Summary

  • Choose a mech that fits your style for optimal enjoyment in Mech Arena PvP combat.
  • Mastering different hangar builds can give you an edge in team-based matches.
  • Customizing your mechs with the best weapons can help you dominate in battle.

Mech Arena is a fast-paced PvP arena-style game where players control customizable mechs in intense, team-based combat. A range of weapons and mechs can be unlocked, all of which can be combined into customized and specialized builds.

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Choosing a mech that fits the player's preferred gameplay style is crucial to enjoying Mech Arena.

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In Mech Arena, a hangar is considered to be a specific pre-built loadout for a mech that the player has unlocked, which they can bring into combat at any time. It combines a mech, a weapons loadout, and a pilot. Most veteran players will have several ready-built hangers that they can freely switch between when entering a match. As with most competitive PvP games, there are some builds that are considered meta, due to their proven effectiveness.

7 Bastion EMS

Solid Sniper Build

Bastion EMS Is A Good Hangar Build In Mech Arena
  • Mech: Bastion
  • Weapons: EM Rifle 12S
  • Pilot: Archangel
  • Good for:
    • 2v2 Deathmatch
    • Control Point Clash

This hangar build for the Bastion mech in Mech Arena, is a long-range sniper build, that also has some decent close-quarters combat capabilities. By relying on the capable EM Rifle long-range loadout, the Bastian can stay at long-range and pound enemies.

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Panther is one of the most versatile mechs in Mech Arena, and can therefore be outfitted with a wide range of weapons and still be effective.

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However, if needed, the player can close to short-range with a target stun them, and then unload the EM Rifles at point-blank range. The danger in doing this, is that the bastion has a pretty weak shield, and once it has been depleted, it becomes extremely vulnerable to enemy sniper mechs.

6 Surge Disc

Flexible And Highly Agile

Surge Disc Is A Good Hangar Build In Mech Arena
  • Mech: Surge
  • Weapons: Disc Launcher 12S
  • Pilot: Stefania
  • Good for:
    • Control Point Clash
    • 5v5 Deathmatch

The Mech Arena hangar build is based around the highly agile Surge mech. It fills the role of anti-sniper mech. What makes this build quite powerful, is that if it is based around the Surge dash ability, it is possible to close on enemy mechs very rapidly, taking them down at point-blank range with a full magazine from both weapons.

However, the Disc Launcher weapons also have a decent range. This means that this build has the option of backing off from the general melee, to hide behind cover and pummel enemies from long range. The only real downside with this build is the fact that Surge relies on speed and agility to survive, and it takes some time to learn to play this build well because of this.

5 Redeemer EMS

Long-Range Damage

Redeemer EMS Is A Good Hangar Build In Mech Arena
  • Mech: Bastion
  • Weapons: EM Rifle 12S
  • Pilot: Archangel
  • Good for:
    • 5v5 Deathmatch
    • Control Point Clash

Long-range builds are always popular in Mech Arena, especially with new players who have not mastered control of a range of mechs and their innate abilities. This Redeemer hangar is perfect for these players.

The EM Rifle is a solid long-range weapon, despite the fact it was nerfed somewhat a while ago. This build is easy to play, and simply requires the player to keep the mech behind cover whilst reloading, before sidestepping into the clear, to fire off a full barrage from its EM Rifle weapons.

4 Eclipse Rails

Agile Ambush Build

Eclipse Rails Is A Good Hangar Build In Mech Arena
  • Mech: Eclipse
  • Weapons: Railgun 12S
  • Pilot: Baron
  • Good for:
    • 2v2 Deathmatch
    • 5v5 Deathmatch
    • Control Point Clash

This Mech Arena hangar build is the first of the builds on this list that can be considered overpowered in some way. However, this build requires a style of play that just doesn’t seem sensible at first, at least until it has been tried.

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This is because the Eclipse Rails build is used in a very strange way. Due to its excellent mobility and good survivability, the Eclipse doesn’t need to rely on a duck and cover style of long-range combat. The trick with this build, is to move quickly around the map, hunting out exposed enemy mechs and then quickly sniping them from range before moving on.

3 Panther Disc

Flexible And Agile

Panther Disc Is A Good Hangar Build In Mech Arena
  • Mech: Panther
  • Weapons: Disc Launcher 12S
  • Pilot: Neymar
  • Good for:
    • 2v2 Deathmatch
    • 5v5 Deathmatch
    • Control Point Clash

The Panther is a mech that has a great balance of speed, agility, and survivability. Meaning that it can move around the battlefield rapidly, and if it gets in trouble, can retreat very quickly. Loading a Panther with Disc Launchers makes good sense keeping these benefits in mind when playing this arena shooter.

Disc Launchers are considered long-range weapons. However, the simple truth is, that these unguided weapons work equally well at dealing damage when up close. Having them mounted on a Panther gives the player the option of either staying at range, or closing in for a kill on isolated enemy mechs at close range.

2 Bastion Disc

Tanky Brawler

Bastion Disc Is A Good Hangar Build In Mech Arena
  • Mech: Bastion
  • Weapons: Disc Launcher 12S
  • Pilot: Stefania
  • Good for:
    • 2v2 Deathmatch
    • 5v5 Deathmatch
    • Control Point Clash

As overpowered hangar builds go in Mech Arena, the Bastion Disc build isn’t just insanely capable, it is very easy to use. The Bastion is a very tanky mech, although it does give up speed and agility for this. That being said, it is so tanky that in the right hands, it can dominate the battlefield by simply outsurviving opponents that it tackles at close range.

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This build is very easy to play, but it won’t be available to new players in Mech Arena for quite some time, as it relies on some unlocks that will take some time to achieve. Its only real vulnerability is to snipers, although this is not so much of a problem as long as the player remains aware of where incoming damage is coming from.

1 Surge Rails

Works At All Ranges

Surge Rails Is A Good Hangar Build In Mech Arena
  • Mech: Surge
  • Weapons: Railgun 12S
  • Pilot: Baron
  • Good for:
    • 2v2 Deathmatch
    • 5v5 Deathmatch
    • Control Point Clash

This Mech Arena hangar build is quite simply insane. Surge is a very fast and agile mech, and Railguns are a fast-firing, hard-hitting, and accurate weapon that works well at all ranges. Combined, this results in a build that can be used in any game mode, at any range in this competitive combat game.

The trick when playing a Surge Rails build, is to think about positioning at all times. Keep moving, make sure to stay behind cover when possible, and then swoop on exposed enemy mechs for a quick kill.

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Released
August 9, 2021
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Developer(s)
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