MHI-XT31 Pinaka is a medium Support Break-Striker meant for repairing allies and providing cover. But it is more than just that. If played well, it will be the team’s ticket to victory as long as the team follows your lead.

Left Mouse Button



One of your main tools for repairing allies and pulling you towards them. First, you need to lock on to allies in order to fire your grapple and repair them. Looking away or moving away from an ally breaks the grapple. Press again while grapple to pull you towards the ally.


Numkey 3



We will cover ESD first before Splitter since these two works hand in hand. When activated, it creates a bubble shield around your striker while healing your HP. It can prevent staggers from melee attacks and it's quite durable for tanking some attacks. It will auto recharge while not in use. Aim at ally to send ESD towards them to give them shield and repair. It can also prevent them from getting staggered and helps them tank more damage.

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Splitter is your main tool for damaging enemy strikers. It has 12 ammo and 1 ammo of it fires 18 buckshot lasers and is very effective at close range. Splitter is connected to ESD so if you send your ESD towards your allies, you won't be able to attack enemies who are in front of you, but you can use splitter to assist allies. It will fire towards whoever your allies are targeting.

Numkey 1



Press the corresponding key to deploy an autonomous repair drone, it will fly towards any allies that are damaged and need repair. It has 4 charges and up to 2 drones can simultaneously repair 1 ally striker, increasing its repair potency.

Numkey 2



This is the best kit for Pinaka! It will drop a very durable cover and it can deal direct damage against enemy strikers. It has 3 charges. It can be stacked to create a taller cover. Keep in mind that it takes like 1 second for it to deploy so place it in advance.

Pinaka is more than just a support healer, it can provide cover, deal good damage, and become an annoying bait. It is the best striker for doing objectives while repairing allies.

• Always stay at the ground no matter what! Use the terrain to your advantage!
  
  
• Only use ESD to yourself when needed. Always use it to help your allies escape melee onslaught.
  
  
• Dont use ESD as your primary tool for healing allies. use it on shielding them when dealing against melee strikers. always use your drone and RRG to repair allies. only use your ESG to repair the ones that are far away such as aquila, skyraider, and falcon.
  
  
• Always stay close to your allies. Use them as a distraction in order to do objectives.
  
  
• Place CAD ahead of you when being chased by enemies. There's a good chance that the CAD will land at them, damaging and staggering them.
  
  
• Use CAD to give yourself a breathing room when capturing objectives.
  
  
• Both ESD and CAD can bypass both ally and enemy Welkin’s Domain Expansion box. Use this info to your advantage.
  
  
• Always be on mobile but don’t overuse your boost, losing energy will cost you a lot!
  
  
• ESD can heal and shield allies, but it can also help them damage enemies greatly.
  
  
• always prioritize your ally melee strikers when using ESD on allies, it helps them survive more and you can also contribute on damaging the enemy they are dueling against.
  
  
• Only execute enemy strikers when you are in a safe area or otherwise, you will lose a lot of HP since you are not invulnerable while performing.
  
  
• prioritize healing who are close to you, dont chase allies who are low on health. create a "breathing spot" with your CAD so you can heal allies safely.
  
  
• Keep in mind that your drones and ESD will fly back towards you when they are far away.
  
  
• While your splitter and CAD can deal good damage, its not enough to outright destroy the medium to heavy strikers so use it sparingly. go all out if the match is a TDM.
  
  
• if you are planning to use CAD to attack enemies, use it sparingly especially on the objective base match. focus on using CAD for giving allies and yourself some breathing room for doing the objectives

Payload is one of my favourite game modes in Mecha Break. Make sure your allies have Welkin, and Tricea/Stego in this mode. Keep those two healthy. at the start of the match, enemy payload is on the opposite side of where you start, while placing a CAD in between you to create cover against enemy fire, it can potentially block your ally Stego or Tricera so place CAD carefully at this time. After the first capture objective in payload(capturing this will boost your payload movespeed for a couple of seconds), wait till all of the enemy strikers are spread out. Once they are spread out, communicate with your Welkin and head towards the enemy payload to prevent it from advancing. With just Pinaka and Welkin, it can handle 2-3 enemy strikers as long as the 3 of them aren't all melee strikers. They will focus on Welkin so assist Welkin using ESD and CAD. When the enemy starts focusing on you, just get close to Welkin so he can go ahead and beat them. When done properly, the enemy won’t bother their own payload and will try to disrupt your own payload. In this part, you can go check on your own payload while helping allies and come back to enemy payload when Welkin is facing multiple enemy strikers and is having a hard time.





