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• GM Light Armor(Raid): Kind of your only real option at this cost. It's got decent performance, maneuver armor, and a decent poke with its stripped beam rifle. Your biggest issue in this suit is going to be that 200 is infested with blue bazookas that will eat your lunch, but you're pretty much the only strong answer to yellow stacks.
• GM Trainer(General): The tutorial suit, but it's really great. Emergency Evasion, Melee Combo Controller, and very strong performance combine into a reliable suit that comfortably dominates the cost; basically the only problem is lacking a shield. Slap a bazooka on it and you're playing the meta.
• Zaku Cannon(Support): Handles like a beached whale and slow as molasses, but pumps out a ludicrous amount of damage when equipped with an MMP-80 machine gun and rips the bluezookas that infest 200 to shreds. The key to this suit is that it's not much of a sniper; it can score some long range cannon hits, but it operates best at mid-range with a machine gun as its primary damage source while using the cannon primarily for staggering purposes. As a bonus, the Zaku Cannon scales up the next couple of cost categories admirably, so it's a solid investment.
• GM Cannon(Support): Recently buffed to not be a joke suit, the GM Cannon now compares decently to the Zaku Cannon. It's a little more fragile but a little faster, trades the smoke for a shield, and has beam spray gun access for more precise shooting at the cost of not having anything to match the MMP-80's firepower.

• Gouf(Raid): The Gouf is decent. It's got extremely high melee damage for the cost range and melee combo controller 2, meaning that if you connect with the melee it's going to loving HURT. That said, your ranged option is kind of a joke, and the heat rod is very difficult to use but is your only ranged stagger option. Playing Gouf requires you to get decent at either landing the heat rod or landing raw melee, both which can be kind of tough against skilled enemies. That said, the payoff is definitely high.
• Zudah(Raid): An odd duck of a suit; despite being a raid, the Zudah is designed as a shooting-focused counter sniper utilizing its semi-unique anti-ship rifle. Hugely damaging and annoying with said rifle, relatively unimpressive without.
• Zaku II Kai(General): A very solid and balanced all around suit with no real weaknesses. It can carry a bazooka for stagger melee combos or an MMP-80[GN] for high DPS machine gunning and pull off both roles solidly. Basically the only downside to it is that heat hawk melee kind of sucks, but that's a common Zeonic suit problem.
• GM Command: The GM Trainer of 250+. Great performance, bazooka access, all the fixin's. The choice between this and the Zaku II Kai largely boils down to whether you like machine gunning or bazookas more; if you prefer MGs, go with the Zaku. If you prefer bazooka melee, the GM Command is the superior choice.
• MP Guntank: The first tank type MS, these types are unique. They have quite fast ground movement, but basically zero thruster capacity, and are nearly hopeless at defending themselves in close quarters. The tradeoff is that this is the first real artillery platform of the game, boasting powerful double cannons and cluster bomb launchers that can be cycled to gently caress enemies up fiercely at long ranges. Finding a good vantage point and hunkering down with this guy makes you a nightmare, but watch out for flanking raids.
• GM Light Armor(Raid), Zaku Cannon/GM Cannon(Support)

