Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4106058-20150407072405

I'm going to try to explain the reasons why I think the Worst lives up to its name, and why people are misunderstanding Walkatrout's true potential.

The Worst

1. Ben named it such, and reinterated it to Ben 23 (which took place in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Ben World: Part 1 which happened after the events of  No Honor Among Bros, which means Ben knew when he told Ben 23 this, what the Worst could and couldn't do)

2. The Worst has no abilities besides being indestructible, and while that sounds awesome, if Ben is caught as the Worst, he pretty much has to stay as the Worst and take the beating until the foe tires, but some foes, like Malware, will never tire, which means he is stuck getting tortured forever. He can't flee, because the Worst is rediculously slow and has no stamina, so he runs a few yards and has to catch his breath, not that he ran those few yards that fast anyway. He can't fight back, he can't do anything except take the beating and hope for reinforcements.

3. The species acknowledges themselves to be atrocious, they're called Atrocian. And since they're from the same planet Ball Weavel's Species and Terroranchula's species come from, they obviously could have chosen another name that didn't admit they're atrocious.

Walkatrout

1. Being Slippery isn't just about not being able to be held, but also allows Walkatrout to slide on any surface, turning any smooth floors into places that it can speed across with little effort.

2. Everyone keeps arguing he could be bigger and slippery, but his small size with his slipperiness is the advantages. Small airducts, tight spaces, small holes, Walkatrout can go places that few other forms can, and can do it without being able to be caught.

3. The answer to if Slamworm ate a Ickthyperambuloid, simple, Gil Steptoe, Walkatrout, or any other member of their species would get swallowed and slide right out the other end. The same slippery coating that allowst hem to slide would make them slide right through so fast that nothing else would happen. The advantage to being slippery is that they can't chew on you, since you'd pop out from between their teeth and either slip out of their mouth or shoot intact straight through their system too fast for them to digest.

The Worst is fine in a group battle when Ben just needs to occupy a foe long enough for someone else to do something, but one on one, it is only good if the foe is as dumb as an Appoplexian (which is literally how dumb Malice is, any other foe would have simply demanded a count be used, since Atrocian's can't be harmed, so the only way to win in a competition against one is pinfall... Malice didn't lose to The Worst, he lost to his own stupidity, there is a difference. Also, Malice surrendered, if h'ed been smart enough, he could have simply rested on top of the Worst for a few hours, and then continued to torture Ben... don't mistake Appoplexian Stupidity for Atrocian prowess).

Walkatrout, meanwhile is designed for stealth, escape, and versatile travel. If Ben is faced with a foe he can't fight, he can become Walkatrout, escape any foe, and then regroup, plan, or call in reinforcements, all things that he could never do as The Worst.

Neither of these are Great Alien forms, but one of them is The Worst, and the other is Walkatrout.

Now, might there be something even worse then The Worst in the Omnitrix? Possibly, but I will point out that if The Worst was so good for defense and better then some other forms, Ben would have put him on Kenny's Omnitrix instead of Toe Pick, Sandbox, and/or Snake Pit (all of whom Kenny was disappointed to have, which means he considered those three low on the list of options), since Ben wanted Kenny to have defensive forms. I think that speaks volumes about Ben's opinion of The Worst after another 1.5-2 decades of experience with the Worst. 