At the start, only A is capturable and is placed at the middle of the map. Watch how the battle unfolds and keep your allies healthy, use CAD to provide cover and ESD to save your allies. Always deploy your drones so it will automatically heal anyone that is damaged. Use CAD to safeguard both you and your allies from capturing the area. After a while, area B and C can now be captured, most of the enemies and allies are still contesting A, use that to your advantage and capture either B and C. Always use CAD on giving you cover on capturing the area. Use your CAD and splitter on disrupting enemy capture.


Same as point capture, but be warned, I experience when every enemy are focusing on me due to me being the only one doing the objective while the rest of my allies are playing TDM in Extractor dismantle.


Same as capture, but this time, save your ESD when uploading the data key and also use it to support allies who got the data key.


Pray to god that all your team are using tanky strikers in your team, stay close to everyone and keep everyone healthy. Healers have it bad in this mode as one who’ll die very quickly if left unattended to melee strikers.

Always team up with the tanky strikers such as Tricera, Stego, and Welkin. Keep them healthy for a better overall chance of winning.

Most of the time, you will be running away from enemy strikers since you don't have enough firepower to completely destroy them most of the time. You must rely on your teammates to fully destroy them. This is what you need to do in order to escape/survive their attacks. Remember to stay on the ground most of the time.

• Alysnes and Panther
  
  When you get caught in their melee attacks, immediately use ESD to prevent you from getting staggered, use the terrain to evade them, and when they are still chasing you, drop CAD in front of you, there's a high chance you can hit them. Even if you don’t land it on them, it’s still a great tool for blocking them.
  
  
• Welkin
  
  When he caught you with his box, immediately use your ESD to survive his onslaught. If you are on the ground, place CAD to increase your survival chance. Welkin's spin attack will make him grounded and can't target when you are flying. You can break free from hix box by shooting at it.
  
  
• Narukami and Aquila
  
  They are sniper type strikers so you won't really be able to counterattack them at all but their sniper shots can be easily blocked with your CAD. you can hunt down narukami on TDM if you have an ally falcon/serenith who is hunting narukami down, and can easily be destroyed with your CAD if you catch narukami off guard.
  
  
  
• Falcon and Skyraider
  
  You can’t really touch them since they will always be in the sky flying around. If you manage to catch them losing too much energy, your splitter can inflict enough damage on them, especially Falcon. If you are being chased by them, just use your ESD and CAD.
  
  
• Tricera
  
  Based on the advanced challenge, Tricera is the only one you can kill with ease. Tricera’s fortress mode locks him in place and can be hit with CAD easily for big damage. His vertical aim is very limited so fly on top of Tricera and unleash your splitter on him to make him move away.
  
  
• Stego
  
  A much more annoying version of Tricera thanks to its haze diffuser, the only difference is that he has an even more limited aiming on both vertical and horizontal. Harass him from the side or behind with your splitter or use CAD to make him run away.
  
  
• Hurricane
  
  In my opinion, hurricane is quite weak. when you spot it alone, you can pretty much kill him with ease. simply use ESD and stay close to him while attacking him with your splitter, it takes 10 splitter ammo to fully kill a hurricane.
  
  
• Inferno
  
  Use your CAD to block the focused beam cannon since it hurts a lot.
  
  
• Luminae
  
  Another striker that you can harass without trading much damage. Make Luminae waste its Smokescreen and Luminous wings on you then run away.
  
  
• Pinaka
  
  This is a Pinaka guide so you probably know what Pinaka can do. Just ignore him since both of you can't really deal much damage to one another.
  I think you can stack your own CAD on an enemy Pinaka’s CAD but still needs further testing.
  
