User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 1: Finding machines that are genuinely overrated/@comment-979907-20171219061349/@comment-979907-20171219092724

That's my point of this entry. People are too quick to deify Atomic, forgetting what we know and not acknowledging the possibility of problems existing. The list is looking for an overrated robot. I consider Atomic an A-lister (by series 7 standards) but not one of the all-timers.

And I don't know why vertical/horizontal spinners make a difference. If you take blows from a spinner, you take blows from a spinner. Either way we don't know what Atomic's side panels are like or how secure its weapon is in this iteration.