- striker is a winning bot
- striker is good
- striker is ok
- striker is bad
- striker is not worth building
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modified striker was good early season, if you replace the weird intake thing w a flywheel it can be really good, especially with an upgraded drive.
I have a heavily modded striker bot where the only thing that is the same about the original is one of the steel bars but its only there because I needed house my puncher I even modded the drivetrain slightly so if you build striker then you definitely need to mod it and only build it if you are new to vex and know nothing about building ( like me) next year I am definitely not gonna build the herobot and I would advise any second year teams to also do the same
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Striker has some serious flaws as a competition robot, but it is a great resource for a completely new team. I teach a class with experienced and dedicated roboteers mixed with some completely new students who aren’t really sure they will like robotics. Once the newcomers see the level of robots that make it to YouTube videos, they are usually quite intimidated. I give them the option of modifying a clawbot (before moving on), building the herobot, or making their own design. This year, most chose Striker as it gave them a great starting point with step-by-step instructions - I was pleasantly surprised by how helpful the animated instructions are (zoom & pan).
Everyone made at least some simple changes and the kids that come to love robotics and wish to stick with it have all made multiple modifications or completely moved on from striker.
If your goal is to win robotics tournaments with a robot built completely from someone else’s plans, then yes, Striker is not worth building. But if you want to learn and are new to VEX, then its not a bad starting point. Its only “bad” if you don’t learn from it and improve it.
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I would say that striker has a purpose, but should not be used in competition if at all possible. My sister team was made up of middle schoolers who were all completely new to vex, so they built striker to figure out how building worked and then took it apart to build a bot of their own.
overall: decent intro to vex building if you have no idea where to start
otherwise: not really useful
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The fact that you would put this up as a poll tells me you don’t understand the purpose of a “trainer”. To offer that “Striker is not worth building” is a push-poll answer, that without qualification is also worthless. The real answer is “Stricker is not worth building by anyone except a novice team”
By those people who understand why trainer designs (so-called herobots) are published, no poll is needed: these designs are intentionally designed to play the current game at a mediocre level, never intended to be a competitive robot, but rather to serve as a starting point for novice teams.
In our organization, our novice teams build the trainers (either the current game trainer or the clawbot trainer) to start, with the full knowledge that it is not a competition robot but will need to be modified to be remotely competitive.
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As the team lead and task master of a brand new team I feel striker is a joke and a waste of time. We have people on our team that have really good Ideas and will tell us them and not understand why where building the pile of garbage called striker and not even considering there idea. I’ve brought this to our coaches and they always just blow me off.
I mean striker (the base form) isn’t as bad as people make it out to be but leaves alot of room for improvement
You have a very hard to read post…please proofread your post. This is the Vexforum, not discord!
So why are you building a trainer if you have good ideas?
Are you saying you coaches are requiring you to build it? That sounds like it’s not in the spirit of a “student centered team.”
You post proved my point…you’re attitude tells me you don’t understand the purpose of a trainer…It serves it’s purpose for novice teams who don’t know what else to do. Why makes you think the Striker trainer should be a good competition robot design? If you don’t need training wheels, then don’t use them.
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I apologize for my post I got angered, the problem is I put work into my team (a lot of time) and the rest of my team doesn’t seem to care about vex. we all started on a blank slate and I put the effort in to try to benefit the team while they put in their bare minimum. I feel like I have moved past the point of striker but they haven’t.
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If your teammates haven’t moved past the propose of the striker bot, it seems like your team should keep building it. I would recommend building it, then modding it. I did that last year with the Disco bot and we went to worlds. Talk to your team and your coaches about putting in more effort/building a more advanced bot. I understand your frustration with feeling more advanced/committed than your teammates. It’s important to have good communication with your teammates, bc maybe they don’t realize that you want them to participate more. This will help you learn vex better and become more advanced.
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