[Critical Gameplay Issue] Botters on The Twisted Treeline (3v3)

Number 1 Draven·10/6/2014, 11:39:07 AM·18 votes·2,699 views

Update: October 6th, 2014 6:18pm

I've noticed throughout these past few weeks that there seem to be an abnormal amount of botters on The Twisted Treeline. Now this isn't really a bug, but causes 3v3 to be almost unplayable. Its annoying that players are getting penalties for dodging soloq from botters, and get potentially banned. Its not only 3v3 either, I have heard of other cases resorting to other gamemodes such as 5v5 on Summoners Rift Co-op vs AI, and Blind Pick on lower levels. While I have no proof of these other gamemodes, I can show what I have found so far about these botters on The Twisted Treeline.

  • They use summoner spells Ghost and Heal
  • They take free week champions only in alphabetical order
  • There can be more than 2 botters in one game, on both teams
  • They will instalock their champion
  • They feed :(

This causes a HUGE issue when playing 3v3, as you will more than likely lose your game that goes on your record, unless there is another bot on the enemy team. The bot at the beginning of the match will buy items, I've noticed throughout the game that some will buy 3 Fiendish Codex's and try to build into a Wooglet's Witchcap, regardless of what champ they are playing. They start out the game buy buying their items, like normal. The bot will then proceed to run down to bot lane, towards the bush in the middle of lane, and stand there. When minions come, they will auto attack the minions or champions, and rarely will they use spells. If another champion attacks them, they stand and fight until they die, and repeat the process. Towards the late game, so run so far down in bot lane that they end up to the enemy nexus and die. I have also recently discovered that looking at my match history, they have no Runes, and they use 0 Masteries in every slot. I have some pictures that can prove about the bots and their behavior below.

Now in my match history, you could say I got "lucky," that getting into a game with 4 Bots gave me TONS of information to present people with, so if you see someone that instalocks a free week champion using ghost and heal, I would recommend dodging the game, and go play some 5v5.

  • I also forgot to mention Azir. When I played Azir recently with a Ashe bot, if I were to put down a Shuriman Soldier, Ashe would try to attack the soldier with spells, shooting Her W, and E, to no success of course. Not that that's an issue, but I just wanted to point that out as well, as that might happen with other skillshot champions.

Now I don't know if there is an initial way to fix this, but the only option I can see is Disable The Twisted Treeline until you can sort out this issue. -CyberTech

28 Comments

Lumus Avatar10/6/2014, 12:01:15 PM9 votes

The bots are everywhere in every game mode. It's an invasion.

Bloodest Avenger10/6/2014, 5:02:52 PM3 votes

That's true, i seen always 3 botters in the enemy team like 5 or more matches in a row, LOL, looks like i'm playing Coop VS AI instead 3V3

ChemmyCal10/7/2014, 12:20:58 AM2 votes

Saw this today in a 3v3 and thought what the hell? Glad someone is talking about it on forums.

Fyrianna10/7/2014, 3:02:13 AM1 votes

Every game within the past few days that my friend and I queue together for in Twisted Treeline has put us with bots.

When I queue alone, it's two bots.

I mean, really, if I had two or more friends, I probably wouldn't be on this game, let's be real here.

Cruz2310/7/2014, 8:04:46 AM1 votes

I've only had problems with them in TT, but I just played ARAM and had a Leona bot on our team. It's really getting out of hand and destroying the game for everyone. :/

SolidPooh10/7/2014, 2:31:10 PM1 votes

I've seen them in 5's as well, however they are not in abundance as in 3's from my experience.

Chandra Na1aar10/9/2014, 5:39:20 PM1 votes

Yeah, I haven't played an actual game of Twisted Treeline in weeks. I quit a while back while my account was level 20~, came back from my WoW binge and now I can't seem to get a legit game going. I don't really like Summoner's Rift since it takes significantly longer to play, so I guess I'm just going back to playing WoW instead of League. :\

DraegonDasPagan5/27/2016, 5:29:01 PM1 votes

This account I'm on is level 13 atm and every single ARAM and 3v3 game I play is filled with bots. Most ARAMs have 3 human players MAX at any given time. And I just got done playing another 3s that I was the only human player in saying to myself "wtf if I wanted to play with bots I would have clicked bots." I'm going to start recording footage of the bot games so theres actual evidence to look at because I haven't seen a thread yet that had videos on it.

manic pixie grrl10/6/2014, 7:15:27 PM1 votes

MissFortune Me and my husband were playing it last night, and we got one bot game after another. First it was someone playing Cassiopeia who would randomly run into turrets and their base without taking down the turret. And the next game was Thresh who would stand in a bush, go back home only to run back into a bush and go back to base again after a limited amount of time. Non-stop. We were able to beat one game just with the two of us doing crowd control but the first game, we didn't notice until it was too late and they were intentionally feeding so we were dealing with OP players on the other team. Thanks for calling attention to it because we were pretty peeved when it happened last night.

slippykitten10/6/2014, 10:06:11 PM1 votes

and once again, we have someone who thinks riot cares about gameplay. Bots are actually riots perfect players, they feed and never call you mean things, exactly how they like it.