Has anyone else noticed a huge spike in botting recently? My friends and I have encountered 3-4 bots in ARAM in the last week or so. They always enter with no runes, don't do anything but attack minions, don't reply, and just walk in and die over and over.
Both teams have mass reported them, but not sure how this stuff gets handled now with the Tribunal pretty much perma gone?
From what I have heard they ban bots in waves to prevent the people who use them from finding out how Riot's detection software system for bots work.
Yes, and the sad thing about it is that if the enemy have 1 bot and you have 2 its a 99,99% loss for you because the bots obviously are feeding. A 4v5, or even a 3v5, aram can easily be won, but the minute the bot is there and feeding its just game over.
Tribunal has been replaced by the Instant Feedback System a (relatively) long while ago. You can read about it here on the FAQ. That is to say, Riot games will take care of the bots rampaging in ARAM at some day in the future. I have no idea how far that date is though.
In the meanwhile I can only advice, that you can climb above the MMR of the bots, so you will meet them (at first) only rarely, and soon after not at all. (I haven't seen a bot in couple of years I believe, and ARAM is the only gamemode I play.)
edit; Oh, and don't forget to report the suspected bots, so Riot can deal with them easier.
There is a lot of people botting, usually in coop vs AI, i've seen people lvl 220 and so on just botting games 24h/24.. I guess that should make them more visible now
Well where before the bots would have that wolf summoner icon, smite, and start gromps and tool around jungle pathing doing very little, now the bots have upped their game. They throw out a couple random bits of chat and try to go mid.
My group and I report when we can, but it's just so bad.
