[2020] The distribution of characters in PvAI matches against Lv 2 bots seems to be bugged and excludes nearly all of the Vikings

Now to elaborate on what I mean in the title, because I didn't want to make it egregiously long:

As we all know you can also play almost any of the gamemodes in PvAI as well, ergo playing against Bots either with matchmaking ( meaning your allies will be other players as well ) or without

The level of the bots you get matched against seems to be based on, from what I have heard, your PvP MMR in that gamemode, so for example if you won n amount of Duel matches in PvP, you can expect to be matched against Lv 2 or 3 bots in PvAI Duels

Now this issue in particular focuses primarily on 4v4 modes like Dominion on Breach, because that is where I was able to notice it the most:

It seems as though for some reason, the Lv 2 Bots for almost all the Vikings are completely absent in the matches. The only one I ever have seen in recent times were Lv 2 Berserker bots, but everyone else seems to be missing, ergo no Raiders, Warlords, Valkyries, Highlanders, Shamans or Jormungandr

To elevate my viewpoint from "just a vague observation that may be clouded by confirmation bias on my own part" to "actually having vague evidence to underline that I'm not just going crazy", I've decided to make a makeshift tally counter and note down which characters I faced in the last 35 matches

. Those are almost all Dominion PvAI with matchmaking, except for 3 Breach matches, though those were also in PvAI, matchmade, and similarly without any Viking characters to speak of

As can be seen, it seems like a fairly random distribution altogether with some characters naturally appearing more often ( Black Prior, Zhanhu or Tiandi ) than others ( Lawbringer, Centurion or Aramusha )

However I have not seen a SINGLE Lv 2 Bot of any of the other Vikings aside from Berserker, which seems dubious at best and fairly evident of a bug or glitch at worst

What further might support my hypothesis of something being wonky is that in matches with Lv 1 or Lv 3 bots, I do not have the same experience - Any of the other Vikings there appear just fine, so something might be iffy with whichever inner machination is responsible for randomly assigning Lv 2 bots for a match

I do not know if a number of 35 is too low of a sample number thus far, and I am still going to keep noting down my findings whenever I play more matches and get a Lv 2 team, but considering like mentioned before not a *single* time in those 35 matches anything other than a Berserker has popped up makes me strongly believe that there is a bug here honestly

It would be great if any other people who play PvAI relatively occasionally would be able to further confirm my hypothesis or deny it anyhow

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