GBO2 Zaku Flipper: The king of low cost stealth!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2023
- This video contains two recent matches I had with the LV2 Zaku Flipper on Gundam Battle Operation 2. It is a 300-350 cost raid with great mid-range harassment ability, high mobility, access to Stealth, access to anti-Stealth along with having spotting ability. Its weaknesses would be low HP, poor melee ability, lack of immediate burst damage to quickly kill supports and having long reload time for its instant stun options. I don't see this suit played much and I don't see many people talking about it, but I believe that it is one of the best options for raid at low cost. Your gameplan is basically to sneak around generals with your stealth and then harass the support with your anti-air gun, letting you play much safer than other low cost raids can. I hope that you enjoy watching!
The Zaku Flipper can choose between an MMP-78+grenade launcher, anti-air MMP-78+grenade launcher or a Zaku bazooka. The anti-air gun is the best choice here, since it gives you pretty good ranged harassment ability. At LV2 it has 800 power, 6 ammo, about 0.7 seconds cooldown, 10 seconds reload, 1.5 seconds swap time, 355m range and 55% stagger value. This appears to be a machine gun at first but it is actually more similar to rapid fire stun accumulation beam rifles found at higher costs. It demands accurate aim but it can quickly stagger accumulate enemies and spit out pretty good damage.
Its primary melee weapon at LV2 is its own bare fists with 1050 power, 2.5 seconds cooldown, 0.5 seconds swap time, 80% combo modifier and 140%x2 downswing modifier. This has incredible downswing modifier but the low base power of the weapon means it isn't exactly doing extraordinary damage. It is unreliable to connect another downswing on a knocked over enemy, so it is best to use this in hit and run attacks.
Its first sub weapon is a camera gun with 0 power, 100% heat, 15 seconds overheat, 0.77 seconds swap time, 500m range, 0% stagger value and 45 seconds of spotting. This inflicts the spotting status on an enemy, highlighting their MS' icon and HP bar through walls. It also causes yourself and allies to deal 3% more damage to them. This isn't directly useful most of the time but you may as well use it to mark raids or supports when you have the chance.
Its second sub weapon is a sturmfaust with 2520 power, 1 ammo, 15 seconds reload, 3 seconds swap time, 200m range and 80% stagger value. This has the usual weaknesses of sturmfausts like long swap time and swap time lag after firing, but the incredible power makes it worth it if you can close the distance a little.
Its third sub weapon is an MMP-78 attached grenade launcher with 735 power, 1 ammo, 15 seconds reload, 1.5 seconds swap time, 325m range and 50% stagger value. This has long reload time and poor damage, but it has splash radius and instant stagger like a bazooka. It is useful for self defence.
The LV2 Zaku Flipper has 13500 HP, 13 ballistic/beam resist and 10 melee resist. You aren't the most durable raid at 350 cost, which is kind of an issue when all the generals here are absolute monster raid hunters. So you should try to avoid direct combat whenever possible. You don't have LV2 Maneuver Armor or a dodge roll, but instead just LV1 Maneuver Armor.
It also has 125 walk speed, 200 boost speed, 65 thrust and 60 turning speed. Walking speed is kind of average but the high boosting speed makes it very effective at evading enemy generals on the way to the support.
Zaku Flipper also benefits from a host of utility skills to make life easier. These include LV1 Stealth which lets it stay off enemy radar if it is more than 100m away from an enemy, LV3 Anti-Stealth to see through any level of enemy Stealth, LV2 Anti-Jamming to nullify enemy jamming along with Observational Data Link which lets it share information about enemy HP levels with allies.
