Arena Defense Team Building Guide
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Settiing an Arena Defense Team in Gundam UC Engage helps preserve your ranking in the Arena and Elite Arena. Read on on to find out the steps to build your Arena Defense Team, as well as mistakes you should avoid.
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Arena Defense Team Building Guide
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Which Units Should I Use?
In Gundam UC Engage, some units are undoubtedly stronger than others, and units that are strong in PvE game modes might not be as effective in PvP against strategically built teams with units that have established themselves as the best of the best.
That said, try to take a look at your units and see which units you think will help your team fend off even strong attackers. If you've been using a team filled with meta PvP units, chances are those are the same units you'll use for your defense team. MSs that rank high in our PvP Tier List should do well here, though there are some caveats to that.
You might want to avoid using those very situational top-tier picks such as Char's Z'Gok, Todesritter, and such since they are much more matchup-dependent than other units.
One of the most popular units in Arena right now is the Gyan, which forces its enemies to attack only its allied Armored units, buying its DPS units some time to deal damage without fear of retaliation. If you have the Gyan, make sure it's part of your team as this is a meta-defining mobile suit for Arena.
Another excellent meta defensive unit is the Full Power F91, which benefits from Absolute Evade and Taunts all enemies, forcing them to attack it.
Of course, all these meta units will have their counters that you need to be wary of, but that brings us to the next part of this guide: positioning.
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How Should I Position My Units?
When thinking about your defense formation, try to determine which units are your key players, and try to position them behind beefy frontline units like the Gundam Full Armor or even the Zock. The game recommends that you place units either in the front, middle, or back column, depending on their unit category, but that should only come second to strategic positioning to protect your key units.
A good example would be how you place Armored units in Gyan-centered team compositions. Normally, you'll place them in the front row to try and protect your units, but with Gyan by their side, it's best to place your Armored units in the back row far away from where your opponents are. That way, you'll waste your opponents' time as they spend a few seconds traveling to their targets, buying the Gyan's allies some more time to freely hit their opponents.
The same thinking should be applied to your defense units. One of the worst things you can do is arrange your defense the way the game's CPU does, with only one unit per column and leaving everybody open. You could still definitely win some matches with this type of defense, but only when your team is so much stronger in terms of CP. Defense formations like these make their entire team vulnerable to getting matched up with a hard counter, and this will allow your opponents to walk away with easy wins.
A common and effective way to set a defense formation (without Gyan and Taunt tanks) is to occupy only 2 columns on either the leftmost or the rightmost part of the battlefield. This way, only the frontline can be countered, but they'll be backed up by 2 more rows of effective key units. These midline and backline key units will be your opponent's priority targets, but they'll have a much harder time getting to them with all that protection around them.
What Units Should I Have in My Team?
The answer to this question depends on which key units you want to build around and what other units are available to you. As a general rule of thumb, the more squishy DPS units you want to field, the more protection you'll need from Armored units.
Say you want to use a Zeong, an HMT Gundam, and a Theta Plus (Sniper) in your team. All three of these are undoubtedly powerful units that like to gun down opponents from far away but are all very frail and will quickly die when opponents get too close in on them. With a core like this, you'll probably benefit well from having at least 2 tanky Armored units like the Alex (Chobham Armor) and the FAZZ.
Inversely, if you build a team around self-sustaining skirmishers like the Sinanju (Generic) and the Magna Martell (Awaken), the flexibility is there and you can choose to add in pretty much whatever you want.
There's a multitude of ways that other units can help out your key units. Backline attackers can provide your key units with support fire and help them finish off their target so they can move on to the next one, Armored units can keep other attackers at bay, support units can enhance your team's capabilities, and CC units like the Qubeley can debuff opponents and make them vulnerable to your team's attacks.
Just remember to protect your key units with tanky units that can take hits for them and prevent them from being easily countered. Try to cover your key units' weaknesses with another unit's strengths, or add complementary pieces to enable them to do their job better.
Arena Defense Team Building Mistakes To Avoid
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Leaving Your Key Units Open
As mentioned above, positioning is very important, especially for key units that you rely on for wins. Leaving them open will allow your opponent to easily place a strong counter that can make quick work of your units, which in most cases, results in an easy win for your opponent.
Forgetting To Change Your Defense Lineup
It's very common for players to forget to update their defensive lineup/formation whenever they acquire new units that they want to use for PvP. Whenever they would get new units, players would level them up and then use them in their offensive lineups, but it's quite common for them to forget to place the new units in their defense lineups.
The same issue can be said about the sub-mobile suits of these defensive lineups.
Not Leveling Up and Upgrading Your Units
This is more of a general rule for Gundam U.C. Engage, and not just in Arena, but not leveling up your units will mean that they won't be at their strongest, and your team's overall CP would be much lower than its current maximum potential. That small bump in CP that you get from leveling your units whenever your player rank increases might just be what you need to win tightly contested matches. Unless you're housing tens of UR units that you use in a rotation, you most likely already have the upgrade materials you need to level them up.
The same could be said about your units' Potential Lv., Custom Lv., and Transcendent Lv., though you'll have to be careful with that last one since it requires Rainbow Haro coins, which is arguably the most scarce and important resource in the game.
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