PSA - Bots seem to still be infesting Dominion

SanKakU··7 votes·399 views

@Riot, Will you ever step up and take a stand against botting?

Okay first off, I love the new announcer, I hope he's going to stay for a long time. Way better than what we had before!

Second, I'm not sure if it was just because I was playing an ACTUAL bot game at the time or not, but pings weren't being silenced, might want to check into that as my volume bar was showing 0. On my games played on ARAM and Dominion I didn't hear pings although I'm not sure if anyone was pinging anyway.

Anyway, I really like the new UI and it's nice that you've added some fun stuff like visual for the purple enchantment jungle weapon and the new ARAM map I also hope is going to be here for a long time since it just looks so much better than the old one. Of course if you want to regularly change the ARAM map, that might also be a pleasing thing I suppose.

So, onto the PSA - Dominion is an actual game mode that you are offering for us to play on. So when you tell us we can play with other players and against other players, I'd like you to be true to your word. I don't want to go into a game where the winner is decided before the game begins just because of some bots scripts. Last game, I was possibly the only human player in the game. Every other player took Barrier and Heal. I don't know too much about the meta of Dominion as played by the private clan(s) out there or private tournaments or leagues if there are any, but I can imagine that these are not terrible Dominion choices since Revive used to be a super high tier choice and now it isn't an option. Staying alive is important, I get that. But there are other ways to stay alive, Flash and Ghost work just fine for that on many Champions. Anyways, when the game started up the first thing that was very suspicious was that all 4 of my allies wanted to go bottom. Okay I can get 1, maybe 2, if you're doing some weird strategy then maybe 3 bottom, but 4? Give me a break. And so get this, after I take the 2 towers at our top and at mid top, one of my allies goes to our top and sits there the rest of the game. Okay...and the opponents basically let us walk all over them. They just kind of didn't really attack us unless we attacked them. Just going to turrets trying to recapture them. Really boring and it was clear that most if not all of them had no brain behind the computer at that moment in time.

@Riot, if you're not going to deal with the bots infestation in Dominion, just disable the game mode so people don't pick it and wonder why the 'players' seem to have no brains.

2 Comments

SKOBODO1 votes

Bots are mainly an issue in low level MMR. Go tryhard some games and the amount of bots should be reduced drastically. It's not an ideal solution, sure, but at least you can do something about it.

You asked about Summoner spells. Exhaust is the best Summoner spell for top lane in general. Flash, Ignite, CV, and Heal are all situationally strong. Ghost is weak for most champions.

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