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Slow, but incredibly tough mechanical knight. 3 built-in physical shields and a speed boost make this robot an ideal close-combat warrior
— in-game description



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Lancelot
Purchase Information Lancelot
In-Game Cost Real Value Icn info for user popup Exp Level Icn info for user popup
4,000 Gold $40 11
Robot Information
Class Icn info for user popup Ability Icn info for user popup Faction Icn info for user popup
HeavyRobotinfobox
Heavy
Rushinfobox
Rush Icn info for user popup
DSCinfobox
DSC
Base Statistics
PilotRankPrivate icon
Level
Shield icon
Durability Icn info for user popup
Speed icon
Speed
1 92,000 27 kph
Armaments Standard Paint Jobs
Hardpoints Medium + 1× Heavy Default Astro Golden Bear Military Reaper
Default Weapons Tulumbas + 1× Thunder
Module Slots Legendary Paint Jobs Icn info for user popup
Active Yes Reaper
Passive 2
Other Legendary Pilots
Tier Icn info for user popup II N/A
Wiki Class Icn info for user popup Heavy
Potential Role Tank

Introduction

The Lancelot is a heavy robot with a heavy and 2 medium hardpoints.

Abilities

The Lancelot's Rush ability increases its movement speed by 66% for a period of 10 seconds, allowing it to quickly close in on opponents or retreat, and its fixed physical shields can block all energy-based projectiles if it is facing the right direction. Similar to the Raijin, a Lancelot's shield is actually composed of several (three, in Lancelot's case) separate pieces which can each be blown off separately.

Strategy

The Lancelot is a good brawler and excels at holding beacons and area defense. It packs significant firepower and when equipped with fortifiers, the Lancelot's shield can reach up to 800,000 hit points, and when equipped with an Ancile, the bot can be a tank and difficult to destroy in close-range engagement.

The Lancelot is best used to support or even conduct front-line assaults. This is due to its design-three durable frontal physical shields means that it is suited for combat on only one side, which is conveniently what a well-executed push provides. When starting the push, the commander should use Rush. This allows them to gain more speed for strafing attacks and to ram enemies, which for certain tall enemies (such as titans) is a very infuriating choice, as they will be unable to aim at the ramming Lancelot. The physical shields should be turned to as many enemies as possible to provide maximum protection - remember that if the Lancelot still has physical shields left when it's destroyed, that's wasted health.

The Lancelot has an extremely wide torso and surface area along with slow ground speed (when not in Rush) making it vulnerable to incoming projectiles and splash damage. If equipped with the "Ghost" Pilot Skill the Lancelot has a decent ground speed (but no Rush ability), allowing it to support assaults on beacons and to flank slower bots.

The Lancelot is designed almost exclusively for holding beacons and engaging in 1v1 skirmishes. The robot's shield positioning means that it can only block projectiles the way it's facing, therefore engaging with more than 1 robot means that the one of the opponents can flank your shields and deal damage directly to your hull.

Using Rush tactically is essential to make the most out of the Lancelot. It should not be used to gain a speed boost at any time, instead, saving it to use it when an enemy is attempting to outrange your weapons is a great practical use for the ability.

A tip for Lancelot commanders in any role is to face away from splash weapons when you're being hit by them. Your physical shields will do nothing to stop the damage, so if you survive the attack you will have pointlessly wasted your physical shield HP, essentially doubling the damage done to your robot.

Counterplay: The majority of the Lancelot's health comes from its three physical shields, therefore using splash-damage weapons (or even homing weapons!) can bypass the Lancelot's main line of defence and directly attack its (still relatively durable) hull. If that's not possible, the Lancelot's sluggish speed means that hit-and-run assaults on the robot can slowly chip away at its health, while it will not be able to reach the ambushing robot due to its slow speed.

Threat Measure The Lancelot is a mediocre-high threat as a Tier 2 robot. The shield, hit points, and variety of weapons afforded to its hardpoints allows for a unique bot capable of doing serious damage at close-range and mid-range, but it lacks considerable speed.

Possible Setups

These are effective setups for the Lancelot:

Note: When "Opt." is next to a slot type, it refers to one of the multiple options that can be used in combination with the other weapon(s) slot type(s).

Each slot type is filled with only one particular weapon. For example, if a robot has 3 light all three of those slots are filled with Pinatas, as mixing weapons of the same slot type is not advisable.


