Blade: Sphinx Cowl

Weight: 32.6g (LOW END) - 33.1g (HIGH END)

• Design: Sphinx Cowl is a 9-sided blade with a jagged shape, designed to deflect opponents from any angle.

• Gimmick Barrage Defense: The blade’s design focuses on deflecting attacks from various angles.

• Attack vs. Attack (AVA): Sphinx Cowl can be explosive in AVA matchups, but it lacks stamina. It performs decently against other attackers, but its effectiveness is limited by its stamina. 

• Attack vs. Defense/Stamina: When used with a 70-height setup, Sphinx Cowl can be an effective aggressive attacker, capable of KOing or depleting the stamina of opponents. 

• Stamina/Defense: On stamina or defense combinations, Sphinx Cowl is subpar. Its lack of stamina often results in losing points via being out-spun or a spin finish.

Strengths:

• Strong Impact: The unique jagged shape of Sphinx Cowl can deliver powerful blows, repelling opponents effectively.

Weaknesses:

• Gap: Like any blade with a gap, Sphinx Cowl is more vulnerable to Burst. It’s recommended to be cautious with your launch and use it at a 70-height setup.

Overall:  Sphinx Cowl is a welcome addition to any collection. While it’s not a top-tier blade, it has potential with the right 70-height setups and aggressive bits. However, it requires further support from additional 70-height releases and bits to become more relevant in competitive play.

Gameplan: Sphinx Cowl with low-height setups paired with aggressive bits that have stamina, such as High Taper on a 60-height ratchet.

Combos:

Attack: Sphinx Cowl 3-60/9-60 HT

Ratchet: 5-60

Weight: 6.6g

• Design: 5-60 is a ratchet that has 5 sides and a low height, the contact areas for the ratchet are 5 somewhat wide points.

Strengths: 

• Stamina: Generally due to the shape and its OWD (outwards weight distribution) it can have greater stamina than other ratchets giving Beyblades more balance.

• Defense: Due to being 5 sided and thick, this ratchet has some of the best defense out of all the ratchets and only really is worse than 9 sides due to how 9 sides is exposed. 

• Low Height: It is one of the lowest height ratchets, making it a great use for attack combinations or other low height setups depending on context.

Bit: Orb

Weight: 2g

• Design: Orb is a Beyblade X bit with low burst resistance and a small semi-sphere on the bottom. 

Strengths:

• GOOD Stamina: Orb is very comparable to Ball for its stamina performance being more or less the same, making it a strong pick.

• DEFENSE: Orb has the benefit of having some pretty good KO resistance, while not some large amount it can be a lot tankier to hits dealt to it than regular ball.

Weaknesses:

• Destabilization: If combo is not balance tuned meaning how the ratchet is assembled in placement, it can result in Orb failing miserably and destabilizing bad.

• 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 throw: To maximize the effectiveness of this Bit, you can employ a slight angle and throw the Beyblade on the opposing side from where you launch. This is to avoid knockouts and to conserve stamina. 

• STRONG Shoot: Orb requires to be as good as ball that you MUST have a strong shoot otherwise it can die pretty bad.