Riot please start banning bots

Lux Is Mai Waifu·9/22/2019, 1:42:20 AM·2 votes·1,928 views

We all know that until you get your hidden MMR up, you're going to see a ton of bots in TTL and ARAM, and that it's the tip of the iceberg, and that there are thousands of bot vs bot games going on at any given moment. I've been playing for around 3 years, but I still saw a bot pop up in my 5v5 normals queue. I had to dodge because it just auto locked with ghost and heal, and didn't say anything to anyone. Riot, please fix this instead of pretending bots are players and that LoL is still the most popular PC game (it isn't). Your game has more bots than fucking RuneScape. This is worse for the new player experience than the useless tutorial.

4 Comments

DuskDaUmbreon9/22/2019, 4:20:04 AM2 votes

...They are though?

Like, sure, there's a lot of bots. But it's also trivially easy to make a bot account, and Riot can't just ban as soon as they know it's a bot account or it makes it far easier to work around any automated system.

True Garen9/22/2019, 8:44:47 AM1 votes

You can report bots, and then the bots do get banned. There's always more bots. It doesn't take THAT long to climb out of bots.

The bots probably don't affect truly new players all that much.

Also, I'm not sure that you are %100 accurate spotting bots. Plenty of low-level players continue to take Ghost/Heal for a while after lvl 30, because they are the easiest summs to use, and they got used to it early. You can SUSPECT that it's a bot, but there's a few other tip-offs to be noticed.