It doesn’t matter if Lucifer “barely wins” against opposite spin, because it does it very consistently. It doesn’t matter how much/little you out spin your opponent, as long as you do it consistently (which Lucifer does very well in opposite spin). Barricade Lucifer is actually top tier in competitive because it’s so great at countering Guilty Longinus which claps everything else, that it doesn’t need good same spin matchup, the whole point is to counter Guilty and let your Wind/Dynamite+F combo do whatever it wants
Barricade isn’t top tier. It’s good, and viable, but not top by any means. It is still pretty rarely used in competitive because of how abundant right-spin stamina types like Dynamite/Devil-F and Wind are. It’s pretty niche and only really used in finals Deck match type.
@@muhammadrazziqbinmohdnazzr7065 That's called being a viable counterpick. Competitive Beyblade is played with "decks" of three beys that you can swap between, according to specific rules. Where the usefulness of Variant Lucifer comes in is that if your opponent wins a match and is either running or switches in a left-spin, you can then switch-in Variant Lucifer and effectively get an automatic win in the next round.
Dude just roasted all gimmicks that look pretty different.He has points as they are not working well but I love to see these gimmicks are being added anyways
First off, great video. But I have a couple points to bring up. > While not good for it's intended use, Virgo's Gravity Ball 145 found use in a niche attack build that was pretty deadly. And with X's taller than average beys it might actually do it's job. > Sagittario's C145 was actually meta at one point due to it borderline hard-countering low attack types. But I agree that it would probably be bad in X due to how chaotic and hard they hit each other. > There was actually a bey in the Metal Fight era that had wheels, TR145, seen on Divine Chimera and Screw Fox. It was a pretty good for defense builds that could answer to low attackers and spin stealers. But it probably still do awful in X since the wheels would probably snap off in just a couple matches. > The barrier gimmick could actually do really well in X if they made it a free spinning metal disc around the blade. Not rubber. Or if they just do a semi-free moving ring like Kreis Cygneus, it could have some monstrous recoil for funny gimmick builds.
Yeah they were not bad. They were not stiff so if a low attacker hit the spin track rather than the force going into the beyblade itself it mostly it went into the claws mostly instead, and the bey lost less stamina compared to the standard 145mm spin track. The point raised in this video that it “didn’t add a lot of stamina apparently” is moot. Raw stamina was not the intention of the claws. Now the real reason claws shouldn’t come back is they would make for a virtually burst proof ratchet
I feel like a lot of the beys with these gimmicks weren’t bad because of the gimmicks, just bad because of the execution. For example, Hyperion Burn and Beat Kukulcan were bad because of their shapes. Hyperion became so edgy that it bursted itself too much, and Beat Kukulcan was outclassed at the time of release (other than as a consistent counter to Maximum Garuda) due to it’s somewhat rounded shape, even when the gimmick was in effect. For another example, the Quest driver had the potential to be amazing if it was made to be shorter with a wider suction cup to avoid destabilization. My point is that a lot of bad gimmicks could be redone extremely well if executed properly. If TT just outright swept them under the rug, it would seem to me like an easy way out of improving their effectiveness through design modifications and creative thinking, which sounds a lot like something Hasbro would do.
@@klausfurland6186 hasbro might get axed from beyblade, cus tt is pl;anning to liscense beyblade X under thier international brand of TOMY and not hasbro if the press release translation is accurate
I'll add to this in 2 ways: 1, for some reason kukulcan from hasbro (atleast from my testing) was actually insanely good, probably due to the slopes making it near unburstable, 2nd of all you can easily apply this to metal attack tips. metal had more grip for plastic attack tips than plastic during MFB due to how they were shaped. just take direct comparisons of metal flat and plastic flat and apply it to every tip variation. of course it had less grip than rubber but we might not need rubber during this generation. plus it would help with them being so darn topheavy.
