User blog:Anderson9132/The top 10 most overrated/underrated robots.

This is something that sticks in all of our minds at one point or another. what robots are unworthy of the praise they constantly get and what robots lack such praise that they, in turn deserve? Obviously there are no right or wrong answers as it is entirely opinion based. I'm sure some people think Firestorm is overrated and whilst they are imbeciles for thinking such a thing, it is their rightful opinion. All jokes aside, these are just my personal opinions and I can trust that all reading this won;t get too stroppy if I put one of the favourites in the overrated section, and vice versa if one of your least favourites makes it into the underrated section. As usual, I'm going to start off with the bad (overrated) and finish with the good (underrated). So here we are, the top 10 most overrated robots in Robot Wars history.

Top 10 most overrated robots
10. Cassius - Oh yes, come at me haters! Actually, in all honesty, if you could please simmer down and allow me to explain why I have placed this on the list I would be greatful. Now I know how good Cassius is. I know how influential Cassius is. And I also know how ahead of its time Cassius was. But that doesn't mean it isn't overrated. I personally don't get the hype. Everyone at the time, and even today, consider it to be the best robot at the time and the real champion of Series 2. I say rubbish. Ok so it dominated its heat very well indeed, but in the semi finals against the big boys, a boy did it start to struggle. Not only did it come fourth in the gauntlet, but against Haardvark, their chain broke, and immobilised them, only for the house robots to pounce on a still mobile Haardvark and kill that just to give Cassius a second chance. However the real showing of just how out of league this robot was is its match against Roadblock. Roadblock absolutely dominated them. It got underneath Cassius several times and shoved them all around the arena constantly. then half an inch of Roadblock's scoop entered the PPZ and the House Robots leapt on it, despite Cassius being pushed in there earlier. This allowed Cassius to flip Roadblock over. Yeah, that's a championship worthy robot isn't it? I love Cassius, but these few incidents just make me realise how much everyone overrated it.

9. X-Terminator (Series 7) - Yes I love the X-Terminator machines, yes I know it reached the Grand Final and yes I know how destructive it was, but if you take away the deadly disc what do you have? A slow robot, with a high ground clearance and a lack of any reliable srimech. X-Terminator in series 7 is sadly one of many robots that was built with only the weapon in mind and nothing else. And said weapon was great, capable of tearing robots apart and launching them out of the arena, but the fact still remains that it is severely flawed. Imagine if the Tsunami team hadn't got a little too over confident. We would have seen X-Terminator fall out in yet ANOTHER heat final. The main problem I have though is that these flaws all aid one another. It lacks a reliable srimech and it has a high ground clearance, meaning its unreliable srimech can be exploited (sound familiar?). All in all, X-Terminator was a great robot but far to flawed to not warrant any criticism.

8. Razer - yes I know I've done it to death, but as long as I keep seeing "OMG RAZZOR!!!" comment on Youtube and Facebook, this will remain a reality I'm afraid. I'll keep it short because what have I not said already? I find it too slow to be entertaining, I don;t think it is a deadly or destructive as everyone says it is, nor do I think it is all that good looking and I find the majority of its battle dull. There, no ranting, no raging, just me and my opinions. We good? Good.

7. Mute - Mute is one of those robots that has always left me scratching my head as to why it is loved so much. Everyone seems to love this little flippy thing. But why? Is it because of its sleek looks? The fact that it does gymnastics around the arena? I have no clue. I'll admit, I was very excited when i first saw it, after hearing that it had an entire FOUR KILOS of CO2 on board! Imagine just how powerful that flipper would be! Sadly, this power proved to b its downfall. Instead of having a really powerful flipper, they had a really cack self righter, which constantly failed to right the robot due to it over shooting the robot. We saw more of Mute flying in the air than we actually saw of it battling in series 7. Power is nothing without control people. Also, thanks to those black spikey things and its steep wedge, Mute struggled to get underneath most things and therefore making all that power completely useless. Take into consideration that it had one of the luckiest runs in robot wars history, both in series 7 and the new blood tournament and you have a pretty overrated robot.

To be continued...