Beginner's Guide: Tips & Tricks
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Our Beginner's Guide explains everything a Gundam UC Engage beginner needs to know. Read on to know how to get the best starter gundam, how to get enough diamonds, how to set up Haro Coin farms, how to level up fast, how to upgrade your mobile suits and pilots, how the combat system works, how to play arena, how to join a clan, how to get modules, and more.
List of Contents
- Gundam UCE Beginner's Guide
- Beginner's Guide Overview
- Reroll Until You Get Powerful Units
- Use UR Selector Tickets For S Gundam
- Get Enough Diamonds to Get More Rolls out of the 72-Hour Banners
- Complete Beginner's Trial
- Level Up Fast With Practice Stages
- Upgrade Your Mobile Suits And Pilots
- Learn How the Combat System Works
- Set Up Haro Coin Farms
- Play Arena to Get Arena Medals and Buy MS Blueprints
- Join a Clan for More Diamonds
- Play Co-Op for Modules
- Consider Purchasing Grade Up Sets
- Related Guides
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Gundam UCE Beginner's Guide
Beginner's Guide Overview
The most important thing that you need to understand as a beginner it that you'll want to spend your early game collecting as many Diamonds
This way, you will be able to pull for meta
If you're having trouble with Gundam U.C. Engage's early game, we have a series of tips you can follow from the moment you've created your account up to when you start playing Co-Op to obtain stat-boosting modules.
Reroll Until You Get Powerful Units
Rerolling
- Log into the game
- Choose a name for your account
- Claim your free currency amounting up to 30 pulls (or more, depending on the concurrent event) from your Gifts
- Try your luck and pull for a unit from the 72-Hour Limit MS Unit Assembly Banner
- If you did not get the units you wanted, tap the sandwich icon on the bottom-right of the home screen
- Tap the sandwich icon on the title screen and hit Create New
- Repeat until you get the units you want
Right after creating your account, you have one priority only: Pulling the best units you can from the 72-Hour Limit MS Unit Assembly Banner, as well as the 72-Hour Limit Character Unit Assembly Banner.
You will have a total of around 15000 Diamonds, which is equal to five 10-pulls on either banner right at the start. We recommend using the 72-Hour Limit MS Unit Assembly Banner first, since mobile suits can be used without pilots, but the pilots are useless without mobile suits.
Since making a Gundam UCE account is easy, you can simply claim the Diamonds from the Home Screen, do 10 pulls five times with your banner of choice, and if you don't get the units you need, then simply make a new account and try again.
When rerolling, we highly recommend aiming for any of the units below and getting at least one or two of them:
 The-O (Purple)
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 Quin Mantha
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 Methuss
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 Geymalk
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 Zeta Gundam (Waverider)
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 Gyan
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The-O (Purple) or "Purple-O" is the game's best tank with ridiculously overpowered defensive features and strong AoE capabilities. Look to acquire the Purple-O at all costs.
Quin Mantha is a very powerful bruiser thanks to good defense, respectable damage, and access to the Assault status.
The Methuss is a healer that can resurrect Blue-type units, making it a great support for the Quin Mantha and other Blue-types.
The Geymalk is your premier PvE backline DPS unit, while the Zeta Gundam (Waverider) is an anti-status effect unit with great damage.
The Gyan is the game's best support that draws enemy aggro towards your Armored units, protecting your key units in the process.
If you're unsure about which mobile suits you could find in a banner, tap on the button that says "Drop Rates" on the lower right hand corner of the gacha screen. You can also try out gacha simulators to test your luck before rolling for real.
Use UR Selector Tickets For S Gundam
As for your UR Ticket Mobile Suit and Pilot Selectors, we recommend getting the S Gundam with Roux Louka as its pilot so you will have a decent starting ranged attacker that often deals critical hits.
Get Enough Diamonds to Get More Rolls out of the 72-Hour Banners
Once you've got some strong units from the limited banners of your choice, it's time for you to start farming Diamonds - the main currency in Gundam UCE that's used for pulling more units.
