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* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Walkers. Tracked robots to a lesser extent (one side always seemed to give out or rip, leaving the robot going in circles). Mechadon and Snake, two robots that competed in the early seasons (and built by the same guy, too), are excellent examples.
** However, when coupled with a very good weapon, a walker could be quite formidable. An example of this is Son of Whyachi in season three, which took advantage of the increased weight allowance for walkers to sport an advanced movement system (while still technically being a walker) and a devastating spinning hammer weapon that won it a championship.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: Wedges. Voltronic in particular screams this trope. Its weapon was a slow lifting arm that had small spikes pop out from the bottom when it grabbed something. It would then carry the opponent around, with them unable to retaliate because their wheels weren't touching anything. Voltronic won most of its fights by doing this, even after a rule was added stating robots could not "pin" another for more than 30 seconds: If the trapped robot could still move, they had to let go.
** In an arena where the most guaranteed win is to hold your opponent under a giant hammer, heavily-armored non-offensive designs seem a lot more attractive. It's no wonder that Biohazard, Diesector, and and Vlad all won multiple Nuts, while Mechavore and Surgeon general got none.
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* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Mechavore, Hazard, Son of Whyachi, Ziggo, etc.
* [[Explosive Overclocking]]: Mauler 51-50 was notorious for this.
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Several robots were quite revered despite losing almost all their televised battles. Examples include Mouser Mecha Catbot, Tentomushi, and The Mauler.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Any time a successful design was created, the next season would have several imitators.
* [[Glass Cannon]]: Nightmare, whose huge vertical spinning saw was definitely one of the nastiest weapons on the show... but the bot had two completely exposed wheels that were ripped off plenty of times in the course of the show, and to top it all off, its shape made it very easy to tip over. Nightmare was involved in some of the most spectacular knockouts in the history of Battlebots, but more often than not, it was on the ''receiving'' end of those knockouts. Nightmare's lightweight companion, Backlash, which was lower to the ground and consequently had better balance, was far more effective and made it to the lightweight finals more than once, winning in Season One.
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*** Its a shame they don't have the full video of the fight online, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMNcT2BC7W4 but this says enough].
** Also Crash Test Dummy, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBL0diT2ifk As seen here]
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* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Dr. Inferno Jr, which looks very top heavy and unbalanced, but somehow manages to kick ass and take names. It won the Lightweight championship twice.
* [[Life or Limb Decision]]: Happened to Diesector of all bots. He got his hammer stuck in the slot for the kill saws somehow. Naturally, he let the saws cut the hammer off. Viewable here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PC7gAo1cfE\]
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* [[Ten-Minute Retirement]]: Dr. Inferno Jr's driver, Jason Bardis, claimed that his robot was retiring after its Season 3 tournament win. It entered the Season 4 tourney and lost in its first battle (and it was never aired, so viewers actually thought he DID retire), then returned in full force in Season 5. See [[Only a Flesh Wound]] for what happened next.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMq6Hw-oxSs El Diablo vs. Ra], Hazard vs. Sabotage. There was also a competitor named Overkill, but its weapon was rather lacking and it won most of its fights by perseverance and not destruction.
** Especially when Overkill beat Mechavore and Surgeon General during Season 4 by using the big blade to break their weapons. When the teeth on the blades hit the circles in Overkills blade it bent the tooth and stopped the blade.
* [[Took a Level
** Megabyte, a full-body spinner from the heavyweight division, was eliminated early in the preliminary rounds of the fifth season tournament. After the show's run ended, its builders continued to work on it for non-televised tournaments in later years. A couple years after the end of Battlebots' run, Megabyte fought ''the'' Biohazard (who dominated during Battlebots' TV run and is often thought to be the "face" of American robot combat) and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifBLBYwxe2Q completely obliterated it] (even worse than Son of Whyachi had done back in season three).
*** Also note that Megabyte once entered a Superheavyweight tournament. Megabyte was not altered in any way aside from gaining the assistance of [[Mecha-Mooks|tiny wedge bots (called "Little Bites") that would provide distractions for opponents.]] Superheavyweights are more than 100 pounds heavier than the average heavyweight. Megabyte placed ''third.''
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