Blade: Viper Tail

Weight: 34.6g (LOW END) - 34.9G (HIGH END)

• Design: Three-sided blade design with sharp trianglular aggressive contact points. 

•  Attack VS Attack performance: In an attack vs. attack (AVA) matchup, Viper Tail can destablize opponents outspinning them and beating them. 

• Attack VS Defense/Stamina: ViperTail is a very hard hitting attacker that does great smash attack.

• ViperTail on Defense/Stamina: While it may be possible in taller heights to destablize its opponents, the issue is the beyblade suffers from Recoil Release and can be very bursty on any defense or stamina setups. 

Strengths:

• Destabilizing Hits: The low hanging metal blades can sometimes cause it to destablize and harm the opponent it is battling against.

• Strong Smash Attack: ViperTail has strong smacking properties that all it to sometimes oblierate its opponent. 

Weaknesses:

• Top Heavy: Due to the design of it because of the gap, it can sometimes fall and lose stamina causing yourself to lose via being outspun or a Spin Finish.

• Gap: Like any Beyblade with a gap, ViperTail suffers from this issue, which makes it susceptible to being abused by other Blades and causing it to burst. 

• Recoil Release: Like other certain blades, due to its heavy recoil, the blade can cause the ratchet to release the bit, causing you to lose to a burst.

Overall: Due to the recoil design, it is best to use only attack combos.

Gameplan: Use this blade on any low-height attack setup using the below combos.

Combos:

Attack: ViperTail 5-60/3-60 Flat/Low Flat/Taper/Rush/Point

Ratchet: 3-80

Weight: 7.1g

• Design: 3-80 is a ratchet that has 3 sides and a tall height, the contact areas for the ratchet are 3 wide points.

• No real difference in consistent stamina: You would need to balance tune to see if it matters or not compared to other sides like 5 sides or 9 sides, this is up to Blader since it is a case-by-case basis.   

Strengths: 

• Three sides with wider hit points: The Ratchet has wider contact points compared to a four-sided design. Although it is wider and should be easier to hit, in reality, three sides make less contact to cause a burst since they are more rounded off. 

Weakness:

• Tall Height: It is important to note that being tall in the case of 3-80 does not mean pure weakness however it means to be careful how you launch. While 3-80's generally are tighter than 3-60's or even 4-60's/80's keep mindful of how you shoot with this. 

Bit: High Needle

Weight: 2.2g

• Design: High Needle is a Beyblade X bit that features low burst resistance and a cone shape on the bottom of the bit. It is also a taller 1mm taller variant of the original Needle.

Strengths:

• KO Resistance: Unlike the original Needle HighNeedle features slightly more smushed cone shape on it. It features similar properties of KO resistance but now with the added benefit of more stamina. The only real difference being the original Needle can take more of those hits.  

• Defense Stamina: Since HighNeedle is more of a cone shape it this basically means that it will have more long-lasting stamina in attack battles managing to give a lot more than regular Needle in end game.

Weaknesses:

• Burst Risk: Due to being a bit with 20 in burst resistance there is a potential risk to use as it has lower resistance than Balance and Attack bits. This is not the end all be all just something to consider. 

Gameplan:

• Somewhat tilted angle shoot and hold: To maximize the effectiveness of this Bit, you can employ a slight angle and hold the Beyblade on to the corner of where you are to lead into the middle to get those big hits without being knocked out. 

• Be aware of the top corners on the opposite side of where the Xtreme Finish is: Aim to try to KO with your movement.