Glad that bots actually use flash now

QQ no rematch·6/16/2016, 11:38:48 AM·2 votes·1,010 views

instead of just letting it sit there looking pretty. I'm very happy to see them getting more challenging as a player who can no longer bear with playing normals due to the state this community is in.

However, that opinion took a big turn when something like this happens: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2216988569/210820966 With 4 botters feeding one lane hard while the other two lanes were open and pushed to inhibitor, making bots more challenging is only going to make that single player's life extremely hard, and imagine the disaster if that single player is new and/or bad at this game.

Like, I appreciate the effort to make co-op vs ai more challenging and interesting, but without dealing with botting rampage first this change that would otherwise be a plus is only going to result in a big minus.

4 Comments

OurLestrade6/16/2016, 11:46:58 AM1 votes

It's weird, I swear there was a period a few years ago when bots used their summoners. Then it suddenly stopped until recently :O

WukongMain6/16/2016, 11:50:30 AM1 votes

Speaking of bots...I should play that again lol.

I used to take my mains and try and win 1v5 vs bots :D....Fun times, Fun times. Though i was bronze then...

I imagine it would be way too easy now xD.

BeeCuz6/16/2016, 1:36:41 PM1 votes

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I appreciate the effort to make co-op vs ai more challenging and interesting...

There was a time when you could play a game with bots on your team and bots on the enemy team. It was a perfect fit for those who wanted to play stomp-fests and also an opportunity for a training ground.

Doesn't seem to be an option in the current interface though.

Why would that be? My guess is social engineering.

Koutalomancer6/17/2016, 1:35:14 PM1 votes

Not only do they flash. They also disappear when out of sight (it's pretty much impossible to kill Vladimir in early game because he can always get out of sight). And I am pretty sure that they don't walk back to where they reappear. I got flash ulted by a malphite bot (I mean, that alone...). He didn't move down from top and there is no way he walked to the wolf camp from base to flank me.

Not that I am complaining. It's nice to have a more challenging bot mode available.

What I would suggest: Restore Beginner/Intermediate to where they were before. Both modes serve an actual purpose in giving new players a stage to practice on. Use the current behavior of Intermediate, make the bots better at last hitting (and give them keystones if those are still missing) and introduce this whole package as a new "Hard Co-op vs. AI" (and leave both Intermediate/Hard at 100% ip/xp rewards - people won't always be in the mood to play against cheating bots)

And maybe give people the option to report players for botting (instead of the usual "Unsportsmanlike/Feeding/3rd party software" triple-report which doesn't tell riot what's actually going on).