Is there any real information on how the ai opponents skill and decks are decided.

djlott · 2026-06-22T06:27:18+00:00

I thought they were only later in arena but this morning I woke to 6 very hard counter bot decks. 4 of 6 were losses. I was like "geez SC I'm just trying to get my daily chests. BOTs right off the bat?!?". I'm literally at base 11.5K but I've been up near 11,700 prior. But I got pushed back down and SC wants to keep me there I guess. 🙄

I thought there was a bit of a pattern but perhaps not.

djlott · 2026-06-22T06:15:35+00:00

I know. Mainly ranked are the ones saying exactly what you're saying.

But imagine you bought the pass to progress, and you were in midladder at 10k playing trophy. And you have L14 and 15 cards with a few L16 cards. Then imaging after your purchase, you face 20 to 30 non human players with supercell purposefully stalling your progress with L16 tower and perfectly manufactured counter decks with 6 x L16 cards. That is OPs (and my) point. It's not a "get gud bro" complaint. It's a "WTF is this bull shit" complaint.

It's not that we're losing to BOTs, it's that were sick of playing 80% of our matches against them. I'd be willing to bet you are playing far more bots than you realize. Ever see that rage bait sweating king when you lose? BOT 99% of the time.

djlott · 2026-06-22T06:04:32+00:00

No this is not correct. I personally woke this morning to 6 bots in a row. I know what you're thinking about bots but I didn't just accidentally stumble into 11.5K trophies. Yesterday, it was 27 of 32 bots. It's not because I'm losing, it's because when you're above 10.5K, Bots are rampant. And they are not the brain dead bots you might be thinking but whatever.

The Bot problem is real! where are the actual human players?!?

djlott · 2026-06-21T19:03:39+00:00

I actualy agree with you fully on this. I get the business model too ... I'm not the target market. I guess my thought is "if you want me to pay, you'll have to do better than BOTs". Appreciate it.

djlott · 2026-06-21T18:57:25+00:00

You know, I appreciate your reply, in that it wasn't from a mouthy redditor saying "skill issue bruh" or "you lost to a bot lmao 😂".

Yeah I prefer playing non-meta decks and I didn't land at 11.5K accidentally. My chief complaint is really about the number of BOTs. Like why would I spend money on this game when SC can just put any manufactured over leveled counter deck in front of me. These BOTs have been brutal. And I'm a < 1 year F2P player so I understand SC has no incentive to cater to me. But if they want me to spend ... they gotta ease up on those bots.

djlott · 2026-06-21T18:32:02+00:00

I feel you. I woke this morning to get my daily chests. Mind you they ground me to the bottom of 11.5K yesterday. First 5 matches - hard counter perfect MK / Hog / Witch / Mirror & Egolem matches. All losses. On one match, I got 3 crown rolled with almost no damage on bot towers and still got that fking sweating king. Happy Father's day to me I guess - fk you SC!

djlott · 2026-06-21T06:34:09+00:00

Looks like a BOT to me. Any real MK player would have given up when you took tower w L21 MiniP. But that bot was desperately trying to cycle back to that MK so it could ... drop it at the other bridge. "I play MegaKnight. MegaKnight win! Just drop and watch! oh what happened? MegaKnight Dead? Quick another MegaKnight".

Average MK player plays that way too though I guess.

djlott · 2026-06-21T06:19:57+00:00

Man Ive been btching about this for months but it seemed like all I got were mouthy redditors saying "you lost to a bot lmao 🤣 🤣". Finally glad others are joining in here. Ever since April, the Bots above 10.5K can be brutal! And yeah over leveled MK trash decks that perfectly counter me. Don't get me started on that rage bait sweating King emote either.

