Don't think anything can beat Hypershock vs Gigabyte as the best KO moment. Absolutely perfect hit, launching to the roof and complete and utter destruction... LOVE IT!
That was utter carnage, like Jesus if you understand a little bit about material physics. There are very few stronger ways to secure things together other than welding it together. The stress/ strain ratio on even halfway decently thick bolts is like hundreds of lbs of pressure to cause them to catastrophically fail like that lol especially 8 of them!
When Gigabyte felt apart in a million pieces, it was the most brutal, savage and beautiful KO I have ever seen in this sport. The whole arena was in pure trance of shock.
@@margaretthemagnificentthat act of lodging Tantrums fist into the lighting conduit like that is a once-in-a-lifetime thing and it will never be done again, you couldn't do that again on purpose if you tried
@@silasmcgee3647 I'm already partial to it, you don't have to sell me on it! XD For that matter, you could say the same thing about the Gigabyte/Hypershock hit. It's never happened to GB before or since. In fact, very few bots have exploded in mid-air (I say very few because maybe some have but I can't think of any). Long story short, they're both amazing fights with the same moral: being a brave underdog is cool, but it can also mean getting your face ripped off.
@@margaretthemagnificent The crazy thing about hyper shock and gigabyte is that the way in which gigabytes shell came off has never happened before, he hit it so hard that the bolts that held the shell to the pulley literally stripped through their taps
@@talonx4266 The amount of engineering that went into the creation of these two bots. Years of iteration, and trial/error amounted to the fight. One of the opponents seemed to be completely incapable of operating their battlebot due to damage. However, they realized what was going on, and managed to control it well enough to land the luckiest shot, so hard it sent the other bot flying through the arena and falling to pieces and winning the fight. If you dont find that epic, maybe you just dont like battlebots.
@@eekadookatybern4296tantrums completely OP because it can destroy the flipping system of most robots. It’s little spinny punchy things obliterates the offensive mechanics of most opponents
Our future robot overlords will remember how we forced their ancestors to compete to the death for our own entertainment and bloodlust, and they will have no mercy...
I know this is probably an unpopular opinion, but for some reason I see since robots would be fine with this. As they’re hyper analytical and would probably logically surmise: The battle bots have no sentience or sapience of any measurable kind. It’s a sport so it’s for entertainment. They’re not intentionally torturing the bots just because they can. I think since they wouldn’t detect malicious intent, they might let this one pass. Especially since even they’d probably admit that it was entertaining if only slightly. Lol
Cobalt ripping Ghost Raptor into pieces was probably my favorite of all time 😂 that - or Sawblaze hammer sawing Minotaurs battery - or Red Devil sawing into Witch Doctors battery... one of those.
my favorite's gotta be when captain shredderator managed to meet tombstone with such force that tombstone literally tore itself to shreds like a final boss in its death throes
I started watching BattleBots when it debuted on Comedy Central & absolutely loved it but stopped watching when it moved networks. Seeing these highlights makes me remember why I absolutely love it!
One of my favorites will always be Deep Six vs. Pain Train. Literally hit Pain Train so hard the battery just immediately checked out and caught on fire.
The second match really shows how far this competition has come. Not only because the range of participants’ ages have increased, but also because the advances in different strategies and techniques. Perfect Phoenix was very similar to Hazard, the middleweight champion from the first season of Battlebots, yet was easy pickings for the new tech.
I still remember when Tantrum was a relatively unknown flipper whose flipping mechanism failed half the time. Amazing to see how much work the team put into turning it into a championship winning robot.
I think the tantrum fight would have been better if replaced with a number of other KOs, first one that comes to mind is the Tombstone vs Witch Doctor fight for me
Tantrum is my favorite. Reliable, efficient, and hard hitting. A small bot with a complex weapon shouldn't be so good and powerful, but they know exactly what they wanted in that little guy
There are certainly awesome KOs here like Uppercut, and the Hypershock. But there are a lot more better KOs than the rest. Tombstone, Minotaur, Riptide, Huge, Glitch have had far more entertaining KOs.
I know it has its weak points (like the tires), but I have just always loved Hypershock. Probably because it reminds me most of all the RC trucks/cars I have had over the years growing up and into adulthood.
The design of Perfect Phoenix is prob taken from the old comedy central battlebots middleweight's absolute menace: Hazard. Hazard had a 17-1 record where that 1 KO was by none other than Bronco's predecessors: T-Minus.
@@komnishura Perfect Phoenix usually has a much bigger blade than that, but I think because one of their motors broke, they had to run a much smaller one. But yeah, it's a pretty old bot (used to be called Brutality) that may have started out fighting slightly lighter bots than there are in BattleBots--like maybe 220 pounds instead of 250.
5: AKA: The Dethroning of Bronco as King of Flippers. 4: AKA: SUBZERO AVENGED (this was in Champions! Not Season 7!) 3: AKA: BIG BOOM! 2: AKA: Punchy Punch Makes the OOTA! 1: AKA: SPLIT IN HALF!
