Mauler Dance

Mauler Dancing happens when a robot has a fast spinning weapon, and loses a part of it weapon. The bot begins to wobble, and then can fall on it's side, and sort of lifts off the ground (usually balancing on one wheel).

A heavier form of Mauler Dancing is spikeball mode, when the bot goes wild after a particularly violent Mauler Dance and it bounces everywhere uncontrollably in the arena, effectively seeming like a ball of spikes. And the bot will stay that way until you stop spinnng. Mauler Dancing is caused by the centrifugal force acting on an unbalanced fast-spinning weapon.

Mauler dancing is an issue on HSs. The more spinners and weapon heads you have, the milder the Mauler Dance is. But if you lose one of your weapon head on a LW with only one spinner, be prepared to the spikeball mode.

To get a Mauler Dance, just rip off one of Tornado's sledgehammers or one of Berserker's axes.

Similar stability issues are also a prbolem on VSs, when a weapon imabalance causes the VS to shake vertically . This renders your wedge useless, messes up your driving, ruins your stability, makes landing a hit with your weapon difficult, and can make you lose the fight easily.