Lifters

Lifters were more designed to lift a robot off from the ground than turn them over. Often, robots armed with lifters would use them to get under a robot and push it around. The most notable of these is Series 2 champion Panic Attack, who defeated many robots by lifting them up and dropping them in the pit. Other notable robots include Panzer Mk 2 and S.M.I.D.S.Y.. The most powerful lifter is almost certainly Series 2 superheavyweight champion Kick Robut.

Definition

 * A lifter is not restricted to one specific shape or size, and can be in the form of a bar, forks, or even a true flipper-esque plate. The main distinction of a lifter is that during the attack, an enemy robot remains on the lifter until it is released, falls off or is successfully rolled onto its side or back. This is contrasting flippers, which aim to propel another robot and allow gravity and torque to flip the robot over.

Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages
 * Strengths of lifters were that they were effective weapons in early series, before the invention of the srimech. Panic Attack's road to victory in the Second Wars, as well as its run in Series 3, were the best examples of this.
 * Also, lifting weapons could be used as effective weapons for invertible robots, such as Suicidal Tendencies, Storm 2 and S.M.I.D.S.Y.

Disadvantages
 * Weaknesses included that lifters were not usually large enough or powerful enough to self-right or flip a robot from the arena. Robots such as Panic Attack added additional srimechs, but these required additional power systems, which could cost the robot in weight or power to their weapon. As shown in Panic Attack's various losses to Firestorm, these srimechs did not always work either.

List of Robots with Lifters


Robots are listed alphabetically. Robots that aren't heavyweight are listed with a green background.