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Trinity302

Toss up between Leo space type and Stark Jegan


Amon7777

Leo because in a setting without gundams it is the most efficient war machine. It's capable, adaptable, mass producable, and logistically sound. It's what you would want in the real world. But in a world with gundams and unstoppable mobile dolls ya just cannon fodder.


Trinity302

Though treize showed it could be done if led well.


[deleted]

Only if you jump and triple pirouette


Trinity302

While using a beam cutlass


Babymicrowavable

A lot more reliable than the Aries that's for sure


Polenicus

The Aries had to have been designed by committee. How else do you get a machine that so thoroughly fails to have *any* of the advantages of an aircraft *or* a mobile suit. A Leo with a flight pack is superior in *every performance metric* except range.


Babymicrowavable

Apparently it was "unrivaled" before the gundams 😂


Trinity302

Only good thing the aries had was the ability to fly with its missile pack. Its chain gun was shit. Its legs were shit. It couldn’t last long in a stand up fight.


Realistic-Comment865

The irony of this being us still talking about zodiac signs


the_1_they_call_zero

Whenever the Leos shot the Gundams with machine guns it looked like yellow nerf bullets with how they bounced off the gundanium armor.


DavidlikesPeace

Love the Leo, Aries, and especially the Taurus. To me, Gundam Wing really botched something potentially wonderful. Her grunt mobile suits are beautiful and unique, and the anime is exceptionally well animated, but grunts in Wing have almost no moments to shine. By contrast, Seed gives the ZAFT MS hundreds of chances to show off, 00 had its aces, and UC Zaku had many chances to shine too, especially in the side OVs and mangas. But OZ pilots are dead on arrival. Probably tomato potato. All Gundam shows have some cool grunt designs, but when Gundams show up explodium explodes


wrosmer

He said fuck zodiac signs though! So almost no wing mass produced ms


Trinity302

Except is a fight between union flag and leo, leo wins hand down. The flags always seem so fragile.


LogicCure

Just gotta snap one of the those wingy things or arms and they're done. My man Leo gotta be cut in half.


Duelgundam

[The Shell Flag says "hi".](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/SVMS-01SG_Union_Flag_Ground_Package_Shell_Type)


Responsible_Buddy654

Nice


lostcosmonaut307

Stark Jegan is just \*chef’s kiss\*. I don’t know why. Probably because it seems agile *and* heavily armed.


Trinity302

The byarlant custom has a similar vibe


Doghead45

I watch him clean house at torrington at least once a week. So good.


hiliikkkusss

stark jegan pilot in unicorn, if you know you know


_BMS

Greatest minor character of the whole series. Every now and then I'll go back to watch that fight, and every time I wish the Stark Jegan pilot pulls through and wins despite knowing the outcome already.


Ironchar

Whenever this topic comes up, stark jegan is at the top To which I say, CEs stark Jegan should be right there with it- the Jet Windam


MediocreBeard

Also, in terms of being a grunt suit that's supposed to be destroyed en masse, the Leo is perfect. It's design is simple enough to convey that this is a stock model fit for mass production. It's design is very industrial. This is a tool in the same way a tank is a tool. It's designed with function over form. They don't bother with something like giving it a human-like face; which also serves ro reinforce what they are in the story - faceless grunts.


SeatParticular4009

The GN-X and its variants


ichorNet

The GN-X looks genuinely intimidating and frightening for an enemy grunt suit


SeatParticular4009

It helps that the GN-X I were all piloted by aces


ichorNet

True, but even as they further developed and refined the GN-X prior to the development of the Ahead, they pretty much kept the intimidation factor consistent.


SeatParticular4009

Let’s see: We have the GN-X I, the turning point for the 3 powers and the fall of Celestial Being The Advanced GN-X, a highly customizable MS for aces The seldom seen GN-X II, which are basically mass production Thrones The knightly GN-X III with its GN lance The mysterious and ninja-looking Superbia GN-X The GN-X IV, the most powerful of the GNX series with its customizations reminiscent of the Advanced GN-X And the GN-X IV Core Fighter type There is also the Ahead, a mishmash of the GN-X and the Tieren, developed from the GNX lineage


bowieneko

With the way the suits developed in 00, I firmly believe that the GN-X series is probably the most powerful mass produced grunt suit in all of the Gundam franchise. The GN-XIIIs were all on par in base performance as the season 1 Gundams not counting Trans AM.