Try to make as many diamonds as possible and use them to pull from the 72-Hour MS or Pilot banners again before they expire, so you can have a shot at getting good mobile suits or pilots. Remember, these banners will permanently be gone 3 days after you've made your account.
After these banners expire, watch out for Extreme Limited and Super Limited Unit Assembly banners. From those banners, you can pull for featured units and units from previous banners that aren't available on the regular MS and Character Unit Assembly banners. Save your diamonds for when these special banners are up..
You can buy Diamonds from Gundam UCE's Diamond Shop. But for those who want to farm free Diamonds, there are two ways you can do so this early in your playthrough: Grinding the Main Quest, and grinding events. Luckily, tackling the Main Story is completely free of any AP charges for as long as your Player Rank is 30 levels below the maximum.
Also, note that your Player Rank determines the content accessible to you. Clearing missions will give you player EXP that will help you push to higher ranks. Getting to Player Rank 161 as fast as possible will give you access to other game modes you can farm Diamonds and other resources like the Arena, Clans, Cooperative Battles, Events, etc.
Thanks to an update in mid 2025, players can now get new accounts well over Level 161 within a day.
How to Raise Your Player Rank Fast
Complete Beginner's Trial
The Beginner's Trial is, by far, the best method for low-level Gundam UC Engage players to learn the game, level up, and catch up with the rest of the players. This game mode can be found under Events and is a set of battles that costs 0 AP for any account below Player Rank 160.
Here, the event will teach you about the different mechanics of the game from combat, team setup, and even unit upgrades. There are two types of missions in this mode.
The first are the Trials, which are battles with preset units that reward you with valuable things such as useful new units, dedicated Custom Tickets for the unit rewards, heaps of Unit Enhancement Pts., and even 2,250 Rainbow Haro Coins.
 Hyaku Shiki
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 Gundam + G-Fighter
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 Gundam Ez8
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The notable units that you'll earn in this game mode are these 3 listed above. Hyaku Shiki inflicts Unavoidable on all enemies, forcing them to take damage regardless of evasion/Absolute Evade. Gundam + G-Fighter is a very well-rounded backline DPS unit. Ez8, on the other hand, is a support that increases the entire team's crit rate and critical ATK.
Next, there are the Practice stages, which each reward you with 4,000 Player EXP, EXP leveling materials, 50 UR Custom Tickets, Coins, and Skip Tickets each time you complete it. These stages will be the key to you reaching Player Rank 161 in no time, which we'll explain in the following section below.
Level Up Fast With Practice Stages
The Practice stages in Beginner's Trial are free of any AP charges, and there's no limit to how many times you do it per day. You could just use as many Skip Tickets as you want to get Player EXP and loads of UR Custom tickets for pretty much free.
With these missions, you'll level up extremely fast. You could do the same with the Mobile Suit Alteration Plan, but you earn more rewards and way more EXP per ticket from Beginner's Trial Practice stages anyway, so opt to skip those battles instead.
One thing to take note of is that the Main Quest is also free of any AP charges, but only when your player rank is 30 ranks below max. You'll want to try and 3-star as many Main Quest missions while they're still free, so you don't have to come back to them when they're no longer free. That said, you should pause your Beginner's Trial grind when you're 40 ranks below the maximum to do Main Quest missions.
Grind the Main Quest
The Main Quest will be your main source of Diamonds in the early game of Gundam UCE. As long as you clear a mission with a 3-star ranking, you can get 90 Diamonds from the 3 stars alone, and more from your Achievement Quests.
If you followed our previous tip, you should be 35-40 ranks below the maximum Player Rank, which means that you already have the means to easily complete all the Main Quest missions. It's going to take you a while, but the grind is well worth the Diamonds you'll earn.
The Diamonds are the main quest's biggest rewards, and they're only claimable once. You could earn other resources from the main quest, such as Alteration Materials, but your AP or Skip Tickets are better off spent elsewhere, such as Fragment Quests and events, as their rewards are often far more beneficial.
