Diamondback vs Patriot

Vintage is the reversed stat — the older ride wins. Every number here is the same one printed on the card; see /methodology for how Build Cost and Throughput are sourced.

The verdict

Diamondback takes it 4–2, and the 2 Patriot does win are the whole of its case.

Diamondback is a steel Hyper Coaster coaster at Kings Island, US, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. Patriot is a steel Inverted Coaster coaster at Worlds of Fun, US, built by Bolliger & Mabillard.

Both are in US, which puts them in the same conversation for anyone planning a trip there.

They come from the same drawing office: Bolliger & Mabillard. That makes the gaps below a question of brief and budget rather than engineering house style.

Both are steel-track, so nothing here is the usual steel-versus-wood argument in disguise.

They are near-contemporaries — 2006 and 2009 — so they were competing for the same riders when they opened.

Stat by stat

• Height goes to Diamondback at 230 ft against 149 ft — a long way clear.
• Speed goes to Diamondback at 81 mph against 60 mph — well clear.
• Patriot inverts 4 times against nothing at all from Diamondback — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput goes to Diamondback at 1,620 rph against 1,160 rph — a long way clear.
• Build Cost goes to Diamondback at 22 $m against 14 $m — a long way clear.
• Vintage is reversed, so Patriot's 2006 takes it from Diamondback's 2009 — 3 years in it.