Exploding Penguin
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Abyss bot is good, but not the best in 1v1. Same with blood hawk. Also, botanical borgs are just bad. They offer absolutely nothing useful to most builds, especially in 1v1, and their damage isn't even amazing either.
This is how I would rank them (in order in the tiers so the first bot mentioned in a tier is better than the second bot):
God Tier:
-Pyro Fly
-Cyber Yeti
-Kartherax
High-tier:
-Abyss
-Blood Hawk
-IA
Mid-tier:
-Yetis (fully evolved)
-Botanical Hazard
-Bio Borg
-Gamma Bot
-Lionhart Bot
Low-tier:
-Azrael's Borg
-Bunny Bots
-Botanical Borg
-Assault Bot
Very short explanations for each:
Pyro fly: Hit the right skill and take advantage of it and it's gg. Most of the time, because of the way people build their skill trees, you normally have a 2/3 or even higher chance of hitting a skill that makes you win the game. The low damage is pretty hard to deal with but to trade that off with disabling an energy parasite, poison, etc... is definitely worth it.
Cyber Yeti: At first I didn't think this bot was that good but after playing against it a few times it really is pretty great. It shuts down debuffs of all sorts instantly. It forces people to use their energy drains and heals prematurely which is great when you have a poison build to punish them for doing so. If they use mark of blood or field/blood commander you can throw this out to stall for turns then just take away their energy so they can't use their coveted berzerker or static/atom smash. The uses of this bot are so vast, that when applied correctly it can absolutely destroy you opponent. Also it just does tons of damage.
Kartherax: It debuffs a ton. A lot of people have to use strength for debuffs, cores, or in many cases their energy drains. This bot also has good damage. It can shut down a lot of builds and at least have a pretty good effect on non-strength builds as well. Maybe if the current meta didn't involve tons of mindless sheeple with strength builds then this bot wouldn't be so good, but it currently is very strong.
Abyss/Blood Hawk:
This is kind of a niche on certain builds. But it does its job really well. You'll mostly find this bot very effective on classes that win by completely overwhelming their opponent with tons of damage and force their opponent to just play defensively and barely stay alive the whole game. In general, classes that do this well are ones with lifesteal effects such as blood commander merc, BM, and BH. This bot serves a pretty niche role but when used right really helps win fights.
IA:
Fills the gap of having no burst when you really need it, or if you already have burst you can just always be a threat by having the ability to nuke down 65%+ of someone's max HP should you land a crit with plasma cannon of have a high level of zerker or something else. The base damage is pretty bad but the constant threat of a huge nuke can really help you make your opponent scared of you and play into your hands.
Yetis:
Great damage, but chomp is very, very hard to use right. When used correctly it does some amazing things. It also really only works its best with classes that have intimidate.
Botanical Hazard:
This bot would be higher but it doesn't fit into the meta of all the level 1-3 field medic users running around who can easily use their heal whenever they need to. However, this bot still brings a good source of damage to 3-focus or even 2-focus builds depending on how your build is constructed. It really helps you deal damage on certain builds and can be very annoying to deal with. The cumulative damage is also through the roof. However, mark of blood and blood commander tend to counter this bot.
Bio Borg:
Use this at the right time and screw your opponents over. The damage isn't too bad either. Niche against strength builds though so it isn't useful in very many scenarios.
Gamma Bot:
Bots are really good for covering up weak spots in builds and gamma bot doesn't do this. It's just a full-out offensive bot that is hard to build against because you can choose what kind of damage type you want. This would be great for gamma bot if it had Lionhart-class damage but it doesn't.
Lionhart Bot:
All this really offers is tons of damage. After the changes so you can see rage it isn't good anymore aside from maybe in 2v2.
Azrael's Borg:
Unfortunately, this bot was cool and I would arguably say broken when it first came out, but it doesn't fit into the meta at all. People only buff in response to debuffs in general, and debuffs are weak in the first place. The damage isn't amazing either, it's just solid. This really only serves a niche purpose against people who spam blood commander. But you could just use pyro fly and shut down blood commander if you wanted to.
Bunny Bots:
Yes, these are higher than botanical borgs. Their damage isn't bad at all, and with their special utilized right you can do some stuff. The probability of doing stuff with color blast is low, but at least is has potential utility to it. Just be very smart with using it. Also this doesn't really count since it's a 1v1 tier list but these bots are amazing at NPCing against enemies without ridiculous health like lionhart. In that case of fighting against super high-HP bosses poison bots are better, but bunny borg really deals with Nightwraith and other similar bosses very well.
Botanical Borgs:
Same reasons stated for gamma bot. Except this is worse because the special is only usable once, doesn't even do bonus damage, and is the same damage type as the basic attack.
Asault Bots:
Because they're assault bots.
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