#gear classes

Gears weren't all born DURING the Crusades, though...

Main source for most Gear Class info is the Guilty Gear XX Drama CD Sides Red/Black, but it's mostly info said in passing by Ky Kiske's Knight Subordinates during the Crusades.

Much of that info has never been officially listed, though the Novel Lightning the Argent might have also contributed some to the info we have on Gear Classifications.

Still, it's very limited (and very old) info, so I can't say modern games like Xrd or Strive even apply that info anymore.... meaning it could have been retconned to some extent.

Gears are very dense, that much is still true, particularly Anti-matter Gears, as their density is flipped according to Dr. Paradigm... though the exact weight of them is unclear... though they are responsible for creating tremors and underground earthquakes in the times we witness them in Xrd Revelator's events.

Anti-matter Gears are the result of Japanese peoples' mutations from an information flare that Bedman and Ariels mutually triggered as a result of Ariels tampering with the Japanese people's D.N.A. mixing it with the D.N.A. of Justice back in the year 2074.

That’s true of more Gears than just Leopaldon, that applies to all kinds of Gears, actually.

Still, a Gear’s power and “type” (as far as Gear classes go) was just something the Sacred Order used to gauge what kind of enemy forces they were going up against… it was also based on “basic manufacturing specs” from the Gear Plants that manufactured Gears in America.

---------- nihalehalvmaane asks: "Shouldn’t Bonebiter also fall under the Toxic category as it is capable of releasing a weakening gas that will slowly cripple opponents that comes close to it?" ----------

Yes it's possible. I'm not fully aware of each Servant's full capabilities (i.e. movelists), so they can fall under nearly any class except maybe Megadeth, Humanoid, Prototype, or Command Classes.

Bear in mind, Gears fall in to different classifications and aren't limited to one class type, though I can make a guess for Paradigm's Group of misfits.

Since Gears are considered "Magic-based" it's misleading to simply call them all Magic Units.

Right off the bat though, Dr. Paradigm, his Faerie Assistant Bonnie, and the Capture Unit are all Flying Types (though smaller in size than standard).

Gate-Gunner, Paradigm's Mobile Minion, along with Geroppa and Leonard are Standard Class Gears, basic footsoldiers in any Gear army, although Leonard appears to have greater combat ability.

Roller is a Large Class Gear...and although he is slow, he is heavily armored, which is typical of Large Gears.

There's not much I can tell you about Bower, although he has human tendencies (especially in regards to combing his hair), he is also probably a Standard Class Gear as well, though more mobile than his counterparts (probably a reconnaissance unit).

Bonebiter is both a Large AND Flying Class, and although he himself doesn't fly much, he is an incredibly powerful Gear, extremely durable and mobile make for a deadly combination.

Spirit Seeker isn't a Gear per se, but a machine being controlled by smaller Gear. It seems to house a micro-army of Bower Jrs. and is primarily used for picking up stray Mana I believe. Gears can have enginiuity it seems.

Dual Horn, although a Large Class, seems to be capable of generating powerful Ice Magic.

As for Kokopelli...I'm not sure. It's a Servant summon generated from Dr. Paradigm's power, which says a lot about his Magic capabilities.

So let me re-iterate the classes of Gears:

------------------------Prototype Class (Solely named for the Flame of Corruption, Sol Badguy)--Normal Class (standard sub-human Gears, sometimes they can fly, but some are capable of powerful Magic)--Flying Class (can be small or large, but particularly mobile because of flight).--Large Class (known for being large or especially large and difficult to kill, Dragons especially fall under this class)--Toxic Class (certain types of Gears can generate powerful toxins and poisons that are difficult to counteract over a wide radius and can kill indiscriminately...these can come in all shapes and sizes, though one might say Testament falls under this category)--Megadeth Class (extremely deadly hard-to-kill Gear, typically large, extremely destructive, can level whole cities in a short amount of time)--Humanoid Class (not so common, but very deadly and very capable...sometimes considered Half-Human, though Paradigm says they have a high procreation rate and eat up resources very easily, though he's a bit biased. Sin, Sol, Testament, Dizzy, and Valentine fall under this category).--Command Class (reserved for the elite of elite types Gears with the ability to influence and manipulate other Gears as well as Youkai, revived downed Gears, and overall considered the most powerful in terms of raw Magic and destructive capability. Justice, Dizzy, and Valentine in particular fall under this category. Solaria might be a consideration, but she was unable to control other Gears properly since she was incomplete.)----------------------

Also bear in mind the standards on units in Guilty Gear 2, which vastly differ from the standards of Gears:

----------------------Melee / Elite Melee: (Mobile and Fighting Class Units, symbolized by a Circle)--Beats Mobile Units easily.--Loses to Armored Units--Loses to Ranged UnitsMobile / Elite Mobile: (Fast Magic or Physical Units, symbolized by a Triangle)--Beats Armored Units easily.--Beats Magic Units easily.--Loses to Common Melee Units.Armored / Elite Armor: (Slow moving, durable units often accompanied by support, symbolized by a Square)--Beats Melee Units easily.--Beats Ranged Units easily.--Loses to Mobile Units.--Loses to Magic Units.Magic / Elite Magic: (Often mobile, but sometimes armored Magic projectile specialists, symbolized by a Star)--Specializes in beating Armored Units.--Loses to Mobile Units easily.--Loses to Ranged Units easily.Range / Elite Ranged: (Very mobile, but lower in defense, symbolized by an Arrow)--Beats Melee Units easily.--Beats Magic Units easily.--Loses to Armored Units.

Also bear in mind that only ONE Elite Unit per tribe can be summoned at a time as a rule.

Some units can be enhanced with support or even modified if you have enough Mana through capturing Ghosts or killing enemy units.

