User blog comment:RA2/Robot Wars Rankdown: Series 4/@comment-9751413-20180601184823

18: Spikasaurus. Survived, rather than won the annihilator, and performed really badly in the heats. Overrated.

17: Crusader 2. Lucky to be this high after some charmed groups of 16 helped it bump up way higher than it should ever be. Not even heat final material.

16: Bigger Brother. An improvement over Series 3, but not a patch on Series 5.

15: Killerhurtz. Did enough to lightly redeem itself in the Annihilator, but nothing else really.

14: S.M.I.D.S.Y.. The perennial heat finalist, but no more. Same here.

13: Mortis. Shone in the War of Independence. Shame it was its last appearance, an upgraded Mortis could have been something special for the 100kg era.

12: X-Terminator 2, deserving heat winner, but it was always going to struggle against the other winners.

11: Panic Attack. As good as it was, Panic was just starting to become a little left behind as other weapons appeared.

10: Stinger. I doubt I will ever be convinced about axlebots being interesting in an offensive sense. 100% deserving Grand Finalist, but being a Grand Finalist doesn't mean you are necessarily the best in the series. Look at Thunder and Lightning from King of Bots...

9: Thermidor 2. Had the reliability they craved in later series', the claws were just too big.

8: Firestorm 2. Didn't perform well enough this series for what we know Firestorm should do.

7: Tornado. Powerful pusher in its infancy, just lacked the finesse it had in its second incarnation.

6: Wild Thing. Awesome feat of engineering that could withstand anything, I just personally dislike it massively for no real reason. Still deserves to be high.

5: Chaos 2. Controversial to place the champion this low, but it always faced robots it could beat, with Pussycat being the only robot to expose its weakness - poor armour. It may have been ganged up on in the Annihilator, but the weak armour really didn't help. The champion due to a charmed draw, rather than being the best robot sadly.

4: Razer. Fantastic feat of engineering which was unbeatable in the Annihilator. Holds back off the top spot it should have had by the reliability.

3: Pussycat. A slippery devastating robot that showed versatility and sheer destruction. Could have easily been champion.

2: Dominator 2. The real winner of the Northern Annihilator, Dominator was unbeatable in that annihilator, dominating every round and smashing everyone into submission. Creamed its heat, and took Firestorm in a close judges decision. I am rating it higher than the robot that beat it because it deserves to be so high for producing an axe that was truly a match for every other damaging weapon in the series - bar one...

1: Hypno-Disc. Hypno was taken out by Pussycat due to cruel luck. Yes, the exposed wheels could/should be classed as a design flaw, but this was the series out of all of them that Hypno should have won. Yes it did get a pretty poor heat and summarily tore everyone apart, but that battle with Splinter was just incredible, and they almost killed the Toyota Hilux of the Robot Wars world - Wild Thing. The start of the series.