Rubber Sharp Falls: A Theory

Half Nail · Feb. 12, 2011 11:39 PM

Currently, RS and RSF (Rubber Sharp and Rubber Semi-Flat) are dominating the Defense metagame. Wheels like Ray have been outclassed because of these tracks, and Vulcan, currently the best Attack Wheel even has struggles against it.

Why? The rubber has extremely high friction causing it to be unmovable to a certain degree.

RS and RSF can be beaten however. Because it is rubber, it has low Stamina. Currently, the best way to beat RS and RSF bottoms is Left Spin Attack customs, because they can steal some of the opponents spin.

I personally cannot stand this, with Attack being my favorite type. I find Left-Spin combos to be okay, but I prefer right-spin customs. So, I decided to try and find RS and RSF's weakness. And in the end, I came up with this:

If you drag a pencil on it's eraser lightly across a table, for the most part it glides along just fine. But if you apply more and more pressure to it, it becomes harder to move and lags. Now, think about if it's spinning- the spin will be slower.

In Beyblade terms, the Bey with RS/RSF would lag and would run out of Stamina.

What I'm trying to get at here is that the way to beat RS/RSF is to use it's most prominent attribute against itself- grip. If we could make an Attack type that somehow applies pressure to the top of the Defense Bey, the Bey would eventually would fall over under it's own grip.

This is totally out of a train of thought and in no way thought through or revised.

Give me your feedback and possible counters to RS/RSF based Defense customs.

That's not how the Force works.

SajjanSV · Feb. 12, 2011 11:47 PM

Most 145 attack combos do the job against 230 RS, left or right spin, although left spin is preferable, EG.MF Gravity Perseus R145 RF,MF LLD CH 145 RF,MF Pegasus 145 RF. As for your theory, apply pressure to the top of the bey is unlikely, seeing as how people generally use RS with 230, which you cant get taller than, as for RSF, people don't really use it with 230, so theres no point going higher, cause Vulcan can take it anyway.

Fyuuor · Feb. 12, 2011 11:50 PM

Use Gravity Perseus, a highly classed Attack Wheel with multi directional abilities. When facing an RS/RSF opponent switch to left spin while for Stamina and Attack battles remain in right spin.

Though if you were wanting to beat it by applying pressure to the top of the RS Beyblade then I'd suggest Metal Face - L Hell Kerbecs 230CS.