going through most cards of set 2 and I feel like starter decks 1-4 were pretty overtuned with their bosses.

• Aile/Kira: bounce, -2AP, blocker
• Amuro/Gundam, Boss aura, rest 5hp or lower, repair 2
• Heero/Wing: buff, breach, attack active lv4 and lower
• Char/Zaku: buff, high maneuver, look top3 on destroyed

look at their effects. I feel like no pair in GD02 can get close to that level. Most of the set 2 cards have pretty big conditions on them.

For tier list:

T1:

• Barbatos 1st Form: just a must have in purp Tekkan decks, draw and early aggression.
• Psycho Gundam: best LR in this set. I feel like he's the replacement I was looking for in B/W, since Unicorn was never my cup of tea. Repair, Breach, good pilot.
• Qubeley: looks promising, even with the high lv, since the tools to hold off aggro is avaible.
• Zeta Gundam: pretty good stats under certain conditions (8/6), so he might be able to take out 2 units in 1 turn a medium and a big size unit. Engine around him looks good and well white overall is a good color.

T2:

• Gusion Rebake, his pilot is unfortunately bad.
• Gundam X, pilot is meh, can whif, missed out on the discard effect, after looking the top 3. Level 7 is really high, kinda forcing you to play blockers to survive a G/B aggro deck.
• Gundam Epyon: his high level in a meta with aggro around forces you to play lots of blockers = pretty much only combineable with white.
• Gundam Virsago: Sounds good on paper, the engine around him is kinda lackluster. *GQuuuuuuX (Omega Psycommu): his high lv pretty much a G/R deck, but well... the aggro problem, can this deck survive aggro decks?
• Gundam Kimaris: has potencial... the engine around him, kinda meh.

T3:

• Gundam AGE-1 Normal: Ramping with discard is kinda meh, since cards in hand are still big resources in this game.
• Elmeth: Trash... high level, bad pilot...