Additionally, Alteration Materials are far less valuable than UR Custom Tickets, and the Beginner's Trial rewards UR Custom Tickets on top of high player EXP. That being said, complete each main quest mission only once, unless you really need the Alteration Materials, which is very unlikely if you play the optimal way and earn plenty of UR Custom Tickets.
Upgrade Your Mobile Suits And Pilots
There are several ways to upgrade your Mobile Suits and Pilots. For mobile suits, you can use the Unit Enhancement, Transcendence, Skill Rate, Alteration, Potential Unleashed, and Level Up systems. Each method requires different materials that you can obtain through various means. Some resources are much harder to acquire, while others are very easy to come by. Pilots, on the other hand, are much simpler to strengthen. They only have the Potential Unleashed and Level Up systems, so it's much easier to improve their stats.
Keeping your team in tip-top shape is essential to keep winning fights. This is especially true if you plan on taking on the game's tougher stages, such as the Arena.
Gathering resources for some of the upgrades (such as Transcendence) can take a long time because of how tough it is to gather the resources necessary, like Haro Coins. Just keep pushing and patiently grinding, and you will be able to build your units bit by bit.
How to Strengthen Your Mobile Suits Guide
Learn How the Combat System Works
Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. Engage is a game of positioning units correctly. To position units correctly, you need to know what kind of mobile suit counters another kind of mobile suit. The kinds of mobile suits in this game are divided into two: Types and Categories.
"Types" are the color of the mobile suits that dictate what unit they have an advantage and disadvantage against - similar to "Rock, Paper, Scissors." In Gundam UCE, Red-type units beat Green-type units, Green-type units beat Blue-type units, and Blue-type units beat Red-type units. Meanwhile, Yellow-type and Purple-type units are strong against each other and have no advantages or disadvantages against Red, Green, and Blue-type suits.
| Type | Beats | Weak Against | Row Placement |
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| Raid | Bombardment & Sniper | Armored | Front |
| Armored | Raid | Bombardment & Sniper | Front |
| Generic | None | None | Center |
| Bombardment | Armored | Raid | Back |
| Sniper | Armored | Raid | Back |
| Close Combat | Armored | Raid | Front |
| Support | None | None | Center |
"Categories," on the other hand, are the roles that Mobile Suits take on during battle. There are seven Categories in-game, and each one of them has a special role in your team.
- Raid - Frontline melee units that are quick but tend to be fragile. They typically need to evade to stay alive. Strong versus Bombardment and Sniper units.
- Armored - Designated tanks in battle that can absorb high amounts of damage while having different gimmicks to sustain themselves, from self-healing to DEF buffs to higher EVD on top of high DEF. Strong versus Raid units.
- Generic - Multi-purpose units that excel in numerous situations, including ranged fighting and providing buffs and inflicting debuffs. Strong versus no one, but weak versus no one as well.
- Bombardment - Glass cannons that you should keep in your backline. Strong versus Armored units, especially.
- Support - Support units that specialize in providing useful buffs to the rest of your team. Similar to the Generic units since they have no strengths or weaknesses.
- Close Combat - Frontline melee units that are not as fragile as Raid units and can excel in melee combat. Strong, especially versus Armored units.
- Sniper - Units skilled at being accurate at long ranges. Particularly strong against Armored units.
Mobile Suit Categories Explained
Note that these won't always be the case, and the list above is only there so you have a good idea of what each category typically does. A lot of Raid units actually aren't really that good for melee combat since most of them have just 1 melee weapon. Some Generic units behave more like Sniper units with high accuracy and long-range weapons, while some have kits that seem to be better suited for Armored units.
Keep these Types and Categories in mind as you form your teams. Ideally, you will want to synergize your units depending on their skills, but see if those skills complement their own roles and the abilities of their allies.
For example, you'll have to rely more heavily on Armored units if you have plenty of backline damage threats that lose buffs when damaged or get eliminated easily. Inversely, if you have plenty of self-sustaining Generic units, you could go for a more aggressive style of team that ditches Armored units altogether.
