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Botting in ARAM

DukeOfJungle·12/11/2019, 7:27:11 PM·1 votes·4,114 views

The report system is unefective for the levelling bots that are destroying lower level ARAM games. In the past 30 games while investigating by levelling a new account, I've encountered 23 bot accounts, few of them multiple times. OFC I did report them afterwards, but not a single one seems to be getting banned. Also this means they are probably selling the accounts profiting with real world currency, from using software that is not allowed. I think there should be a thread for the reason of getting these accounts banned, they are ruining games, not only for new players that are having a bad time anyways, but for experienced players too.

Please share your thoughts and ideas about this problem, it is important that someone in RIOT would look into this problem.

2 Comments

BlueThingamajig12/11/2019, 10:31:34 PM1 votes

The issue is that Riot will not ban bots on first detection. Instead, they ban in waves. It's entirely possible that they do know that all those accounts are bots. However, if they banned bots on sight, then bot managers would be given information about what caused their detection, and that would worsen the problem.

Supposedly, Riot marks bot accounts such that they (usually) only matchmake with each other, and even once considered having a "bot tournament". It might have been in an Ask Riot article that I read that.