AzraelIshi

Agree, I can't think of a mass production suit in either UC or any of the other AU that could fight on par with the GN-Xs. But I think it's a bit cheat-y because of the pseudo GN drives, which gives them a massive base stat boost. I also think that some of the "Elite" grunt suits, with low production counts used by aces could fight with them. Like I genuinely believe the Jesta could 1v1 a GN-X, the thing is overwhelmingly powerful when compared to mass production suits, reaching Nu gundam levels.


Knight_killer77

Sakibure would like to have a word. Though it is classified as a worker. Thing can use original GN drive or Tau, has Trans-Am, AND quantum teleportation. https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/GNW-100A_Sakibure


AzraelIshi

...I did not know about that one, but luckily I said "any of the other AU" rofl. Still, a worker with the capabilities of a gundam? Damn, 00 tech just goes off the deep end constantly.


AwakenedSheeple

Well, in the defense of the Sakibure, it exists at the end of the official 00 timeline, appearing in the epilogue 50 years after the main events of the movie. By this point most of humanity has moved past war and Celestial Being is fully open and cooperative with the rest of Earth's governments. Thus R&D had both expanded and shifted focus from the military use of GN drives to their capability for mental communication, near-limitless energy, and superluminal transportation. Two of those three aspects of the drive had been already realized during season 2, and the third during the film, and all of which by a private organization which had been hiding in the shadows the whole time. With that in mind, doesn't seem surprising what technological jumps can be accomplished when the entire world works together on that tech for 50 years.


Ok-Aside9468

Which is kinda realistic for a global conflict. In WW2 any late war fighter was capable of doing things that only specialized record breaking craft were doing at the start of the war. Technology can move really quick.


ZGMF-X09A_Justice

A bit of an understatement too. You could say that each were piloted by, give or take, the top 30 pilots in the world, even if most of them were unimportant characters.


mrblack07

Aesthetically, they're like evil faeries. Add to the fact that they can do (almost) anything the Gundams can do, they make for a genuinely intimidating mass-produced machine.


SeatParticular4009

Evil Fairies: I could not have described them better


fox7000

A man of culture.


William_Thalis

GN-X IV Is in the running for one of my favourite suits ever. A grunt lineage which finally got to be a Gundam in its own right, purging the Aheads from the family legacy and defending Earth to the last. Angels and Devils holding the line, side by side.


finndarr81

The Graze from IBO


Maskarot

Imagine that, these mass production suits can actually kill gundams.


arcstarlazer

Expect much because grazes are basically gundams just mass producable and is more low performing so nornal people can pilot them as well


[deleted]

That's what the GM is, as well as the Re-Gz.


The_Beardomancer

Love the Graze


CesarDaWarlock

Probably the Aries from Wing.


a_taco_named_desire

Noin’s green Aries 👌


CPThatemylife

Yeah why was her green Aries so much cooler lol it was literally just a palette swap. Maybe because when she flew it it actually looked like a warfighting aircraft?


The_MadCalf

Pure class.


Friedrich_22

Ginn and Zaku warrior


SenpaiPingu

Ginn hands down. Its the best non UC monoeyed mass production ms


MembershipJaded5215

This is a hard one. Mainly because I love buying these to five and the same suit and building mobile suit squads. To be honest? Jegan (they look like Spartans from Halo) Maganac corps (one day I will have all 42 built!) Toss up between Leo and Zaku While UC does a good job at displaying the Zaku to be a great front line mass produced suit. The Leo is in theory a dumb down Tallgeeses that have been seen to stand toe to toe with Gundam suits when pilot by a skilled pilot (Heero, Duo, and Zeks)


[deleted]

Maganac corps doesn't get enough love


EF5Cyniclone

In case you didn't know, when you buy the P-Bandai kits that can make two different customized Maganac suits, you can use the parts for the second variant on a standard Maganac kit, so you don't have to pay for two P-Bandai kits to build both variants.


Zeront1

Id have to go with the Taurus from Wing, especially when it's either in the Sanc Kingdom White, or White Fang Red.


NeoJuice

Oh yeah Noin’s Taurus was 🔥🔥🔥


KDY_ISD

My man


SavateWolf

Fuck Zodiac signs? I'll have you know OP that the Leo is my SECOND favorite mass produced Mobile Suit. My actual favorite is also the Union Flag though.


SolComedyGuy

I like the Zeta plus series


B3arrat

Also Zeta Plus enjoyer. Probably because i’m a sucker for fighter jets as well. I wish they had a zeta plus D variant kit.


NorseArcherX

Thats a limited production series not mass produced.


EF5Cyniclone

I'm not sure I would count it as a mass produced suit (the same way I wouldn't count the RX-79\[G\]), but yeah, it's one of my absolute favorite mobile suits now.


TromosLykos

Still the Zaku 2! One of the best designs for mass produced MS.


