User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 1: Finding machines that are genuinely overrated/@comment-2118191-20171219071744

Does Sabretooth count?

I mean, I don't hate it as much as I used to, especially since the robot has now won some battles, but for a while, Sabretooth fit snuggly into that little group of robots that had never scored a combat win in multiple attempts (at least three) - a group that included, and still includes, the likes of Draven, Terror Turtle, Velocirippa and Warhog. Here's the thing, though - many of the robots that fall into that category, and that includes the four I mentioned, are typically met with disdain from most fans, who'll say something like "Why are these robots still being allowed to compete? They've had too many chances", stuff like that. What does Sabretooth get? #PrayForGabe. It gets a meme. People want it to win. Why? What's the difference between it and every other robot that keeps falling in the first round? The same people who want Sabretooth to win a battle want a robot like Draven to stop competing because it's an embarrassment that it keeps falling in the first round.

And y'know what, even when Sabretooth DID start winning battles...it's still extremely underwhelming. Yeah, it beat Terrorhurtz, that isn't anything to sniff at, but every other time it's faced a top-tier robot, it's been bossed around, and when it fights mid-tier robot, it struggles. I'm not going to be that guy who says "LOLZ, Sabretooth couldn't even beat Jellyfish, therefore it's terrible" because, lets be honest, that'd be kind of a jerk move to judge it when it was clearly not at its best, but considering it struggled to keep itself going against Apocalypse and The Swarm, not really much better.

Really, I just feel that Sabretooth isn't that deserving of the praise it got, and I just don't understand why it got a meme made out of it by the same people who are probably facepalming at the fact that Terror Turtle is still featuring in the show. Every version of Sabretooth (not counting the Series 6 version because it'd be unfair to judge it in its crippled state) had some serious design flaws and there are better robots worthy of becoming memes. Like Nuts, for example.