Hunting Wind

**猎风** (romanized as **Liè fēng**, translating to **Hunting Wind**) was a Chinese competitor robot which fought in the first season of *King of Bots*. It reached the second round after defeating Inverse Scales, but lost at that stage after getting heavily damaged by the Anglo-Australian multibot Great White.

A successor, named Agate, also competed in *This is Fighting Robots* (alternately dubbed Season 1.5) as well as *King of Bots II*.

## Design

Hunting Wind was a dark brown and green, two-wheel drive robot with a roughly octagonal-shaped chassis, a steep front wedge and a spiked hammer as its main weapon. The hammer was driven by a pneumatic rack-and-pinion mechanism, similar to those used by the axes of UK *Robot Wars* competitors Terrorhurtz and Thor, and was capable of denting opponents' armour with ease. Hunting Wind’s hammer was supported by a rear frame attached to a separate piston; however, the frame and a lack of balance often resulted in the robot throwing itself off the floor whenever the hammer swung. The robot also featured an LED ‘crosshair’ projected from the top of its front wedge; however, it is currently unknown whether this feature formed part of an automated targeting system for the hammer.

"*Hunting Winds' weapon actually got some great power, but when firing at full force the bot would just break apart by itself, hence why he changed to a soft tail. The wielding is not good either as shown in the fight, and the biggest problem is that the LiPo batteries are placed on the outside of wheels, making it basically a time bomb. After the fight the fire of the bot is heating up the gas cans, and he need to wear a mask to defuse the whole robot. The next version of Hunting Wind would be much more reasonable though, and hopefully he can do better next time.*"
— A correspondent of the team

## Robot History

### King of Bots (Season 1)

Hunting Wind made its debut in Episode 3, where it faced Inverse Scales in the first round.

Immediately, it negotiated out of the blue square towards Inverse Scales, but swung itself off the floor with its first hammer blow, its hammer head touching Inverse Scales’ spinning weapon in the process. After retracting its hammer and gingerly approaching its opponent again, Hunting Wind was briefly pushed back by Inverse Scales, but responded by striking Inverse Scales’ top panel. A powerful ram on Inverse Scales ensued, before Hunting Wind hammered its left-front wheel and top panel again with two more hits. These attacks were sufficient to leave Inverse Scales immobilized by the end of the battle, which went to a Judges’ decision. The decision went in favour of Hunting Wind, putting it through to the second round.

"*I'd like to think we'll win, but I'm not too sure. It's a very nicely built robot, and one hit from him in the wrong spot can definitely take us out.*"
— Steven Martin of Great White

Hunting Wind entered the arena to fight Great White and its minibot, Remora.

The team instantly activated the smoke screen, attempting to dodge the spinner, but the Australian team retaliated in kind. Both roboteers were blinded, but Great White scored the hit and tore half of Hunting Wind's armor off. Hunting Wind fired its axe and missed, turning the robot on its side and opening it up to another blow from the heavy triangular flywheel. Now smoking and immobilized, the minibot Remora landed the final blow and tore off the rest of the armour. Left armorless and smoking, Hunting Wind was quickly counted out.

"*Somebody call 9-1-1!*"
— Commentary as Hunting Wind is counted out

## Results

### Wins/Losses

* Wins: 1
* Losses: 1

## Outside King of Bots

Team Crystal Dust Alchemist competed at the 2017 FMB MLF event with a Featherweight robot named after the team. However they lost early on after getting their robots wheel torn off, and electronics ripped out by another robot.

## Trivia

* Although Hunting Wind enjoyed an even run of success in its only season, its successor Agate found much more success, with two back-to-back wins in Season 2.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots/comments/7v5p0t/king\_of\_bots\_episode\_5\_discussion\_thread/dtrrwgd/

## External Links

* Hunting Wind on the *King of Bots* website (Chinese, archived)