User blog comment:RA2/Robot Wars Rankdown: Extreme 1 & Series 5/@comment-2118191-20180627041056

I love you, SpaceManiac: Wowot. I don't understand why people legitimately like this robot. It's terrible. You ever heard of the term "glass cannon"? It describes when a robot has a remarkably effective weapon but is extremely fragile all around - basically great offence, terrible defence. This is the perfect way to describe Wowot......'s successor, 259, who despite its frail design still had a good flywheel. Wowot, on the other hand, had a really cumbersome set of jaws that were too awkward to grab anything, could do nothing if it HAD grabbed onto anything and supposedly had the ability to lift another robot, aside from the fact that if it had done so, it would have toppled over. And then it died when Sir Killalot pinched it, only slightly. It's not a glass cannon...it's literally just a pane of glass.

Reeled into the pool: Philipper. We're starting to get through all the robots that just didn't perform in Extreme 1, and its knockout of Panzer Mk 2 doesn't change the fact that Philipper lost both its battles that series, when every other robot in that position has either already gone out, has been nominated or, in the case of Gemini and S.M.I.D.S.Y., has some victories in Series 5 to fall back on.

Pool: Mastiff, Napalm, Oblark, Onslaught, Philipper, Ruf Ruf Dougal, Shockwave, Sumpthing, Widow's Revenge