questions

how much base strength does a bot need to get in the top 10 for it

Data from trophies are inconclusive, but I'm pretty sure it's more than 400 and less than 500, as of last month-end at least.

one of my bots will have 400 base probally today, reckon it will get it?

Yes, unfortunately it is very difficult to try and get close to an answer (as you saw neps gave you a large range). Also Ender doesn't plan on giving rankings of stats (like stats HoF) even without number displayed, just ordered bots.

22 platinum trophies for Str 400 were given out. Out of those 22 bots iam pretty sure 3 of them are not currently at 400 Str, monet, trained neps both reset, monets lvl is too low and trained neps just got a dex trophy.. And I forgot the other name which can't be a 400 Str bot right now.

Therefore there's at least over 15 bots with 400+ Str in the game hence I'd say u need at least around 420 to consider being around the border of top 10 Str.

cool, or bribe people to reset :P

Or buy their bot and reset it. :)

'm guessing you would need a bit more than 420, but hey :)

Prolly but I didn't want to discourage him too much.. Once he looks at the 22 people who got the 400 Str and those bots lvl he should get an approx idea. Thing is only neps got the 500 Str trophy so far so..

I'd probably say ~420 is a decent target. Probably should go higher if you're aiming for the trophy anyway, but looking at the levels of the bots who currently have the 400+ base strength trophy I'd say it seems split between trainers and "decent" builds.

Thing is only neps got the 500 Str trophy so far so..

There are actually three bots with 500 STR or more. I got it on Glass Cannon, then I got it on this bot, then Cratus got it.