  
• Stellaris
  
  The filthiest, overly kitted striker in the game. Watch your surroundings and always fire your shots and the objective since Stellaris has stealth and might be capturing objectives. Best thing to do is be the bait and make him waste his energy on you. If you have a Welkin ally, communicate with them since it can be the one to 1v1 a Stellaris with ease.
  so i've been improving my skills on piloting pinaka, you can 1v1 a stellaris with ease if you have your ESD at full hp, simply bait him from combo-ing you while your ESD is up and unleash your splitter at him. if done right, you can kill a full HP stellaris.
  
  
• Serenith
  
  Your worst enemy ever. Another overly kitted support striker. It artillery can bypass your CAD since it's an orbital laser that fires from the above. He can put a grapple on you and hacks your IFF, making you unable to target allies since they are marked as enemies and potentially ends up healing enemy Serenyth. Best thing you can do is avoid fighting him at all cost and pray that your allies target it.

• Enemies: multiple big striker with big hammer axe, multiple large beam cannon, multiple missile launcher turrets.
  
• Ally: Stego (escort target)

Your goal here is to safely escort an ally Stego. You first encounter the big striker and 2 large beam cannons. Head first and let the large beam cannon target you, they will keep targeting you so focus on keeping your Stego alive. Use CAD to block the large beam cannons but be careful not to block the Stego. You can also use CAD to block the tunnels, preventing the big strikers from chasing you. The large beam cannons are indestructible so don't bother trying to destroy them. The big striker can be destroyed but it takes a while so don't bother much. The missile launchers can be destroyed.

• Enemies: 3 sniper strikers, 1 Panther, 1 Welkin
  
• Timer: yes

The 1st beacon has 3 sniper strikers, use your CAD to create a cover while capturing the first beacon.
The 2nd beacon has a Panther guarding it. Place a CAD near the beacon and bait the Panther to attack you while behind CAD, if successful, he will keep attacking the CAD while you safely capture the beacon.
The 3rd beacon has a Welkin on it, don't worry, the Panther won't follow you when you move to this beacon, do the same strat with the Panther.

• Enemies: 1 Welkin, 1 Stego, 1 Hurricane
  
• Allies: 1 Welkin, 1 Hurricane
  
• Timer: 3 minutes (or was it 2?)

This one is a bit difficult so it might take a couple of tries in order to succeed. The beacons are located at the middle, left side, and right side.
First thing you gonna need to do is let your allies take the aggro before going in to assist them. The big threats here are the enemy Welkin and the Stego. Since the fight is happening in the middle, no need to worry much about it being captured. Keep in mind that Welkin and Hurricane will try to capture the beacons on the side. Just hit them once with CAD and they will go full aggro on you. Being able to destroy the 3 enemy strikers will complete the challenge.

• Enemies - Tricera, Inferno
  
• Timer - 3 minutes (or was it 2?)

At the start, only Tricera is present and after 15 seconds or something like that, Inferno will appear. Tricera is quite intimidating due to its firepower but it's quite easy to destroy. First, immediately use your ESD and fly above him, he won't be able to target you so keep damaging him with your splitter and CAD, he will try to reposition so just chase him till he is destroyed. Inferno one is tricky due to his booster ability that makes him easily dodge attacks. Best thing you can do is force him to the walls and drop CAD. It takes like 3 CAD drops to fully kill him. Do be careful or you will end up stacking the CAd instead of damaging Inferno.

• Enemies - 1 Welkin, 1 Inferno, 1 Luminae
  
• Allies - 1 Alysnes, 1 Hurricane
  
• Timer - 3 minutes(or was it 2?)

Keep your ally Alysnes alive and deal with the Welkin first. Don't worry much about Luminae since your team can destroy Luminae quite easily. The real threat here is the Welkin. Destroy Welkin and the rest are easy to destroy.

heya, Sam Aconitum here. this is my first Striker Guide that i have written and 2nd steam guide that i made(i made one for Class of Heroes 2).

at first, i really hate Pinaka because i am always forced to use this striker due to my allies always going for the damage dealer type strikers and none of them wants to play as the support healer. if i dont pick pinaka and we have no healer, we tend to always lose and I greatly blame myself for not picking Pinaka.

over time, i got used to Pinaka to the point I end up loving this striker and I want to share how i play this striker to anyone who wants to learn on how to use it.



My Pinaka's color scheme is based on the GSX-401FW Stargazer Gundam from the OVA Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: STARGAZER




if anyone is interested on how i recreated the color, here you go!