This Seeking Tech guide will explain how you can avoid being matched up with bots when playing online matches in MultiVersus.
When you play online initially, you will be matched up against computer-controlled bots. This was most likely an intentional design, as the development team wants to ease new players into online matches as opposed to having them get destroyed by someone more experienced.
After you win a handful of matches against these bots, you should start getting connected to real human players.
You can tell that you are matched up with humans if they have a platform symbol attached to the end of their usernames. If this is the first time you play against another real person, then you should also earn the Matchmaker trophy and achievement as well.
It is important to note that the 1 vs. 1 and 2 vs. 2 modes are different. Therefore, you need to go through several bot matches for each mode before you can match up against real players.
There have also been reports that, if you lose a bunch of matches against real opponents, then you may get matched up with bots again during online play.