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I just had a game with 8 bots...

someVICE·8/14/2018, 9:25:36 AM·4 votes·2,939 views

So after a couple rough Summoners' Rift games I decided to unwind with one last aram and everything seemed normal at first, but then the loading screen hit. Four of my teammates didn't have any runes. "Odd" I thought, assuming my teammates were simply new to runes and forgot them. But then the game started and it became clear. To say the start was weird would be an understatement. It started with one teammate dcing instantly, proceeded by 3 of my teammates walking right into the enemy's towers without hitting or firing a skillshot. After that 2 of my opponents did the same. In all chat I asked what was up and I received no message. From there the game proceeded with int after int until it was a fed aatrox versus me, a fed soraka. Honestly this was disheartening because it felt like it lasted an eternity. I had no escape. While I reported all the accounts as bots I highly doubt they will actually be caught. Honestly as I'm fairly new to the game, this is incredibly difficult to stay committed to a game that enables these activities.

Riot please please please in the name of the space God Aureilion Sol himself, look into these accounts and find a long-term solution to these boting accounts.

4 Comments

AeroWaffle8/14/2018, 9:37:14 AM4 votes

Botting is a pain in the ass for any F2P game to deal with.

Throughout my gamer life I have not seen a F2P game that didn't have bots in some portion of it. This is because of the nature of bots and the most effective way to limit the damage still leaves individual bots alive for a time.

If a bot is banned immediately once detected, the person using the botting program now knows that the program needs to be tweaked. Once tweaked, the game company now needs to figure out once again how to detect and catch this new bot. It becomes this endless arms race with the game company always losing because at some point the detection methods start firing off more and more false positives as it catches human players that just happen to fall in the detection patterns. And the people programming the bots are not losing anything other than their time since the game is free. F2P makes it very easy to constantly test the bots.

So the solution is to not actually ban the bots immediately, but after a time and during a ban wave.

This has two advantages over banning them immediately. First, the bot owner wont know for sure what behavior was detected and banned, making it much more difficult to make a better bot. Second, this is likely to hit the demand side of the bot problem.

If a person buys a botted account for a game that does wave bans, they wont know for sure if the account is a ticking time bomb. If a person buys one from a game that bans immediately, they are going to feel a lot more secure in their purchase since if the account isn't banned now it wont likely be ever.

Telephone Booth8/14/2018, 10:37:00 PM2 votes

This really only happens when you're newer or super low ELO. It should go away. I've never seen a bot in ARAM. Kinda up to you basically. Grind through the low ELO until you're good enough to not get matched against the lowest of the low ELO players (and bots), or just not bother and play something else.

Potaterhead8/14/2018, 10:42:24 AM1 votes

Back when level 30 was the cap, pre 30 aram was rampant with them. I've also had a game with 8 bots and it was just me and one person on the other team playing and I got an S+ for shooting fish in a barrel. XD

I don't know what it's like now. Was this a low level game as well?

PowerSlave9938/14/2018, 12:33:49 PM1 votes

There will be always bots in league of legends. People use them to sell accounts for streamers,etc.