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Originally Posted by Dean_the_Young
Out of curiosity, why do some people say that the pilots of Celestial Being are horrible and rely solely on their Gundams and so on? The only pilot to be outmanuvered (because the enemy planned tactics specifically for him) was Tieria and the Virtue, who relied on his (only) two weapons and tried to overpower the Tierens with the GN drive. Tieria was the one saved solely by his mecha, so I could understand him, even if I would argue that the NG-004 is not a deus ex machina.
But Allelujah was only captured because of Soma's presence. And while you could argue that the Kyrios broke out of its container solely due to its strength, that has nothing to do with its tactics. The only proper fighting Kyrios did was against Ming, who willingly threw himself to his death, just trying to push the Kyrios away from the retreating Sergei and Soma. Had he done that to a Union Flag, he would have been just as dead.
Setsuna fought with the twin restrictions of both being a short-range fighter and having to stay close to the Ptolemy. Setsuna doesn't get drawn out by the lure, he doesn't just rely on his armor to keep him safe, and he spends most of the time dashing to and fro trying to keep off the enemy MS, and still manages to cut a few. He doesn't just rely on his MS to tear though the opposition, which is what they try and goad him into doing.
And Lockon could hardly be said to have a major advantage in this fight. He was immobile and faced with an easily exploitable blind spot, his targeting computer was majorly off, he couldn't fire at MS close by for fear of damaging the ship, and was constantly covered by the GN barrier. He fought despite his mech, not because of it.
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Because Setsuna, who fought aganist a supped up flap was hit and retreating despite his superior suit, the second time around, he's suits head was almost ripped of by sergie, and he won because he's suite had more out put and more weapons, the other time when fighting against the mercs he was losing until his suits better weapon was able to destroy Ali's close range sword, again with the mobile armor, he took several torpedo hits again, thanks to his suite he survived. Seeing a pattern here?
Virtue, after getting his shots dodge was about to lose until he revealed something the enemy didn't know, and Kyrois's pilot seemed to have one too many screw lose to be piloting anything, hence, in comparsion to pervious Gundam Ace's they seem to lack (so far) the aptitude for MS combat.
Lastly, a good pilot would have been able to evade those tactics in the first place, in other words, a true ace would not have been stupid enough to place himself in such a tight spot to begin with.
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