Pacific Rim Speed Upgrades

[LordXcano]

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:LordXcano/Knifehead's_Swimming_Speed

Knifehead is listed as a "6" in speed in the guidebooks. Going by this the Kaiju and Jaegers that should scale to this feat are:

• Trespasser (7)

• Knifehead (6)

• Otachi (9)

• Raiju (10)

• Slatter (10+)

• Gypsy Danger (7)

• Striker Eureka (10)

• Crimson Typhoo (9)

Now if you're wondering what those numbers are, those are what's listed in the guidebook for their speed. If we use just that everyone with a 6 would scale to the feat (so basically just Knifehead) and everyone else would get "at least" put before their speed.

Now, if we assume it's a linear scale (which there's no evidence for AFAIK, so take this with a grain of salt) the speeds would be:

• Knifehead - 69.97 m/s to Mach 2.36

• Trespasser & Gypsy Danger - 81.62 m/s to Mach 2.75

• Crimson Typhoon & Otachi - 104.94 m/s to Mach 3.55

• Striker Eureka & Raiju - 116.6 m/s to Mach 3.94

• Slattern - At least 116.6 m/s to Mach 3.94

Now, of course, this doesn't include people with speed stats lower than 6, which would give us:

• Cherno Alpha (3) - 34.98 m/s to Mach 1.18

• Onibaba (4) - 46.64 m/s to Mach 1.58

• Leatherback & Scunner (5) - 58.3 m/s to Mach 1.97

 

[Lina_Shields]

Just wondering if the speed stats listed in the said chart is increasing linearly, or if increases on a logarithmic scale?

If there are no other speed feats for the Kaiju in general other than the Knifehead feat, we can use this chart as a reference for speed. As for what this means...

Cherno Alpha, Onibaba:

• Speed: Supersonic

Leatherback, Scunner, and Knifehead:

• Speed: At least Supersonic

Trespasser, Gypsy, Crimson, Otachi:

• Speed: Supersonic+

Striker Eureka, Raiju, and Slattern:

• Speed: At least Supersonic+

However, it would be cool if we could find combat speed feats for those guys instead of travel speed feats however.

 

[LordXcano]

Jaeger, while they can be fluid, are pretty lacking in combat speed feats due to their very "tanky" design. A quick scan through the Gypsy Danger respect thread though nets me just two combat speed feats.

 

[Lina_Shields]

Just a reference from the above post that I made. If we are using the low end of the speed calculation, this means that every Kaiju and Jaeger will have their speed downgraded to Subsonic.

Perhaps a calculation of those two two feats would determine their combat speeds, and it would be a much better gauge of their speed rating compared to a couple of statements that could potentially have been misread by the radar/people on the boat.

Considering that Pacific Rim seems to follow the laws of physics (no magic cough*) most of the time during the movie, would it be allowed to find the Jaegers/Kaiju combat speed based on the speed of Leatherback throwing Gypsy Danger over a great distance?

 

[LordXcano]

I don't see why not. I think you could divide the timeframe Gypsy was in the air by 2 to get the height it was thrown based on its free-fall and go from there. Not sure on that though I don't know much about projectile motion.