Glossary

Commonly Used WR Terms

A
Ancilot: Lancelot armed with an Ancile.
AOE: Area of effect, usually refers to splash damage.

B
Backpedal: to run backwards in a fast bot to avoid rockets.
Beacon capping: Capturing beacons
Beacon runner: A fast robot in a team that has a goal of capturing and holding beacons, as opposed to dealing as much damage as possible.
Britbot: Gareth, Galahad, Lancelot.
Buff: an improvement to a particular item(s) in the game enacted by the developers.

C
Camping: Standing ground in a position distant from potential close quarters combat to deal damage from afar, without advancing with the line.
Clubbing (Seal Clubbing): To use an overly powerful hangar for your respective league against less skilled players, and defeating them with ease to gain faster rewards.
Corner Shooting: To position a robot at a vertical edge of cover, such that weapons are able to fire upon target, whilst the body/hitbox of the robot is covered to all non-splash damage.
Critical Hit: An ammunition discharge that causes the target robot to lose one or more weapons.

D
Death Button (DB): A weapon combination consisting of Orkans and Pinatas - Ex: DB Griffin or DB Rhino.
DPM: the maximum damage a weapon, combination or configuration can inflict in the space of 60 seconds, accounting for firing time, reload time and any related intervals.
DPS: the maximum damage a weapon, combination or configuration can inflict in one second, differentiated from DPM in that it only accounts for raw damage scored.

E
Effective Range: The maximum distance at which a weapon deals damage; alternatively it may refer to range at which the weapon's damage is no longer significant in the case of bullet-spreading weapons.
Eject: To manually destroy one's robot in order to choose another robot.

F
Farming: Continuously playing matches with the objective of accumulating rewards, usually Gold (Au).
Frankenbot: An unconventional setup that has the potential to inflict severe damage near equal or exceeding that of conventional setups.
Fading: The act of participating in games actively, but trying to do little damage. This is used to tank your league rating while avoiding the Leaver's Queue.

H
Hellfire: A bot configuration consisting of Orkans and Magnums.
Homing Missile: Spiral(s), Hydra(s); Aphid(s) may or may not be included in this family.

K
Knifing, Knife Fighting: Exchange of fire in which combatants are within 350m of each other.
Knife Fighter: A robot configured to deal damage inside 350m.

L
Leaver Queue(LQ): A separate matchmaking queue to quarantine habitual leavers.
Long Range Support(LRS): see Sniping

M
Mech/Mech out/Bot out: To exhaust all bot slots such that the player is out of the game.
Meta: Most Effective Tactic Available
Mid Range Support(MRS): a robot configured to deal damage between 350m and 600m.
Missile: Spirals, Hydras, Aphids
MM: Matchmaking/Matchmaker system

N
Nerf: A deliberate reduction in power of a particular item(s) of the game, enacted by the developers.
Noob: A new or bad player

O
OP: Original post(er); also could be overpowered.

P
Plasma Death Button (PDB): A weapon setup consisting of Tarans and Magnums.
Plasmahad: A Galahad with a Taran and two Magnums
Power Runner: A robot configured to deal damage whilst capturing beacons, combining the roles of Beacon Runner and Knife Fighter.
Pushing: The deliberate forceful contact to a robot with the objective of relocating them, usually in the context of relocating a camper from the top of a cliff to the bottom, where they should be.

R
Rate of Fire (ROF): The pace in which a weapon unloads a salvo, taking the form of shots per second.
Russian Death Button (RDB): A weapon setup consisting of Tulumbas and Pins.
Rockets: Pinatas, Pins, Orkans, Tulumbas, Tridents
Regular Queue (RQ): The matchmaking queue that most players are in. Refering to "not in LQ".

S
Sandbagging: see Tanking
Seal Clubbing: see Clubbing
Sniping: Dealing damage from further than 600m, not including the use of aerial artillery (noricums, zenits)
Spawn: Can refer to the action of bringing a robot into play out of the hangar, or to the origin place of a team's robots.
Stuka Griffin: Orkan/Aphid Griffin

T
Tanking: Intentionally playing below your capabilities in order to lower your league ranking.
Tarancilot: Lancelot with Ancile and Tarans.
TT: Thunder Taran; Triple Trident; Top Tier, depending on context.