Lastly, Valentine's campaign army falls under different standards of Melee, Raider, and Armor units. Though not very capable in support, they are still supported by powerful Barriers and Master Ghosts.----------------------

That is a somewhat broad if difficult question.

Gears, as you may already know, were bred as bio-weapons of war...so it goes without saying that they are extremely difficult to kill when active, much less seal away into dormancy. But of course, this also depends on class of Gear and species.

Fortunately for most of humanity, once Justice was sealed (and later killed), nearly all the existing gears awaiting her orders went into a semi-catatonic state. Gears that were mass-produced after the first model, Justice, cannot operate and function under normal circumstances without her commands (unless special circumstances change their core programming).

The gears that produced the most trouble for the Sacred Order were the T-Class and M-Class Gears. Toxic Class Gears can produce massive amounts of miasma and spores that can kill off whole ecosystems if a cure is not found and administered. Megadeth Class Gears possess size, durability, and raw physical and kinetic power capable of leveling whole cities with populations of 1,000,000 in less than an Hour.

In the case of sealing a rogue Megadeth Gear...it is almost impossible to do alone, much less with a limited group of soldiers...to say nothing of trying to kill it. If it weren't for I-No and Sol's intervention, Ky Kiske would have died from a Megadeth Gear attack in 2173, after trying to take it on alone.

In the case of the Hydra who leveled London, England: Hydra had 5 heads and a great many sword limbs that tore the city to rubble. The Sacred Order couldn't do anything against it for a day and night before their leader Kliff Undersn finally arrived. He fought the beast for seven days and nights...managing only to cut off 3 of it's 5 heads and only 4 of it's sword limbs. Though the struggle and loss was great, the Order wrapped Hydra in 13 Chains, put two large boulders on the remaining heads and sealed it...as they had many other legions of Gears to fight at that time to route their forces...and for a long time, the buried Gear lay dormant and the location became a No-Man's Land. Though despite the Hydra, humans drifted back in and built a village on top of it.

Blackard Company tried to control it with Solaria, but were unable to manage it. Eventually the International Police had to initiate "Operation Last Resort": a blacktech laser satellite that obliterated the Hydra for good (after they evacuated the villagers of course!)...but once again, the scorched earth meant no humans could ever live there again for many years to come.

As for the gear Leopaldon...his whereabouts are unknown.

And lest we forget the destructive power of Dizzy.

It's worth noting, that only the Command Type Gear Justice has had the onus of being sealed in Dimensional Prison. Most other Gears fall dormant or can be contained by simpler and cruder means, though do NOT MISUNDERSTAND...Gears are still very difficult to contain!

Related to this, though...are the Forbidden Beasts. Hi-Deigokutsuipo, the 6 Forbidden Magics not only produced 2 deadly assassins, but 4 other unknown subjects, not to mention the countless other "failures" that the Post-War Administration Bureau produced.

Most notable, however...was the project Leon Maining produced by extracting D.N.A. from Zato=ONE and Millia Rage and cloning the genetic information from their "beasts" and concentrating and injecting the fluid he produced into the soldiers of the Kingdom of Calronia. He labeled his army the "God Series". The fluid was intended to increase the soldiers' combat abilities while reducing pain and stress in the field...however this caused much more problems than he realised. Not only did it cause EXTREME STRESS on the human body...it caused the body to rupture and mutate uncontrollably.

The result was a nigh unkillable army of Gears...though not even a Gear in a traditional sense...abominations born from the exploded bodies of human soldiers! At first, Maining thought he could control the beasts and called out to them, commanding them to assassinate the leader of the Assassins' Organization.

Fortunately, at the time...three Assassins who had been at odds with one another decided to band together: Zato=ONE, the leader of the Guild, his former lover (turned traitor), Millia Rage, and his loyal servant Venom. Zato had the power to fight these "Gears" on relatively even terms, through the use of his own Dark Sentinel, the Forbidden Shadow Beast Organism, Eddie. Though he could not defeat them outright due to being outnumbered. What instead occurred...was a professionally executed plan. Venom distracted the creatures by hitting their critical points with his sniping ability "Red Hail", while Zato used the "Damned Fang" of his beast to tear open and expose their chests...while Millia Rage, despite her conflicted emotions, used "Winger" to pierce each exposed Gear Core...returning the mutations back into human corpses.

So as you can see...if you can expose a Gear's core...and have the means to destroy it...you can kill the Gear. But this varies from Gear to Gear...as some are nigh indestructible.

In fact, I'd say Sol Badguy's summoned Tribe Servant "Gigant" with all his enhancements would be nearly unstoppable...of course...Servants of a Gear are unheard of to humanity...and they aren't exactly Gears either, as that method is related to Soul Sinker.

Most Seals are done either by use of a blood pact...or forming a time-space "Ouroboros Loop" that causes a small loop in space-time...the latter requires extensive knowledge of the 12 Steps and possibly Forbidden Magic itself...beyond what humanity currently knows and utilizes. Most complex barriers are called 4ths for short because of the complicated notation.

There is a third method of forming a seal...but it's currently unstable and the method has yet to be fully researched. Transmuting an OutRage into a seal...this has only been achieved through use of Ky's sword Thunderseal...but we do not know how he did it exactly. This particular seal was meant to stop the Maiden of the Grove from eroding into sublimation, with the hope that one day she could be restored. Regardless, once a Gear has been fully sublimated...it's uncertain if they CAN be restored...or if they are gone forever.

Gear cells are links into the Backyard...Gears can still be sublimated and broken down, regardless of their dormant status. The method Valentine used to sublimate Gears goes outside the realm of the 12 Steps, so it is most likely impossible for normal humans to grasp the incantation.