1:45. Actually GB145 has a niche use in tall attacker builds thanks to some Physics shenanigans, along with its weight. I've seen MF-H Flash Nemesis GB145 RF used before, and it seems to hit pretty hard in a way that probably can't be replicated by just using a normal 145
Yeah, GB145 works especially well on Flash attack because of it's heavy weight, the metal balls keeping the weight on the outer ends of the bey, and especially its shape
@borby4584 the technical physics term is that it balls increases the moment of inertia. Higher moment means it takes more energy to slow it down. This is also why the phantom wheel is a great stamina wheel. All of the mass is concentrated on the outside (high moment of inertia) so it takes longer for phantom orion to slow down
Yeah, i also feel how the balls were in the Flare base in GT could be fun for an Attack or Balance type doing something like an Inertia attack (well still probably a bit placebo)
Here in South America was a competitive at one point, with the ability of having three types of contact point made it pretty decent, it was common on Attack types and Tornado Staller combos. But it was a bich to fix when it breaks in half or one of the contact points breaks.
Is this one of those things were if competitive players had their way over casuals in every game, street fighter and tekken will look like a gray void of gridlines, FPSes will look like aim trainers, and pokemon is distilled to pure rock paper scissors.
The metal ball gimmick was actually pretty good for some beyblades. Earth Virgo's Gravity Ball 145 spin track that you mentioned is actually used in attack type combinations in competitive, due to the extra weight it gives.
The suction cup did have a very unique and niche advantage in stadiums with a spinning center, because if you stuck it just right, the stadium kept it spinning virtually forever. Is it worth keeping for that scenario alone? No, not really...
The Claw on like Drivers and similar parts is actually decent for defense just they always give it to Stamina types for whatever reason and it's really bad for Stamina types
The extending contact point gimmick was used in a few different ways. The ChoZ beys had extending wings that locked in place that opened via spin speed. Worked really well. Archer Hercules, Orichalcum, and Shelter Regulus had parts that extended out then retracted. Had varying results. Heaven Pegasus, Hyperion Burn, and Beat Kukulkan had click based extending contact points but only Beat Kukulkan was able to benefit from that. Shining Amaterios is an odd case because they didn’t spring at all. Softened attacks. Hazard Kerberus is the opposite case of contact points that could push in which was only really hindered by the solid contact points that the moving blades connected to.
What made Beat Kukulkan/Boom Kalazar a great layer was the fact it was extremely thick at the time of god/evolution the gimmicks was so small it barely did anything making it way better than what it could have been.
So, the gimick I'd like to see make a comeback is the Engine Gear. Back in plastic gen, there was a line of beyblades that had wind-up tips that, depending on spin direction, would either give the bey a burst of additional rotational speed or increase its travel speed when triggered on impact. It'd be nice to see that make a comeback.
For claws of Flame Sagittario. Put a WD like tips on it and it's fine it will work. The reason the claws suffered is because it's always paired with a sharp tip even in burst they did it. But I didn't really liked the Armor gimmick on the Phoenix beys
I know this video is a year (almost two years) old, but we have Knight Mail now, and I think that counts for something? Same goes for the wings with Samurai Saber
The gimmick in Beyblade X Don't want: unremovable face plate for better combos Wants: 1: the return of free spinning Sub Attack ring/Attack Layers 2: the return of engine gears
I could only think of one gimmick that should never come back and it’s be in the minus numbers it’s so bad! I’m referring the Kenny’s blade from gen 1 Frogger with the spring tip as it was trash both in the anime and real life!
Well, ackchyually , the wings gimmick traces back to the Bakuten Shoot gen, with beys like Wing Attacker and Wing Defenser. And the former was my very first beyblade (which I eventually broke), and I recently got one in pretty good shape to keep on a shelf haha!
Any mechanic that causes something to move from the centre of rotation outwards will steal spin significantly And for them to claim it increases stamina is a clear failing of understanding physics.
