Bots are being used to farm xp and ip.

Pynkee·11/13/2014, 9:31:58 PM·21 votes·2,870 views

There are getting to be more and more bots in the game. You see them at low levels and even at higher levels farming xp and ip. Dominion is filled with them, people are using them to farm up an account and then sell it for money.

I think this is something that really needs to be looked into and to encourage people to report the bots as they find them to stop the people for exploiting the game. You could just add a section in the report option that will allow people to report bots and rather then going to a tribunal will go directly to someone that can look into it and ban the account/IP address. If the 5 of the people report them in the game then it will instantly go to you guys for review.

I could see where people could try to do this to other just to troll but if you review the game and see that the bot has not communicated with the team at all and has done nothing but die would be pretty clear.

For anyone that got reported and you are unsure if they are a bot or not, you could message them and easily find out that way with asking a few questions.

22 Comments

Feathermane11/14/2014, 10:45:37 AM3 votes

You want to actually solve the problem? Increase xp and ip rewards. Otherwise make your peace with bots.

Garric Bierbart11/14/2014, 4:42:52 AM2 votes

A few weeks back I played a PvP 3v3 where I was the only human...

xXRainmakerXx11/14/2014, 8:45:48 AM1 votes

for me it was 3 to 4 games back to back on 3v3, nothing but bots on pvp. i do feel that this hurt the game some way but funny as shit at the time

phaptasm11/14/2014, 11:48:20 AM1 votes

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GG Beers11/14/2014, 3:11:28 PM1 votes

Here's an idea, get better at the game. How bad are you that you're being matched against bots? You have the same skill of a bot that doesn't buy items and just run around doing nothing. Seems like it would be pretty easy to get out of bot MMR.

HeartlessWytche11/14/2014, 5:40:45 PM1 votes

I did a 3v3 game vs Intermediate bots where both of the people on my team were bots that instalocked random champs then just ran from our summoners platform to the enemy platform. All game.

Luckily I still won because I had picked Yasuo for the giggles and Yasuo can 1v3 bots, even if the bots are fed :P

Twilight Drizzle11/14/2014, 8:23:09 PM1 votes

I've always thought the bots are the ones name like this:

PeterBB John32 MichaelPT George45

Pynkee3/5/2015, 9:00:58 AM1 votes

@Riot Any response yet guys? Seems like you are doing a pretty good job at dodging this

chocolatesexrain11/14/2014, 1:32:09 AM1 votes

I lost a ranked game due to a bot yesterday....

UkeNeverSeme5/15/2017, 9:39:19 AM1 votes

Literally had triple xp bots in my game just before... holy crap.

TheReaILissandra11/14/2014, 8:39:23 AM1 votes

A lot of the time, they'll only go mid lane, walk to the middle of the lane, run around in circles and then proceed to afk farm while the enemy kills them. Repeat process over and over.