Each game handles it slightly differently, but while there are obvious differences in the amount of power between certain mecha and mecha series, generally each robot has something they’re good at. It seems that we won’t be seeing the universe-sized Gurren Lagann at this point, since they’re supposed to use only the first half of the series, but even with the Gurren Lagann’s Giga Drill Breaker you’d think that it would be more useful than a simple Scopedog. What will probably happen is that little Scopedog can do stuff that the Gurren Lagann simply can’t–it might not be able to dish out and take damage like the Gurren Lagann can, but it can hit targets more accurately and dodge attacks so it doesn’t get hit in the first place, giving it a place on the battlefield.

I think it was Super Robot Wars 3 on the SNES where I learned that lesson: I was fighting Haman Karn, an enemy from Zeta Gundam and ZZ Gundam, and while my Super Robots had been doing the lion’s share of the damage in that stage up until that point, they had literally no chance to hit the speedy Haman unless they had enough spell points to use their Lock On skill. So Kamille in the Zeta Gundam and Amuro in the Nu Gundam had to use their less spectacular, but far more accurate attacks to kill that enemy that even the most uber Super Robot units would never even touch.

I wonder if Chirico from Votoms in the Scopedog unit will get a repair ability; it seems wrong for the most badass character in mecha anime history to be a mechanic, but if there’s anyone who is seen fixing up robots while still deploying on the battlefield, it’s him. I wouldn’t trust Fa from Zeta Gundam to fix my nuclear reactor, at any rate.