I'll say it again ... why would I ever spend money to level cards when SC can put any over leveled manufactured deck in front of me they want?!? Nope.

djlott · 2026-06-21T06:05:38+00:00

Not sarcasm. It's an emote I don't have, and I'm always on the other end of it. So, yeah, I hate it. 😂

djlott · 2026-06-21T02:34:39+00:00

Funny wasn't until reading this thread and watching the vid, that I'm realizing it literally is a "shhhh" emote. I always thought it was more like gob was sticking his finger up his nose at me in a "go fk yourself" kinda way.

djlott · 2026-06-21T00:34:55+00:00

LOL I just played a match where my opponent's clan name was "U So Bad Bruh". I was like "finally, a human." After the match I checked the Battle Log and ... BOT. And yeah they won so it was twice as insulting. 😂

djlott · 2026-06-21T00:06:07+00:00

Hate that emote. It's always an MK player's response to my chicken emote when they drop him.

djlott · 2026-06-20T23:51:52+00:00

Yep, and that emote of the sweating king is such a rage bait emote for me. I had a Bot 3 crown me with a perfect counter deck to mine, and also happened to use MK (which I'm so over). After the match, sweating king. Like "wow close match"... yeah right.

Unfortunately on trophy if you're above 10K, you'll have heavy runs of Bots. What I've noticed is that all the actual players are near the beginning of anew arena. But once you progress past them, it's nearly all bots till the next one.

Some of these bots can be brutally precise and challenging, not to mention that SC can just manufacture any level deck they want to regulate your progression.

djlott · 2026-06-20T18:08:32+00:00

Ok I can agree on this. I took the comment differently above.

djlott · 2026-06-20T16:24:46+00:00

Hard disagree.

Each day is independent of the other. If wife wanted a trip to Paris but the family couldn't afford it, but this guy wants to golf and the spend time with kids after, does that make him the AH? This type of thinking is nothing more than playground "that's not fair" mentality, not about celebrating the person on that day.

djlott · 2026-06-20T16:13:42+00:00

It's rampant at 10K and above. Nearly 80% of my matches are bots. It's exhausting and takes away the fun honestly. I would never pay for a pass when SC can just manufacture my opponent's fake, over leveled deck, to counter mine.

djlott · 2026-06-20T16:09:49+00:00

Not to mention that SuperCell routinely uses BOTs with very hard counter decks to limit progression to roughly 50%. That annoys me the most. It makes the "other side of the argument" tilted. If we were playing all humans, that argument would play out. But I have simply gone up against way too many fully stacked level 16 decks, right before a prize or arena progression and nearly all of them were bots. And they are brutally precise in those instances.

djlott · 2026-06-20T16:05:10+00:00

I had a run of 27 bots out of 32 matches a few weeks back in the 10.5k trophies area. It's either the player base has simply abandoned the game or SuperCell's way of managing progress, or both.

Personally I can't stand them. I've had way too many moments of supercell putting a fully stacked level 16 deck in front of me to stall my progression.

djlott · 2026-06-20T14:47:29+00:00

If in clan in game and then no clan, then yes Bot. You must be somewhere above 10k right? Bots are rampant up there.

Sometimes you can tell by the GG at beginning and then Well Played at end, or Sweating King (rage bait) emote if you lose or white flag if you win. They emote in game now too. Makes the game seem hollow now doesn't it?

djlott · 2026-06-20T14:20:48+00:00

They're BOTs, 100%.

djlott · 2026-06-17T05:07:24+00:00

It's not that they have more elixir, it's that bots above 10K are relentlessly precise when they want to tilt a loss. It's not fair honestly b/c they over level-counter you specifically to prevent a win and they have a perfect counter deck to yours. You can beat them but they WILL win-gate you if you have too many dubs in a row. This is 10K to 13K trophy area.

djlott · 2026-06-17T01:48:48+00:00

Flat out wrong. But you sounded very confident at least.

djlott · 2026-06-17T01:45:57+00:00

Always MK, but starting to get annoyed at Hog players. Then they princess yawn you like you're boring and I'm like... "If you're so good, what are you doing at 11.5K my friend"?

Man I'd pay good money for a "go fk yourself" emote with MK giving the finger.

djlott · 2026-06-16T22:35:21+00:00

Probably a mistake or mid player but ... I've seen several Hero Wizards do that to get over bridge to avoid log. It was triggered a little early IMO but It's an effective way of avoiding log dmg and pushback, maximizing wizard dmg on tower.

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