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Can you fix Leavebuster, please? It punishes players teamed up with bots

Obito Uchîha··2 votes·468 views

I'm playing Cooperative vs AI and as of recently I've been teamed up with bots in my own team. They go mid, feed, rinse and repeat. If at least one person is human, I always do my best and we usually win, even being just 2 humans. But when the whole team is made of just bots, there's no way I can win alone. I can tell, I've tried.

And because there's no point wasting my time playing with bots, I afk during those matches until the enemy destroys our nexus, so I can start a new match, hopefully with real people this time. I've done this in several matches now, and it seems Leavebuster has detected I'm not doing anything (cause I'm not, just like the rest of my dearly botting team), and now I'm in some sort of priority queue or something, and I have to wait even more time!!!! WTF.

Can you fix this please? Or ban the bots? Whatever floats your boat. Just fix this cause it's unfair to real players.

Thank you.

13 Comments

KORGtuners1 votes

Keep trying is all you can do. Maybe blind pick has less bots?

Obito Uchîha1 votes

You mean PvP? Yes, there are no bots there (that I know of) but I'm trying to play Cooperative because people is more friendly there, and there's no flame.

AlienPrimate1 votes

You could try ARAM. The majority of people in ARAM are pretty cool. You get a sour grape every now and then but not nearly as often as on summoner's rift.

Obito Uchîha1 votes

Yeah, I'll probably end up doing that.

TheDonar1 votes

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You could try ARAM. The majority of people in ARAM are pretty cool. You get a sour grape every now and then but not nearly as often as on summoner's rift.

Very true. I spend most of my time playing ARAM. I think some salt washes away since people know that you had no choice in who you picked. So you can't start in with the "you don't even know how to play your main?!?!" grousing.

KORGtuners2 votes

You can mute players in game. This will prevent them from flaming you.

You can't prevent bots though. I suggest you practice instead of afking. It makes you a better player and you avoid punishments.

zPOOPz1 votes

no flame in vs AI???

"I called mid" "no, I called mid first", "report XXX". Proceed to have 2 mids bitching at each other all game long.

"I called top", "I called top too", "top is solo lane, go jungle. Report XXX for not jg". Proceed to start a verbal fight all game long.

"KS", "Report XXX for ks"

"I'm adc bro, you support", "Stop taking cs you fucking noob. I called adc" "Report XXX for taking cs"

There are far more flame in vs AI from beginner players than most of my ranked games......

TheDonar1 votes

This is so true. I had someone threaten to report me because I wouldn't pick a support to help top because I wanted to jungle after the last time they updated it instead.

On a related note, I had someone threaten to report me for not picking an "A-Tier" jungler...against bots.

In short, Co-Op isn't the dreamland it should be.

Obito Uchîha1 votes

Woha, I've never experienced that :O. We usually just go 2 1 2 or similar combinations, no matter the champion or the role, and win easy cause the enemy are bots.

Junkο1 votes

Dude, it's stupidly easy to win bots 1v5.

AlienPrimate1 votes

It's pretty much impossible to win bots 1v9 though. In a custom game where it is just you it would be easy. In a normal game where it is you and 4 "people" who are feeding over and over and over again, the bots all become huge stat sticks that you just can't beat.

Junkο1 votes

Except killing bots yourself is easy, you can get double kill after double kill in a double lane easily, take TP for more free kills, and you will always CS better than bots by default, so you can very easily be items ahead of bots. The game I played yesterday lasted 38 minutes and most bots had 3-4 items by then, didn't stop me from just walking up to them and killing them in 2 AAs before bots even reacted.

Not to mention bots are stupidly dumb, they can't even kill siege minions without killing themselves.

UomoAfide1 votes

Aside from that, he is right in thinking that LeaverBuster is pretty much a useless punishment in bot matches. I stopped playing after being sent in Low Priority Queue just because i left 2 vs ai matches in the timespan of a month. Seems pretty harsh being punished for this kind of matches, you hardly give a bad experience to your own team mates if you leave; i understand Riot doesn't want to incentivize leaving games, seeing how people might get used to it and think it could be ok to do even in casual PvP matches. But personally i still think this is a useless ideology to cling to, especially for people who might encounter repeated problems with their connection or some who might need to leave for personal reasons.

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