The Typhoon series were excellent machines but they had certain vulnerabilities which with time would have been constantly exploited.

If a Typhoon was hit ABOVE the cutters then it would go flying without causing damage to the attacker.

No robot is perfect and any series winner needs a little luck (as well as an excellent robot) to win. In series 7, Typhoon did well to avoid robots like Bigger Brother and Stinger, whose weaponry would not have suited Typhoon.

The higher speeds of the newer heavyweights mean that Typhoon would have even less time to get up to speed and get hit a lot harder by more heavily armoured opponents. The 10 mph or so of series 7 robots is often now 20 mph of the current live circuit machines.