Adaptation is allways the key. I play everyday and I went from hate to love fighting bots. My new aim in the game is to find new tricks to beat the bots and increase my fighting win ratio from 57% to my historical level of 60%. I only have a set of shitty cards that let me barely play in silver I league, renting one or two low level summoners im the season. This makes fighting these bots on steroids more fun.
With my poor win ratio, it ends up being too expensive to rent much these days, without it being a large cost. And, with my sucky chest openings, it isn't going to make up for it! :D
I'm pretty sure you can increase your battle win rate just by reducing the chances of bots reading your cards. Crypted message: The elapsed time is more of a suggestion and your best ally is trial and error.