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Horizontal Spinners are a type of weapon which consist of spinning mass mounted horizontally.

Types of Horizontal Spinners[]

"Horizontal spinner" is an umbrella term which can be used to describe a number of weapon types, many of which serve to cause as much damage as possible on impact.

Horizontal Disk Spinners[]

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Mechavore equipped with its disk spinner.

Horizontal disk spinners are just one of many types of horizontal spinners, with the earliest known ones being Surgeon General and MechaVore, to name a few, while those currently competing are Valkyrie, Ribbot (also equipped with a vertical spinner), ROTATOR and Horizon.

Main article: Horizontal Disk Spinners

Horizontal Bar Spinners[]

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Tombstone showcasing its bar spinner.

Horizontal bar spinners are a type of spinner which feature a long, bar-shaped spinning mass. These spinners can be positioned low on a robot like an undercutter, high like an overhead spinner or anywhere in between. The oldest known bar spinners are Hazard, Odin, M.O.E., Abbatoir and Blunt Force Trauma, while bar spinners of today include Tombstone, HiJinx, Icewave and Bloodsport.

This weapon was often the most powerful and successful of all spinners, as Hazard, Tombstone and Brutality are each a bar spinner who became champions, as well as outright destroying some robots they fought.

Main article: Horizontal Bar Spinners

Undercutters[]

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Valkyrie's undercutter hitting low on P1.

Undercutters are a type of spinner where the weapon was placed flush against the ground underneath the robot, the weapon itself usually being a disk or bar. The first undercutters were Surgeon General, Chopper and Code:BLACK, while today there's Hijinx, Valkyrie, Rotator (who also has an "overcutter") and Ribbot.

Main article: Undercutters

Overhead Spinners[]

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Hazard in the pits with its overhead spinner.

Overhead spinners are as the name suggests, spinners placed on top of the robot. They were commonly bar spinners like the above mentioned Hazard, Blunt Force Trauma and Bloodsport, though overhead disk spinners also competed in the form of Bermuda Triangle and Wack-a-Tron.

Main article: Overhead Spinners

Shell Spinners[]

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Ziggo in the pits during Season 3.0.

Shell spinners are similar to rings except this one covers above as well as the sides, front and rear. They are the most effective defensive weapon as they leave no weak spots (except underneath). They are also one of the strongest offensively as the famous Ziggo was particularly merciless. The only downsides were they can be destructive on themselves as badly as on the opponents and they cannot drive upside-down at all. Some call them "full-body spinners".

The oldest known shell-users are Ziggo, Mauler and Moebius, while those competing nowadays are Captain Shrederator and Gigabyte.

Main article: Shell Spinners

Ring Spinners[]

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Chronos during World Championship IV in 2019.

Ring spinners use metallic rings that encircle the entire robot as their spinning mass, often powered by gears or friction-driven wheels on the inside of the robot. Unlike shell spinners, which cannot also be invertible, the spinning mass only covering the outer circumference of the robot means ring spinners can run both ways up.

Known robots who sport this weapon are the similarly named Ringmaster and The Ringmaster, as well as, Swirlee, Chronos and Warrior Clan.

Main article: Ring Spinners

Cage Spinners[]

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Son of Whyachi in 2020.

Cage Spinners are a form of overhead and shell spinner combined into one. The weapon was comprised of a skeletal-frame resembling a helicopter's rotor, often with three toothed ends (though Centipede had four).

The first cage spinners to compete were Whyachi and Son of Whyachi, with the latter also competing in the reboot a few times.

Main article: Cage Spinners

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