Malice

Malice is a Superheavyweight control bot built by the Institution of Insanity. It is armed with two lifting prongs that can move 180 degrees to be either flat on the ground or embedded in the top side of the bot. The prongs can be used as both classic lifters and front hinged launchers.

Malice did very well in most competitions, sitting nr.1 on the ranked leaderboard for several months. However it never performed well in tournements because of several weird KO's and unlucky draws.

Malice is infamous for what was deemed "Pulling a Malice on you" which was getting an OOTA KO with the front hinged prongs within the first minute of the fight. Malice is deemed one of the scariest control bots in the Superheavyweight class, with many horizontal spinner opponents pretty much giving up before the fight even started.

History
The design of Malice had been on the "to be made" list of the Institution of Insanity for a long time before it was actually built. A dual pronged lifter of which the prongs could be fully retracted into the chassis to allow for invertability, while also being capable of tanking vertical spinners in particular. However the design eventually turned out to be much more effective to horizontal spinners. Malice V1 was already a very competent bot, altough it had some issues with chassis rigidity and KO capabilities.

Malice V2 fixed these issues by reworking the centre chassis and prong mechs. This change was very effective and is fairly identical to the current Malice. One drawback however, was that the new prong mechanism could not retract all the way back, resulting in the bot not being fully invertable anymore. After Malice V2 was registered it quickly stormed towards the top of the leaderboard and never really left its there, always remaining in at least the top 4 and even holding the nr. 1 spot for extended periods of time.

But with the meta constantly evolving also Malice was forced to evolve, mainly due to the rise of wedge verts like ''Bulwark. ''Several attempts at new versions of Malice where built, even a version with pneumatically actuated prongs.