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Uppercut is just vertical Tombstone. I.e. a perfected Tombstone. Ray Billings biggest weakness was always the recoil from his own attacks. But as bots like Yeti & Minotaur demonstrated with their drum spinners, directing the rotational force upward cancels out the recoil damage by bracing the bot against the ground.
This was the battle that put uppercut solidly on my radar. It was the first established bot he severely beat up, as we found out many were about to follow. After the 2019 season uppercut has become my favourite bot out of the entire competition, never a boring fight with that beast.
In the past couple seasons, I didn't like skorpios as much since he just felt like a defence only sawblaze. They just relied on shoving the opponents into the side and perhaps get their saw on a single wheel. This season however, they finally have what I would call a legitimate weapon, so my previous distaste for it is gone. Uppercut however is in my eyes the ko king of battlebots. If you look at the average amount of punishment it deals per win, I think uppercut is the most destructive bot in the field.
