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==Spin Track: Armor Defense 145 (AD145)==
 
==Spin Track: Armor Defense 145 (AD145)==
 
*'''Weight: 2.8 grams'''
 
*'''Weight: 2.8 grams'''
Armor Defense 145 is shaped like a head of a funnel, all round with edges lining the sides all around. Despite its name, it is overshadowed by other Defense Tracks such as 230 and Gravity Ball 145, as being heavily light when comapred to 230 and small in comparison to Gravity Ball 145 which will not absorb hits as 230. Despite this, it is well suited for Stamina, because of its outward weight distribution.
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Armor Defense 145 is shaped like a head of a funnel, all round with edges lining the sides all around. Despite its name, it is overshadowed by other Defense Tracks such as 230 and Gravity Ball 145, as being heavily light when comapred to 230 and small in comparison to Gravity Ball 145 which will not absorb hits as well as 230. Despite this, it is well suited for Stamina, because of its outward weight distribution.
   
It is like a shield for Perseus. It is the third highest Track along with its variants. It is commonly used for stamina types because of its round shape. AD145 has excellent stamina and can be used in a top-tier stamina combo Earth/Burn Aquario/Bull AD145PD.
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It is like a shield for Perseus. It is the third highest Track along with its variants. It is commonly used for Stamina types because of its round shape. AD145 has excellent Stamina and can be used in a top-tier Stamina combo Earth/Burn Aquario/Bull AD145PD.
   
 
[[File:Track ad145 img.jpg]]
 
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Revision as of 10:00, 15 August 2011

Template:Infobox:HWSGravity Destroyer AD145WD (original version: Gravity Perseus AD145WD) is a Defense-Type Beyblade that appears in the anime and manga series, Beyblade: Metal Masters. It is owned by Julian Konzern.

Takara Tomy's Gravity Perseus comes with a special L - R BeyLauncher as Gravity Perseus has the ability to spin both left and right. By removing the cap, two sides of the Launcher can be seen, a blue side spinning to the right and a white side spinning to the left. As an extra, you can smear the words "left spin" and "right spin" to make the words clearer on the L-R Launcher.

Face Bolt: Destroyer/Perseus

The Face Bolt depicts "Perseus", one of the 88 constellations in space. In Greek mythology, Perseus was a Greek hero who slayed the Gorgon, Medusa and saved the princess, Andromeda from a sea monster sent by the Greek God of Sea, Poseidon. Despite it representing Perseus, the design showcases the helmet of a Roman gladiator with the name, "Perseus" beneath it, while on a purple Face Bolt.

Energy Ring: Destroyer/Perseus

  • Weight: 2.7 grams

Destroyer is unlike any other Energy Rings, in that it does not contain any plastic which may block the prongs on left and right-spin Launchers from attaching. Due to this, it gives it the ability to spin both left and right unlike most Beys which are only right-spin. Just like the L-Drago series, Destroyer can be rotated 180 degrees to change between two modes, "Defense Mode" and "Counter Mode". There are three protrusions resulting in a triangle-like design. It is only usable with Gravity and is black with purple highlights.

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Fusion Wheel: Gravity

  • Weight: 33.8 grams

Gravity is only compatible with the Perseus Energy Ring. With this, it allows players to change between four different modes, "Right-Spin Defense", Left-Spin Defense", "Right-Spin Counter", and "Left-Spin Counter". With the six indents the Energy Ring fits through, this gives it promiment Smash Attack capability. In Defense-Mode, Perseus fits into the first three indents and the red stickers are visible turning the contact points to three. In Counter-Mode, Perseus covers the last three indents and covers the red stickers, giving six contact points. Stronger and consistent Attack is enabled due to the six contact points. It is more powerful in right-spin with great Smash Attack.

It is quite heavy, but has too much recoil for Defense. Instead, its use is found in Attack, in Left Spin Counter Mode. But since Left Spin Attack does so well against Right Spin Defense, you could use it in Left Spin Defense Mode with Metal Face Gravity Perseus GB145/TH170MB/RS. However, back to Attack, Metal Face Gravity Perseus R145/BD145/TR145/UW145RF can defeat 230 Defense combos, and at 85 height, that combo is very good at attack in general. It is a tier 1 for Attack, however it is not used at all in Defense, even Rock being shown better. It is gun-metallic with red highlights.

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Spin Track: Armor Defense 145 (AD145)

  • Weight: 2.8 grams

Armor Defense 145 is shaped like a head of a funnel, all round with edges lining the sides all around. Despite its name, it is overshadowed by other Defense Tracks such as 230 and Gravity Ball 145, as being heavily light when comapred to 230 and small in comparison to Gravity Ball 145 which will not absorb hits as well as 230. Despite this, it is well suited for Stamina, because of its outward weight distribution.

It is like a shield for Perseus. It is the third highest Track along with its variants. It is commonly used for Stamina types because of its round shape. AD145 has excellent Stamina and can be used in a top-tier Stamina combo Earth/Burn Aquario/Bull AD145PD.

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Wide Defense (WD) retains the two curved holes D contained but are now thinner, smaller and found on the Sharp tip.

Being wider brings advantages and disadvantages to WD. An advantage is being able to conserve better Stamina than D and SD, due to the more surface area as well as being able to spin at a lower spin-rate that that of D or SD which cannot. A disadvantage however, is that it is worse at regaining balance than D. The wide shape gives WD a harder time to regain its balance whereas, D does it much easier. This should take into consideration when using a Spin Track such as 230 or TH170. D would be a better choice than WD as it would regain balance much easier to help cope with 230. However, while D can regain balance better, it cannot maintain it as well as WD, especially with the heights of 170 and above.

At release, WD has found quick use as a Stamina-Type Tip, much better than D and has become top-tier. Despite this however, as many more Performance Tips like AS, EWD, and B:D were released; they have overshadowed WD. EWD has also overshadowed WD due to EWD's bearing to regain balance better and much better Stamina. W²D performs basically the same as WD though but with worse balance but better attack.

Wide Defense (WD) has significant defensive capabilities as well, but because it still uses a form of sharp tip, its friction with the stadium floor is decreased, which as a result makes it easier to knock around than a Tip like WB which has much more friction with the stadium floor. But since it can recover quickly, it does not matter.

Some Bladers experience a fast movement from Wide Defense, allowing the Wide Defense tip with fast movement to be paired with high-recoil fusion wheels such as Vulcan, Beat, Fang, Spiral, Flash, or Variares, to create powerful, or even a 1-Hit KO Attack-type combos, or be paired with low-recoil fusion wheels such as Bakushin, Duo, Gravity (Perseus Stamina), Fusion, Wing, Death to create counter-attacking Defense-Type combos.

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Trivia

  • Hasbro's release of Gravity Destroyer comes with a simple Right Spin Light Launcher. It is possible that Hasbro did this to encourage people to buy the Rip Gauge Launcher, which can spin Left-spin and Rright-spin Beys.
  • In Beyblade: Metal Masters Julian Konzern states that The hero Destroyer defeated the monster Medusa, when in the real myth, The hero's name was Perseus.