Ramming Movement

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Ramming movement is a form of movement, the goal of which is to ram your bot into the enemy. Bots using ramming movements are known as rambots or rammers. A ramming movement is typically used in one of two cases:

1. As a 1-vs-1 strategy. Although rambots tend not to perform very well in overall ranking, it is difficult for even the best bots to get more than a 70% score share against a good rammer.
2. As a fatality. Since ram damage gives twice as many score points as bullet damage and ram kills can give a larger score bonus than bullet kills, ramming a disabled opponent can be a very effective finishing move. Also, many bots stop firing if their health is low, so ramming these bots is risk-free. As a bonus, watching a bot ram a disabled enemy is fun. (Watch Wolverine kill its opponents!)

How ram damage and scoring works

When your bot rams an opponent, both bots take a constant 0.6 damage. When the battle finishes, the ramming bot gets twice the total amount of ram damage as its "ram damage" score. In addition, if an enemy is killed by ramming, your bot receives 30% of all the damage it did to that enemy as a bonus. A sample score table from one round of a pure rammer vs. SittingDuck might look like this:

Rank	Robot Name	Total Score	Survival	Surv Bonus	Bullet Dmg	Bullet Bonus	Ram Dmg * 2	Ram Bonus	1sts	2nds	3rds
1st	ram.Rambot	290	50	10	0	0	200	30	1	0	0
2nd	sample.SittingDuck	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0

See also

• Category:RamBots
• Robocode/Scoring