Surviving the Bronze Robot Gauntlet and Ranking Up on a budget

[unlikelysurvivor]

Welcome to my weekly series where I will be attempting to help you survive the bronze robot gauntlet and ranking up to silver. A couple weeks ago there was a discussion going on in general chat about the pros and cons of MANY people owning thousands of bots. This discussion was ended abruptly when the mod began silencing people including Mavericks, who are supposed to have the ear of the devs. Shortly afterwards it was announced that in order to combat bots, players names would be hidden and only last 5 battles available which may hinder win trading but does nothing to most bots and eliminates a tool players were using to even the field. This left some wondering if this was just a knee jerk reaction? If they don't really understand how bots work at all? or if it was just a slap on the wrist to players for daring to complain about bots? Any good bot could pretty much care less about who you are or what your battle history is and given your rank and last 5 battles could probably make a pretty good guess who you are anyway. Any good bot is keeping battle history data, looking at its cards, the battle restrictions, and possibly what is commonly played in that situation in its database, then picking a team that wins against that commonly played combination and the most other different combinations. Here I am going to teach you to beat the bots at their own game

Winning Combinations

So as I said above the bots have their list of winning combinations, so we will need our own and the great thing about our list is for bronze most if not all of these are starter cards besides the fiends, which are somewhat optional. I have used this same list on my account and my alt test accounts to easily move through bronze and into silver.

