Lookin to try and get attention to how horrible the AI is in this game. Its pretty detrimental to the learning experience of players. With standing targets you just act careless/reckless without truly understanding your characters role. Was hoping they could step it up and maybe put a hold on creating new champions and focus mainly on beefing that AI up so we can learn our new characters without punishing other players in pvp games.
But since Bots actually are scripters, you can watch them to learn how to dodge skillshots
Yup. It's a dire situation, I would love competent bots and when they added Lucian and buffed them a couple years back it looked like its be coming.... But it never did, compared to Dota 2 which has a fantastic range of bot options the lol offering is appaling. Outdated champions which don't showcase a lot of the modern mechanics, the inability to use summoners and complete negligence of map objectives and lack of jungler means that new players are not learning the modern game of lol but rather they're learning season 1!
I don't think bots that bad. I just think they have their weaknesses, like map-control, vision, Object-focus (Drake/Tower/Inhibs), easily baited and they do not learn in the process of the game. But they have also strengths actually. If you have ever tried to play Mundo or Nidalee in a Intermediate Coop you learn how frustratingly rare you hit a skillshot, or, in teamfights, they apply their CC perfectly (chain CC) plus their reaction time is zero if it comes to surprise attacks.
TD:LR I don't think bots are bad, they only have very different strengths and weaknesses from human players. That should be fixed first on my opinion.
Although I do agree that bots are too stupid, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. It's a low-pressure environment to try something new for the first time or train your mechanics on a practice dummy. The balance team has already stated in the vision blog that they want strategic training to come primarily from grinding normals against and with other human players.
