Nimbatus 

I like how Nimbatus’ sumo mode, like most robot dueling games, has a rock-paper-scissors structure to its bot designs.

Paper: boost infinitely to push the other bot off the arena.
Scissors: Step to the left or right, causing pushbots to miss and fly off the arena.
Rock: do absolutely nothing, other than stay in the arena as it shrinks.

There’s also shotgun: craft missiles and chaff with any strategy.

So I wrote a bot that runs scissors, fires paper missiles, then turns into a rock.

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... and then I took it to its logical extreme:

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Update: I need to build better missiles. The current design is hilarious, but it has trouble with anything with high mass or momentum.

Also, I lost the finals of a simulated tournament because... someone uploaded a blatantly illegal weapons bot? I’m guessing the game has a few bugs to sort out in its validator, but everything else has been okay so far.

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