(In fact, I wouldn't even try and treat it as canonical at all. It screws up too many things, and must.)
It's not canonical, I said not to the characters and story, I am talking about mechs specifically, basically this was later used for making Marvel vs. Capcom, see where is there is no real canon in MvC...also Namco does the same with it's RPG series nemed "Tales"
Frankly I wouldn't take Super Robot as a fair comparison either
Yes, I would, models, skills, weapons and story are licenssed and everything which appears is not like Banpresto just create them, and even if they would want they can't , it would be against the license, most EMP would surely disrupt most robots from another series, but while Evas are not really mechanical at all, they have that adventage, specially in berserker mode.
Super Robot doesn't screw it, it just gives the same mission which happens at "xxxx" series, and makes add to let you use robots from another series in that battle, but the story, scenaries, and characters are the same...SR was never designed with the intention of screwing anything, barely later after you have passed over the original stories of mech's anime, add some exclusive really powerful enemy that all mech's will end fightning. Aside from that SR has it own "Original Generation" which is the exclusive story of SR with robots from SR series but not any other, so if they want to do some drastic they do it in there, they don't have any necessity of screwing anything...the point of SR is that you can see and play most (if not all) of the events that happen in mech's series with some addition, screwing the story would just be the opposite...
The five-minute time limit means an EVA is basically doomed against anything capable of flight and posessing a pilot with half a brain and a basic understanding of the EVA's functioning. You can either sever the power cable or track it back to the generator and blast that; doesn't really matter either way. Then it's a simple matter of outdistancing the EVA and waiting five minutes.
The 5 minutes limits is only true after the start of the Eva series, there have been many ways to extend this, the Nuclear reator and what happens with Eva 01 at the very end of evangelion, not only that but if they go berserker they don't really need a power supply. The difference is that many other mech series like Gundam have robot's specs, usually gundam's source of energy is a ultracompact nuclear fission reactor with specific power output rated xx, that means their power source is enough for long time, much more than a battle...
Besides, why bother when you can kill it on pure tactics?
If it goes berserker you're dead, mechs suffers transformation along series, this the Eva 01 case, as the series progress those weak points are usually improved...reliying on the enemy weakness isn't a good way of destroy it and prove xxxx mech is better, because if you're wrong then you're death...aside that you're talking about "kill" something which is stopped and has no movement, is that the case, then take that mech for you, don't waste it...
Even if another mech can fly Evas have really good additional long-range weapons, so it would be safer to be near it than away from it, there aren't much good close range weapons for evas...
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The conclusion is simple, Evas are limited in Boosters, hand-to-hand beam weapons, and high-energy guns all due to the lack of a good energy source, like a nuclear reactor. That's the only main and worst point with other mechs, any other difference is not really important at all to consider then worse...
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There is nothing more really to talk here, Evas lack from an energy source and so their performance is really halved, people can accept it or just free to believe whatever they like, it's everyone opinnion, but respect other opinnions, I'll just be reasonable and comprensive with someone who treats me the same way (do someone get the word reciprocal respect), I am satisficied because I know which ones are more reliable in a fight...and I have nothing wrong against Evangelion or any other series (but yes I really like the story, is very different from any other mech series)
