5 WORST/WEAKEST Mobile Suit Weapons

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I always laugh at how Banagher hated the Beam Magnum at first for killing everything in it's path, then goes on to pilot a suit that is especially made to have multiple arms to use the thing.

The people writing UC lore - like the fact the Dom's chest beam originally was meant to be a socket to plug in beam weaponry - they need more recognition because it reads EXACTLY like real-world arms development and all the setbacks and compromises that come with it.

What a Genowaste

Gundam Universe scientist be like: We made this big ass gun, too strong for a mobile suit too handle. So, instead of putting it on a space ship, we over engeenered a outdated mobile suit.

4:14 “when I joined the core we didn’t have any fancsmansy tanks. We had sticks, two sticks and a rock for a hole platoon and we had to share the rock!” - SGT. Johnson

To be fair the Genoace was a product of centuries of technological regression. While the Vagan suits had nigh alien overtech by comparison. And awesome dragon modes.

Nether Gundam is one of my favourite Gundams. It's totally ridiculous... but it's actually genius. Neo-Netherlands are playing a long game.They are low ranked, and to improve their resources they NEED to get a higher place in the Gundam Fight. But they knew they didn't actually need to WIN, just do better. Getting to the finals is a great simple goal and they managed it masterfully. Anything beyond the finals was a bonus, and they outlasted many 'stronger' machines just by being smarter.

The story of the Nether Gundam and how it made it to the finals will always be hilarious. It's one of the most "Well, the rules don't say I can't roll to seduce the dragon", rules-as-written-abusing moments I can think of in fiction, and the tournament organizers had to have been like "Yeah, I guess that's fine, you got us there". Well played, Neo-Holland.

Nether Gundam: The one kid who passes most of the tests via a loophole until they reach the finals. Genoace: Beam Super Soaker and a wooden stick. Perfect for those hot summer days. Gundam Hammer: How Amuro Ray, Clotho Buer, and Loran Cehack didn't hurt themselves is beyond me. Chest Scattering Beam Cannon: The equivalent of mounting a flashbang on your combat vest. Beam Magnum: The equivalent of the Desert Eagle for giant robots. Awesome power but it's utterly impractical. G04's Mega Beam Launcher and Big Wig: The equivalent of draining all the house's power to run Crysis/Payday 2 and Team Fortress 2. In the Big Wig's case, running any modern game on a Commadore 64. Also, to answer the Big Wig's situation. Everything

I think the only time the Dom's chest scattering beam cannon worked effectively as a smokescreen/countermeasure in combat was when it was fighting against federation child soldiers in GM's, Guncannons and GM Cannons in the Thunderbolt sector. I wonder what it could do to a human standing infront of it, maybe it could be used like a vulcan gun.

The Gundam hammer make sense as a anti ship weapon when you realize how initial Fed MS beam weapons and its basic operations share the same fuel source.

From what i've seen, there was also a version of the beam magnum that could alternate between using full power and a lesser powered shot. And the unicorn gundam's weren't exactly meant to play nice with everyone anyway, they were Basically, a return to the titan's ideology of just kill everything in sight, friend or foe. Besides, they were usually on their own anyway, rather than being supported by a bunch of other mobile suits.

Honestly, for the RX-78-2, I’m pretty sure Tem Ray and the rest of the V-Project were given a blank check and near unlimited freedom to R&D MS that could outperform pretty much everything Zeon could make and honestly, I’d say it was completely justified

The Genoace is amazing because they want us to accept that a Mobile Suit fought a war for literally years and never once succeeded even by accident.

The Beam Magnum is more impractical than worst I feel. If allies knew how far to get out of the way to avoid the splash damage...

Another tidbit about the Dom's scattering beam gun in the chest. Sometimes it was actually deemed too costly in the mass production, and not even included. Meaning a lot of Doms and Rick Doms didn't even have the option to blind their opponents.

In defense of the Leo’s machine gun, up until the start of the show it was a perfectly fine weapon that filled it’s role just fine. Unfortunately people kept using the machine gun and Leo long after it had become completely outclassed.

The Gundam Hammer was, yeah, not especially practical, given the Beam Saber and Beam Javelin are both probably much more versatile, though some of the offshoots in AUs have their uses. The Mjolnir in Cosmic Era, if I recall, can block attacks when spun, which has obvious utility, at least.

2:07 No one complained when the Hurricane Megazord from Ninja Storm did the ultimate attack of unleashing a massive tornado with a windmill-like rotors.