User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 2: Finding machines that are genuinely underrated/@comment-25109076-20171222023754

Doctor Fist? Truly, a godlike machine. This is actually really difficult to decide, but I'm tempted to say Kan-Opener. I never really hear them get mentioned at all, yet a lot of the time they quietly went about their business and put on some great performances. Yes, it crashed out in round 1 of 4 series, but they weren't exactly the best draws. A decent flipper in Series 5 when they weren't invertible, three mid-to-upper tier robots in Series 7 and the future champions alongside a highly powerful spinner which it controlled superbly in Series 8. For the most part, it was reliable, and very difficult to deal with, even for robots like Thermidor 2 and Ripper, who have both had their own moments across the show. It's probably the best robot never to win a fight in the main competition, and I just feel like a lot of people have forgotten what it actually achieved.