Mana	Summoner	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	Win Percent
12	Drake of Arnak	Chaos Agent	Carrion Shade	Death Elemental	Life Sapper	Fiend		100
13	Kelya	Albatross	Ice Pixie	Deeplurker	Fiend			100
13	Drake of Arnak	Cursed Windeku	Life Sapper	Fiend				100
13	Obsidian	Fail Summoner	Regal Peryton	khmer Princess	Fiend			50
14	Drake of Arnak	Cursed Windeku	Chaos Agent	Life Sapper	Fiend			100
14	Obsidian	Hill Giant	Khmer Princess	Regal Peryton	Fiend			75
14	Bortus	Serpent of Eld	Merdaali Guardian	Chaos Agent	Fiend			100
15	Drake of Arnak	Cursed Windeku	Life Sapper	Undead Badger	Fiend			100
15	Kelya	Albatross	Hardy Stonefish	Chaos Agent	Ice Pixie	River Nymph	Xenith Archer	66.6
16	Drake of Arnak	Cursed Windeku	Chaos Agent	Life Sapper	Undead Badger	Fiend		100
17	Thaddius Brood	Cursed Windeku	Chaos Agent	Death Elemental	Undead Badger	Carrion Shade	Fiend	100
17	Kelya	Albatross	Hardy Stonefish	chaos Agent	Ice Pixie	Battering Ram	Deep lurker	80
17	Tarsa	Living Lava	Serpentine Spy	Kobold Miner	Ooze	Fiend		100
18	Thaddius Brood	Cursed Windeku	Death Elemental	Life Sapper	Carrion Shade	Chaos Agent	Fiend	100
18	Tarsa	Radiated Scorcher	Chaos Agent	Goblin Fireballer	Xenith Archer	Serpentine Spy	Tenyii	80
19	Drake of Arnak	Cursed Windeku	Chaos Agent	Undead Badger	Silent Sha Vi	Carrion Shade		100
19	Kelya	Albatross	Hardy Stonefish	Cruel Sethropod	Deeplurker	Ice Pixie	Xenith Archer	66.6
19	Tarsa	Antoid Platoon	Chaos Agent	Serpentine Spy	Tenyii	Xenith Archer	Fiend	100
20	Drake of Arnak	Carrion Shade	Chaos Agent	Riftwing	Death Elemental	Undead Badger	Sha Vi	100
20	Kelya	Albatross	Hardy Stonefish	Cruel Sethropod	Deeplurker	Uraeus	Xenith Archer	75
20	Tarsa	Antoid Platoon	Chaos Agent	Serpentine Spy	Tenyii	Uraeus	Fiend	100
21	Obsidian	Unicorn Mustang	Mycelic Morphoid	Chaos Agent	khmer Princess	Regal Peryton	Fiend	100
21	Drake of Arnak	Cursed Wendeku	Carrion Shade	Chaos Agent	Life Sapper	Death Elemental	Soul Strangler	100
21	Kelya	Albatross	Chaos Agent	Cruel Sethropod	Deeplurker	Kulu Swimmer	Ice Pixie	50
21	Tarsa	Chaos Agent	radiated scorcher	Living Lava	Serpentine Spy	Tenyii striker	Fiend	100
22	Tarsa	Xenith	Spark Pixies	Parasitic Growth	Battering Ram	Scavo Firebolt	Fiend	100
22	Drake of Arnak	Cursed Wendeku	Life Sapper	Undead Badger	Xenith Archer	Silent Sha Vi	Fiend	100
22	Obsidian	Unicorn Mustang	Failed Summoner	Mycelic Morphoid	Regal Peryton	Khmer Princess	Fiend	50
23	Kelya	Serpent of Eld	Albatross	Feasting Seaweed	Merdaali Guardian	Scavo Hireling	Hardy Stonefish	100
23	Tarsa	Radiated Scorcher	Living Lava	Chaos Agent	Goblin Fireballer	Serpentine Spy	Tenyii	66.6
24	Tarsa	Chaos Agent	Radiate Scorcher	Living Lava	Lava Spider	Serpentine Spy	Tenyii	100
24	Thaddius Brood	Cursed Wendeku	Riftwing	Silent Sha Vi	Death Elemental	Carrion Shade	Chaos Agent	66.6
24	Kelya	Serpent of Eld	Albatross	Ice Pixie	Scavo Hireling	Deeplurker	Chaos Agent	50
24	Obsidian	Unicorn	failed summoner	Regal Peryton	Khmer Princess	Child of the Forest	Fiend	100
25	Kelya	Albatross	Serpent of Eld	Hardy Stonefish	Deep lurker	Kulu Swimmer	Ice Pixie	100
25	Taddius Brood	Cursed Wendeku	Rift wing	Death Elemental	Carrion Shade	Undead Badger	Sha vi	50
25	Obsidian	Unicorn	Goblin Psychic	Regal Peryton	Khmer	Fiend		66.6
26	Kelya	Serpent of eld	Albatross	Battering Ram	Merdaali Guardian	Scavo Hireling	Deep lurker	100
26	Tarsa	Radiated Scorcher	Living Lava	Chaos Agent	Djinn Apprentice	Serpentine	Tenyii	100
26	Sloan	Chaos knight	Time Mage	Celestial Harpy	Truthspeaker	Pelacor Arbalist	Gargoya Scrapper	100
27	Kelya	Serpent of eld	Ice Pixie	Xenith Archer	Merdaali Guardian	Scavo Hireling	Deep lurker	75
27	Tarsa	Living Lava	Tenyii	Chaos Agent	Serpentine Spy	Djinn Apprentice	Xenith Archer	50
28	Obsidian	Failed Summoner	Unicorn Mustang	Mycelic Morphoid	Goblin Psychic	Khmer Princess	Regal Peryton	66.6
28	Kelya	Serpent of Eld	Albatross	Feasting Seaweed	Merdaali Guardian	Scavo hireling	Deep lurker	85.7
28	Tarsa	Living Lava	Radiated Brute	Chaos Agent	Scavo Hireling	Serpentine Spy	Tenyii	100
29	Obsidian	Unicorn Mustang	Failed summoner	Regal Peryton	Goblin Psychic	Khmer Princess	Xenith Archer	100
29	Kelya	Diemon shark	Hardy Stonefish	Ice Pixie	deeplurker	Feasting Seaweed	Kulu swimhunter	50
29	Tarsa	Scavo Chemist	Living Lava	Chaos Agent	Disintegrator	Serpentine	Tenyii	75
30	Tarsa	Living Lava	Disintegrator	Serpentine Spy	Parasitic Growth	Tenyii	Fiend	100
30	Kelya	Diemon Shark	Ice Pixie	Feasting Seaweed	Merdaali Guardian	Scavo hireling	Deep Lurker	100
30	Obsidian	Unicorn Mustang	Mycelic Morphoid	Elven Mystic	Regal Peryton	Goblin Psychic	Khmer Princess	75
99	Obsidian	Mycelic Infantry	Unicorn Mustang	Regal Peryton	Goblin Psychic	Khmer Princess	Mycelic Slipspawn	100
99	Kelya	Diemon shark	Flying Squid	Deeplurker	Feasting Seaweed	Mantoid	Disintegrator	50
99	Tarsa	Grum	Radiated Brute	Disintegrator	Sand Worm	Serpentine Spy	Tenyii	100

