Weapons

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Lifting weapons

These weapons lift the opponent and cause them to lose control of motion.

Wedges

  • Passive
  • Hinged type/ground-scraping
  • Break opponent contact with ground
  • Use with walls
  • Use with pits

Wedgelets

  • Passive
  • Possible steering toward a damaging main weapon

Lifters

  • Possible lift and carry
  • Single vs. forks
  • Lift with spinner

Flippers

  • Launchers

Spinning weapons

Spinning weapons can inflict damage on opponents with a hard, fast impact from a rotating element.

Beater bar

  • Drum

Horizontal spinner

  • Blades
  • Discs
  • Bars
  • High vs. low
  • Gyroscopic effects

Vertical spinner

  • Saw arms
  • Gyro effects

Angled spinner

Full body weapons

Large portions of your bot, or even the entire bot, can be put into motion as a spinning weapon.

Shell spinner

Ring spinner

Meltybrain

Thwackbot

Full body drum

Full body flail

Hammer weapons

Hammers inflict destructive shock waves, dents, and puncture damage on opponents.

Impact/blunt

Spike/piercing

Horizontal

  • Rare

Control weapons

Seize control of opponents and puncture or throw them for damage.

Clamp

  • Dustpan

Suplex

Crushers

  • Mandibles
  • Spike/scorpion

Ramming weapons

Spear/piercing

Plows

  • Steering opponents
  • Articulation

Other

Flamethrowers

  • Where permitted

Projectiles

  • Cannon