Number 3 - End Game

End Game has been around since season 3 with many ups and downs, but it reached the top of the Battlebots world in 2020 when it won the Giant Nut, the trophy awarded to the Battlebots champion each season. End Game may be a questionable number three pick, but the point of entering each season is to win the Giant Nut. If you do, mission accomplished; if you don't, you have failed to reach your goal. So End Game is number three. End Game's powerful vertical spinner may be the most potent weapon of all time, and it has laid waste to even the best Battlebots, such as Tombstone (seen above). End Game debuted in season 3 with two straight knockouts, including one over Lock Jaw (Number 10 on this list). After a dominant victory over a legendary robot, End Game's team said that they were ready to take on defending champion Tombstone. Instead, End Game faced Bite Force in its third fight, which was featured as the main event. End Game started out well and looked like it was going to knock Bite Force out, but Bite Force ended up on top. End Game then faced Son of Whyachi (13) and was robbed. The fight consisted of one gigantic hit in which End Game sent Son of Whyachi flying into the arena wall and incapacitating both robots. In the case of a double knockout, the fight would have gone to the judges, who almost certainly would have awarded End Game the victory. Instead, the referee decided to count End Game out, giving Son of Whyachi the luckiest win of its long career. Afer this, End Game fought SawBlaze (9) in a special exhibition fight. The battle went the distance, and the judges awarded SawBlaze one one of the worst decisions ever. With a tournament record of 2-2, End Game was bordering on the final 16 tournament, and it needed to win a play in fight to secure its spot in the bracket. It faced off against Brutus (36) and WAR Hawk (50) and started off by tearing Brutus's wedge. Unfortunately, WAR Hawk flipped End Game upside down, and with no way to right itself, End Game was finished. In season 4, End Game experienced many reliability issues. For example, its first two fights were against DeathRoll (6) and Ribbot (32), an in each battle, End Game started out with plenty of big hits before it conked out. At 0-2, End Game opted to enter a special Desperado Tournament to try and get into the top 16. End Game won its first fight of the event over Gruff (48), but fell to Minotaur (4) in its second. End Game then fought a 2-1 Cobalt (34) and knocked it out. Still, at 2-3, End Game did not perform well enough for the top 16. After the tournament, End Game fought an exhibition match against DUCK! (30), which it won in dominant fashion. In season 5, End Game finally fought against Tombstone in the season's first main event. End Game pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Battlebots history and took out the most feared robot on the planet in around 30 seconds. End Game did fall to Bloodsport (19) in its second fight (another fight lost due to durability), but won its next six fights in a row, five of them against established stars in HyperShock (33), Rotator (22), Shatter! (44), Tantrum (25), and Whiplash (5), while hardly breaking a sweat. Its fight with Whiplash was the championship match, and after a very lopsided and destructive fight, End Game claimed its reward. End Game's record is 12-8 (.600) with 11 knockouts. For a Giant Nut, a win over Tombstone, and a knockout in more than half of its fights, End Game is number 3 among the 50 greatest Battlebots of all time.