GBO2 RX-178 Gundam Mk-II: The most powercrept general in GBO2 history?!

This video contains two matches I had with the LV2 and LV4 Gundam Mk-II on Gundam Battle Operation 2. It is a 500-650 cost general with quick strafing speed, pretty good melee damage and high melee priority. It suffers from having poor durability, no meaningful ranged damage output, lackluster stagger accumulation and a lack of a reliable follow-up stun. I have always liked playing this suit, I racked up over 400 sorties with it back when it was in the meta (and for a little while after that too), but it has had an ugly fall from grace. It is now at the point where we have 500 cost generals like Gundam Unit 7 that have practically the exact same playstyle and gameplan, but on a suit that can actually be considered good. I hope that you enjoy watching!
The Gundam MKII can choose between a beam rifle or bazooka for its primary weapon, but I used the bazooka in both matches. At LV2 it has 1785 power, 10 ammo, 6.7 seconds cooldown, 14 seconds reload, 1.77 seconds swap time, 355m range and 80% stagger value. This is a very reliable bazooka with average cooldown time and lots of ammo, basically making it a 500 cost version of the low cost hyper bazooka.
Its primary melee weapon at LV2 is a beam saber with 2625 power, 2.5 seconds cooldown, 0.77 seconds swap time and 60% combo modifier. This has above average combo modifier and high power, making it capable of doing pretty good damage. It also benefits from the easy to use and wide hitting Federation saber moveset. Since it has high melee priority, you can sometimes aim to swing through enemy generals that are currently attacking your allies
Its first sub weapon is a vulcan pod with 95 power, 90 ammo, 600 RPM, 13 seconds reload, 0.5 seconds swap time, 180m range, 900 DPS and 2% stagger value. This would take 5 seconds to stagger on its own, but somewhat makes up for it with having high DPS for a vulcan. It can break regular MA in 1.5 seconds if you combo after a bazooka shot though.
Its second sub weapon is a birdlime launcher with 315 power, 1 ammo, 25 seconds reload, 1 second swap time and 0% stagger value. This fires a low damage stun projectile in an arc, making it useful for restaggering in close combat before melee. Though it has very long reload time.
The LV2 Gundam MK 2 has 16500 HP, 18 ballistic/beam resist and 24 melee resist. It has quite poor durability, you really can't afford to frontline like this, so try to make use of your good side to side walking speed to avoid taking much risks. It has LV1 Emergency Evasion as its only defensive skill.
In terms of mobility it has 130 walk speed, 210 boost speed, 65 thrust and 69 turning speed. It has alright mobility overall, but it is really carried here by walking left/right at 95% speed and backwards at 90% speed, compared to the standard 80% left/right and 70% backwards that most other suits get. It has LV1 Forced Injectors and LV2 Flight Control as is pretty much standard, but starting at 600 cost it gets additional walking speed, boosting speed, turning speed, thrust and LV2 Forced Injectors.
I feel that the Gundam Mk-II is basically completely pointless now. It has been considered mediocre for a while now, but the release of the Gundam Unit 7 has further cemented it as a weak suit. Unit 7 has a roughly similar bazooka primary (it can also choose a beam rifle with superb charge shot damage and stagger accumulation), 5 more walking speed, superior strafing speed modifiers, identical durability, slightly better melee damage if doing triple downswing combos and much better sub weapons for accumulation+follow-up staggers. It gets even worse when you compare it to the Perfect Gundam that is currently rampaging at 550 cost, there is absolutely no hope at 600-650 cost either. If this suit is ever to be good again then it will need to get 135 walk speed for 500-550 cost, a shield missiles sub weapon and better stagger accumulation for the vulcans. The only real advantage that Mk-II has in this day and age is high melee priority alongside having all its melee damage frontloaded in one weapon, but this does not make up for the massive list of weaknesses it has. One of my next two videos will be on the Gundam Unit 7, which I hope will demonstrate the absolute massive gap in performance between itself and the Mk-II. Thanks for watching, and I hope that you enjoyed it!
Music used:
Super Dragon Ball Z, Enma's Palace (Below)
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2, Mirage

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[@miyasaki9776]

One thing I always admire in your videos is that you have a keen sense when to NOT follow up and instead reposition to a better target/situation. Too often the tunnel vision is my downfall but your videos inspire me to break out of that habit.

