What is better mecanum or x drive?

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@SAS6546W

What if you used mecanum wheels in an X-drive?

No, please do not use mecanum wheels on an X-drive…
It’s basically a tank drive because it can’t strafe

To help answer the original post:

Mecanum vs X-Drive for VEX Spin Up

I’ve build robots with X-Drives and with mecanum wheels. Both can be very good if built well. However, the much more critical thing to get right when using any kind of holonomic drive is to have even weight distribution. If you don’t have that, then the robot might move sporadically when accelerating, and be very inconsistent in autonomous. That being said, X drives are generally better on a function sense, although they take up more space inside the robot, are harder to build, and even harder …