User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 1: Finding machines that are genuinely overrated/@comment-6279140-20171219174508

I'm taking Thor. Its debut, was granted, one sided and unbalanced, as it was mainly for Anarchy to take on Tornado. However when arrive at the New Blood, things seem off...

Of the competing robots of Heat B, only Edge Hog had competed before, in fact in the same heat as Thor, and it lost in round one. Think about RT81, why is it in the same heat as a giant hammer?

Roll on to Series 7 and look at the heat it got. It's got newcomers Lightning and Herbinator fighting 13 Black and The Alien, meaning Thor has chance to reach a heat final, all it has to is beat either Gravity, a robot armoured in polycarbonate, Hydra, a robot who has previously lost to an robot with an axe or Hodaf, a relative newcomer. Disaster strikes when Thor is unable to defeat either Hodaf or Lightning, allowing Gravity the heat.

FF to 2016. Thor once again has a fairly easy heat, especially since the main threats, TAN and DisConstructor, are in its group battle. However, whilst Thor qualified, it did not defeat its opponents, instead requiring Shockwave to help it out. The H2Hs are the same - M.R.SS and Shockwave take Thor some time to defeat and Foxic requires Jason use different tactics relatively quickly. The heat final is decided by luck, so it doesn't count as win or loss. In the grand final, Thor shows that isn't quite A-lister material, losing to TR2 (twice), Apollo, Carbide, and to a lesser extent, Pulsar (gremlins).

Series 9 rolls around and Thor once again struggles in the group battle, requiring Concussion to help it out. The H2Hs and heat final show Thor in a new light, struggling to deal with Heavy Metal, unable to beat Concussion and only beating M.R.SS through "gremlins".

The most recent series rolls around and once again we don't get a clear indicator as to how resilient Thor is against spinners, given how Expulsion is defeated to quickly and Magnetar gets the lucky hit. However, against Coyote, a robot that was meant to have gone out in round one, Thor was unable to really deal with it. Thor was able to win the match via the judges, but it should've at least won via KO once, especially given that Coyote fell apart.

After unfortunate luck against Magnetar, Thor went into the 10 way rumble as a favourite to reach the end, with the possibility of it winning should Apollo and Eruption be defeated early on. However it attacks Sir K, loses it axe and doesn't really do much after, eventually losing.