bots/ip farming on twisted treeline

drewmaster777·3/27/2017, 2:10:24 AM·6 votes·882 views

Whenever I play on twisted treeline, the other summoners on my team are bots, not people who are bad at the game, but actual bots who will constantly feed the other team, making every game of twisted treeline unplayable for me because I basically become the only one on my team against enemies who are 4 or 5 levels above me throughout the match. This might sound dumb because I'm basically the only one who plays on twisted treeline and I hardly ever play on it, but it's still part of the game that I play, and this is a serious issue that I could see lead to other issues like people selling profiles, or servers becoming cramped with thousands of bots making the play experience of anyone playing on twisted treeline to go way down. I'm honestly surprised that riot hasn't done anything to solve this problem yet, and I really hope something gets done about it soon.

7 Comments

OnlyYouCanHearMe3/27/2017, 3:45:11 AM2 votes

Riot is aware of the issue about the Twisted Treeline bots. Anytime you play there and see a player that you know is botting, and it is very easy to tell (as you've said!), be sure to report them. Often, it is from one of the services that sells pre-leveled accounts, and if that account is later bought by an unsuspecting player, it could easily be permabanned later for the use of illegal/malicious third party programs. Which of course that player would have no knowledge of, because they never used them. So, while the botting services will simply make new accounts, you will be doing other players a kindness by reporting the accounts before they end up being banned in later waves.

Sadly, I do feel your pain, as TT is one of my favorite game modes to play. I used to play it almost exclusively, until it became the primary leveling ground for the botting services. I still play it from time to time, but only with champions that I know I can easily 1v2 or hard carry with, because even if your teammates talk in champ select, there's no guarantee that they will stick around to actually play the match.

I know that for the past few weeks, players have also been reporting bots in the lower leveled ARAM games, and while I am not certain if Riot has released an official response to the reports, they have seen the problem, and are working on finding the best solution to keep the game entertaining and fair for players. The first step for us as players will always be reporting the accounts that we encounter though. Every little bit helps.

General Esdeath 3/27/2017, 4:53:52 AM1 votes

Riot knows but doesn't really do anything about it. The accounts reported should have a function where they need to type certain works in the afk check, and if they fail, the account is locked/banned.

Papa Andrei3/27/2017, 6:15:11 AM1 votes

Get above low Bronze and you should be fine.