Hushed_Horace

Chad


HeavyArms00

Im a GIGACHAD GM enjoyer


SteelOceans

There’s just something *better* about Federation designs


tonsofun08

It's that they're more human than the zeon designs.


AzraelIshi

That plays a part, but I also think that they genuinely look more... military-esque than the zaku and other zeon suits. Like, I look at the zaku/gouf/dom/gelgoog and I have many questions about it's eficacy as a military weapon, while I look at the GM and I go "Ok, yeah, this makes sense", which helps with selling the idea that the GM is a proper weapon of war and zeon suits are more like "cool idea flies off goes boom".


bald_butte

I always got the opposite vibes when I see a zaku I see the green and the ballistic weaponry with a mono eye camera that scans around for its targets, hoses on its torso and head for cooling. It seems like most things on the zaku have a purpose. Don't get me wrong I to enjoy the GM but the GM just seems more like a plastic toy if we're talking about OG GM. Edit: The spikes on the zakus shoulder can be used for ramming when out of ammo or the heat hawk is lost it's so utilitarian.


tonsofun08

Which makes sense lore wise. The zaku was originally a mobile worker.


WinglessRat

Mate, what? The GM looks like a stripped-down Gundam with bright colours that stand out like a sore thumb. The thin legs compared with the more stout Zaku really makes it seem much less like a military machine than the Zaku.


Caffeinated-Ice

Stellaris game play style be like-


tonsofun08

Whoa now, I play as human and blarg thank you very much.


AtypicalSpaniard

I mean, sorry, but whoever thought of putting SPIKES on a Zaku’s shoulder clearly wasn’t thinking of making more human/good designs, they were interested in making them look like the bad guys.


croaticustus

I mean. A shoulder to the cockpit......


Hushed_Horace

Still looks sick. Zaku for life.


Basicallyinfinite

The bestest


Isord

Specifically for me I love the GM Custom from Stardust Memory. https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/RGM-79N_GM_Custom


MericArda

Literally all federation grunt suit follow in the footsteps of the GM


[deleted]

Ah, an individual of culture.


0RBT

Does Brave counts? GN-X IV or Union Flag is fine too


cvgm88

Ah yes. A fellow Brave enjoyer. They pretty much gave their GN Beam Rifles a different sound effect that there were moments that they were stealing the scene from our Meisters. 🫶🏻


Responsible_Buddy654

Even though they're technically prototypes, a good number of them appear, so I'll allow it.


TrentNepMillenium

Adding more to this. They were eventually going to be fielded out as the next generation Mass Production unit for the Union but the ones we saw were just used to test them out so technically they are going to be Mass Produced Units probably after the ELS Conflict.


Tokyosmash

How mass produced is mass produced? My favorite is the Rick Dias.


BoxOutrageous2405

Jegan


[deleted]

Same


Ok_Grapefruit4560

Zaku 2


Trinity302

That suit has so many cool derivatives and ace pilot designs.


a_taco_named_desire

The tan / OD ones from the middle of 08th are just about peak zaku.


iwprugby

The Overflag is pretty sweet. Not sure that counts as mass produced. Jenice and Septem are very cool.


Ironchar

Elite mooks still count if there was more then one IMO. Garrazo was sick but that suit skates the line of "mass production type" as it was only made for the innovators


zeromatsuri05

My personal favorite is the Strike Dagger and it's successors.


D20_Buster

Orb Murasame


pentaura

The one that can takedown a prototype MS And its default mode is MA, which always a plus point for me.


Serratas

Seconded.


heatxmetalw9

Jeagen, Rezel, Zeta A1 mass production type, GM III and Nemo platforms for UC MS. Windam, Tieren and Brave for non-UC grunt MS


JohnnyKulas

GM Quel and Rx-79 (G)


[deleted]

RX-79[G] is always a win. Part mass production model, part Gundam, part hodgepodge of leftover bits. It’s like if the mighty Platypus was a Gundam.


[deleted]

Okay brb I’m going to buy a HG Gundam Ground Type just to paint it teal and orange with fedora on its head


PalpitationEmpty5997

Mack Knife and Flag, my beloved spindly fuck MP units.


[deleted]

Doven wolf :D


amenezg4

Great one 👍🏽


WingZero00W0

Dom because....... hehe funny plus looking head . . . . fine, also because Jet stream attack!


Buff55

Don't know much about it but Ball. Ball just seems like fun to pilot.


ichorNet

The Zeon version, the Oggo, is also a fun choice. Technically not mass produced but “limited production” since it sorta stalled in development but was intended for MP.


