Summoner Sidekick Bots
Reporting them isn't doing jack, because everybody is too lazy to report them. Nobody wants to waste the time or effort to click three things to report these (and other) offenders because there's no compensation or visible recognition that these people are getting banned.
Summoner Sidekick is a program that people can use to play the game for them when they're away or doing other things, and you can notice these bots by how they play.
•They Will never Talk, ever. •They will almost always go middle. It's the default setting on the program. •They will never Ult, even at level 18. The bot is not programmed to ult. •They will tower dive without minions every time. •They will auto-attack enemy champions face to face and will not retreat when low on health. •They will never buy or use potions. •They will generally stand in the same sequence of positions every time they walk. For example, they will always step on the little flower/tuft of grass on the right hand side of the middle lane, coming up the ramp from river, pause there for a moment, walk to the other side of mid to look at the other side of river, and then start back up middle. •They will -NEVER- ward anything. (They may purchase a ward trinket, but you will never see them ward) •They will -not- jungle. •They will -NOT- change lanes. Once the bot picks a lane, it stays in that lane and will not change between lanes.
These are all telltale signs that a "Summoner Sidekick" bot is in your game. And the problem is, nobody wants to take the time to look at it, report it and continue to report others like it, as well as there is no option to report hackers / bot users in the report list, so I feel some people are unsure of where to report these sightings.
Today alone, I have come across at least seven across the last 10 games I've played, and my brother NoxNovem has also run into them in his games as well. It's getting to be a bigger and bigger problem, because reporting only does so much, and gives the reporting player so little feedback to see if they are helping make progress. There should be a system in place to see how many times that player has been reported after submitting a report, or seeing some other type of screen other than "We'll look at this when we get around to it" because we all know that means it's pretty much going in one ear and out the other.
I guess riot is
but
Is not OK right now.
Is -NOT- OK.