So let me say a few more things before you are off to climb to silver. Drake of Arnak and Thaddius are interchangeble on this list, Drake of Arnak will give your unarmored death mobs and extra hit they can take in alot of cases. This is a work in progress I will be posting updates weekly because the meta is always changing. In the future I will try to make the table fit on the page better. You may be surprised by this but it is actually easier to play in Silver than Bronze.

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Comments

[azircon]

Seems like an interesting post. It is hard for me to judge as I haven't played bronze in a while, but I am thinking my friend @slobberchops who struggles with the bots at Bronze maybe interested in it.

[slobberchops]

I force my way up with Yodin and his friends! Not everyone has access to those juggernauts.., a very informative post.

[axrho]

Very, very good post- well thought out, well written. I <3 the research and the numbers, very helpful.

One, minor, suggestion:
List of cards to rent, along with (approx.) rents- fiends, Time Mage, etc.

[unlikelysurvivor]

Thank you for the feed back. I will be sure to include this information in next weeks article.

[zolajade]

I’m curious how the win percentage is calculated. Because I’ve played 8 games so far, each time playing a team with win percentage of 100 and my win rate is 50%. 😢. Also curious why you don’t use ooze for one man filler more frequently

[zolajade]

More questions: 26 mana Sloan comp. why use Sloan and then only 1 range card?

[unlikelysurvivor]

the 26 Mana Sloan I think was something that beat one of my comps and I was playing around testing and it snuck in there. The Ooze issue was me trying to stick close to starter cards but you can certainly sub Ooze in for a 1 mana cost and might have better results. The percentage comes from the win loss of battles I have played with them. It was disappointing that you were not experiencing a good win rate, Guess that means I need to put in a lot more testing to the comps before next weeks article and hold off on the silver article. I do very much appreciate the feed back though it will help me improve the data.

[zolajade]

I have a few alts I need to play. I’ll try this out.

[unlikelysurvivor]

worked for my main and two test accounts, should do fine for you. I am finding Kelya is good for alot of wins lately

[bigsilver76]

I like the actual listing and order of the teams not just a generalization

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[gaared16]

This is pretty common in Silver too, it gets frustrating when you match up with players with the same name just different last numbers. What’s worse is that you lose the battle. It removes the fun in playing the game.

[slobberchops]

Blimey, this is useful information! Some of the data is slightly truncated on the right but I guess '10' is '100'?

[splinterbin]

Wow. Dude. This list is good. I was planning some similar things when incombat with the bots. Few combinations I can remember. But your one is pretty completed. Good jobs.

[miko67]

I love the whole terminator "Defeat-the-bots" attitude 😆
Can't say for sure if it works, but it is so much better to have a plan and deviate from it, than to just wander around with no plan!
/miko

[prinxyno]

This is very helpful

[bteim]

Great article! I remember participating in the discussion on discord 🤣 This seems very useful!