GBO2: Unicorn Gundam, Arctic Base

Unicorn Gundam! The 4th Anni Suit that shattered 700 at the time! Another older video, but a good one none the less!
Unicorn i a 700 General MS that technically has 2 kits, Unicorn and NT-D. In Unicorn mode you get your Magnum that insta stuns and has a splash AoE. A bazooka that fires shrapnel instead of a solid projectile, It has a lot of build stun and can insta stun/Break most MA suits at the cost. You get powerful Vulcans with good build stun and damage, and finally you get a Single beam saber with a Federation downswing.
At 70% HP you can trigger NT-D, once in NT-D you gain extra stuff added to your kit that Unicorn mode had. You get Beam Tonfa that has a twirling downswing animation, it hits very hard. Your single saber changes to double saber's. With your downswing from a single swing to a sweeping lunge downswing that goes for the legs. Your Range mod goes way down, in exchange for a major increased melee mod. You go from a mix of Melee and range to a pure melee play style. You also gain Power Accelerator level 2 when in NT-D, which lets you immediately boost after a clash with someone. You also gain Offensive system, so keep swinging! you wont be interrupted unless they reach the build stun. While in NT-D you will lose HP at a fast pace, This i the side effect of triggering it. After 30 seconds you can then trigger Awaken which not only heals you for 4K HP, but also stops the HP loss effect. In this state however you WILL a lot of melee damage, as you are capped in Awaken. You can still hit hard, but no where near a hard compared to Normal NT-D. Your legs/back and head all heal every time you trigger NT-D and awaken.
When Unicorn first dropped it shattered 700, and i mean shattered it... Its all you saw. Every other 700 MS, regardless of type, was irrelevant. Its kit, while basic, was busted for how much power you had. It had to be nerfed twice. Once NT-D was just nerfed, its range and effects went down. It wasn't enough for the other 700 MS at the time, so when Phenex dropped Unicorn was nerfed again. Fast forward a few months, with more MS dropping at the cost, Unicorn started to lag behind with Nu. With one major factor being the lack of MA1. Every other MS but these 2 had it at the time, and when Unicorn was nerfed they GUTTED its melee damage In Awaken, you hit like a wet noodle in that mode. So it was encouraged to stay in NT-D for as long as possible. Which was a negative cause of the HP loss rate. It got so bad that Unicorn's numbers by the time Norn dropped was rough in the rival and Damage Department. So in 2024 at the start of the year, it got buffed! It was given MA1 by default, Hi-Performance Balancer lvl 1 & Melee combo controller lvl 1 was combined to make Melee composite system lvl 1. Its Beam magnum cooldown was changed from 6 seconds to 5. It Shrapnel zook gained power from 230 to 300 per shrap, Its cooldown changed from 6 second sto 5, reload from 15 seconds to 10, and switch time for the weapon was shortened. The Shield HP went back to 10K HP from 6.5K, and the timer to wait to activate Awaken went from 45 Seconds to 30 seconds. This pretty much reversed the 2021 Nerfs It got when Phenex dropped, excluding the 6K HP nerf to 4K, and gave it some skills to let it play 700 easier thanks to Norn.
Overall, Unicorn WAS a solid Suit to play till... you guessed it... Xi. ONCE AGAIN Xi showing that adding 5 Stars was a HORRIBLE idea. Yes, Unicorn shrapnel can technically knock Xi out of the air AS LONG AS you aimed correctly, which int easy against a agile MS that was shrunk down from its original size. (seriously, its smaller then it should be.) Add to the fact that you need to be in NT-D to really hurt Xi? People really over-hyped Unicorn being the counter to Xi, it wasn't, It never was. The True counter was HWS, and even then that struggles. Unicorn was meant to be a brawler, win 1v1's in NT-D/Awaken and be a easy to use MS for most people. It didn't have the insane kit ass Norn, and it sure as fuck doesn't have the crazy kit/skills of Xi. But it can do its job well before Xi, Now? You don't see it that much. Especially since Hi-Nu and Nu was buffed AGAIN! FUCK BB JUST NERF THE PROBLEM SUITS ALREADY! AND STOP RELEASING BROKEN MS THAT CLEARLY SHATTER THE COST! This i a rant for another day but GOD its a problem by now... You can play Unicorn right now, but mind you, Its not really worth if you got Xi. Play Xi, get good in Xi. its a better MS overall, and you will have an easier time fighting other Xi's in Xi then Norn or Unicorn.
These fights are old, I know, but I till wanted to show you them to not only get good Unicorn footage out there, but to show 700 before Xi and Penelope. 700 Was healing from the hell of Norn thanks to needed buffs. Now? Get ready for ANOTHER ROUND of buffs... not even 6 months after the buffs to 700 Generals... BB cant keep doing this, this method can only go so far...

[@wanglou6994]

is a miracle that there is no xis flying around

[@StalkRay]

09:37 you just shot that Nightingale through the floor lolz?

[@ArcticWolf124_]

Gale is so large that some parts phase through the floor. You can shoot those parts and do damage to them.

[@willstaub6581]

Fake match. No Xis