User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 1: Finding machines that are genuinely overrated/@comment-4700688-20180114220109

I've got one. The Series 7 version of Spawn Again. Because the Series 5 and 6 version of Spawn Again broke down so frequently, expectations were the same for Series 7's Spawn Again, but surprisingly it wins two fights without breaking down. There was a convincing OotA along the way, but also a really shaky win over ROCS where it was initially losing. Then we get to the Heat Final, where its flipper explodes, but this is written off as a fluke because it was never seen again on the show, and the robot later breaks down by driving into the wall, but the KO is always attributed to the initial gas rupture which didn't actually immobilise it. Thus, this version of the machine is seen as the one that embodies Spawn Again's successful track record, as the previous versions didn't really "earn it" as such.

In actuality, the gas rupture wasn't that infeasible - the main reason punch rams + bungee cords like the ones you see in TR2 and Apollo became so popular is because flipper rams do struggle to contain full-pressure power like Spawn Again had. Also notice how full-pressure flippers were a rarity in Series 7, but are commonplace now. This is because robots weren't using the less internally damaging punch rams yet, and so most robots stuck to high pressure. This is also part of the reason Eruption is so strong, because it doesn't use a punch ram, instead the robot has a tall frame to contain the power of its conventional ram.

But the tl;dr version is "this community thinks that Spawn Again's reliability issues were fixed in Series 7 even though it broke down in 33% of its limited selection of fights", and as a result it can beat robots such as Storm II, and in a this-week-levels-of-recent example, Aftershock.