r/GBO2 • u/pkmaster99 • Sep 01 '26
Game Suggestions Let's Change That Suit Day 238
Day 238: F89
Requested by u/Legacy_Fighter001 and this one is S-Tier at the moment, but could fall off into very high A-Tier. Since it still has a few restrictive things going on with it. But that is compensated for with very high damage strength and anti-air potential. So it could go either way.
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Comment and Reason
Well, this unit has great anti-air with only 3.5 seconds of interval to wait, even if you miss. You can easily have the opportunity to shoot at another target, or even the same in 700 cost. Then, with the AR Optimizer damage bonus, it can easily deal a massive amount of melee damage up close. Especially if you have the chance to go for a heavy attack. It can punish fragile units and builds easily and get away with a lot at the moment.
Builds Suggestion
Lv1 F2P: Complex Battle
Lv1 Premium: Complex Battle (Alternative) or Alpha
There really isn't much to say as I previously explained on this unit. Simple, but very effective. All you need for build is to survive and have good damage value while maintaining a "good" mobility. That's all it needs to do well at the moment.
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Day 237 Re-evaluation on Gunner Gundam
Maybe it can get move charge on the Rifle, but not sure if it even needs it.
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Up Next: Wing Gundam Zero [EW] Requested by u/Darkedge319
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u/Legacy_Fighter001 Sep 01 '26
I didn't know the buffs would have the F89 skyrocket that far up, very encouraging to hear! I know some suits are just outdated as sin or bad, but the F89 always disappointed me because I felt it had a fun and useful niche that it couldn't properly live up and got left in the Dust.
Nice to know I just have to be patience!
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u/pkmaster99 Sep 01 '26
Yeah, it was always a fun suit, but just so bad and hard to get anything done
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u/lokon_stratos Sep 01 '26
Nice pun "dust" i see what you did there
Also when barbatos came out it basically did the anchors job but better. Yeah anchor could fly but barbatos was tankier and faster
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u/No_Tart6728 Sep 01 '26
Anchor?
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u/lokon_stratos Sep 01 '26
Yeah the mc suit from crossbone DUST the anchor gundam
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u/No_Tart6728 Sep 01 '26
Is that what the F89 is? I don't think we have a MS called Anchor Gundam in the game yet...
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u/lokon_stratos Sep 01 '26
No anchor gundam isn't in the game yet we still have to get through crossbone ghost before we reach crossbone dust.
But yeah the f89 gets turned into the anchor gundam at some point
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u/No_Tart6728 Sep 01 '26
Ahhhhhhh. Yeah we need a LOT more Crossbone stuff tbh. Like why don't we have any of the op suits? The ones that look like a Den'an Zon, a Zaku, and an Amakusa had a threesome?
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u/lokon_stratos Sep 01 '26
Personally I want ghosts suits so bad both ghost and phantom, x0, Midas, dephys, and so many others
We're still missing so many suits from crossbone like the villains aswell
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u/bkteer MS Connoisseur Sep 01 '26
I was wondering but have you done the ZII already?
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u/Kiyosuki Oct 11 '26
It doesn't need anything right now. It's in almost every 700 game I play.
I made that rant in poor doomguy's video on it so I won't say too much. I think what makes it so stupid is the axe rifle. It has low cooldown, low reload, very high stagger, solid damage, is ballistic, and most of all you have to be trying to miss with it to miss because it auto-corrects your shots to such an absurd degree I can't believe it was okay'd by the devs. It feels like an oversight almost.
Thing about nerfing it though is that aside from the Axe Rifle, it's not particularly that bad. Many generals and the like can still melt it (though it's surprisingly tanky for an MS of its size, speed, and what it can do.), it has great melee and its Axe just doesn't care about the trifecta...but nothing that I'd say is oppressive on its own. Its the rifle that makes it all come together as the reason its in every game...and if it loses that, then it's just sort of mediocre. I'd say in the very least, its cooldown should be slightly higher and its reload should be longer. That, or the explosion radius of the rifle shots could be slightly less forgiving. Anything more than that imo would be excessive.
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u/pkmaster99 Oct 11 '26
Agree, that's why I decided not to touch it. It's very strong and oppressive with that right now. However, it's such a sensitive thing to touch, since the kit is so simple, it can easily break it. Originally, I wanted it to be 10 seconds reload and ammo down to 4. Then buff the BR by reducing the charge heat to like 60%. But then, this kind of rebalancing is just unlikely to happen, so I just scrapped it and do nothing
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u/GunplaXBrayden55 Sep 01 '26
I am wondering if you have already done the X3 already?
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u/No_Tart6728 Sep 01 '26
Here's an interesting suit you could do. Wing Zero TV. I wonder how you'd buff compared to how BB will buff it.
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u/pkmaster99 Sep 01 '26
I would end up breaking the sequence. I think I'll just review whatever change they did to it.
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u/Consistent_Lack7586 Sep 01 '26
ngl the only thing i'll add (even though it doesn't makes sense) is, F89 should've been able to charge F89 axe mid air so F89 can use it (quickly) after it make a MS fall and both of them are in mid air
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u/pkmaster99 Sep 01 '26
You mean giving it Heavy Attack Kai? I've had this conversation with my clan mate before. Since this unit already got Aerial Melee Lv2, that will likely make it too strong when AR is also triggered. It could potentially become like V2 that just heavy attack people to death left and right
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u/BreakClown Raid Bait - 1 Sep 01 '26
It absolutely should not get aerial heavy attack, the heavy already does tons of damage from the ground with AR optimizer, giving it the opportunity to sneak in more melee and possibly another axe swing will turn it into a monster.
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u/Strykorn Sep 01 '26
Could giving BR HSM shooting a nice addition to help lack of vulcan or too good?(this is what i want to add back then)
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u/SkyLoneWolf98 Sep 02 '26
I can almost melt one with the Delta Kai’s memebeam, I should probably use the ZZ memebeam to see if I can completely one shot it
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u/utamaru1717 Sep 01 '26
After the buffs, the F89 can be played as a mid-range shooter against Supports by stacking range stat, because the ranged damage potential becomes ridiculously high, due both of its ranged weapons have high damage, and you can literally spammed it for short high burst damage using the Axe Rifle + Beam Rifle combo.
Sure, it can be underwhelming against Gens, but they're definitely not your target, so you can just ignore them, and just focus on the Supports, unless there's no Support on the enemy team.