Attempting to join the fun in Arena can turn into an unpleasant experience, especially when you're not ready. To avoid getting stomped and discouraged, read on to learn about the different things you should do to get started with the Arena game mode and set yourself up for success later on.

How to Get Started With the Arena?

How to Get Started With the Arena?
Start Grinding Arena As Soon As You Unlock It Acquire Powerful Units Strengthen Your Units First Raise Your Player Rank Grind Through The Main Quest To Get Stronger Understand What Each Unit Does & How Type and Category Advantages Work

Start Grinding Arena As Soon As You Unlock It

Don't expect to win early on, especially if you're an F2P player who just started playing recently. However, even if you keep losing, it's best to use up all your 6 attempts at Arena matches every day, as this will reward you with Arena Medals, which you can use to buy Blueprints of some strong mobile suits like the Banshee or the Char's Zaku II. The Char's Zaku II in particular is a good unit to have since it's a solid Raid Unit that you could get blueprints of from Fragment Quests as well and you could get it at maximum potential without spending any Diamonds.

Arena Guide

Acquire Powerful Units

In this game, mobile suits come in all shapes and sizes, and some have kits that are way more effective than others. When building PvP teams, you'll want to use the best units available to you. Keep using your Diamonds to pull from MS gacha banners until you have at least a team full of A-tier units or better. You'll want to prioritize this first because unit quality is one of the most important factors in a match, other than overall CP and type/category advantages.

For example, a Zeta Gundam will almost always perform way better than a Unicorn Gundam, even though they're both Yellow-type Generic units, provided that they're both around the same level. Similarly, a Gundam GP02A will bring much more to the table versus a GM III Powered FA. Having top-tier units like these and building a powerful team around them should be your main priority if you want to start your journey of climbing the Arena rankings.

Strengthen Your Units First

Even among the lowest of Arena rankings, you might find trouble winning matches, especially if your team's CP is still below 1 million. Make sure the units in your team are at the highest level they can reach, and this applies to their unit level, Custom Level, Skill Rate Level, and Potential Unleashed Level. Transcending your key mobile suits often grants the most impactful of bonuses, but these require Rainbow Haro coins, which can be extremely hard to come by. Lastly, there are modules and unit enhancement allocations that you can equip to make your units even stronger.

While there are a lot of different ways to strengthen your mobile suits, these aren't free by any means, so try to acquire units worth investing in first. Try to determine whether or not the investment you're making is worth it, especially if we're talking about Transcending.

What Upgrade Should I Do First?

Raise Your Player Rank

Increasing your Player Rank won't just unlock new features for you. This also increases the maximum level your units can reach, which is very important in strengthening your units and raising your overall CP. Even if your opponents' units are better, you might still win if your units are at a much higher level than theirs. Inversely, if things were the other way around, you might lose to a team of B and C-tier units even if you're using the best units in the game

How To Rank Up and Unlock All Content Quickly

Grind Through The Main Quest To Get Stronger

Just because you've unlocked all of the game's modes and features, that doesn't mean you should stop progressing in the Main Quest. Grinding through the Main Quest rewards you with Diamonds for every star condition of every mission, which you can then use to try your luck and pull for powerful meta units that can help you rack up wins not just in Arena, but in every other game mode as well. On top of that, the Main Quest is also a good source of player EXP, which again, raises your units' maximum level.

Try getting 3 stars on every mission to get the maximum amount of Diamonds you could earn from these story missions.

Understand What Each Unit Does and How The Type/Category Advantages Work

Category and type advantages are important features in the game that you have to understand if you want to win more matches. These are crucial in helping you identify which units counter what, and which units to field when heading into battle, and what your deployment formation should look like.

Understanding what each unit does is also a big part of winning battles in this game. For example, knowing that the Gundam GP02A's EX Skill is a devastating AOE attack that takes a while to charge up will help players know that it should always be a priority target that you should aim to take down quickly. Similarly, knowing that the Blue Destiny Unit-1 deals big bonus damage against Newtype Machines will help players avoid the mistake of having it duel a mobile suit of that category and accidentally getting it obliterated.

Once you've accumulated a good number of powerful mobile suits and strengthened them, these principles will help you determine when to use what, which will be your key to winning more battles. With enough game knowledge and units that can counter your opponents, you'll be able to dismantle teams whose CP is thousands of points higher than yours.

Combat System Explained

Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. Engage Related Guides

All Tips and Tricks

All Tips and Tricks Guides

Beginners' Guide
Beginner's Guide: Tips and Tricks
Reroll Guide	How to Farm Diamonds
Panel Missions Guide	How to Strengthen Your Mobile Suits Guide
Combat System Explained	Haro Coin Farm Guide
How to Get Started With the Arena?	Clan Guide
Raid Battle Guide	Mobile Suit Categories Explained
Other Beginners' Guides
Beginner Mistakes to Avoid	Daily Tasks Checklist
Research Guide	Gacha Guide
Gacha Guide	UR Selector Ticket Guide
Mobile Suit Stats Explained	Pilot Stats Explained
Deployment Guide	How To Rank Up and Unlock All Content Quickly
Fragment Quest Guide	How to Get Skip Tickets
How to Get VIP Points	Haro Pass (VIP Pass) Perks and Benefits
How to Farm Coins Guide	How to Get More AP
How to Farm and Use Blueprints and Character Pieces	Recycle Points Guide
Engage Link Guide	Mock Battle Guide
How to Raise Your Player Rank Fast
Intermediate Guides
Intermediate Guide
How To Pair Pilots and Mobile Suits	Team Building Guide
Canon Mobile Suits and Pilots Guide	What Upgrade Should I Do First?
Transcendence Guide	Potential Unleashed Guide
Unit Enhancement Guide	Unit Alteration Guide
How to Get Grand Coins	How to Get Unit Enhancement Points
Modules Guide	Skill Rate Level Up Guide
What To Buy at the Shop	Clan Battle Guide
Master Battle Guide	Status Effects Guide
Advanced Guides
Arena Beginner's Guide (PvP)
Arena Guide	How to Get Started With the Arena?
Why Do I Keep Losing at the Arena?	How to Win at the Arena
Most Common Arena Mobile Suits and Counters	Best Arena (PvP) Teams
Top Ranked Arena Teams and Counters [December 2024]	PvP Team Building Guide
Arena Defense Team Building Guide	What to Grind for in the Arena
Elite Arena Guide
Game Mechanics
Title Guide	Account Linking Guide
How to Send an SOS	How to Get Friend Medals
Mobile Suit Guides
How to Counter the Zeong	What is the Best Nu Gundam?
How Good is the Zock?	How Good is the Zeong?
How to Counter the Yellow Sazabi	How to Counter the Gundam GP02A
How to Counter the Zeta Gundam	How to Counter The-O
How to Counter the Penelope	How to Counter the Gyan
How Good is the Gyan?