User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 2: Finding machines that are genuinely underrated/@comment-25109076-20171228180407

In the wake of Audited Series 6, I'm tempted to go for Wild Thing 2. Either that, or the Extreme 1/Series 5 variant is overrated, I can't really tell which way to go. People talk about how much it struggled in its fights and how much worse it was than the previous version, and for a long time I thought the same. But did it struggle any less than Wild Thing from Series 5 did in its victories against the likes of Trouble 'n' Strife, Prizephita or Dominator 2? Wild Thing was never about significant damage, low ground clearance or KOing the opponent. It was more to do with good driving, persistent aggression and reliability. Did you know that all of Wild Thing's victories from Extreme onwards came through Judges' Decisions? I do wonder how many machines could have stood up to 259's string of attacks as well as Wild Thing 2 did. It certainly wouldn't be many. At the end of the day, Wild Thing 2 still reached the Semi-Finals, deservingly beating 259 through sheer resilience, and Vader through simply being more controlled and aggressive, then got drawn against Razer, and that was the end of that. Would Wild Thing from Series 5 have won these battles more convincingly than Wild Thing 2 did? I genuinely don't see how. Could it have beaten Razer or Dantomkia? I don't see how.