Weird Champion Combos in AI Games

I noticed that in bot games, you get the weirdest (but surprisingly effective) champ combos. Like just the other day, I was playing Camille against Leona and Alistar up top. Obviously, these bots often don’t follow the meta of 1 top, 1 mid, 2 bot, 1 jg. I kind of like this about the game because I’ll run up top lane and go “Whoooooaa” and turn back around to my turret when I realize there’s 2 champs up top. I also love/hate how bot games set up an unrealistic expectation of how League is usually played against humans. Sometimes your enemy will do something predictable. Sometimes they won’t, like pair Alistar and Leona together in top lane. I’ve also noticed that there’s never a jungler on the bot teams, and I don’t blame Riot for not making one. I’m human and I still haven’t learned how to efficiently navigate jungle.

I’d also love to have an option to play against difficult bots, or bots that imitate pro players in their item build, rune selections, and risk aversiveness. It may be way inaccurate, but it’d be one fun game. Most of us won’t have the honor of losing miserably to Wolf or Bang.

I’d also love to see bots that actively deny the human team CS. I noticed the bots often “pace” back and forth as they are unsure whether they want to go in for the kill or to go back and defend their turret, and, by “dancing” with the pacing bots, I can buy my jungler lots of time to make their way up the map for a gank.

What are your thoughts? Do you love how the AIs don’t follow the traditional LOL meta? What would you adjust if you could?