CBC4 HW Week 1: Petaflare vs Padoru Machina

[Trihunter]

Petaflare	Padoru Machina
Speed: 5	Speed: 9
Traction: 4	Traction: 7
Torque: 1	Torque: 1
Weapon: 13 (12 crusher/1 srimech)	Weapon: 5
Armour: 6	Armour: 8
Config: Standard	Config: Standard

Grabby grabby squishy squishy. Big, plain arena, no hazards, no way for Padoru to damage us. Easy. Just need to take our time, play defensively, catch them out once, scoop and crush them for six damage. Keep our wedge facing them at all times, and angle our wedge enough on approaches to slip through their own wedgelets, to let us snag and crush. Considering our relative sizes, if we can get them far up enough on our wedge, we can beach them, giving us free reign to toy with them for a while. Srimech if flipped, avoid getting jammed into corners if possible.

tl;dr: Play defensive, secure strong attacks when we can.

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Normal config
That claw is scary and has the potential to kill me in one hit or whatever is the crusher equivalent unless he grabs my spinner (watch out for belt snipes tho). But he has to hold me for like 5 seconds on his wedge for that to happen, it would be a shame if i had a massive drivetrain advantage, oh wait.
Yeah so there is no way i can not back off that wedge should Peta get under, doing a J-hook or something should work too, i can not be high centered from getting wedged from the front and i am way faster, i can even out push Peta.
I can self right by ramming into a wall or firing roots under my front, not like he has a way to flip me over. Maybe with the roots but if he gets any i probably lost already.
On the other hand i can flip him and get loads of roots, to self right he has to use his dedicated srimech before doing anything, recovering control will take long enough for me to get another hit in considering my speed and weapon power.
I am close to being twice as fast so flanking is on the table, i am probably better off going for his side (easier thing to do) instead of his back. Angling in on his wedge should work too.
The walls might be useful for pinning if i combo him into a close one, which is likely considering the small arena.
He probably has a trick up his sleeve that may involve a wall or some hazard (maybe even if i control them) so watch out for shit.
Ok so for the roots which i am going to get.
First: I want to get the achievement.
Second: Don't bother turning off the lights, that will probably backfire.
Third: Forcing a wedge encounter on top of a set of roots but with my back off them will let me fire that root(s? idk) to get off his wedge if i fail to get under.
Fourth: If at some point Peta lands inverted in a way that his srimech would put it on top of a set of roots i control, i can fire them to DENY his self righting, just make sure i don't cockblock myself from attacking by doing this.
Fifth: I guess i can use them if we are far apart to be annoying and get points.

TL;DR: Hella aggro, use flanking, angling and shit, if wedged GTFO, don't get crushed, do root fuckery and of course don't fuck up my driving.
GF HL