There are BOTS on the Marvel SNAP Ladder - Breakdown of how bots work & why they exist 

Totally, when I see that hilarious T2 Nightcrawlker movement for no reason, I instaSnap😂

Wait, maybe I should start doing this to lure people into snapping!

@@levintry8812 u playing 6D chess bruv

There's also plays like Carnage into empty lanes on T2.

@@XiaNaphryzsometimes people do that for tempo. I do it too, sometimes you have nothing else to play 🤷🏻‍♂️

On the other hand I lost 80 cubes against 40% bots yesterday 😭😭😭

@@c_nrad damn, you need to learn how to play the game ⚠️

@@c_nrad this is where I feel like I’m at in late pool 3. It’s my first time grinding deterministucally for infinite and I just wish they would delete bots from the later pools cause they always seem cheap and like they have counters to my every move

i don't emote and i block chat, so there is that too.

It's so frustrating when you the bots get a perfect card flow and locations fit perfectly. I felt so unlucky before realizing we are cheated !!!

Shit. I'm a bot. That said, there really is something cool about watching your opponent's combo play out.

They also inject cubes into the economy when you reach each rank milestone. For example, once you hit rank 60, you’re automatically given enough cubes to put you at 61.

@John Wick and sometimes what you think is a real person is a bot its all good

Humans are starting to have these splits now as a heads up.

wait that's actually possible (now)? interesting. the most recent split video i've seen didn't mention that (yet)

Oh wow, I thought you can't have that kind of split. This is good to know

I think another benefit is that it means games actually go to neutral snap and see the playoff then rather than just having people retreating left and right if it was nothing but humans.

Players can have those splits now.

That's my same experience. Last season i made it to rank 85, noticed i would play some bot immediately if i dropped below 80, but no bots at all when i got above 80 again. And i got to test that a lot bc i was hovering between ranks 78-85 for the better part of the season.

They are much rarer but they are still there (just faced one at like 88). Bots at that level are mainly so you don’t have too long between games anyway and I believe the tolerance of time you can stay in the queue at higher ranks is longer (based on a patch a while ago).

@@felizpanda do you think 70 and below has a lot more? As I said, can’t remember a single one after reaching 80 this season. Last season I played less than 10 from 80-100, but remember those distinctly. Wonder if there were any adjustments made this season.

I kind of have the opposite problem. I’m kind of tired of playing people who’ve reached infinite when I haven’t reached infinite at the higher levels.

One time bonus. Only the tokens at 500 exist moving forward.

@@HooglandiaSnap OK thanks! Looks like it'll be a while until I can get galactus

No. Agatha isn't an AI really. It just makes plays completely randomly.

Cubes are what you use to climb the ladder.

I don't believe they currently have access to those, but second dinner also periodically changes these details to make them harder to spot.

Every game of snap has someone win and lose the same amount of cubes. In most other ranked systems it isn't 1 to 1 like this at every level. It isn't about cost so much as fundamentally how cubes and the ladder work.

Another way to look at it is the 'economy' is your ability to get cubes at all. If you're a new player and you can't find matches your ability to earn cubes means you also aren't finding any matches at all. Which means you aren't earning boosters, you aren't upgrading cards, you aren't able to complete missions or season pass missions, etc etc. The bots fundamentally need to exist in certain parts of the game to ensure players are finding matches to actually PLAY. Playing a bot isn't always great but it means you can at least progress. I have no issue going against bots because I want to sling cards throughout the day and matchmaking remains fast. If I get a bot over a player it means more cubes for me which means more ranks for me!

@@TaskMaster5 That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. His original explanation came across as if the cubes were currency like Crypto and I was very confused but I understand what he was trying to say based on your explanation.

Lmao 80% of the player base is below 2000 CL idk what to tell you

@@RaphDeGrate Yeah it's mostly people who've been playing since beta and a few people who probably golded up. Fixable by implementing ELO rather than the really basic matchmaking they have right now. Also once you have Pool 3 it honestly barely matters beyond that. For now at least there are no essential Pool 4-5 cards in terms of building a competitive deck.

Cheating bots isn't a community derived thing. Second dinner told us they work that way during the closed beta.

Their existence was confirmed by second dinner during the closed beta. It is not speculation.

If you are playing out all your move cards to the left most location like I described you aren't real no.

did u watch the video we need bots

It is actually really hard to make a strong bot that is not cheating and doesn’t require excessive computing power. In my opinion cheating bots are an interesting way to make the bots tough, but perhaps they should randomly have 1 or 2 cheating functions disabled so that they don’t always make the absolute perfect play. Like a bot that knows your play but not the result of random effects for example

@@cluelessmango768 fair take. I hadn't thought of it that way. I'm almost sure that 2nd Dinner did say however that the bots DO know the results of RNG. Jeff also reiterates this in the video.

@@TheThornicator I know the bots are aware of ‘random’ outcomes, but I propose we take that and other ‘cheating’ methods they apply away from them at random to make them feel more random

I mean, if you want a challenge staying in pool 1 to try and game the system is the exact opposite of that.

If you want to play against more bots, play at off-peak hours. There's nothing cheating about it and no reason to feel ashamed for taking cubes from bots to get better ladder rewards. Just don't brag about being good at the game because you're infinite. 🙂

@@Jayhbentley i was thinking maybe if I wait until the season is over and not update the game, it will have to put me against bots as the rest of the players would've moved to the new update

May be for the better since he's in Serra style decks. His buff is above curve. Cerebro and Patriot only give +2 on specific cards. Kazaar and Blue Marvel only give +1. +3 is strong and isn't shut down by Rogue or Enchantress like the others. And he can be Wong'd. :/ Granted, he doesn't have any power to contribute to his lane but he doesn't need to. So if he does get a minor energy increase it'd call it fair. He puts a LOT of value on the board turn 6 in Serra swarms.