I've seen bots, and I've seen multiple bots. I play mostly ARAM, so it happens from time to time. But I just played a game with NINE BOTS...I was the only human player in the whole freakin game.
This is a recurring problem that Riot could address if it wanted to...can't you dedicated a person or two to eliminating this?
They normally ban bots in waves. It makes it harder for the botter to know what got them detected. It sucks as the person immediately involved, but it is a better method from the big picture stand point.
I had that issue once. I got two pentakills.
There are always a ton of bots on treeline as well. I usually select champs I have never played before and get 30 kills with them so I can load up on chests.
I had this happening on my new acc. Rekt every1 in aram even with Soraka whitout even trying.
https://matchhistory.euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-history/EUW1/237664276
Absolutely disgusting, bots ruin the fun.
I just played yet another game with nine bots. And to answer a post below, you can easily tell a bad player from a bot, particularly when there are nine of them in the same game, because they will periodically clump up in one spot and stop moving.
I don't see it as a problem unless you're on a new account. If you're good enough your elo will rise fast and you won't be facing bots anymore.
more importantly... did you win?
To be completely reasonable, there will never be a way to 100% eliminate botting or automation of some kind. Riot can (and is) doing what they can to limit this sort of exploitation. There are probably more than one of two people dedicated precisely to detection of third-party tools.
I would really question your ability to accurately determine if players on either team are bots. My experience has been that players simply call poor players "bots." Most modern bots are extremely robust and would be extremely difficult for you to detect by simply observing client-side. You'd have to know specific behaviors and monitor for those very specific, repeatable actions. As bots become more robust, however, they may have multiple responses to the same inputs, making this harder and harder to observe.
