is anyone else noticeing a issue with botting as of late?

rubberduckie666·Jun 20, 2016·4 votes·628 views

in Vs Ai its very very bad. in recently iv been seeing bots alarmingly often, almost every game. these player bots ALWAYS FEED HARD even as a gold player (granted iv stoped playing ranked because the climb is pointless) it makes games hard to win unless im playing a champ that can hard carry, even then it makes early-mid game tough (due to not having items)

if a gold player that regularly plays with/against people in plat can struggle due to the botting i cant imagen how hard it must be for a new player.

this issue needs to be adressed for the the new people that want to pick up the game

4 Comments

Deep Terror NamiJun 20, 20161 votes

Obviously not a solution to botting or anything, but if your team is so heavy in vs. AI you can use a Zz'rot Portal. AI doesn't push very hard and their entire team will struggle with it.

Bots are such a big issue because of how easy it is to create new accounts. A Rioter actually spoke up recently about a better bot detection system which is being tested. Once it reaches an acceptable rate of false positives (not flagging people that aren't really bots) they can push it forward. I'll try to find the thread.

Deep Terror NamiJun 20, 20161 votes

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Hi Mounting Dread,

Thanks for the thoughtful post. You're spot on with how serious this problem is for new players, and I'm hoping I can solve it. We do run retroactive ban waves against bots today. They can level so quickly though, that we're often too slow in banning them before they affect a bunch of real players.

I've been working on improved detection that should catch more bots as well as detect them more quickly. I've got a candidate model that looks promising, but it needs some thorough testing before we start running ban waves. The last thing we want is a bunch of false positive readings that result in real players getting caught in the ban waves.

I'm shooting for larger retroactive ban waves in the next couple of weeks. Once that tests well and we don't see too many false positives, we'll automate it in a way that can issue bans closer to real-time.

rubberduckie666Jun 20, 20161 votes

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i was not even aware of this post exsisting, although i understand it will just end up being a arms race between the people creating these botting programs and riot. its a start

MsatieJun 20, 20161 votes

there is no real way to detect bots. ever

if you stay in lane. attack minions. and run from fights. you can easily create a bot that does that. and "new players" can be just as bad as that bot

that bot can easily get to level 30. and theres no way to detect and ban that bot without wrongfully banning some new players