GBO2 GM Quel: "The Titans are power!"

This video contains two matches I had with the LV1 and LV2 GM Quel on Gundam Battle Operation 2. It is a 400-500 cost raid with excellent strafing speed, an easy to use loadout, a throwable flash grenade that can instant stagger alongside it basically being able to play as a general as the need arises. Its weaknesses would be mediocre durability, mediocre melee damage, poor stun accumulation ability, high heat on the beam rifle and no real mid-range poking ability. This suit feels really unremarkable to play, it is basically a raid version of the GM Custom. It can carry the same beam rifle, has similar mobility (outside of also getting extra boost speed and Forced Injectors), has a similar reliance on combo swings and it also visually looks very similar at a glance. You aren't gonna be going on a rampage with high melee damage or anything with this suit, though you can make use of your great strafing ability to easily move around the team-fight. Both these matches went really well, though what I said about the poor melee damage will become readily apparent in the first match. I hope that you enjoy watching!
Its primary weapon at LV1 is a GM II beam rifle with 1500 power, 3.5 seconds cooldown, 90% heat, 17 seconds overheat, 0.77 seconds swap time, 300m range and 10% stagger value. This instantly staggers and has short cooldown time, though the 90% heat means you have a long effective cooldown time between shots unless you want to overheat it. This gives you more flexibility than a bazooka but the long overheat time can be an issue.
Its primary melee weapon at LV1 is a beam saber with 1900 power, 2.5 seconds cooldown, 0.77 seconds swap time and 70%/49% combo modifier. This has the easy to use Federation moveset alongside decent combo modifier, but the low base power means that you won't be doing much damage. You can overheat your beam rifle after a neutral side neutral melee combo to restagger them, but this of course leaves you vulnerable and without a stun temporarily.
Its first sub weapon is a regular head vulcan with 67 power, 30 ammo, 150m range, 498 DPS and 2% stagger value. This weapon is really trashy, with poor damage and inability to stagger enemies. This is only useful to finish off super low HP enemies.
Its second sub weapon is a hand grenade with 1100 power, 3 ammo, 2.5 seconds cooldown, 13 seconds reload, 1 second swap time and 50% stagger value. This has mediocre damage per shot but short cooldown time, making it alright at just getting damage out there when you can't close for melee.
Its third sub weapon is a thrown flash grenade with 0 power, 1 ammo, 14 seconds reload, 1 second swap time and 0% stagger value. This doesn't deal damage and lacks any stagger accumulation, but it can instantly stagger. This follows the same rules as the Dom flash beam, it needs to hit the front of the enemy and it can't hit a shield.
It also has a large shield with 3000 HP. This improves your survivability a little bit, but it boosts your walking and turning speed by 15% once broken.
The LV1 GM Quel has 14000 HP and 14 in every resistance. This is a little bit squishy, especially when considering how much damage the most dangerous generals can deal at 400 cost. If you blunder and end up caught in a melee combo then you are definitely losing most of if not all of your HP. It has LV2 Maneuver Armor and LV1 Emergency Evasion for defensive skills.
In terms of mobility it has 130 walk speed, 205 boosting speed, 65 thrust and 66 turning speed. This is decent mobility at a first glance, but it is even better than it first appears thanks to the suit walking side to side at 100% speed and backwards at 95% speed. Compared to the basic 80% and 70%, this makes you really good at strafing in and around cover. It also has LV1 Forced Injector.
Overall I feel like the GM Quel is just too weak to be used seriously. It doesn't have particularly good stagger ability, lacks a way to stun the transforming tank duo of 400 cost, lacks the melee damage needed to quickly put away supports alongside not being durable at all. In a 400 cost meta where even much better equipped raids are struggling to deal with overtuned generals, the Quel has absolutely no place. I think that it has deserved an extensive buff for a long time. I think that it should get 80%/64% combo modifier, 145% downswing modifier, unique vulcans with better stagger power and +1000 HP. This alone probably wouldn't be enough, so I think it might also be cool if it got the Hazel beam rifle as an alternate primary option. It used this weapon in Advance of Zeta, and it would fix the problems it has with the high heat GM II beam rifle. In its current state I really can't recommend the GM Quel unless you are needing an easy to play raid, or unless you want to handicap yourself by playing a weak suit. Thanks for watching, and I hope that you enjoyed it!
Music used:
Dynasty Warriors 7, Massacre Theatre
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2, Mirage

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[@haruhara_haruko]

2:43 double anchor moment

[@NephyrisX]

Yeah, from what I've used of the Quel, it's not the suit that's the issue but the subpar weapon selection. Even having an option of a bazooka would do wonders for it.

[@nm3k511]

This video alone helped me understand how to dominate on GM Quel in the recent patch that gave it a Bazooka to work with and Pursuit Melee Aux. Excellent Mobile Suit to use at Close to Mid range maps. Have yet to try on Impact Site, Military Base, or Supply Depot map(s) in terms of matches. If in long range map, recommended to go for a mobile suit that can fly by hovering or one that can poke with range. Efreet Natch may be effective on Impact Site due to blind spots during battles with proper camo.

