User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 2: Finding machines that are genuinely underrated/@comment-2118191-20171222075118

I really kinda wanna say Napalm.

I mean, think about it this way. Practically everyone is going on and on about how terrible a robot it was, how weak its weapon was, how flimsy its armour was, so on and so forth. All valid arguments, sure, but there's two problems here...


 * 1) For better or for worse, Napalm rarely lost in the first round of any competition it competed in. Even if most of its fights were won off the back of others killing themselves, even then it actively engaged its opponents. It could just be the slow speed talking, but you rarely saw Napalm retreat. Heck, it took a lot of damage in its time and still kept going through a lot of it.
 * 2) That was the point. Napalm was supposed to be a terrible robot. Nearly everything the team said about the robot was a self-directed insult. They knew the robot was weak, they knew they stood no chance, but they kept entering it anyway for the complete and utter lolz. Napalm, from at least Series 3 onwards, was meant to be a jokebot. Along the lines of Diotoir, Plunderbird and Sir Chromalot, who people rarely ever insult (and whom Napalm is statistically better than, worryingly enough). To be honest, I think most people just miss the point of Napalm.