User blog comment:RA2/Extreme Warriors 2 & Nickelodeon Rankdown/@comment-4700688-20190722090543

10. Conquering Clown 2 - The final remaining "good for what it was" robot, this was expected to be rubbish, but worked really well as a reliable makeshift wedge. However, its spinner always broke after a few hits, and its wheels were vulnerable, alongside the obvious flammability.

9. Cyclone 2 - A true glass cannon. When it worked, it really worked, even despite the disc having only a top speed of 800rpm. The slow speed, link issues and exposed tracks are enough weaknesses to stop it from climbing higher.

8. Destructive Criticism - They did really well to reach the Top 4 in the main season, but with every robot it defeated now gone (in my own ranking), I'm not obliged to keep it around any more. The disc did tons of damage in its opening melee but very little thereafter, it was quite a thin blade all things considered. Filled the spinner niche well in the series, but it wasn't an optimised weapon, hence the loss to Ninjitsu.

7. Rosie the Riveter II - Fast, well-driven, successful, and (less relevant) very well-themed. I love the look of Rosie the Riveter II with a fantastic homage of a name, but their armor was very soft for a robot archetype that should be built like a brick, and they did lose all of their fights in Nickelodeon (narrowly, I admit).

6. Rocky-Bot-Boa - Honestly Rocky had no business being as good as it was, the robot was well armored but it also completely lacked a wedge and it wasn't even particularly fast. Nevertheless, it dominated its heat, dominated the Tag Team Terror, and only lost a close and controversial bout to Tricerabot 3.0 to give it just one loss out of seven fights. I can't argue with that.

5. Propeller-Head - We have some leniency to write off Propeller-Head's loss, as it dominated the battle and then pitted itself, so we've essentially never seen it lose. Aside from that "loss", we've seen it win five battles outright, plus more in BattleBots, and it was extremely impressive in all of them. A powerful spinner with surprisingly good defence, one that very few robots could answer to.

4. Tricerabot 3.0 - The series runner-up, it theoretically beats every US entry in the rankdown bar only Panzer Mk4. Only the UK bots have an excuse to go above it otherwise.

3. Tornado - Not to be confused with Texas Tornado, but I see no reason to rank this thing outside of the Top 3. If it could be a Top 5 robot in Series 5, 6 and 7 of the UK Robot Wars, then there's positively zero doubt that it was also better than the Extreme Warriors field, particularly as it went 3-0 in its US Season 2 appearance, which even builds upon a 1-1 record from US Season 1 where it only lost to Razer.

2. Panzer Mk4 - I'm willing to rank the undefeated US champion over Tornado because honestly I think Panzer Mk4 could genuinely win that battle. The lack of a srimech or damage output are the only main criticisms you can give, and I'll also chuck in the fact that Panzer Mk4 never took the easy way out, freeing robots that were already immobile (e.g. Destructive Criticism), but that made it all the more entertaining. The only robot I can rank above it... is the best robots in all of classic Robot Wars.

1. Razer - I don't care if its US Season 2 campaign was restricted only to a 1-1 record, beating Kat 3 and "losing" to Tornado, this is still Razer, the strongest combat robot to ever grace the classic series of Robot Wars, and who am I to deny it #1 based on a technicality. I understand the logic in ranking it lower, but can you really justify saying "Rocky-Boa-Boa is a better robot than Razer" or even "Tricerabot 3.0 is a better robot than Razer"? You can't, and although Razer did lose to Tornado, it was quite clearly a fight that Razer deserved to win, the Judges would even tell you as such half an hour after giving Tornado the victory. I had no intention of putting Razer anywhere else.