ARAM: A game not about the luck of the drawn champions, but the luck of not having bots in your team

Bamboo·Dec 1, 2016·6 votes·975 views

Dear Riot,

The gamemode ARAM is completely ruined by all the botusers. Especially in the evening it is rare not to have any bots in the game. So many ARAM's I joined with having at least 5 bots. I even encountered several games where I was the only human player in my team or even in the whole game.

Now I do realise it's technically quite a challenge to fight these bots, but it's really a shame to see a gamemode I really enjoyed being destroyed... Suggestion: why not build in a human check while in gamelobby, kind of like the captcha check on emailforms.

Best regards from The Netherlands,

Bamboo

11 Comments

Lux Is Mai WaifuDec 1, 20161 votes

Bots count as players, so they help Riot pretend the game is still growing.

BambooDec 4, 20161 votes

As odd as that would be, I'm afraid you could have a very good point there :)

Leo1024Dec 2, 20161 votes

how do you know they're bots? i'm just wondering

BambooDec 4, 20161 votes

Usually they dont have a keystone defined (you see a blue cross).

Leo1024Dec 4, 20161 votes

ah i see, this makes a lot of sense now, everytime i play aram no one talks and most don't have keystones, granted i don't play often but still

LuluInWonderlandDec 2, 20161 votes

I have 1254 ARAM wins and don't think I've ever seen a bot in ARAM. I've seen a few in 5s, a lot in AI matches, and quite a few in 3s and Dominion. ARAM? Not even once that I can recall.

BambooDec 4, 20161 votes

Due to my very busy work schedule, I only able to play late night. Unfortuantly at late night ARAM is infested with bot users

LuluInWonderlandDec 5, 20161 votes

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Due to my very busy work schedule, I only able to play late night. Unfortuantly at late night ARAM is infested with bot users

Hmm ok. I usually play ARAMs from 11 PM-4 AM. It's lots of toxic people still, but usually not bots. Then again, I'm in NA, not EUW.

BambooDec 7, 20161 votes

I guess having bots in your game got one sort of plus side: the more bots, the less toxic players you have to deal with :) And I really dont understand all these toxic people, like they have to spill out all frustration of the day in a game so they can coop with yet another day with themselves? ^^

Zen FuryDec 4, 20161 votes

Dominion used to be nothing but bots. But I don't recall seeing any in ARAM.

CraziemanDec 8, 20161 votes

Late night ARAM, between 3AM and 6AM Eastern on NA, is absolutely infested with bots. They're easily identifiable, the worst ones group up just behind the lead turret and just sit there. Sometimes they won't even fight. I just finished a game where I was the only human on the team. The opposing team felt sorry for me.