[@Nomadic_Gaming]

the fact the level 4 is still somehow 3 star and only expansion lvl 1 for slots is ridiculous for a tier 4 650 cost suit imho

[@somechinesedude5466]

EVERYTHING, EVERY META
Was built upon this foundation
So it was indeed powercrept HARD, it is the foundation

[@SuperNova0079]

Still one of my favorite suits to play despite its age and its simple kit. Its so much fun to play.

[@Jarchizzle84]

At they end of the second match, you can tell they were sick of you and that downswing lol that was killer moves and the power of the overturning was awesome!

[@Nekrosmas]

As far as I see it, it's the MS that really started the cycle of powercreep of today.
It was so incredibly powerful when it came out it absolutely trumped the GP01 (which is a 550) as a 500, new MS balance since then slowly been thrown into the deep end.

[@Phenex04]

Incredibly ironic since the mk2 would be a massive leap ahead over gundam unit 7 in reality. Very sad indeed

[@TheNervexLieutenant]

God I love the Mark II, probably what I’d honestly say is my main, but it could definitely use some love. My idea would be to throw its hyper bazooka in alongside its beam rifle that way it gets two primaries as standard load out but you could swap between solid rocket and shrapnel

[@somechinesedude5466]

Dijeh : am i a joke?

[@WildArmACF]

It could really use a buff. I like the MK2 but it really is out of date.

[@TheNervexLieutenant]

@@somechinesedude5466 I mean it could get both, I just didn’t want to buff it to much that they’d have to nerf some part of it in return

[@Spiker_04]

Excellent fronting! And good theme too. You know where this vids going. To the favorites folder with you.

[@andrelouro1862]

The devs keep on hating the main protags gundams. But honestly since i main gramps up to 450 cost, It's a walk in the park to change from gramps to Mk-II so i fare so well and i'm used to main this one
Thats says a lot about the current state of the MAIN PROTAGONIST AND LITERALLY THE FACE OF THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE RIGHT NOW. Can't wait for Gundam Breaker 4 so i can have an actually good and (i hope) bug-free Gundam game for PC

[@TruckerJj2]

with how fast pretty much every single modern suit is (regardless of cost) i really feel like they should just buff the speed (move, top, turn, mobility skills) of a ton of suits from before the last 2 years

[@DeathUsagi]

Wish its Rifle cooldown and Torimochi reload time was shorter

[@konata8894]

I miss playing this suit. Time to take it out and have fun with it.

[@R7_Zenny]

Have you considered revisting the OG Zeta? I think it's another case of a suit getting power crept out of it's native cost.

[@chaosgreyblood]

Kinda odd that you haven't done a vid of the GP-04 after it got its buffs in January.

[@parmiarmi3945]

I LOVE THE MK-II THOUGH

[@Latrell125]

Day one of asking Avenger to revist BD2 at 550

[@miyasaki9776]

Due to a combo of latency and lack of skill I enjoy "frontloaded" melee suits like the Mk2 and the Unit 5 as I tend to play more opportunistic when piloting those. I wish the Mk2 was more durable to justify it's General spot, but I've had some measure of success being more concious of the pretty durable shield it has since the buff.

[@CsStrez]

Local Bully Not So Tough After Being Powercrept

[@schr0dingersrebecca693]

I mean, you can't beat that Melee priority 3. Can bully most raids.

[@sulthansyarief4933]

Please also do Blue Destiny 2 on 550

[@spanner5995]

so laggy lol
I have a genuine question: is it fun to play in such a laggy environment with no access to proper game knowledge?

[@avenger1_gbo260]

look at my channel and find the answer yourself lol

[@himbo84]

​@@avenger1_gbo260 This spanner guy seems like a bit of a tool idk if watching your backlog is going to change his mind

[@spanner5995]

@@avenger1_gbo260 I respect you for being able to play in such a laggy environment.