Did the flattener help against weak bots?

Also, about testing this, a targeting challenge doesn't really work since the bullet power is almost always 3. I could run a TC with a bullet selection algorithm, but that leaves the choice of which one. Which is complicated since the main advantage of this new idea is that it should minimize the penalty for radically switching bullet power. So if i don't do that it is sort of pointless, but the other algorithm isn't designed for that, so an increased score could just come from better bullet power or a broken approach...

In short: what bullet power selection should I test this with?