Scripted bots on TT

TheEnemy42·Aug 25, 2016·4 votes·617 views

I like playing a casual "Coop vs. AI" game on Twisted Treeline every now and then. It's a nice break and often a quick way to get a daily win when you're short on time. However the amount of scripted bot players playing on TT seems to be ever increasing. Pretty much every - or every other - game includes one or two scripted bots. It's really ruining the game and killing a lot of the fun of the game. With two scripted bots feeding the enemy champs makes the game very hard to win and it often takes a very long time.

I'm always reporting them but it changes nothing and I really don't feel Riot takes this seriously, even though it's damaging their game. Is it in any way possible to at least get some kind of statement or reaction from Riot on this, because it's been like that for a long, long time and I've heard nothing.

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6 Comments

FioraWillCarryAug 25, 20161 votes

Funny you should mention this. I was playing TT yesterday after a long time of not playing it. And I just couldn't tell if some of the players their were just that bad or bots. I mean I knew of these bots and what they do. They just walk into the lane, throw spells at random and feed. Had some players yesterday that would just feed me constantly, but I saw them making somewhat of an attempt to not feed and one was even farming the jungle. It really made me wonder is TT is just noob grounds or if these bots got more sophisticated. It's mindblowing that I honestly cannot tell.

TheEnemy42Aug 25, 20162 votes

It sounds like they were on the opposite team to you in PvP? I think I've only met them on my own team when playing coop vs. AI and I don't think I've seen them farm the jungle.

Most of the time it's plainly obvious that they're bots. They wait in lane until minions spawn, then walk straight up to the enemy tower or stand still in lane and take the hits, maybe use a skill or two at random. Often they try to walk away at 5-10% health but then it's too late. Repeat after respawn. 0/20/0 is not uncommon.

A few have "attached" themselves to me, stalking me around the map, and then failing to move away from combat afterwards.

Some even chat ingame, saying things like "Honor me!" at random.

Most bots have random usernames, like random letters and numbers, though not always of course.

FioraWillCarryAug 25, 20161 votes

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It sounds like they were on the opposite team to you in PvP? I think I've only met them on my own team when playing coop vs. AI and I don't think I've seen them farm the jungle.

Most of the time it's plainly obvious that they're bots. They wait in lane until minions spawn, then walk straight up to the enemy tower or stand still in lane and take the hits, maybe use a skill or two at random. Often they try to walk away at 5-10% health but then it's too late. Repeat after respawn. 0/20/0 is not uncommon.

A few have "attached" themselves to me, stalking me around the map, and then failing to move away from combat afterwards.

Some even chat ingame, saying things like "Honor me!" at random.

Most bots have random usernames, like random letters and numbers, though not always of course.

Yea, I'm quite familiar with them. I played quite a bit of TT on my climb from a totally noob to level 30 and they were common, like very common. Every game would have like 5 of them. I stopped seeing them after hitting level 30 but yesterday I was surprised when I finally played TT again. I just didn't want to believe that the players I was playing with and against were really that bad. I'm still not 100% certain they were bots because as I said, I'm very familiar with them and some of these players while feeding, weren't doing some of the shit I remember the bots doing from long ago.

Blue Moon WolfAug 25, 20161 votes

I've seen some say things like "WTF" or "LAAAAAG". Riot really needs to take care of this issue. Before long, we will be seeing bot's in low ranked norms and possibly ranked.

jimmontroll12Aug 25, 20161 votes

today im was playing some aram games and in all games i seen bot players sometimes 3 andsome times 2 wt happening ? :/ is it a new problem for last 2 dayes ? i sow it 1st time

Blue Moon WolfAug 25, 20161 votes

It's been a problem since back when we had Dominion. The only differences was that Dominion would attract all the bots to that mode since it was the mode least likely to get an account banned from. Now that Dominion is gone, they moved on to ARAM, TT and Co-Op.