how to get to level 30 without throwing your computer out the window?

Skelehest··20 votes·1,540 views

I'm new here and probably 80% of my games have between 4-9 scripts. It's like playing bot games except they get stuck on towers or randomly disconnect. Is there any chance of riot actually taking action on reports? It's very blatant - they all exhibit the exact same behaviour (running out to second tower and sitting there on the corner of the object)

I am interested in playing this game, I'm already regretting spending money on things, and if it's not fixed I'm going to stop buying skins etc. what a horrible player experience.

19 Comments

Chermorg11 votes

Hi! Welcome to League!

Riot intentionally bans scripting/hacking/third-party/similar accounts in waves so that the people running these farms of accounts are not able to determine what specific behavior was detected. If your report was verified, the account you reported may sit anywhere from a few minutes to a few months before it's suspended.

If Riot were to ban the accounts instantly upon detection/verification of a report, the account farmers could look at the behavior in that game and "tone it down" to be harder to detect. Trust me, it's not that nothing is being done, just that Riot's trying to stay two steps ahead of the bots.

Happy Summoning!

Skelehest4 votes

I can understand that, but when I only get to actually play a game one out of five times, what's the point? like I really enjoy the playing of it, but with so many cheaters (And I've been assured that it won't be as common when I hit 30?) this is not fun. How do I, as a paying customer of Riot's, use their product the way it was intended to be used?

Chermorg4 votes

I understand your frustration. One way to avoid bots is to, when you can, start playing normal blind/draft games and/or featured game modes. Featured games don't tend to get a lot of bots because there's no reason to write a script for a couple weeks of play. Blind get some scripters, but not very many bots, and draft tends to not get as many of either.

Riot likely (my opinion) will do a wave of bans soon, it's been a while since the last one. After the next wave, you should see a drastic decline for a while.

Aimléss1 votes

Yeah, bots is a pain. Normal blind/draft is more fun than bots anyway, and the people in those modes are going to be new just like you for the most part, so you don't have to worry about going up against veterans as long as your level is low.

50000000000000002 votes

Just to add, if you haven't played any normal games yet, then you will likely play against better players (and people who are smurfing) for the first few games. Don't be discouraged by the losing streak, since your MMR will adjust.

Twisted Circle1 votes

The irony of banning in waves to prevent scriptwriters is that it actually hurts banning the "bot" scripts that people level accounts with. As far as I've ever seen, the irritation by players of dealing with account-leveling bots is that the bots perform extremely poorly in pretty much every aspect that matters to teammates.

If account bots are adjusted to perform better because they keep getting banned, that basically ends up slowly solving the community's problem (if not Riot's endgame script detection) as the bots keep getting better and better at playing the game.

The best solution for everyone would probably be if Riot took immediate action on account-leveling bots, and did the wave bans for scripters. I've been slowly bringing up a second account myself, and playing with these things is positively infuriating. In the end, the two options seem to be either gritting your teeth and sticking it out, or to just stop playing. Neither one will get Riot's attention, but hopefully someday they do something more effective to keep ahold of new players.

SwiftKitten881 votes

yeah i stopped playing on my 2nd smurf because of this among other reasons. it really is pretty bad.. and they really ARE blatantly obvious...

GULAG 4 U1 votes

EXP Boost lul

Kyunsei1 votes

Add me, I love giving insight to new player and show them some basis. Name is "Kyunsei"

And they won't be Script (as you call them) if you play with friends. (Or at least someone who's level 30)

WolfBV1 votes

Leona is a pretty fun champion.

Junti1 votes

they mostly exist in bot matches and low lvl aram, just play normals

Theorchero1 votes

Here's a few statements I think you may find useful.

One, not all players will be scripters or bots. Scripters have a few easy-to-identify tells to demonstrate they are scripting. However, there's also a difference in terminology you are probably not aware of.

Scripters or scripting is a real player who is using a third party program, or script to automate some actions in-game for them, they use this to better CS, automatically dodge any incoming skillshot, break the game by using exploits (some champions in the past have had exploits that make it possible to spam certain abilities as if they have no cooldown), and other forms of cheating. These players are typically people who get frustrated at their shitty rank and resort to cheating to get an advantage in order to climb, or boosters using scripts to boost (playing on another person's account to artificially rank them up) more efficiently.

Note that extremely 'good' players you observe in low summoner levels may not be scripters, but simply players who are leveling a smurf (alternative, lower ranked) account for whatever reason.

Bots are entirely automated programs. There's no person behind the wheel, so to speak. It's possible there's several accounts and games being played on a single machine, and these bots just go and complete an automated set of actions every X seconds, some more sophisticated than others. These are the players you see select one set of summoner spells every single game and do dumb shit like running it up mid every game.

These players may not all be bots, some may be genuinely new players, but it gets pretty easy to distinguish one from the other.

To avoid these players, you pretty much just want to play blind pick normals. Unfortunately you'll play against shit like Riven, Yasuo, and Fiora (extremely annoying, decently powerful meta picks) a good deal of the time but you'll come to enjoy normals far more than bot matches as you play against actual people.

Sleepy Sona1 votes

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Oriyoki1 votes

Only you'll be matched with bronze V rage babies who only fuck up your games as well and you want to throw your PC out of window even more.

Fuh Queue1 votes

Just play Arams until you get to 30.

Aazzlano1 votes

To be fair, at some point you will wish you had these bot teammates back instead of the people you get lol. At least bots don't /all "gg not playing with this kid" and run it down mid, then tell you to kill yourself before leaving the game.

The player experience doesn't get any better. And riot does about as much as they do to the bots to these players. Welcome to League of Legends! At least the game itself used to be really really good but that's been on a steep decline in the last few years. Maybe next season! (likely it will just be worse again, but whatever)

Poske1 votes

AND WHY ARE YOU PLAYING AGAINST bots up until level 30?

Ztoka1 votes

Easy mission completion....

coley bear1 votes

So I literally like just got to 30 after a couple months of playing the game and I definitely think it's worth it to go straight into summoners rift random and draft pick as the % of players who are bots goes way down. Another fun game mode I found is Aram because even though a large portion of players are bots you can usually perform very well against them and they tend to balance the number of bots relatively well I've found. One thing to know though is as you get into these game modes is the play style is entirely different and takes some getting used to but it's more rewarding and in my opinion more fun then the constant all ins of bots. Scripting can be a big problem but at the same time it's very difficult to address and while ideally riot could fix it it's probably easier to just go into games expecting it and trying to play around it.

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