GBO2: Sinanju, Mixed Maps

Sinanju! Rebawoo's older brother!

Sinanju is a 700 Cost General that was dropped about a month before Unicorn and Banshee. This MS's kit consists of A BR for a primary weapon that isnta stuns, a grenade launcher mounted underneath the BR for another fast chain stun right after. You get a bazooka that is held underneath your arm at elbow height, It also insta stuns so you can do a 3 chain stun, Just like Rebawoo can do a 3 chain stun. for melee you get A beam saber that has the fast Hyaku Shiki animation, so its guaranteed when you follow a stun, but you can miss the second hit. A pair of Beam axes that can combined together to make the same Dual Axe combo that Rebawoo has, the animation is the same. And you get the Shield Axe that is only one swing, but its an instant knock down to whoever it touches. It also does nuke damage to a lot of suits. You then get your standard Vulcans that is used to clean up, per usual.

What makes Sinanju special is its touch pad skill. When triggered, Sinanju gains a skill called High Speed Mobile Shooting. HSMS Is MA break on roids, as you are boosting you are GUARANTEED to stop whoever is hit by your BR. ONLY when you are boosting this skill takes effect, and it lasts for a whole minute. The best way to use this skill is to trigger it, hit someone, knock them down, move on to the next target. The perfect tool to get the drop on anyone and take them out of the fight to force a 2v1against someone else. Only the BR gets this effect however, not your bazooka or Grenade launcher. You also get bio sensor, when triggered you gain Speed and reduced thruster consumption.

When Sinanju first dropped this MS was considered meta right out the gate. It had 3 stuns and a skill that insta stunned anyone regardless of their MA/DC. With that said, once Unicorn dropped it was over before it even started. Its one month glory was shot down with how broken Unicorn was. Even after the nerf to Unicorn, Sinanju had issues. Its legs broke pretty easily, and it couldn't survive long enough to get in close most of the time. 700 was too shooty after Unicorn was nerfed. Now, Like moon, Sinanju has gone through a few buffs, too many to list here. So I'm not going to go through them all, I will just go through the latest. After Norn dropped it got buffed again to keep up with the meta. In Febuary of 2024 Sinanju got an increase to its HP, from 21K to 23K, Gained leg buffer level 3. It's High-Performance Balancer lvl 1 & Melee Combo Controller lvl 1was combined to make a new skill, Melee Composite System lvl 1. The BR reload was shortened down from 16 seconds to 12, Its hit detection was increased to make it easier to hit a target. The Sword Axe gained increased compensation for lower melee attacks (swinging twice), Shield gained HP from 7500 to 9K, High Speed Mobile Shoot went from 40 seconds to 1 minute duration, and Psycho frame effect was changed. you now got increased thruster consumption reduction, and the lock on from enemy Psycommu weapons was increased from 200% to 250%. After these buffs Sinanju became a main stay in the 700 cost. It still loses to Norn as Norn just has outright stronger melee then Sinanju, but don't toss this MS to the side. It can do serious hit and run attacks, do just as much damage to a raid. (besides 1 comboing it.) And be hard to catch when its Bio is triggered.

Overall Sinanju is a solid frontlining general. Sure you don't get the cracked melee that Unicorn and Norn has, but in exchange you get insane thruster usage when bio triggers at 50%, and you got 3 chain stun like Norn. So you can close the game pretty easily, the only problem is that when your skill expires, you struggle to break MA suits above MA1. I like Sinanju, Its genuinely fun to play. It can be hard to play thought when the support is free to do whatever, but that's standard.

In the first fight I was playing I 100% forgot It was playing ACE. So when I spawned and I became the ACE, It was awkward. but it was even more awkward that they didn't chase after me... The second fight It was one of those days... I was frustrated. A string of losses and teams being passive, I decided to go play Sinanju and went guns blazing. It paid off, I was surprised i wasn't ACE too in all honesty.