User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 1: Finding machines that are genuinely overrated/@comment-9751413-20171219091438

Infernal Contraption.

Here is why it is always overrated. It has never scored a knockout. People keep voting for it in battles because the weapon is supposedly godly, and somehow one of the worst robots keeps getting votes against All-Stars. It's has never caused enough damage to kill another robot. All it has is a small hit on C.V. and claims it bent Bulldog Breed's chassis. Now, did either of those kill the robots? No.

Infernal Contraption has hit Infinity's body with the weapon, and caused pretty much no damage at all. It isn't the best armoured robot, so that shows the lack of power in the weapon. Was it well controlled? No. When fighting Infinity with a powerful weapon, you need to aim for the wheels and rip them off. Did IC ever manage to do that? No. It was a flawed design because the weapon moved away whenever it drove, and the axlebot seemed tough to drive anyway.

What else do we know about it? The wheels liked to stop working. Small impacts on the wheels by any kind of weapon were often followed by IC losing control of that wheel.

These are all pretty clear cut reasons as to why IC doesn't deserve the votes it gets. Let's have a look at a few battles it's won that are truly ridiculous.

Dominator 2. This will never happen. Somehow, the uncontrollable IC has managed to hit the wheelguards multiple times to kill the wheel below. We know that Dominator was extremely well driven, and the axe was accurate. People might go for the "OMG, Dominator 2 has an axe so it's really hard for it to hit something". Well, it has made a career of hitting things, and it will take less hits from Dominator 2 to kill IC than it will the other way around.

Chaos 2. Ludicrous. This battle seemed to be based on Chaos' supposed weak armour. This is the same Chaos 2 that has won fights against Hypno-Disc, Pussycat and Wild Thing, but did take a loss against 13 Black. Infernal Contraption does not have a weapon as powerful for starters, but what does 13 Black have over IC? Control. 13 Black may be a bit wild, but it can still aim the weapon at an opponent and take them out, IC needs the opponent to be a sitting duck. Is that something you can ever attribute to a roboteer like George Francis? I think not.

I will vote for Infernal Contraption when it is in a battle it can win. Look at it's run in Ragnabot 2. But when I vote against it, that doesn't mean I'm voting against it because I hate it, it's because I understand the robot and know that it has no chance.

Plus, I've got through that entire argument without mentioning that it drove down the pit in one of its 6 battles.