Emerging cloakbot playstyle

It's now common to see Sling being used as cloakbot's combat skirmisher due to the cheap cost. As long as you have vision (Knight, gremlin, constructor, commander), the slings generally tend to hit the targets that a ronin would. I've had a game where PRO_rANDY managed to push my Jumpbots back almost to point of loss with JUST protected sling spam. Cloak mirrors are often very sling heavy too. Now, I don't mind this, particularly at a time where badger is also back on the roster. What I have noticed though is that ronin is pretty much overshadowed now.

Ronin gets attrition killed by LLTs, misses juking targets, and generally has most of the same weaknesses as sling. Just that they feel more sacrificial than slings. It's only very useful against a handful of units (the slowest riots - mace, redback, and some assaults like thug). It used to be very good against amphbots but ends up getting absolutely toasted now. Worst still is it's comparison to Rogue, who is absolutely dominating the skirmishing scene with it's slighly higher range and incredible damage.

So yeah, players are opening their eyes to the safer choice now and spamming sling. A tell-tale sign that ronin is falling to a lower tier.

As always, looking to hear a wider selection of opinions. Tell me what I'm overlooking with ronin.

You said Sling spam. Imagine spamming ronins they would absolutely wreck slow units. AS long as you have reavers/glaives to deal with your opponent raiders, you are fine I guess.
Against sling spam:
1)If you can afford it, go for a dante. Toasts slings with the epic d-gun.
2)Other artillery which have superior range. For example- Firewalker.
These are the only counters that come in my head right now. Maybe others can post about other counters.

Dregs Ronin is cheapest skirmisher so you can't let it be very powerful. They are only good when in numbers. But yeah rogues are pretty good.

A long-standing game where sling spam was a very big problem for me

Sling comes and goes. Ronin has seemed bad at points and good at points, but it takes a lot of being bad to buff it above baseline.

Jamtime360 that sounds like it could work. You could have a go at it by editing tactical_ai_defs in a dev version.

Random thought - the attrition factor on Ronins makes them a bit higher maintenance than e.g. Glaives/Reavers/Slings, perhaps some enhanced regen could make them more appealing? Maybe 10+ seconds instead of the 5 Glaives/Reavers get since 5 seconds might actually pass between skirmisher vs skirmisher hits, just something so that Ronins could freshen up after a minute of inaction rather than need to run off to a repair source. They might even be able to take a small max hp nerf to offset it.