Intermediate bots take over for afk's

ShinobisDemon·8/3/2015, 7:41:19 PM·4 votes·1,145 views

We've all been in a ranked game, winning and then boom. it's a 4 v 5. you now 1 guy down and they can out teamfight out push and out play you. If 3 minutes after someone went afk (number can change) it would be fair for player's teams. ^internet died^ a bot was playing while you were gone. If you don't come within 7 minutes (number can change) they are allowed to spend your gold on items. While it isn't a surefire way to fix the afk's problem. It's a good place holder don't you think?

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8 Comments

TeemoJenkins8/3/2015, 8:08:50 PM4 votes

If an intermediate bot can kill you... you're doing something wrong. The bot logic just isn't good enough. It would be free kills for the other team, plus when someone dc's there's more experience for your team so you potentially could get an advantage depending on what point in the game it occurs at.

Meep Man8/3/2015, 7:46:23 PM1 votes

If Riot made Bots a LOT SMARTER, yes. Because right now, they are pretty dumb even on Intermediate.

HaugheyPuck998/3/2015, 7:50:05 PM1 votes

This is a good idea in theory, but I think it would be kinda messy in practice. They can only program the AI to be good up to a certain point before they become completely useless at a certain elo. Putting a bot into a bronze game may seem great, but putting a bot into a plat+ game is just some guaranteed free kills for the other team. And that would be really hard, and maybe even a little unfair, for Riot to determine the exact cutoff point for something like that. I think it might be a little bit more fair if the team that was down a player just got a small stat boost to all of their minions or something like that. Idk, just a thought

Mew Goes AD8/3/2015, 7:56:39 PM1 votes

Only if the bot gives no gold upon death and does not receive the kill upon a killing blow (the gold would be given instead to the last human player that hit the target).

bad manner kid8/3/2015, 8:30:57 PM1 votes

Bot would likely show up in lane early and feed/steal cs/leech too much exp.

LemoNate8/18/2018, 3:27:15 PM1 votes

I’d say even a shit boy is better than a player down... also they could add in half gold for bot kills and so on