User blog comment:RA2/Robot Wars Rankdown: Extreme 1 & Series 5/@comment-2118191-20180713161407

Turned into soup: Manta. Manta is such a sleek, beautiful machine with a great drive and a great weapon when it works. However, throughout its entire run, its battles in Extreme 1 included, it suffered from the same major problem....it had absolutely no staying power. If it couldn't finish its opponent quickly, it just slowed to a crawl and couldn't do anything. Take its battle against Drillzilla. It looked fairly even, and then Manta just lost power and lost the battle as a result.

Going straight int-no, straight....straight....STOP TURNING RIGHT!: Prizephita Mach 2. So, did anyone else notice that during its run in Series 5, Prizephita seemed to have consistent mobility problems? Like it would always keep pulling to the right? Although given that Tornado is now being pooled for some reason, I was really tempted to pool Hypno-Disc, because it's essentially the reverse of Tornado (great S5, terrible X1)

In the pool: Bulldog Breed 3, Crushtacean, Drillzilla, Panzer Mk 2, Prizephita Mach 2, Spawn Again, Splinter, Suicidal Tendencies, Tornado