Hey guys, I was wondering what you think the best design is in the current meta. Because catapults are to easy to block, however more accurate. I was thinking maybe flywheel on a stick. What are your thoughts?

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In my opinion it is a 7 motor drive with a 11 watt intake if you are going for competition. If you are going for skills and competition it is a good idea to do a 66 watt drive 11 watt shooter mech, and a 11 watt intake. Do not ever do a 2, 3, or 4 motor drive. you will never be competitive with that…

[image] Wesley13406D: Do not ever do a 2, 3, or 4 motor drive. you will never be competitive with that. This is quite the statement. Just because most top teams use 6 motor drives in over under doesn’t mean that 4 motor drives are unviable. I never like seeing people dissing a strategy just …

Obviously only do the 6 motor drive if you have the resources but it is problably the most competitive drivetrain out there.

Agreeing with @Micahy321 , from my sister team’s experience at SkillsUSA (skills comeptitions), most of the robots at states are hero bots and/or have 2 motor drives and are quite competitive. Due to the lack of opposing robots, we prefer to use our motors for other mechanisms. Even now, some people…

I’m not talking about skills USA, I’m talking about VRC.

[image] Micahy321: dissing a strategy just because no without pnuematics I half to use 4 :frowning:

@madisogl , same. My team doesn’t have pneumatics yet (fingers crossed). Because of this, we’ve ended up using a 4m drive, a 1m intake, 1m flywheel, and 1m lift for flywheel. Could we make our drivetrain a 55w drivetrain? Sure, if we had 5.5w motors… @Wesley13406D , I get that 6m are “better” in some…

I would say this is a different design from most but flywheel on a dr4b is really good with like wings or something else. At first comp someone brought a flywheel and dr4b and they shot so high no one could block them and they also had a blocker because of the dr4b.

true, thats one of the things i hate about vrc. I wish they put a drivetrain limit.

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