Good stuff, and I love to see a take on the MMBN-style combat that feels so fresh and novel! The need to manage multiple bots at once is overwhelming at first, but once I got the hang of it a little bit, things made more sense and came together more.
I think my biggest issues playing through a few times until getting the win were that you cannot skip abilities, and that losing a bot before the last level just feels like a death sentence. It makes sense to make replacement bots have less health, but making them functionally oneshottable through shields a lot of the time feels like they don't get to play the game, especially when a lot of the time (in my experience) it's often a front row bot that dies first.
Being unable to skip abilities just makes the consistency of runs plummet though. A few of the abilities feel like they directly check synergies (like energy hog) that can be very difficult to build effectively since you have to give up a lot of utility to start utilizing a synergy, resulting in what can sometimes feel like a chicken problem (energy generation at the start means sacrificing either a lot of damage or losing shields, while the immediate benefit is pretty minor, while energy hog at the start means you're constantly out of energy).
My winning run basically just found claw, then energy converter, then claw again, then energy converter again (which let me "replace" the existing one with the new one and functionally skip an ability. And then claw is *really* good and carried me through. Claw generally feels disproportionately good, since it doesn't have energy cost, no friendly fire, and scales pretty well even if you only have one.
My only complaint about the sound is that it's too quiet! I had to turn up my system volume to hear much, but the music is great!
All in all this is awesome, and I'd love to see a version of this pushed further. The balance and variety is really impressive in these time constraints, and I think it'd be really cool to see things like ability upgrades or a more gentle introductory experience with just one or two bots to help ease into things