Close Range (350m or less)

Slot Types Heavy Slot Medium Slot (Opt.1) Medium Slot (Opt.2) Medium Slot (Opt.3)
#Slots x1 x2 x2 x2 Name (If Applicable)
Setup 1
Ancile
Taran
Orkan
Ancilot:
Tarancilot (Opt.1)
Orkancilot (Opt.2)
Setup 2
Thunder
Storm
Corona
Orkan
Shotgun (Opt.1)
Setup 3
Redeemer
Taran
Corona

Plasma Death Button (Opt.1)

Setup 4
Ember
Taran
Orkan
Corona
Setup 5
Exodus
Orkan
Corona
Death Button (Opt.1)
Setup 6
Glory
Corona
Storm
Energy Shotgun (Opt.1)
Setup 7
Avenger
Punisher T
Storm
Corona
Leadhose (Opt. 1)

Mid-Range (500-600m)

Slot Types Heavy Slot Medium Slot (Opt. 1) Medium Slot (Opt. 2) Medium Slot (Opt. 3)
#Slots x1 x2 x2 x2 Name (If Applicable)
Setup 1
Viper
Corona
Scourge
Setup 2
Zeus
Scourge
Ion
Setup 3
Dragoon
Scourge
Ion
Pulsar
Setup 4
Ancile
Scourge
Ancilot


Long Range (800-1,100m)

Slot Types Medium Slot Heavy Slot
#Slots x2 x1 Name
Setup 1
Molot T
Tempest
Gunship

Overview

The Lancelot is best used as a close-range brawler, and is extremely effective in that role due to its frontal shielding. The use of the Ancile with Tarans, Orkans and Scourges allows for solid firepower while having protection against all weapon types (except the Ember). Using an Ember as the heavy hardpoint choice with the aforementioned medium weapons makes for a more offense Lancelot, and being a threat to all enemies due to the Ember's flames bypassing all shields (except for the Bulwark's Aegis shield). An Avenger with two Punishers can allow the Lancelot to deal respectable damage outside of close range rockets range (300 meters), and if facing an opponent with energy weapons can come in closer to deal an impressive amount of sustained burst damage.

This robot can also be a very effective mid-range support unit, due to most mid-range weapons being energy based, allowing the Lancelot to use its physical shielding to its fullest. A Dragoon or Zeus with Scourges can prove to be very hard for the enemy to deal with, due to its high damage output and its surprising durability.

Lastly, the Lancelot can even be useful as a sniper (to a lesser degree). Using a Tempest with two Molot Ts can prove a nuisance to the enemy on large maps, due to the lack of counters that work effectively against it.

Upgrade Cost

  • NOTE: base level starts at level 1 cost is
  • MK2 Upgrade cost 500 Gold

Stats

Lancelot
ID 21 Ability Faction
Tier 2
Rushinfobox

Rush
DSC
DSC
Class Heavy
Heavy
Wiki Class Icn info for user popup Heavy
Availability AuIcon Gold
MK 1 Level MK 2
Durability Speed Durability Speed
92,000 27 1 182,000 38
98,000 28 2 185,400 38
104,000 29 3 188,800 38
111,000 30 4 192,200 38
118,000 31 5 195,600 38
125,000 32 6 199,000 38
133,000 33 7 202,400 38
142,000 34 8 205,800 38
151,000 35 9 209,200 38
161,000 36 10 212,600 38
171,000 37 11 216,000 38
182,000 38 12 219,400 38
MK 3 Level 1 230,400 38

Shield Stats

Lancelot Physical Shield
MK 1 Level MK 2
Left Durability Middle Durability Right Durability Total Durability Left Durability Middle Durability Right Durability Total Durability
58,500 71,000 58,500 188,000 1 114,800 143,000 114,800 372,600
61,900 76,000 61,900 199,800 2 116,900 145,600 116,900 379,400
66,400 81,000 66,400 213,800 3 119,000 148,200 119,000 386,200
70,900 86,000 70,900 227,800 4 121,100 150,800 121,100 393,000
75,400 92,000 75,400 242,800 5 123,200 153,400 123,200 399,800
79,900 98,000 79,900 257,800 6 125,300 156,000 125,300 406,600
84,400 104,000 84,400 272,800 7 127,400 158,600 127,400 413,400
90,000 111,000 90,000 291,000 8 129,500 161,200 129,500 420,200
95,600 118,000 95,600 309,200 9 131,600 163,800 131,600 427,000
101,300 126,000 101,300 328,600 10 133,700 166,400 133,700 433,800
108,000 134,000 108,000 350,000 11 135,800 169,000 135,800 440,600
114,800 143,000 114,800 372,600 12 137,900 171,600 137,900 447,400
MK 3 Level 1 144,795 180,180 144,795 469,770