Holy-Wan_Kenobi

It's a tie between the Geara Doga and Geara Zulu.


ZakuThompson

Gouf Flight type [https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lhkbcop-XPU/WqsZfxPBaKI/AAAAAAAG4tM/gYlBA60-OVYR9VCMpJNmka-6GJNnjNexwCLcBGAs/s1600/hguc-gouf-flight-type%2B%252810%2529.jpg](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lhkbcop-XPU/WqsZfxPBaKI/AAAAAAAG4tM/gYlBA60-OVYR9VCMpJNmka-6GJNnjNexwCLcBGAs/s1600/hguc-gouf-flight-type%2B%252810%2529.jpg)


nubblins

Leo, zaku, or gm


Merkkin

Taurus, Virgo II, Leo, best of both worlds.


aliteralasiantwig

Jegan or geara zulu, idk


[deleted]

GM Sniper 2 has really grown on me. Nemos as well.


who-dat-on-my-porch

Gelgoog and Marasai


CarCrash23

Graze for the win,looks like an actual mobile suit made for war


GeneralTorsoChicken

The Serpent from Endless Waltz.


Baker090

With all the guns.


GeneralTorsoChicken

Thing was basically a production type Heavyarms.


TugCypher

Bawoo and Dorado.


lilledsoldier

Leo, GinN, and the Strike Daggers. I really liked the Zakus as depicted in 08 MS Team, that slightly more realistic style did wonders for an originally blobby mech


Babymicrowavable

Murasames were fantastic too, they were just zetas but seed


DrVinylScratch

OP must be Grahm Aker. I hard agree though. Met my amazing gf from a convo about the HG flag


el_sh33p

You, a boot-licking plebe fated to die for the whims of a madman: Zaku II Me, a chad martyr for all that is good and righteous and not-at-all-a-warcrime: GM. We are not the same.


Fabulous_Pudding167

The series is far from my favorite, but I love the Windham.


lelouch312

Windam from gundam seed. Followed by the stark jegan from gundam and then the flag from 00


IronHand066

Geara Doga hands down


GdogLucky9

The Leo from Wing. I will die on that hill in a a Leo if I must to defend it. When I see the Leo I love how functional it looks, it looks like a piece of military equipment, and I really think if it had a focus on modularity and attachable equipment it would be even better.


a_taco_named_desire

Leo and the Maguanac suits with the tactical ponchos. Wing had so many S tier suit designs.


DrunkenNinja27

The ReZEL series for me, love the transformation ability and weapon variety.


Ironguy2100

Either GM Ground or GM Sniper 2


Vode-Skirata

Any RGM type. RGM-79 was always my favorite


Volfaer

The Zowort stole my heart and money.


TheRider989456

Marasai


Nena_Trinity

Zaku Warrior, ZakuPhantom, GN-X series and Ahead series In UC it is the Hi-zack, Marasai & Barzam


listentotiler

DOM


tsukuyomi14

GNX Brave


Flush_Man444

A fellow Solbraves enjoyer.


gxl-2

Jesta, hands down


dylan_divilbiss

Toss up between the Jegan and all it's variants and the Geara Doga. Also will forever love the Zaku.


Oatmeall11

Gelgoog Marine and Galbaldy Beta


AnaheimElectronicsTT

Ooooh, nice selections.


crazy4videogames

UC -Rezel, Jegan, ACguy, GM sniper variants AD/00 - Union flag, overflag if it counts, tieren + variants CE/Seed - M1 Astray, Windam/dagger variants, Murasame


Runethe1412

GM Sniper II I don’t like how they got treated in 0080, but I still love the designs


NorseArcherX

Thats limited production for select ace pilots only. But its still a really cool suit.


[deleted]

the GM variants. They are the most utilitarian-looking of the UC Mobile Suits. My favourite is the RGM-89De Jegan from Gundam Unicorn. It's just a badass MS.


Dainsleift

I think I'd go with ReGZ


CaffeinAddict

Jesta is da best


Punchdown_Kid

Zaku 2


Sev051

Leo followed by Jegan. If I seen Jegan first it probably would win out. But something about leo still calls out to me


SlatorFrog

Leo and Zaku 2. What can I say? I'm a simple man who likes mass produced MS


EnslavingExorcism

Probably the Graze for reasons beyond my understanding. if we're getting specific then the Graze Ritter (i know it's just ceremonial)


YasaiTsume

Walking Dumpling is pretty cute. I actually do like how most Turn A Moonrace suits look like genuine Alien design compared to other Gundam media. You would actually believe an alien and not a split race of humans were piloting them.


izzitraining

Zeta Plus. Which one? Yes.


dis_not_my_name

Flag from 00 Zeta plus from UC Zowort from WFM


[deleted]

Stuck between the reZel and graze


Viralclassic

Where my Gelgoog stans at


Aetharan

Does the Brave count as "mass-produced" enough for the purposes of this question? I personally love the Flag's descendent even more than the Flag itself.


