I play the game since May, so I'm not a veteran. Still, I keep running into people talking about bots on discord almost every day. They say that there are too many very harmful bots. However, I never see a person who has one. I was curious how profitable it can be so I decided to try how many dec does a simple bot in Bronze III receive.
I wanted to create the simplest bot I can as fast as possible. With the help of the Violentmonkey browser extension, I wrote one in a few hours. The bot uses hard-coded teams which means it is not smart at all, it does not have any AI (very few products have that anyway, it is usually a marketing expression and hides a bunch of ‘if conditions’). The “hard” (= boring) part is to write all these predefined teams, so first I only created a setting for the summoner called Malric. By setting I mean which cards should the bot use for different mana caps.
With this very limited setting the bot has won 10 matches out of 20, starting from rating 0. That is 50% win rate which may seem to be low, but I think it is amazing for a simple bot like this. With the right cards and multiple settings, I think it could maintain a 500-1000 rating and earn chest rewards too.
I think in the long run bots can be profitable, so I will continue to develop mine. It should be able to use a summoner from every color and decide which to use to finish the daily quest. Some scouting features would increase its performance too (for example use water if the enemy has lots of armor). I will post about its performance later on.
