Make Customs Great Again - STOP PUTTING IT OFF RIOT
PLEASE add more options for AI opponents in custom games. It has gotten ridiculous how long it has been since anything new has been added besides your random update to kayle's kit that you put into an AI option. COME ON! The current pool is unbelievably stale with Kayle being literally the only hyper carry available as an AI. There are no assassins, plenty of tanks, a severe lack of any sort of champions with interesting kits, and a surplus of champions with boring crowd control. The teamfights that occur when facing one of these AI teams is just a big crowd control fiesta with minimal damage since most of the champions in the AI pool are usually picked in actual games to be the source of crowd control in teamfights. However, in these AI games you have no option to craft a cool team composition to practice facing in a teamfight since there are no AI hyper carries that scale really hard that you can build a comp around. I understand some champions may be incredibly difficult to incorporate as an AI option since perhaps they would have to execute combos to be able to truly perform, but why is there no Yasuo, or Jinx, or Ekko, or Talon? Why are there no interesting choices to spice up these comps and give them different strategies in teamfights instead of spam crowd control abilities until the one team of AI dies? If you are able to implement the updated Kayle as an AI (Which I am very content with and impressed with since she performs great in the AI games I play and she seems to be the strongest AI at the moment) which is a scaling champion that actually spices up a comp, why can you not implement some more champions that arent as mechanically demanding so in a teamfight setting I can at least experiment some more with putting something like the Yasuo Malphite combo into a custom game? I think the time has come for more AI options, I and many others have waited long enough and the only reason it is so bad is because you have been putting it off for so long so now the amount of champions you are missing has in fact accumulated greatly. Play some catch up, and please experiment with exactly which champions you can successfully create into a formidable AI opponent. And make all of them available in those dang custom games! Thank you for reading as far as you did if you are still reading this, so beyond my rant I would like to submit a few starter ideas of champions that are most definitely simple enough to incorporate into AI immediately since they all should have no more difficult mechanics than any other AI in the custom games, as well as what they would provide in an AI game you would create in custom in order to showcase all of the different comps you can practice against. Thank you, and please comment any additional ideas you may have and upvote the post if you would also like to see more AI finally added.
--- Scaling Threats --- (Champions like these would allow a custom game user to craft a team that will get considerably stronger as the game progresses, allowing the player to practice closing out the game against comps like these as soon as possible in order to shut down an immensely powerful scaling champion.)
- Yasuo -Kassadin
- Tryndamere
- Corki
--- Hypercarries --- (These champions would introduce the interesting dynamic of not allowing them to get a lead at all costs, since champions like these snowball very hard and take small leads that one of the boring cc teamcomps would toy around with, and instead uses it to wipe teamfights and end the game.)
- Jinx -Kai'Sa
- Kog'Maw
--- Powerful Solo Laners --- (These are the champions that I most notably miss when creating these AI teams in my custom games. There may be some cool combos to create with a bunch of heavy CC or AOE ultimates with the other champions but there is a clear and distinct lack of champions that thrive during laning phase and provide a constant threat of killing the enemy during laning phase simultaneously increasing their gold intake and shutting down their's. These champions will allow for much more interesting laning matchups since a huge issue currently is the dullness of these AI choices for most of the game, sometimes only becoming interesting when they begin to skirmish in groups.)
- Mordekaiser -Akali -Ekko -Fizz -Pantheon -Talon -Fiora -Quinn
--- Other Notable Mentions That Would Work But IDK How To Classify Them Exactly --- -Kennen -Ahri -Urgot -Rumble -Ornn -Kled -Senna
Thank you for reading once again, and please upvote/comment any additional ideas you may have for AI champion additions so hopefully Riot will see this post and consider adding some AI options in the custom gamemode!