Overall I feel like the Zaku Flipper is seriously underrated for how powerful it is. It doesn't have the flashy melee damage of other raids, but trades it for a consistent and safe way of dealing with the enemy support from a distance. This means it doesn't have to risk getting close to monsters like Marine Gundam, Marine Zaku, Aqua GM or Zaku II Stutzer. Considering how well these counter the typical melee raid, there is no better option than Zaku Flipper for most maps in the game. The anti-Stealth abilities also means that it can counter other Stealth raids, basically completely nullifying Efreet Nacht's chances at getting in. I can highly recommend it if you enjoy playing raid at low cost and have the aim required to make the anti-air gun work. Thanks for watching, and I hope that you enjoyed it!
Music used:
Metal Gear Solid 2, Big Shell (Caution) and (Alert)
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2, Mirage - เกม
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I don't know if anyone else found this funny, but at 6:30, when Avenger is shooting at that Zogok, the anti-air gun syncs up with the music.
That, made me smile.
Each time I try this suit, I do great in the first couple minutes and then the rest of the match is me getting bodied left and right
Nice music choice here. I feel like I see this suit pretty often, it’s a really fun change from the normal raid play style.
Efreet Nacht: *You dare challenge me?*
I see a lot of people complaining about it online but it feels like a bit of a paper tiger tbh. Its stealth is basically fake cause jamming lets you know its close, and it only has 11000 HP.
@@avenger1_gbo260 lol I forgot it had jamming
Love using it when I actually join a space match.
I love using this suit because it is the ultimate troll in matches if done right (however if my team sucks, then it don't matter in the end....)
Especially in 350 cost because of Efreet Nacht's Stealth becoming useless
At this Cost I like to run the Zaku I Commander Type. So I've become very familiar with how terrifying the Flipper can be.
whenever I see this suit on the enemy team I groan as a low-cost support player, I know I am gonna stunned and then clobbered.
Luckily it's not played often enough for it to be a massive problem.
One of my favorite low cost raids to accompany a support with, just constant stagger combos. Especially in high elevations like the arctic area and the mountains.
Love it when you play mgs music when you play a stealth suit great video:)
Also mgs 2 is the first mgs game I played so even better
This is my favourite raid in the game. You can drive the enemy team into a panic with hit and run tactics. Their supports just can't last long enough with the AA shredding it
AA rifle is a menace. Good Job Carrying the whole team. Had a whole team once with 3 zaki f2s and 2 flippers running AA rifles it was so bad the enemy team disconnect and game match ended 😢
always love a Zaku
I have my Zaku flipper in Votoms scopedog Colors. I have a blast role-playing Chirico.
I recall this being a menace in the (not really recent) 300 ranked matches. Funny to hear it being described as underrated too LOL. I think raid players are just kinda addicted to flashy melee, so maybe they don't play it too much? It seems like a great choice for a general or support main who has to play a raid for team comp, IMO.
I personally played Z'gok for the ranked matches so I couldn't comment on it's performance but it seems good. I can understand why it was so popular.
Give me six levels of this suit and I'll break the meta in half. Love this lil bug fella
This is my raid of choice at 300, aqua GM my gen, and Zaku DA my support.
I love ranged raids, but I honestly don't know why I haven't used the Zaku Flipper. Maybe it's a mix of finding most camera units kind of weak, and having a bad experience with the AA gun early on when I first started playing.
Though I noticed a GM Sniper with the beam sniper instead of the bazooka as the other teams support, and was wondering your opinion on that suit, especially when it's at 300 and the Missile version with balancers isn't available.
Is that suit any good with the R-4 sniper, and is the ML version any good with it? I've been using the Bazooka on the ML version to easier set up melee attacks and missiles. What are your thoughts on this suit and the weapon they chose?
how on earth do you consistently land those melees? People always magically counter me without any forewarning.
Make sure to hit them with the knee. It's a fast start-up downswing if the knee hits, but if you miss the knee then it basically becomes much slower to connect with. So just be closer I guess.
I’ve never played with this one, how does the stealth work?
You wont show up on Radar and Health bar wont pop up until you engage,best to keep your eyes peeled looking for any movements to prevent getting sneaked up on
She raiden on my metal gear till I’m solid.