I don’t think the gimmicks are supposed to improve the real life versions rather than make the beys mimick their in show counterparts as much as possible
Regarding wheels, I'm kinda surprised you didn't mention the OG wheel Beys from Plastic Gen, Roller Attacker and Roller Defenser. Similarly, with wings, there was the plastic gen Wing Attacker and Wing Defenser. Although in the case of Roller Defenser and Wing Attacker they were actually pretty good (Roller Attacker and Wing Defenser were crap, though).
honestly the suction cup gimmick was bad but if they tweeked it so that it doesnt fall over and maybe somehow reduced friction inbetween the suction cup and the beyblade, it could be an interesting gimmick
I had 3 tops when I was a child, I first got one of the basic dragoons, the anime had just dropped, the toys had just arrived in the stores, it didn't last very long, I think the first few batches were made much cheaper than later ones, manufacturer probably cheapened out in case of international flop, and once the money started massively fliwing in from the general mania, production costs were made to match the Japanese counterparts, my guess here, could be wrong, but it was enough to get me, and all my school mates, completely hooked, the second one I got to replace the damaged dragoon was one with giant blades that would protrude out the topmost layer from spinning, it made it gave it very poor ballance and led it to perform pretty poorly overall, I don't remember it well enough to check which one it was, because the one I replaced it with, was the one I used for years, it was the green one with metal balls, specifically, the one that had 3, using one as the tip, I had tested it with the side balls out to compare, the metal balls really helped it be even more stable, because even without, it outperformed most othe tops my friends had, that thing was ballanced just right and if launched propperly on a clean, smooth, flat surface, could go for literal minutes, genuinely impressive. Most ballanced toy I ever got to use, including RC cars and all.
I'll be honest sometimes some gimmicks are fun for the sake of the gimmick. For example the suction cups are dumb and disastrous, but it's so funny that I want to see it return.
For the 6:53 barrier the first and last version of it was bad but Lucifer the end was good if they were going to bring it back they going to have to change a lot of it to make it somewhat work
This might piss you off but I kinda want barrier and suction cup gimmicks to comeback. I do genuinely believe they could both work. I saw Beyblade Republic make a free spinning version of the barrier called Doom Lucifer. I also saw Kevo purchase a fake quest driver and put it on his Lord Spriggan and it genuinely worked better.
They should just make a metal flat bearing drive, semi metal flat bearing drive, metal ball bearing drive and vice versa of those 3 on rubbers as bearing drives
I saw a left burst video were they had metal beyblades and used quest/a suction cup driver and it actually did well I think they could bring it back in beyblade x if they make it stick to the stadium better and can amp up the stamina portion of it as well
The wings one is one the least useless here. If its metal and it could pop out more, it would have an impact, not by offense nor defense but stamina, it makes they bey more circular as well, but it wouldn't be better if the wing were big ad cyclone and if its metal like crash Ragnarok.
It doesn’t matter if Lucifer “barely wins” against opposite spin, because it does it very consistently. It doesn’t matter how much/little you out spin your opponent, as long as you do it consistently (which Lucifer does very well in opposite spin). Barricade Lucifer is actually top tier in competitive because it’s so great at countering Guilty Longinus which claps everything else, that it doesn’t need good same spin matchup, the whole point is to counter Guilty and let your Wind/Dynamite+F combo do whatever it wants
Finaly someone pointed that out
Imagine being a bad beyblade but being good at countering one op blade. Your bad with the rest but good at countering one op af beyblade lol.
Barricade isn’t top tier. It’s good, and viable, but not top by any means. It is still pretty rarely used in competitive because of how abundant right-spin stamina types like Dynamite/Devil-F and Wind are. It’s pretty niche and only really used in finals Deck match type.
@@muhammadrazziqbinmohdnazzr7065
That's called being a viable counterpick. Competitive Beyblade is played with "decks" of three beys that you can swap between, according to specific rules. Where the usefulness of Variant Lucifer comes in is that if your opponent wins a match and is either running or switches in a left-spin, you can then switch-in Variant Lucifer and effectively get an automatic win in the next round.
Dom said it himself. “It doesn’t matter whether you win by an inch or a mile, winning’s winning.”
Dude just roasted all gimmicks that look pretty different.He has points as they are not working well but I love to see these gimmicks are being added anyways
not everything has to be competitive, a lot of these gimmicks are just really fun
First off, great video. But I have a couple points to bring up.
> While not good for it's intended use, Virgo's Gravity Ball 145 found use in a niche attack build that was pretty deadly. And with X's taller than average beys it might actually do it's job.
> Sagittario's C145 was actually meta at one point due to it borderline hard-countering low attack types. But I agree that it would probably be bad in X due to how chaotic and hard they hit each other.
