Ive been playing this game sense season 1 and i have never noticed people botting until recently. I Have ran into at least 5 bots in the last 2 days. It is clearly becoming a massive problem and you guys need to do something about this. It is clear that they are botting and if we report them it, does no good
Almost every ARAM game I play has been, aside from me, entirely or almost entirely with bots. My friend says it is because my mmr sucks, but if many other players are experiencing this, we can't all have terrible mmr.
I don't know why people give their playing over to bots, but it has caused some serious difficulties for me in all modes and I hope a solution is found soon.
Problem is the people smart enough to make bots are smart enough to find away any sort of countermeasure Riot could come up with. Plus, just having players vote that a person is a bot could get legitimately terrible players banned by accident. Though, I do agree botting is a problem, especially at lower levels and underplayed modes.
It seems like a technical issue where if you make a system to punish them, they will work around it or it will be abused by the community to get back at someone who pissed them off in a match. one thing that could work is if everyone else on the team agrees the person is botting, they could have a vote (like the surrender vote system) and boot the person from the match and they can't rejoin till it's over, which activates leave buster, due to leaving before the match is over, for a double whammy .
Please acknowledge this issue .. game is unplayable. There is no reason Riot couldn't review reports of BOTTING/CHEATING/HACKING and IP Ban those accounts. Get to work.
They can't take care of bots until they find a reliable way to identify them without any false positives. And it has to somehow extend beyond just banning single bots, in order to stop the problem at its source.
A good way to tell bots in ARAM is they start with boots 2 
and don't leave fountain until minions spawn.
My last game had 7 bots in it.
This is bullshit, I play this game so I can wreck scrubs, not wreck mindless programs.
what what if someone is just really bad
I came here to make this exact post. It has been several months since I first noticed the issue and as far as I can tell, nothing has been done about it. There should be a zero tolerance policy on botting. Someone gets reported consistently over a few games and BAM, permanent ban. It is completely unacceptable that this problem hasn't already been dealt with.
By botting do you mean using scripts? Or do you mean the bots that run into a lane to prevent an inactivity flag and AA until the end of the match?
The latter is annoying, and does affect games negatively. Those do need to be discovered and banned with extreme prejudice.
Scripting? I am not for the practice, and sure if there is a 100% legitimate way to automate detecting and banning scripting, then great, do it. But from my experience, a player can only guess if someone is scripting by being skeptical of how quickly skills are being used. A Katarina who is able to take 100% full advantage of her cool downs the moment they come up, using their summoner spells at specific moments that guarantee a kill and her active items the instant it becomes the best option............... Is still only you guessing. We grew up on watching videos of kids playing Dance Dance Revolution and the pre-iterations of Guitar Hero like Garage Band and Tetris at blazing fast, impossible speeds. Someone that mains a champion is eventually going to memorize the buttons they need to push.
Another point for scripting is that it's limited to the power of the champion. When scripting was first mentioned, I went on YouTube and watched to my frustration these videos of people holding a button and utilizing 100% potential of the champion and their active items. But I felt better when I watched games that they did pretty badly in. I thought about it: The players are still limited to that champion's weaknesses. Scripting is a crutch, it's not a gamebreaking cheat. Best case scenario for them, they get to a high elo where that script can't compete with elite players. And eventually, if or when those scripts become obsolete from client updates, that person is going to be at an MMR they can't handle.
Fighting against a player scripting is just another way for you to practice being better.
I Have ran into at least 5 bots in the last 2 days
One week later and you'll find yourself running into at least 5 bots in the last 20 minutes.
