Way to ruin Doom Bots Riot!

Swagaholic·Oct 22, 2016·8 votes·560 views

I was so excited to see Doom Bots be in the rotation of game modes to then finally play it and be extremely disappointed in the fact Riot ruined a completely good game mode! Whats the point of turtleing for X amount of time and be limited to only half the map! And by giving the Doom Bots 2k health at the start makes it impossible for melee champs to succeed. You've limited the game play of the game to almost nothing, even winning in the game mode doesn't feel like winning in itself. So I plead to riot, please for the following weekend of Doom Bots please bring back the original format of the game.

6 Comments

No flash no lifeOct 23, 20165 votes

I don't mind the difficulty, but they've changed the nature of the game in a negative way, as OP mentioned. There is absolutely no offensive feature of it. You're completely on the defensive, protecting turrets that are doomed to fall eventually because you can't push far enough and bots will zombie attack. There is no reward, no pleasure, no satisfaction of winning against these doom bots, because they push until they die and come back instantly with better items. Killing them is supposed to reward you and punish them, but it's the opposite here - they get to shop and push stronger than before; a fricking 0/8/2 udyr bot has more $ than a 13/0/20 zilean.

To sum it up, the entire mode is like playing nasus or jax top, taking the beating early game just so you can scale and enjoy the fruit of your hard work later on, except take out the later game part so you're left with taking the beating only.

101100111000Oct 23, 20162 votes

I kinda feel they were revisiting and revising the "oppressive invading AI" theme when re-doing the game mode, and took it like 3 notches too far. Ignoring the fact that they just feel overtuned to shit, the champion pool that is even remotely viable feels even smaller than before.

My guess is testing was like "shit, we keep dying and they outscale us perfectly. How do we fix that?"

"How about they don't back until buying?"

And just delayed humongous powerspikes.

And then they tossed an item's worth of gold in the kill bonus because otherwise we don't have a remote chance of winning.

When I initially heard about the game mode, I thought that they'd have a giant ass Teemo at base instead of the Nexus or something, or that they'd summon him when they lost an inhibitor. Forcing a Tower Defense playstyle hurts people who manage to out-lane the doombots by limiting the amount they can help their team scale (no first turret bonus + no turret gold, no jungle camp gold).

Not to mention they send dragon and Rift Herald down mid lane.

Like fuck that.

ZT XperimentorOct 26, 20161 votes

Agreed, and like the first redo of a game mode (all for one), they couldn't leave it alone and ruined it instead.

ModWulf HelhammerOct 22, 20163 votes

People complained before that doom bots were too easy to beat because you could just split push and run. So they got rid of that option by making the bots only push

MarshbouyOct 22, 20164 votes

Keep it the same=complaints Change it=complaints Not have it=complaints

Literally all the boards ever does is complain.

Sans HamaOct 22, 20163 votes

Im sorry againt doom bots melee champs aren't gonna be as good. Like in the original they weren't either. and second why the fuck would i want to walk around in the enemy jungle?