> There was actually a bey in the Metal Fight era that had wheels, TR145, seen on Divine Chimera and Screw Fox. It was a pretty good for defense builds that could answer to low attackers and spin stealers. But it probably still do awful in X since the wheels would probably snap off in just a couple matches.
> The barrier gimmick could actually do really well in X if they made it a free spinning metal disc around the blade. Not rubber. Or if they just do a semi-free moving ring like Kreis Cygneus, it could have some monstrous recoil for funny gimmick builds.
SilverWolf has the FB (Free Ball) bit, soooooooooo…
Burst had the weirdest gimmicks
Plastic had some weird ones too
@@MarcusHaaksma I didn't watch much of plastic
Gemios''s performance tip should come back
Because burst had the most gimmicks
@@oba_okuhuh?
"People were disappointed in Jade Jupiter"
Yet Authentic Jade Jupiters are one of the most expensive and sought-after beys in existence...
I love how weve already gotten wings and metal balls within a year of this video
The CS145 gimmick was rather effective in warding off low attack types if I remember correctly it was even competive at one point
Yeah it was such a cool spin track I have it and it’s pretty good, but when it’s low on stamina it scrapes the staduim
@@pebbles0700shouldn’t be an issue with WD
Yeah they were not bad. They were not stiff so if a low attacker hit the spin track rather than the force going into the beyblade itself it mostly it went into the claws mostly instead, and the bey lost less stamina compared to the standard 145mm spin track. The point raised in this video that it “didn’t add a lot of stamina apparently” is moot. Raw stamina was not the intention of the claws.
Now the real reason claws shouldn’t come back is they would make for a virtually burst proof ratchet
I feel like a lot of the beys with these gimmicks weren’t bad because of the gimmicks, just bad because of the execution.
For example, Hyperion Burn and Beat Kukulcan were bad because of their shapes. Hyperion became so edgy that it bursted itself too much, and Beat Kukulcan was outclassed at the time of release (other than as a consistent counter to Maximum Garuda) due to it’s somewhat rounded shape, even when the gimmick was in effect. For another example, the Quest driver had the potential to be amazing if it was made to be shorter with a wider suction cup to avoid destabilization.
My point is that a lot of bad gimmicks could be redone extremely well if executed properly. If TT just outright swept them under the rug, it would seem to me like an easy way out of improving their effectiveness through design modifications and creative thinking, which sounds a lot like something Hasbro would do.
@@klausfurland6186 hasbro might get axed from beyblade, cus tt is pl;anning to liscense beyblade X under thier international brand of TOMY and not hasbro if the press release translation is accurate
i think if the barrier gimmick beys had alot of metal on the outside to help with stamina.
I'll add to this in 2 ways: 1, for some reason kukulcan from hasbro (atleast from my testing) was actually insanely good, probably due to the slopes making it near unburstable, 2nd of all you can easily apply this to metal attack tips. metal had more grip for plastic attack tips than plastic during MFB due to how they were shaped. just take direct comparisons of metal flat and plastic flat and apply it to every tip variation. of course it had less grip than rubber but we might not need rubber during this generation. plus it would help with them being so darn topheavy.
1:45. Actually GB145 has a niche use in tall attacker builds thanks to some Physics shenanigans, along with its weight. I've seen MF-H Flash Nemesis GB145 RF used before, and it seems to hit pretty hard in a way that probably can't be replicated by just using a normal 145
Yeah, GB145 works especially well on Flash attack because of it's heavy weight, the metal balls keeping the weight on the outer ends of the bey, and especially its shape
@@CitryteYT Exactly that. The Flywheel effect, I believe it was called?
@borby4584 the technical physics term is that it balls increases the moment of inertia. Higher moment means it takes more energy to slow it down. This is also why the phantom wheel is a great stamina wheel. All of the mass is concentrated on the outside (high moment of inertia) so it takes longer for phantom orion to slow down
@@Player-pj9kt thank you!
Yeah, i also feel how the balls were in the Flare base in GT could be fun for an Attack or Balance type doing something like an Inertia attack (well still probably a bit placebo)
Triple attack would honestly cool to see, preferably on a balance type instead of a stamina. How quake doesn't make the chopping block astounds me.
