User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 1: Finding machines that are genuinely overrated/@comment-6279140-20180403182157/@comment-6279140-20180404150404

Carbide is overrated for one simple reason - most of the robots it fights have the wrong armour or were not use to fighting spinners. I mean put all of the robots Carbide fought into a H2H battle and you'll see that, other than Big Nipper, no one has the armourment to take on Carbide. Carbide reminds of Hound of Baskerville, where although there is a dog, the gas (or lens) made it seem more aggressive than it was. If Carbide had defeated a robot specifically made to combat spinners, possibly Original Sin (who weights around 100kg, since Robogames competitors all way around 220lbs, and uses NiCads), then I would've accepted the fact that Carbide was indeed a powerful robot.