Gallery

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Update History

Version Changes
7.9.0 Speed increased by 2 kph
7.7.7 No longer available in the workshop, by January 24th 2022
6.7.0 Bug fix: No longer stops responding when faced with uneven terrain
5.3.0 New limited edition skin: Reaper (Operation: Gathering Storm)
4.8.0 Total Upgrade Time: 38 days 2 hours 30 minutes⟶30 days 13 hours
4.7.0 Speed increased by 10%
Side shields durability increased by 12.5%
Total Upgrade Time: 45 days 17 hours⟶38 days 2 hours 30 minutes
4.5.0 Total Upgrade Cost: 63,940,000 Ag⟶135,700,000 Ag
Total Upgrade Time: 17 days 3 hours 22 minutes⟶45 days 17 hours
4.3.0 Durability increased by 7%
Frontal shield durability increased by 40%
Ability recharge decreased from 20 sec. → 14 sec
4.2.0 Price changed from 5,000 gold to 10,000 Components (same value)
4.0.0 Total Upgrade Cost: 54,870,000 Ag⟶63,940,000 Ag
Total Upgrade Time: 19 days 23 hours 27 minutes 40 seconds⟶17 days 3 hours 22 minutes
4.0.0 New skin: Astro (Star Invasion)
2.9.0 New skin: Military
2.7.0 New skin: Reaper
2.4.0 New skin: Golden Bear
1.8.0 Robot was added to the game

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Trivia

  • Lancelot, Galahad and Gareth have been officially dubbed The Knights of Camelot.
  • Unofficially, they are known as the BritBots.
  • The "Ghost" Pilot Skill, when equipped on a Lancelot, fully leveled up and upgraded to Tier 4, is better than the Rush ability in every way due to the Skill not only providing a better speed boost (68.75% compared to 66%) but also it is permanent (compared to the 10 seconds of the ability). However the 2 speed boosts cannot be stacked since the Rush ability becomes unavailable.
  • Due to the Lancelot's large size, it has been unofficially dubbed “Chubby” or “Chubs” by the Youtuber Adrian Chong, and subsequently, by the entire War Robots community.
  • The Lancelot is one of the 10 robots to have a built-in physical shield, the other 9 being the Angler, Shell (although it has multiple of them), Rhino, Raijin, Galahad, Bulwark, Bulgasari, Tyr and Gareth.
  • The Lancelot is one of the two robots with a built-in physical shield that is not affected by an ability. The other is the Bulgasari.
  • Contrary to popular belief, only one of the three shields will protect the Lancelot in most cases, as it is located at the centre of the bot - where weapons hit it.
  • Because of its huge size, the Lancelot is surprisingly vulnerable to Avengers, Thunders and Glories, as these have a wide cone of fire that hits the bot in its unprotected areas.
  • A Lancelot equipped with an Ancile shield is sometimes called an Ancilot.
  • A Lancelot equipped with 2 Tarans and an Ancile is sometimes called a Tarancilot.
  • A Lancelot equipped with 2 Orkans and an Ancile is sometimes called an Orkancilot.
  • When rushing, this robot performs an animation on the back, with two thrusters firing at the rear of this robot.
  • This robot is tied with the Rhino for being the slowest heavy robot when not rushing, but it can use its Rush ability to increase its speed to 50 kph for a limited time, allowing it to become the second fastest Heavy robot.
  • This bot has three separate shields, so it is recommended to shoot only one shield to break it fast as possible and damage the robot.
  • Most likely named after Sir Lancelot (Sir Lancelot du Lac), one of the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend.
  • If an enemy is equipped with manual-aim energy weapon, they can still hit Lancelot if they aim slightly out of the hitbox.
  • This robot was added on August 3, 2016.

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