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Originally Posted by Eagles
The difference is that the Impulse could be taken out at any time, the Freedom is in a much more secure position and has to do much less work to achieve similar results. You can argue that any fight against grunts shouldn't be counted, but this goes against the way Destiny was directed. Shinn found himself in situations that required him to take large numbers of grunts rather than fight off a small number of named characters.
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So can Freedom. Much less work. Riiiggght. Except for the fact that Kira does not Full-Burst every five-seconds and disarm everyone which still requires a lot of skill as he has to aim every single beam of Freedom's cannons AWAY from the cockpit. Something Shinn doesn't need, because he doesn't care.
And besides, Kira uses Freedom's speed to basically disable everyone with his beam saber. Not with insane beam-spamming. Something that I can't say for Shinn. He took down 30 Windams with Force Impulse? How many did Lunamaria take down with Force Impulse? How many did Rey take down with Blaze Zaku Phantom? Hell, how many did Lunamaria take down with her pink Gunner Zaku Warrior? In conclusion, taking down Windams is NOT HARD TO DO.
Large numbers of grunts > Small number of named characters.
Are you kidding me? I thought you just claimed that CE grunts are terrible. How many beams did Shinn actually dodge? The Windams were basically moving target practices. Shinn had no real threat of getting shot down by them. Besides, even if he did get shot anywhere else that is not the cockpit, he could just scream : "Meyrin, ____ Silhouette, NOW" A luxury that Kira in neither Strike nor Freedom has but has to fight against skilled pilots which have suits of equal power to him. Even in Freedom. The three druggies, anyone? When Freedom was decapitated, he could not scream "Miriallia, Chest Flyer, NOW" and fight again.
In fact, in their battle, Shinn technically used TWO Impulses to beat Freedom. If he does not have the luxury of regenerating parts, he would've lost in the first few minutes of the battle as Force Impulse was already slashed to pieces.
In fact, when he gets Destiny, he does not even need to dodge, he just charges forward with Destiny's ASS with little disregard to the mobile suit's health, knowing that he would not get hit. Kira, at least, seems to take care of SF and dodges beam attacks from grunts.