Quote Originally Posted by leungbok View Post
If rapier/flash/venom races require as much skills as phantom, why didn't any of the WIPEOUT HD CUP slow classes pilots CHOSEN NO WEAPON RACES ?
http://www.youtube.com/user/AmpIific...ature=mhee#p/p

playlists of my hd cup races. All my choices were venom, and all but 2 green races are weapons off. I didn't drop a single of my choices... pure luck, eh.

If you make a single mistake on Venom, you'll lose if you're playing someone competent, luckily for me, there are only about 10-15 players in the world I'd consider competent at the class.

Also, before Saturn edited it out, you wrote most people say Phantom is harder - and it is, no doubt. However, the number of people that master Phantom is about zero, and even though I'd consider myself terrible at it; practically all of my Phantom SL times are just a fraction of a second off the #1 time.
Venom times can be separated by seconds between the #1 and #10, which indicates that skill is more necessary to win - if you can't nail a lap on Venom, you'll be left way behind; whereas Phantom almost purely relies on the player being consistent, not necessarily more skilled.
Sorry, Saturn.