to stick low to the ground unless you absolutely need to rise over an attack or an opponent, and try to land at green or better boost as much as possible.
• Following from that, you want to mix up your landing timing as much as possible to screw up your opponents' punish timing. Fluttering(tapping your boost button once or twice to slow down a fall), normal falls, and boost dives should be mixed liberally to make it hard to read your rhythms.
• Learn to mix in sidesteps to your evasion. You can boost around ranged gunfire, but it is generally more efficient and economical to simply sidestep once, as sidestepping cuts the tracking of any projectile currently heading your way. You can combine sidesteps with other movements(sidestep into boost dive being a big one) to make your movement a lot trickier and more evasive.

• Nu Gundam: A very balanced suit that can basically perform any role well with no glaring weaknesses.
• Sinanju: Highly maneuverable, with punishingly good melee tools. Solid ranged game, but definitely wants to play aggressively and get in there.
• Turn X: Another all-rounder, the Turn X has a very basic meat-and-potatoes beam rifle/bazooka shooting game with some tricky stuff to be done with its part purge funnels and its gerobi(large, continuous beam).

• Freedom: This suit is sort of the sampler platter of Gundam Versus tools. It has everything; high maneuverability, solid melee, a strong beam rifle, good easy knockdown tools, a devastating punish in the form of the HiMAT, and tricky barrel roll shenanigans.
• Banshee: This is where I'd recommend people wanting to expand into super mode suits start because the Banshee is effectively training wheels for super modes because your normal form is also fantastic. Normal form has an extremely powerful neutral game with a reloadable beam magnum and bazooka combo and NT-D mode amps everything up to 11 and basically makes you a 500 for the duration with brutally fast movement and melee.
• Providence: This suit is a good place to start if you want to learn how to operate funnel suits effectively. It has a ton of ammo to work with, the two modes of your BC(the beam house or the shotgun set) give you a ton of suppressive power beyond just making GBS threads funnels at people, and it's fast and good in melee as well.
• Gottrlatan: Probably my favorite 400 of the lot, this suit combines best-in-class mobility with incredibly fast and hard to interrupt melee. A solid beam rifle combines with a map-sized missile barrage and a ridiculous gerobi(large beam) with two shots and multiple fire modes that also poo poo hugely damaging missiles to make this thing a huge threat at range as well.

• Slave Wraith: This guy is one of the most everything-but-the-kitchen sink suits in the game, with a ton of tools that on their own would be mediocre but together make the suit a fantastic swiss army knife. It's got good ranged pressure with a beam rifle and a bazooka charge shot, good melee defense with a fast machine gun and its flashbang, solid melee for a shooty 300 and has good mobility too. Can't really go wrong here.
• Gabthley: A suit built around a very basic, but solid arsenal. Its sub shooting is a 360 degree beam shot that can be chained from its main to allow you to finish ranged combos without being too spendy on the ammo and it has an extremely fast gerobi to punish landings and get damage swings. It also has shockingly good melee when it needs to use it.
• Throne Zwei: A good suit for people wanting to learn how to be a lurking backstabber, the Zwei is all about being an opportunist. Your ranged tools are adequate enough but aren't going to win a prolonged gunfight; your ultimate goal with this suit is to try to land stuns with your Fangs and your beam saber toss and then land melee punishes on helpless targets when you have the opportunity to strike. This is the MO for a lot of suits like Sandrock, Deathscythe, and Barbatos as well, and I feel this is the easiest suit to learn that gameplay style on due to its lack of wacky special movement or toggle modes.

• Marasai: Mash that loving beam rifle until your fingers bleed and land your gerobi whenever somebody approaches you or takes a greedy landing. The suit of choice for someone who doesn't want to think about how to use their suit's tools and just wants to worry about their movement and the match flow.
• Vigna Gina: Super fast and with tons of cool cancel routes to play with, this suit has a lot of weird movement options that make it quite unique to play. This suit's beam rifle cancels into almost every other button and some of the buttons also cancel into each other so you can do really unpredictable things once you get the hang of it. It excels at pretty much any range and can run circles around higher cost suits quite easily if played well.
• Rezel: A very basic but solid shooting toolkit lets this little guy punch above his weight. This is a good place to start if you want to learn how to do mobile armor form stuff, since he benefits heavily from getting a lot of use out of his AC(default L2) in mobile armor form.

LuiCypher fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Oct 12, 2017