I have to say though, I don't think the Lancelot is overpowered...well, it is, but that's the point. It's an experimental model. Lloyd is actually sending it out a lot more than he's probably supposed to, because Lloyd is a cheeky guy who loves his toys he's collecting combat data on it's efficiency for his 'employer'; Prince Schneizel.

And as for Suzaku, maybe he just really does like piloting it! I mean...it is a pretty shiny mech, and the implication is that he and the mech 'click'; perhaps it has some kind of sympathetic technology, where the response of the technology is more sophiscated when the user has a defter touch; more like a musical instrument. ;)

Now *Karen's* mech; that came out of nowhere; that's your Munchkin mech right there; if I was the ST, I'd laugh that one out of the game.