"Hard" difficulty for Co-op vs. AI mode

Drunk Old Man·12/27/2013, 1:51:10 AM·4 votes·1,163 views

As the title states, a "Hard" difficulty would be nice, since in a lot of situations Intermediate bots are just too easy (mainly because of the 2v2 lane up top).

My suggestions for this mode would be 1) You must be level 30 to participate; 2) Instead of duo top, have a bot jungle (and possibly counter-jungle) and gank instead. We don't have an easy way to practice jungling with all these jungle changes and all the possible champs without going into a normals game and potentially costing other players the match; 3) No more weird matchups for top/bottom lanes. As in, no more Nidalee/Lux bot, and Leona/Trundle top. How about real matchups, maybe based on popular lane picks for the current meta? This isn't extremely hard to do.

So, suggestions?

8 Comments

Rhyto12/27/2013, 3:50:45 AM1 votes

Well I like the idea of upgrading the bots by infusing the AI with the play data from PvP and Ranked games but of course that would require riot to set up a new sequence and tbh it'd be difficult to even program a bot to correctly gank a lane from jungle lane and such. But nice plane so far.

Ryukachan12/27/2013, 5:31:16 PM1 votes

i'd like it, i have to be frank since i started lol 2 months ago, I've done nothing but bots, n sometimes normals/arams with friends. i'm bout to hit 600 wins from bots alone, (which is sad for most 30's idk lol) hard mode would be nice, since ppl nowadays just come to bots for first wins n i get crap ip lol :P, beats putting up with babies in normals i guess .-."

Amak12/28/2013, 4:24:01 AM1 votes

Since Riot tries to steer clear of directly enforcing the meta, they probably wouldn't want to set it up this way. I personally think they should give up that unnecessary stance and just get with the program. Until the "meta-breakers" can consistently win using non-meta styles, they need to just accept the fact that this is how you play League of Legends.

Anyway, I digress. I personally think the decision of when to gank is far too sophisticated for a computer to get it right. With or without a jungle, though, jungling on the Player side would still be relatively useless since the lanes will still be killing and farming the bots as usual. Jungles get behind in bot games both in gold and in level from all that I've seen.

If you want to learn to jungle, make a custom game with bots on your team and the other team so the lanes will be relatively equal and you can practice farming and ganking in an environment where you control most of the deaths.

Or you could just play Normals with real people and realize that you're going to go through a learning curve while you get it right. Ignore the haters and get better.

Shac Norris12/30/2013, 3:39:10 PM1 votes

What????? after you beat the intermedite bots easily, you're supposed to go normals!