[@popo74aa]

I always assumed this thing was a general, so pretty funny to see that it's a raid... And still it just plays like the most boring kind of general anyway, the bog-standard beam/zook feddy-downswing brawler I respect these kinds of suits in a fight, but I always want to be doing more than they allow with their limited kit, so I never play them. If I'm playing a 400 raid, it's gotta be Red Rider, High Boost, or GM TB.

[@AJGundam]

My face when "might makes right"

[@JamesTheTurnbull]

What IS even the meta per cost at this point? I feel like I'm flying blind half the time.

[@avenger1_gbo260]

For 400 cost it is pretty much dominated by shooting stun spam suits, at the very least suits have to flexible enough to shoot if they wanna stand a chance on some maps. It is very common to be stunlocked from miles away by a team of suits like Zudah F, GM Sniper II White Dingo, Gaza E, GM Sniper II, Guncannon Heavy Type D or even Nemo. The more typical generals that are viable here all have pretty good shooting ability; like Dom Stutzer, Zaku Stutzer, Dom Tropen or Gundam Marine Type. Really I would have to call it a hostile meta towards more stun+melee focused suits, which includes the vast majority of raids. On the right maps you can definitely play melee but on ones like impact site or supply depot, say goodbye to your legs cause if the enemy is good then they will have a firing squad team lol.

[@doktahexe9209]

1:18 that was so heavily read that it wasn't even funny, lol

[@LordAnubisGaming]

Titans?!?! *Jerid and Kamille screaming intensifies.*

[@muhammadihsanmohdghaus5339]

how long have you been playing this game? you seem to be able to predict most ms movement, weapon cooldowns and enemy behaviours.

[@avenger1_gbo260]

Since 2019. Eventually it just gets to the point where you understand what the average player is gonna do in response.

[@Bigpapa_Thugnasty]

​@@avenger1_gbo260and this is why I like playing against you

[@randyyeh7576]

@@avenger1_gbo260do u ever play on pc? I wanna play some rounds with u!

[@nm3k511]

The funny thing about this is I encountered a GM Quel using the same paint and logos, but with a different name during A+ rank on console. While they did not win the match by a clutch ko by via Marine Type Gundam against the Quel, they definitely got away with a lot of things as I was the support there.

[@r1l426]

What's your opinion on it after the buff?

[@matthewwong221]

how good would this thing be if they just buffed the beam rifle's heat rate and the Gm rifle?

[@avenger1_gbo260]

I think it would still not be good. Cause even if it had better stuns, the damage would still be bad.

[@Dr.pp4256]

I wonder why you can use a zook on it. Consider you have the beam rifle or a machine gun.

[@xXswagy0l0blazeit420]

I know this suit isn't supposed to be that special, but it's always been tagged in my inventory of suits that I'd most readily play with on a whim. It's always been a good performer for me.

[@AlimARazi]

Is 2 raids and 3gens the meta at artic base?

[@NephyrisX]

It's a viable composition given how small Arctic Base is. It's the same with Ruined City.

[@avenger1_gbo260]

It is doable but since 400 raids are kind of weak, I would probably prefer if one of them was replaced by a strong general instead.

[@tyronemailles9972]

This Titans suit lacks power

[@Gbo2_player]

I've never actually played the gm quel before, so i might try it out to see if it's actually trash or good (Update) I just tried the GM Quel, and it was overall not a bad unit, it was fairly balanced. But I'd prefer other units such as efreet custom than this. But it's still not bad.

[@Dr.pp4256]

Yeah it’s definitely a okay suit that really shouldn’t be used outside of 400 and maybe 450 even.

[@Gbo2_player]

What is your opinion on the efreet custom?

[@Dr.pp4256]

@@Gbo2_player Definitely useable at its native cost and can do work at 400 but lacks any way to get close especially if you’re being ranged by enemy gens. Monster melee damage and has a single insta stun, But has shit leg missiles that are slow and can be hard to hit sometimes. Wouldn’t recommend but if you can make it work go for it, It’s got some serious damage potential but lacks in closing the distance especially when gens at 350 and 400 have heavy stacker weapons to knock you out of ma and then stun with a follow up insta stun and then downswing you into oblivion.

[@Gbo2_player]

The leg missiles are a pain to use. They are slow to prepare which is why I don't use them most of the time

[@Dr.pp4256]

@@Gbo2_player Yup exactly they’re pretty bad and you really shouldn’t use them unless you’re running away as they can be fired while boosting I think i don’t remember and or if you can’t get into a fight always good to get a little damage to help out.

[@yagyuu_]

might try this suit out so i don't have to bust the old G3 all the time

[@quantizedanson]

G3 is 450 and Quel is 400, for Native costs. Maybe there is some sort of confusion? G3 is great even to this day because there aren't many consistent Range Raid on Native 450. One of its kind on LV1 cost at range Quel with such a low base melee power is even worse on higher LVs, with lackluster weapons and low damage melee. Don't bother with Quel, ppl will hate you for throwing. It is sometimes a troll suit even on Native LV1 for good reasons. EDIT : Read this video's description to get a better insight of the unit by avenger1

[@yagyuu_]

@quantizedanson no confusion here lol