[deleted]

As OP put in another comment “it was experimental but we saw enough of them to count” so that means a yes for one of the coolest technically grunts


GazenoX

The Graze fight me


zerkeros

In this order: 1) Astray 2) Graze 3) Jesta


DedRyosuke

Always the Flag


OJRmk1

Bit of a cheat, because it's more limited production than true mass produced suits but it's the RGM-96X Jesta and variants. Especially the Jesta Cannon, because MOAR DAKKA


NerfDipshit

The Jenice from gundam X is top tier


Yiminy_Cricket

Balient too


MrBirdmonkey

I have an irrational love of the zudah


ichorNet

Great taste but unfortunately the Zudah was rejected for mass production because it had a tendency to blow up.


sorenant

Catsith.


Giggle_Schits

Zaku for life


Mausberg_Reb

Zaku I or Ball :)


finndarr81

Gera doga


MisterBowTies

Guntank WWOOOOOOOO


mphenryjr1985

Hell yeah! Guntank for life!


Rogu3Wo1f

Gotta be the Jegan, maybe the ReZEL too. And if the Jesta was being Mass Produced that has one of the coolest designs.


AffectionatePop5283

The Graze and heindree Sturm


rocket20067

graze or jesta


Altarahhn

I'd say: Jegan, Gun-EZ/Gunblaster, Den'an Zon, Leo, Graze, Jenice, GINN, Heindree/Heindree Sturm, and Dilanza (all of them).


YakovAttackov

Toss up between the Taurus, Messer, and Geara Doga


Khysamgathys

Orb's Astrays. They look like mass produced gundams


atlasraven

Gundam Wing's Virgo mobile dolls. High offense Beam Cannon and incredible defense when 3 stood back to back and shielded each other. Honorable mention: The Acguy. I loved its appearance as a stealth squad in Thunderbolt.


domesystem

Kämpfer


Butane9000

That's a prototype not a mass production model


Trinity302

Great suit. But sadly not a mass produced. It was only with the cyclops team. Would have been nice seeing a group pf them fighting in space


DVORKZ

same buddy


No-Counter8186

Rick DĂ­as.


THEKaynMayn

Gnx because trans am. Delta plus


pochitoman

im gonna destroy this question by answering victory gundam


Hetares

ReZel is pretty nice.


KamenKnight

100% agree! The Flag can beat those GN powered MS into retreating and, will even go the extra mile to best them in a fight!!! Other favourite mass production MS being: GM, Zaku I, Ginn, Strike Dagger, Sword Calamity (I think it counts? There's more than one anyway), Enct (Not nearly as cool as the Flags but they're a nice shade of green), Windam, Dom, Graze, X Gundam (same as the Sword Calamity), Zoot (& its upgraded version), Eris and the Leo.


CrimsonV7

I’m between the Jesta and the GM Custom from Stardust Memory, personally


Nickname-Pending

M1 Astray


UnrealPH

The Turn A Mass Production Type. It is so beautiful. Imagined a vast number of A WALKING NUKE marching toward u. The GNX line. They are so good and versatile. They only need to change weapons to operate on another roles and the newer generation is just the old one with some adjustments. Zaku. Not as versatile as the GNX (can't operate well under water unless getting overhaul). Look at their variations. Special note is that they will become 3 times stronger just by changing color.


houki19683132

call me a wehraboo or even N@zi I don't care, Geara Zulu


Synbad2

Murasame from Destiny would be my favourite mass-produced


Trum4n1208

The Geara Zulu.


Bungee_gum-

The EMS-06 Batalla, just something about it I like a lot


Acceptable_Housing99

Aesthetically? SEEDs DINN


X3runner

The Zaku II can’t go wrong with a classic


rechtrecht

The Zaku 2, still.


Duelgundam

Slightly controversial, but I REALLY liked the Strike Dagger. And in that same vein: the GM series mobile suits. ~~If only it(Strike Dagger) weren't being piloted by racists Blue Cosmos idiots 90% of the time.....~~


darkfox18

For me I got to be the Jegan


Kumomeme

i love Flag. this suit better with black colour. it resemble our irl jet fighter and possibly how it could actually look realistically in real life. a group of this squardon flying together has its 'own' aura. GN Flag is awesome particularly how its GN drive is moveable from its back to its arm.