I was about to comment that lol
Honestly yeah, it was just put on a dumb type.
Here in South America was a competitive at one point, with the ability of having three types of contact point made it pretty decent, it was common on Attack types and Tornado Staller combos. But it was a bich to fix when it breaks in half or one of the contact points breaks.
Now we have Weiss Tiger, so yeah....
Now we have Weiss Tiger, so yeah....
Is this one of those things were if competitive players had their way over casuals in every game, street fighter and tekken will look like a gray void of gridlines, FPSes will look like aim trainers, and pokemon is distilled to pure rock paper scissors.
The metal ball gimmick was actually pretty good for some beyblades.
Earth Virgo's Gravity Ball 145 spin track that you mentioned is actually used in attack type combinations in competitive, due to the extra weight it gives.
Actually the claw gimmick in C145 was pretty decent for defense.
True in real life, Pegasus will be able to hit Sagitario claws And lose way more stamina than Sagitario
yeah the thing was it's always paired with an S tip in the anime. while wd/d/ewd/swd/rdf/cs or tips like those could've been way better
The wheel gimmick actually worked VERY well in plastic gen with Roller Defenser, that AR is the best non compact defense type AR in plastic gen
Replying to an old content here
Balls are back in Beyblade X on KnightMail, and wings on SamuraiSaber
I think if the bullet gimmick were to return, if the bullet is also able to use extreme dash it might generate enough speed to actually do something
Doesn't have enough mass though, not to mention the lack of height.
Not if they use steel 😁
Actually after galaxy zeus there was one more burst beyblade that had the metal ball gimmick: Flare Dragon in GT. It was never in the anime
Another really bad gimmick was the jumping feature on storm Capricorn and I think jumper Pegasus or something like that.
Oh god the Quake performance tip lol
Operate O-O
Quake has been in basically every gen now lol
Salvage valtriek also used that gimmick
@@grand_admiral_henrich4416 Shot only Jumped once, Capricorn Jumped many times because it was off balance.
Most of these gimmicks do work, they just don't work very well
6:30 there was the first Vyborg in the plastic gen and in my opinion it worked well. It could only change mode once which was ok.
i do hope they have a lil room for experimentation though without sacrificing a beys playability
Same
The suction cup did have a very unique and niche advantage in stadiums with a spinning center, because if you stuck it just right, the stadium kept it spinning virtually forever. Is it worth keeping for that scenario alone? No, not really...
3:22 reference to bey wheels
Also, with Barricade Lucifer, glueing the blades to the layer actually helps it perform much better.
1:33 no Draciel MBD was the first. Draciel S was the secon
The Claw on like Drivers and similar parts is actually decent for defense just they always give it to Stamina types for whatever reason and it's really bad for Stamina types
They are good for defense but the scraping will still drain the bey stamina.
4:00 The first winged beyblade was Wing Defenser
i NEED Trygle's jumping gimmick back
The extending contact point gimmick was used in a few different ways.
The ChoZ beys had extending wings that locked in place that opened via spin speed. Worked really well.
Archer Hercules, Orichalcum, and Shelter Regulus had parts that extended out then retracted. Had varying results.
Heaven Pegasus, Hyperion Burn, and Beat Kukulkan had click based extending contact points but only Beat Kukulkan was able to benefit from that.
Shining Amaterios is an odd case because they didn’t spring at all. Softened attacks.
Hazard Kerberus is the opposite case of contact points that could push in which was only really hindered by the solid contact points that the moving blades connected to.
What made Beat Kukulkan/Boom Kalazar a great layer was the fact it was extremely thick at the time of god/evolution the gimmicks was so small it barely did anything making it way better than what it could have been.
“make the balls big again” sounds hilarious out of context
Hmmmmmm... nice
I think cyclone had the best wings from all the ragnaruks. Big wings allowed it to reduce impact from attacks better than all of previous forms
Yeah it’s actually pretty decent in performance
Plus metal wings actually work well as attack types then stamina. Reason why Crash Ragnorot could actually be used.
