User blog comment:NJGW/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 1: Finding machines that are genuinely overrated/@comment-24393094-20180429213006/@comment-24393094-20180520144440

Actually, considering that Chaos went out in Round One of Audited Series 2, I am going to withdraw this nomination. Instead, I think I will nominate my least favourite robot, Dominator 2, in particular its Series 5 model.

Now, I do not deny that, similar to Firestorm 3, it was one of the better machines in Series 5. But here is my problem: it seems that this version is considered the best Dominator 2, with the Series 6 variant deemed the weakest.

However, unlike the Series 6/Extreme 2 Dominator 2, which in my opinion was the comeback king of that wars (especially for coming from behind against S.M.I.D.S.Y. and Hydra, almost against 13 Black too), and had some of the best pre-HARDOX armour around. The Series 5 version... had neither of these attributes. Sure, it 'dominated' its heat, but it was only due to taking out Derek, a past its prime King B and poorly Corkscrew. It struggled against Wheely Big Cheese (a robot deemed one of the most overrated by some), and was easily taken out by Hypno-Disc (where the Extreme 2 variant successfully survived against.

Personally, I feel that if this Dominator 2 was placed in a melee with at least two decent (say Bulldog Breed 3 and Onslaught, for example), it could genuinely struggle in it, possibly losing if the others do not take each other out.