Grind Events
Events are one of the most reliable sources of weekly Diamonds, but you may have trouble grinding through all of them, especially since plenty of these have stages meant for players who are at the top of the leaderboards.
Still, grind as much as you can to earn not just Diamonds, but other valuable resources such as UR Custom Tickets and Haro Coins.
Gears, an extremely valuable resource used for Grade Up can only be earned for free through certain events. This makes grinding events all the more important, as a Grade II meta unit will likely be able to carry teams that have just started out.
Complete the Daily/Weekly Missions as well as the Panel Missions
Another thing you will need to keep track of when starting out early is the Panel Missions and the Daily/Weekly Missions. Daily Missions and Weekly Missions are your typical dailies and weeklies in other gacha games, but completing your dailies can give you up to 60 Diamonds per day, while completing weeklies can give you up to 270 Diamonds a week.
But the bigger priority for you at this stage is to clear the Panel Missions, a series of tasks that not only give out Diamonds but also a ticket that guarantees you a UR unit from one of the game's gacha banners. You can get a total of 4,500 Diamonds through these missions, with the first 3,000 given to you after clearing the first set of Panel Missions.
Complete the Starter Log-in Bonus
Gundam UCE also has a new Starter Login Bonus for all new players. If you log in for 28 days, you will get various rewards such as free gacha tickets, levelling materials, upgrade materials, as well as Recycle Pts. and Enhancement Pts.
The most important rewards from this, however, are the UR unit selectors you will get on the 21st and 28th days. These selectors will allow you to get a UR mobile suit and UR pilot of your choice. All players will get these selectors on top of the selectors they already got by default after signing up.
Play Amuro and Char Mode
Aside from telling the story of the legendary rivalry between Amuro Ray and Char Aznable, this is also an excellent source of Diamonds from achievements after finishing these missions (at a rate of 60 Diamonds per achievement). Amuro and Char Mode mostly involve cutscenes and dialogue scenes, but there will be battles with preset units, too. These battles are extremely easy to win, even if you don't put in effort to strategize your deployment scheme.
Set Up Haro Coin Farms
Rainbow Haro Coins are one of the most important currencies in Gundam UCE, next to Diamonds, because you use them to Transcend your mobile suits. Transcending a mobile suit unlocks their Transcendent skills, which expand their utility in battle. Some suits are even useless until you've unlocked their Transcendent skills.
The problem is that the only way to do Transcendence is to have Rainbow Haro Coins, and Transcendence costs a good number of those coins. To get them for free, you need to set up what's called a "Haro Coin Farm."
In Gundam UCE, there are PvE missions called "Fragment Quests" that let you farm for Fragments for units. These come in blueprints for mobile suits and pieces for pilots. Gather enough fragments, and you will get a copy of that unit. Subsequent fragments can then be used to raise that unit's Potential. The higher the unit's Potential, the higher their base stats become, and the better their EX skill will be.
Once you've hit full Potential Unleashed (or "P5") for a specific unit, however, any fragments of that unit will then be converted into Haro Coins instead.
How to Farm and Use Blueprints and Character Pieces
Ideally, you should be spending all your AP to do all the UR Fragment Missions 3 times a day. Your daily AP won't nearly be enough to do so, but it's well worth spending coins and 60 Diamonds per day on AP to be able to do this. It's a very long grind, but it's well worth it in the end.
SR and R units will only grant you Gold and Silver Haro Coins, which aren't nearly as important. Because of how important Rainbow Haro Coins are and how hard they are to earn, it's important to set up these Haro Farms as early as you unlock Fragment Quests.
Among the units that you'll earn are the Gundam Full Armor (Thunderbolt) and the Char's Zaku II, which will be one of your first units to reach Potential Lv. 5. Unlike the other units from Fragment Quests, blueprints for these mobile suits can be purchased from either the Clan Shop or the Arena Shop. Spending all the currencies you've earned for these shops will greatly accelerate your Haro Farm progress.