@@jajathenewking6131 if It had good burst resistance
@@umbradragon1371 dash drivers mostly were attack types in cho z so it could only uses those.
The metal gives it already.@@umbradragon1371
The bey that came with the barrier was pretty good when you cut it off
So, the gimick I'd like to see make a comeback is the Engine Gear. Back in plastic gen, there was a line of beyblades that had wind-up tips that, depending on spin direction, would either give the bey a burst of additional rotational speed or increase its travel speed when triggered on impact. It'd be nice to see that make a comeback.
basically all the fun gimmicks.
True
Are there any gimmicks you actually like? I feel like a lot of these work in theory, just could have been executed better.
For claws of Flame Sagittario. Put a WD like tips on it and it's fine it will work. The reason the claws suffered is because it's always paired with a sharp tip even in burst they did it. But I didn't really liked the Armor gimmick on the Phoenix beys
Flare dragon also had metal balls
Engine gear was peak beyblade engineering.
"Triple Attacker"
Weiss Tiger: "Hi."
I know this video is a year (almost two years) old, but we have Knight Mail now, and I think that counts for something? Same goes for the wings with Samurai Saber
I never heard of striker drone
1 year later
metal ball: i'm back baby!!!!!
Rock's wing: me too
The gimmick in Beyblade X
Don't want: unremovable face plate for better combos
Wants:
1: the return of free spinning Sub Attack ring/Attack Layers
2: the return of engine gears
God I hope Engiene Gears come back soon
If each bey was perfect with no mistakes, then you won't have any fun trying to combine the pieces of other beys to make it better.
I could only think of one gimmick that should never come back and it’s be in the minus numbers it’s so bad! I’m referring the Kenny’s blade from gen 1 Frogger with the spring tip as it was trash both in the anime and real life!
Oh yes they should be in beyblade x
You shouldn’t be in beyblade x
The first bey with metal balls was actually Metal Ball Defenser, not Draciel S
can you do gimmicks that can return
Sure thing
@@MarcusHaaksma yay mostly gimmicks from metal fusion saga
If Egis’ suction cup driver was shorter with a wider cup & base, it would have been really good. This gimmick isn’t bad; the execution was.
if they did a bit like this in X I think it would be really good it was just a test driver after all
Free Ball (SilverWolf) and Level (WhaleWave) in the same bit
What about rubber if they don’t give to much
Bro Burst is the best! Imo, Beyblade X is going to be vanilla, no gimmicks,
Oh yeah there still was one more burst gt blade that had metal balls
Well, ackchyually , the wings gimmick traces back to the Bakuten Shoot gen, with beys like Wing Attacker and Wing Defenser. And the former was my very first beyblade (which I eventually broke), and I recently got one in pretty good shape to keep on a shelf haha!
Matal balls came back sorry
on what bey
Knight mail
Glad that none of these came from my OG days. I did kinda expect Michael the american to make the list though lol.
I think the barrier gimmick can work, but put it on a duel spin bey
Metal Balls got a return in the form of KnightMail 3-85 BS (the balls are LARGE)
Any mechanic that causes something to move from the centre of rotation outwards will steal spin significantly
And for them to claim it increases stamina is a clear failing of understanding physics.
To Devolos defence. The bullet driver looked SICK in the anime
i remember watching leftburst and they tried orb eigis against beyblade x beys and it did surprisingly well
Metal balls are actually pretty big got me dyeing
I like how most of the useless gimmick can be found on burst lol
Wasn’t there a burst bey that could continue to spin even if it wasn’t spinning on the tip of the driver?
me personally i think that the only working stamina gimmic was archer hercules. fenominal gimmic with the metal on the outside for more outer weight.
I don’t think the gimmicks are supposed to improve the real life versions rather than make the beys mimick their in show counterparts as much as possible
I was not expecting the suction cup 🪠
The clips of the Burst anime look cool, somehow I'm tempted to give it a shot
Regarding wheels, I'm kinda surprised you didn't mention the OG wheel Beys from Plastic Gen, Roller Attacker and Roller Defenser. Similarly, with wings, there was the plastic gen Wing Attacker and Wing Defenser. Although in the case of Roller Defenser and Wing Attacker they were actually pretty good (Roller Attacker and Wing Defenser were crap, though).
