Editing Fulcrum

{{RobotStats
|robot_name= Fulcrum
|image= [[File:Fulcrum2point5.png|250px]]
|caption= Fulcrum II
|team= [[Team Zlayerz]]
|weightclass= Superheavyweight
|weapons= 4-bar flipper with different flipper set-ups.
}}

[[File:Fulcrum2point5_RV.png|thumb|Fulcrum II's rear view.]]
[[File:Fulcrum2point5_Scoop.png|thumb|Fulcrum II with its scoop.]]

'''Fulcrum''' is a Superheavyweight flipper created by KodeBreaker of [[Team Zlayerz]]. He is a 4WD box wedge with a rounded rear and bulbuous sides, with 3D-arrows to prevent opponents stacking him on his side. The main feature, of course, is the 4-bar flipper in front, with two different set-ups. The main set-up is the three-pronged wedge, specially designed to be heavy enough to get under the lighter [[Underall]]-wedges and some lighter flippers, but leveraging enough to defeat flat wedges like the ones on real robots Electric Lunch and New Cruelty. The scoop set-up was the original set-up for all uses, but isn't primarily a wedge-defeating utility. Instead, it is used against horizontal spinners.

[[File:KB-Fulcrum.png|thumb|The original Fulcrum.]]

The first version of Fulcrum featured a very thick scoop on a flipping arm, and had multiple teeth on the scoop, so when an opponent landed on the scoop, they would get tossed and damaged by the teeth at the same time. Due to the slope of the sides, it would always land on its back when flipped, and could self-right easily. The shape under the scoop flipper was also scoop-like and had an additional skirt that could be removed if fighting a full body spinner or low horizontal spinner, and then the flipping scoop could close over top of them and clamp them, allowing Fulcrum to drag them to nasty places. It also sported a Canadian flag texture on the sides.

Fulcrum is one of the original four robots of Team Zlayerz, entered into [[ARC: Reckoning]] alongside [[Scarab]], [[Perseus]], and [[Shadow Zone Forever]]. It did not do very well in that tournament; its only legitimate wins were against Fish of Doom's [[Written Like The "O" In The Word "Goodbye"]] in a 27-18 judges' decision, and against Britespark's [[Panda-Mick]] in a 23-22 split judges' decision.

Fulcrum is set to enter [[FRR: No Mercy]] in its newest guise, alongside rookies [[Airazor]], [[Mimete]], and [[Mass Hypnosis]].

== Overall Record ==

*Wins: 2
*Losses: 8

== Trivia ==

*Theme: "Counterbalance" by Hamilton-born Canadian melodic death metal/industrial metal artist [[Wikipedia:Threat Signal|Threat Signal]]. This song alludes to the nature of an actual fulcrum.
*Name inspiration: A [[Wikipedia:Fulcrum|fulcrum]] is the support at which a lever pivots. Since a flipper is like a lever of sorts, I thought it was rather clever.
*Fulcrum originated as a vertical spinner named '''Red Flag''', which was set to enter the cancelled [[ARC: Backlash]]. Red Flag, to put it bluntly, was not that good, however Red Flag did have success in Nick Schuch's very first Byte Size tournament.
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