Dying to the bots is worse.
I was playing an intro bot game as Talon to quickly get my win of the day reward. Alone in bot lane against two bots. I was working on the third turret while my teammates had not even gotten their first tower down. I had probably 20+ kills by that point.
The bots increasingly start showing up in my lane. I'm facing down 3 vs 1, 4 vs 1, and winning. But things got a little dicey at one point because the bots have no respawn timer and I was running low on health and mana.
I could have pressed the attack for some more kills, but I said F it, I don't care if I do end this with 30 kills, and if I died 5vs1, I'm still not going to let it be said I died to an intro bot. Once is too much. So I pulled back, healed up, came back for round 2.