Play Arena to Get Arena Medals and Buy MS Blueprints
Once you've gotten a decent roster of mobile suits and pilots prepared, it's time to head for Gundam UCE's premier PvP mode: the Arena! But don't join Arena matches expecting to win just yet. You will most likely lose in your first battles because even the players at lower ranks will probably have higher BP than you.
A good rule of thumb is to expect at least some victories in the arena once your team's units near the game's current maximum Custom Lv., and when you've acquired several SS-tier and S-tier Arena picks. But even before you hit that goal, join Arena matches regardless, because merely participating in the Arena entitles you to rewards like Diamonds, Arena Medals, and Recycle Points.
Arena Medals can be used at the Shop to buy Weapon and Body Chips, gacha tickets, and blueprints of certain mobile suits, while Recycle Points are used to buy Enhancement Points, Customization Materials, and certain Modules. Modules are items that you attach to mobile suits to give them certain stat bonuses.
One of the best purchases you can make in the Arena Shop are blueprints for the Char's Zaku II. Spending all your Arena Medals on these will allow you to get the unit to Potential Lv. 5 faster and thus, start earning Rainbow Haro Coins sooner.
In Arena, consistency is key to ranking high. Play all 6 matches of each day, and you'll be surprised at how you'd rank higher than players with millions of CP over you, but miss a few days of participating. Your rank is determined by the total amount of Arena Points you've earned throughout the week-long season, not by how many wins or losses you've had. The higher you rank, the more rewards you'll earn each week.
How to Get Started With the Arena?
Join a Clan for More Diamonds
Joining a Clan in Gundam UCE is not just a formality; it also comes with its own set of Daily and Weekly missions that you can complete for extra Diamonds.
But when the Clan Battle event rolls around, you will want to participate since you can win not only Diamonds, but Rainbow Haro Coins, Clan Medals, and Grand Coins.
Grand Coins are especially important since you can use them to buy Blueprints from the Shop for any limited UR mobile suit in your possession (important if you want to raise their Potential level). Meanwhile, Clan Medals are used to buy gacha tickets and enhancement chips.
Being in a Clan also grants you access to your clanmates' mobile suits, which you could borrow in PvE stages to carry your team. The stronger your clan, the better mobile suits and pilots you'll have access to, and the more Diamonds you earn every week.
Play Co-Op for Modules
To strengthen your mobile suits even further, you will eventually need to get your hands on Modules. The only ways to get them are to play Cooperative Battle (and Raid Battle if it's available), and to buy a few select modules from the Recycle Shop in the Town screen.
Try to start a Coop Battle on your own and only call for SOS from other players once you've gotten the raid boss to half their damage. That way, it's guaranteed that you will be rated as the player who dealt the highest damage and get extra modules for free.
Plenty of modules won't be that good for your mobile suits, but luckily, you can exchange them for Unit Enhancement Pts at the Town.
Consider Purchasing Grade Up Sets
Grade Up is the newest upgrade system in Gundam UC Engage, which gives units a boost to their stats, as well as a set of permanent buffs dependent on their category.
This upgrade system requires Gears to perform, and these Gears come in different rarities and categories that can only be used on mobile suits of the same rarity and category. As you'd expect, UR gears are extremely difficult to acquire for free.
The only two ways to get Gear for this upgrade are by grinding or clearing difficult events or by purchasing these Grade Up sets. Because of how difficult it is to get Gear for free, you will likely have to wait a very long time before you are able to accumulate the specific Gear you need, and the appropriate amount as well.
Having a meta mobile suit upgraded to Grade II early on in your playthrough should do you wonders and should be able to carry your team more often than not. These become significantly better in PvE, where they deal ridiculously high damage thanks to their PvE-only buffs, on top of the added Grade Skills and the inflated stats these upgraded units get.
Purchasing Grade Up sets to have a Grade II meta mobile suit early on may help you get competitive in the Arena early on, and should help you clear the PvE content you'll tackle.
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