I first thought it said "come don't back" lol
With the driver only failed because it only had two ends, had it used four wheels on the sides, then maybe it would work
C145 and the Claw driver are ass and should never be repeated, but they're fun to use. Never again though. Waste of plastic.
dude, I would SCREAM if there would be a metal bullet like driver
Omg. I can’t believe that triple attacker return
As of right now, this video aged beautifully.
honestly the suction cup gimmick was bad but if they tweeked it so that it doesnt fall over and maybe somehow reduced friction inbetween the suction cup and the beyblade, it could be an interesting gimmick
God forbid they add fun to the spinning top kids game
I had 3 tops when I was a child, I first got one of the basic dragoons, the anime had just dropped, the toys had just arrived in the stores, it didn't last very long, I think the first few batches were made much cheaper than later ones, manufacturer probably cheapened out in case of international flop, and once the money started massively fliwing in from the general mania, production costs were made to match the Japanese counterparts, my guess here, could be wrong, but it was enough to get me, and all my school mates, completely hooked, the second one I got to replace the damaged dragoon was one with giant blades that would protrude out the topmost layer from spinning, it made it gave it very poor ballance and led it to perform pretty poorly overall, I don't remember it well enough to check which one it was, because the one I replaced it with, was the one I used for years, it was the green one with metal balls, specifically, the one that had 3, using one as the tip, I had tested it with the side balls out to compare, the metal balls really helped it be even more stable, because even without, it outperformed most othe tops my friends had, that thing was ballanced just right and if launched propperly on a clean, smooth, flat surface, could go for literal minutes, genuinely impressive. Most ballanced toy I ever got to use, including RC cars and all.
What's your through on the metal tip gimmick?
There’s a reason why they got rid of the claws when Sagittario evolved
Let’s not forget Capricorn’s jumping and genesis valtreks impact system on a attack type bey blade 😂😂😂
I'll be honest sometimes some gimmicks are fun for the sake of the gimmick. For example the suction cups are dumb and disastrous, but it's so funny that I want to see it return.
in my opinion one of the gimics should be great raphiel's heavanly rings the dont work
For the 6:53 barrier the first and last version of it was bad but Lucifer the end was good if they were going to bring it back they going to have to change a lot of it to make it somewhat work
This might piss you off but I kinda want barrier and suction cup gimmicks to comeback. I do genuinely believe they could both work. I saw Beyblade Republic make a free spinning version of the barrier called Doom Lucifer. I also saw Kevo purchase a fake quest driver and put it on his Lord Spriggan and it genuinely worked better.
They should just make a metal flat bearing drive, semi metal flat bearing drive, metal ball bearing drive and vice versa of those 3 on rubbers as bearing drives
Rubber barrier gimmicks should only be on left spins if it there is a majority of right spins
Or on a dual spin bey so that it can work at least alright in most battles
Corrections: The wheels came from roller defencer in 2000. The wings came from wing attacker. Amazing video though
I saw a left burst video were they had metal beyblades and used quest/a suction cup driver and it actually did well I think they could bring it back in beyblade x if they make it stick to the stadium better and can amp up the stamina portion of it as well
i think the wheels on satan work a bit better against fafnir
Quest could be more useful if the Bey was heavier, making it cling onto the stadium better.
1:30 Draciel Metal Ball Defenser was the first bey to use metal balls, not Draciel S.
All of the gimmicks that returned:
Balls- Knight Mail
Wings- Samurai Saber
Triple Attacker- Weiss Tiger
The bullet driver is cool tho it should make a come back. If u cut of the pick tongues it will work better so cut them off if u can
The shot driver :...........
The blade or ratchet would be the only things that could have any gimmicks, sinch the bit has to ride the x rail
Barrier on a left spin bey for better spin stealing could be cool
The wings one is one the least useless here. If its metal and it could pop out more, it would have an impact, not by offense nor defense but stamina, it makes they bey more circular as well, but it wouldn't be better if the wing were big ad cyclone and if its metal like crash Ragnarok.
Diablo nemesis X:D had the same gimmick as the trick driver and it works pretty good