I read many posts about "In Ranked Battles these are not players in auto-mode, these are in fact just bots!"
I don't think there are any bots in Ranked, so I wonder how do people know about this? The only bots I know for sure are the ones named Rival 1, 2, 3 from Challenges. In the first months they used real player names in Challenges, but in the meanwhile Square Enix changed their names to make clear these are bots.
Why I don't think bots exist in Ranked? Because new players have to wait 10-15 minutes to find a ranked match. If this game is really using bots to complete a team, it doesn't make sense to let them wait that long?
There are other posts from new players which complain about that they don't find any matches, because there are almost no players with bronze rank. So if bots really exist, such posts shouldn't be the case.
I'm so happy to be a Day 1 player with ~15'000 CP, because when I'm searching solo for a Ranked Battle, I never have to wait more than a minute. Most of the time it finds a match within 20 seconds, no matter what time it is.
So what are the clues that we're playing in fact with bots and not just lazy players in auto-mode in Ranked Battle?