• GM Striker(Raid): Whew boy. This suit...exists? The 300 raid tier is kind of dire because suits in this cost tier take a huge step up in quality and several generals get introduced that utterly dunk on raids, so it's hard to play raid well here, and the Striker doesn't help. It's stuck with an MG, which means it has no reliable way to stagger at range, which means you need to land raw melee. The beam spear is at least super long and can poke from shocking distances, allowing you to follow up with your beam saber. It's okay, I guess, but definitely has a curve to it.
• Ground Gundam(General): The plain toast of 300s, but rock solid all the same. Rock solid performance, a half-decent chargeable beam rifle, and bazooka access make it a fine generalist for however you want to use it. Its unique flash bomb is another close range stagger, which allows it to edge around maneuver armor and seriously bully people and defend itself shockingly well. Also has the semi-rare personnel radar skill, allowing you to spot pesky cappers/bombers on your radar.
• Efreet(General): The Efreet is the primary reason why 300 is a nightmare for raids. Boasting the rare shotgun weapon, the Efreet has what amounts to a hitscan stagger at close ranges that hits multiple times, bypassing maneuver armor completely and opening you up to getting gutted like a fish by its extremely potent melee. As an added bonus, it also has smoke, so you frequently can't tell where it is! The Efreet is a close combat expert par excellance, a superb flanker, a great bodyguard unit for your supports, and an all around superior mobile suit for an absolute loving pittance of DP relative to how good it is. If you like close combat it's one of the best investments you'll ever make.
• High Mobility(HiMo) Zaku(General): If the Efreet is the close combat king and the Ground Gundam is the generalist, the HiMo Zaku is the shooting specialist of the 300 generals. Boasting a titanic ranged stat, access to the unique Simplified Missile Launcher weapon(which is effectively four bazookas taped together that fires in 4 shot volleys), and ludicrously powerful Cracker grenades with giant blast radii, the HiMo is a fearsome midranged combatant that can put on huge amounts of pressure. It's also fast as gently caress and unbelievably maneuverable, being the lowest cost unit in the game to boast Forced Injector.
• GM Sniper Custom(Support): An odd duck of a suit, but strong. This suit performs two roles based on primary weapon choice. With the default R-4 Beam Rifle, it's a precision sniper that likes to play at long ranges. With the Double Beam Gun, it's a horrifyingly deadly short to midrange skirmisher that piles on ludicrous amounts of DPS at the cost of lacking the ability to stagger opponents; this makes it extremely powerful when working in tandem with general teammates who make openings for you, but terrible at solo operations. Both playstyles are viable based on map and team composition, though a team with a double beam gun GM Sniper Custom will probably want a more conventional support as well.
• Ground Gundam[WR](Support): The same equipment loadout as the Ground Gundam, but with EE/Combo controller swapped out for standard support skills(radar extensions) and with the main weapon swapped for a powerful 180mm cannon. The WR is a sniper through and through, delivering pinpoint accurate powerful shots at long ranges. Unlike most supports, it's also very good at defending itself in close quarters, since it maintains the flash bomb. One of the safest and best supports at this cost, period.
• MP Guncannon(Support): If you prefer a more mid-ranged approach, the MP Guncannon is sort of like the evolution of the Zaku Cannon. It has powerful shoulder cannons for long ranged fire support and brutal machine gun damage to help out, especially once you upgrade to the dual MGs. It's very vulnerable to being attacked, so watch your positioning and you can pump out incredible DPS.
• Zudah, GM Command, Zaku II Kai, MP Guntank

• Try to take a suit as close to the maximum possible cost, give or take 50 points (so in a 450 point game take a 450/400 cost suit). Every 100-point tier usually carries a significant number of advantages over the previous tier, whether it's through sheer statistics or the suits available to you (which may carry skills that lower-tier suits don't have access to).
  
• Taking something undercost when you're learning the game seems like a good idea (because then you're not going to tank your team as hard when you inevitably feed), but it's a trap - you will wind up feeding the enemy team more and you won't be able to put out enough damage/flinches when needed. In essence, taking an undercost suit is putting your team a man down (which can cost you the game). Take a chance - feel proud - roll with the cost limit suit.
  
• The most important skill that you learn as a player is situational awareness, and you only learn this by playing the game. To develop it, remember to keep an eye on your radar when the action isn't too hectic to get a sense of where the enemy is at all time. Learning all the little details of the common rulesets is also part of situational awareness. I've seen teams that were completely outmatched in terms of skill and killing ability win battles because they knew that planting a bomb at the enemy base was worth a shitload of points during the last two minutes of a General Match and played accordingly.
  
• Engage with at least one or more teammates. Only morons think they can come out on top in a 1v2 situation. Note that this doesn't mean you have to be right next to them, just able to respond to threats together - for example, you can also engage enemies with your teammates by flanking them.
  
• Melee gangbangs look like a lot of fun, but it's generally a bad idea to have more than one suit engage a single enemy in melee. You'll usually wind up staggering the poo poo out of each other because most players will default to their horizontal slash (because hey, netcode can be bad) or the knockdown slash. This will usually end with the suit you're trying to kill managing to get away or the enemy supports shelling the poo poo out of you because you're all bunched up.
  
• What you can do instead is flank and provide ranged supporting fire - then you force the enemy player to either commit to the melee or try to disengage. But because you're already peppering them with ranged fire and not getting your rear end knocked on the ground by your ally, you stand a much greater chance of actually killing them when they run away because you never stopped engaging them.
  
• When you get destroyed, use the respawn time to quickly reflect on how you died. Did you get slaughtered in a 4v1? You probably overextended/dove when you shouldn't have (sometimes though you just have a bad team that fades away the moment they encounter resistance). Did you die in a 1v1 honorabru duel? Your enemy may have been your hard counter, or they just knew how to use their toolset appropriately. Were you killed by supporting fire? Try to pay attention the next time your enemy uses supporting fire and scatter a bit from teammates when you see the notice.
  

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