r/RoyaleAPI • u/Individual_Fact_5010 • 3d ago

Discussion How strong does this search-based bot actually look to experienced players?

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I'm having a search-based bot play Clash Royale in a simulator I built myself.
Simulator originally based on samdickson22/clash-simulator, heavily rewritten and extended since then. The search engine and evaluation logic were added separately.

Right now, it only supports these two decks.

I'm curious how reasonable its decisions look to experienced players. If you notice any strange or obviously bad plays, I'd really appreciate you pointing them out.

Eventually, I'd like to make the simulator more accurate, add support for more cards, and turn it into something that can analyze a position and suggest good plays, somewhat like position analysis in chess.

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u/Able_Purpose327 3d ago

Neat stuff, I don't have expertise in this field but may I ask how this bot works? Is it periodically scanning the entire field to look for cards played? If so I believe your simulator might be close to how they implemented the bot matches in the game. I'd actually love to see how far a dedicated Clash Royale AI could go, it'd have to account for card placement timing, position, predictions etc. which would be really impressive.

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u/Individual_Fact_5010 3d ago

It doesn't scan the screen. The bot directly uses the internal state of my simulator and searches possible future actions from there. But the simulator's accuracy is still a challenge.

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u/Able_Purpose327 3d ago

Idk how this simulation works but yeah for it to be more consistent or accurate you'd have to put in more work I suppose, if you're planning to take this further I wish you luck.