Tips on playing Zock goodly?

[Aliem]

The Zock is my favorite Mobile Suit in the show, so naturally I'd like to play it in the game. Problem is, I can't really figure out how to do it well. I'd like to practice and perfect it, any tips and tricks I should try?

[Khergit Horse Archer]

stick with your team and pray they don't move too fast

slow supports are woefully reliant on team supporting you or pray your enemies ignore you for w/e reason

[Aliem]

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

stick with your team and pray they don't move too fast

slow supports are woefully reliant on team supporting you or pray your enemies ignore you for w/e reason

That'll be hard to do without any cooperation lol

I had two friends that used to play, but they both bailed on it already

[Khergit Horse Archer]

Originally posted by Aliem:

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

stick with your team and pray they don't move too fast

slow supports are woefully reliant on team supporting you or pray your enemies ignore you for w/e reason

That'll be hard to do without any cooperation lol

I had two friends that used to play, but they both bailed on it already

it's just the way it is, but if you really like meme beams perhaps you can try gundam unit 4 (bst).

it's much more mobile and retains high firepower and isn't as weak to common meta raids like nero trainer but i don't think it's a good competitive pick for 500 which is it's native rating.

[Aliem]

I think I tried that one before. Doesn't its weapon take like an eon to charge up though?

[Asher Vicious]

You're a backline unit with some nice weapons, good anti-stealth and anti-jamming radar based skills. You can be a frontline bully to a certain extent but people can also just mag dump you and simply boost away. Other than that, just experiment.

[dotVeskan]

Its a siege unit and cant be staggered by neutral horizontal melees so if someone tries to combo you you have tons of time to tackle

use quick turn to enhance your situational awareness when not having to bring guns to bear

use the heavy cannon when your team has the momentum to damage and clean up the enemy faster

[Sailor Thot]

Zock isn't bad, its just outshined by other supports in the tier. Turn speed and charge speed are your friends, you cant do crap about your move speed, but you can pump your weapon charge and target aquisition a little.
You're either gonna charge beam your primary to stagger or interrupt attackers to combo with your gens/raids and press damage from mid to long range (when you get to mid ranks, if you still use the suit, your gens will know to travel with you instead of away from you), and use the massive charge beam to catch people around corners or to out snipe other snipers when they're prone. You also have your iron knuckle melee with a massive 2500 base damage and a sweet downswing that your can combo with your "Reverse" active touch pad skill to catch raids that have caught you off guard. Reverse cancels or nullifies stagger/stun. You can swap to the melee or charge the massive gun, tap reverse as soon as they come in for that sweet melee smack and literally reverse it on em.

Little screen cap of the build i use unenhanced
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3011512814

[Mr. Khorn]

I've been able to play Zock quite aggressively. For it's size, it has a number of skills that can help fight anyone.

It's melee is an instant heavy stagger/ or knockdown, but best to use the side swings on people trying to circle you. It's down swing is only good if you can line a target up right, but it's obvious what you're doing, so easy to counter.
It also has a few skills that prevent it from being staggered by regular attacks, so you can tank the first regular swing and thruster/counter into the upcoming down swing.

You can easily maintain the frontline and melt opponents, or move to mid/back to fire off some nice long beam weapons. But if you are capable, you can control the field well in that big boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwD_xSdMNKk

It's from the console, but it shows how quick you can use the suit.

[FunnyBunnyofDOOM]

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q! The best part of this suit (Aside from the ship scale beam cannon) is the Q button. If you get flanked, you can hit Q, flip your view to the back of your suit and bail.

Basically, you're a sniper. You pick good spots, or stay with and behind your allies until you find the right spot. Crouch and charge a lot so when someone comes into your view you can blast the living ♥♥♥♥ out of them.

Zock is by far my favorite suit. I think Juaggu is a good training suit for Zock. A little more versatile but same basic play style.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

Originally posted by Aliem:

I think I tried that one before. Doesn't its weapon take like an eon to charge up though?

the bst variant has a much faster charge up time, like more than halved i think? but has a higher native cost at 500 compared to it's base variant at 450

also shameless plug of me playing ;p

gundam unit 4 bst:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pVDivz4tAI

zock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1fMoBd1KaY

sidenote: the zock video isn't to instruct anyone how to play support, was part of a series of sample videos for some to instruct me on how to git gud lol