ARAM Bot Epidemic

alhillx·2/2/2017, 4:20:47 PM·1 votes·1,910 views

I was told by a moderator that this was an appropriate forum for this topic (which I had originally posted in "Gameplay"...apparently ARAM bots are not an appropriate "Gameplay" topic).

75% of the games I have played in the last two weeks has included at least one bot on my team or the other team. Basically, any ARAM player without a mastery playing a "weekly free" champ and using barrier as a summoner is a bot.

I have reported every single one, but it's not clear that Riot is committed to fixing this.

It's frustrating the Leaverbuster system sucks so hard, but then ARAM bots run amok. Basically the lesson is that if you are a real human player with a connection problem, Leaverbuster will troll the hell out of you, but if you just bot, nothing seems to happen at all.

16 Comments

alhillx2/2/2017, 4:56:15 PM2 votes

I don't know if you have been playing a lot of ARAM lately. If you had, you would agree with me that those three criteria: (barrier, no mastery, free weekly champ) is a pretty damn good tell for a bot. But yes, you can supplement that initial assumption with the actual way the bot plays the game.

I can't imagine Riot doesn't know this is going on, and if they put the effort into this that they put into making Leaverbuster so trollish, they could easily fix the problem.

Sarutobi2/2/2017, 4:33:59 PM1 votes

For your first topic yes gameplay isn't for reporting on bots. Gameplay is strictly that gameplay. How does bots have anything to do with gameplay for league of legends?

You seem to forget when dealing with bots Riot usually bans them in waves so unless the ban waves happens the moment you reported them I highly doubt you will see any notification.

With that said there is little to nothing they can do to prevent bots from coming in the game. Can you tell me any free to play game (or even sub based games) that is comptelety boy free? It's impossibly because they are always improving their programs. This is why Riot bans them in waves. If they don't know what exactly triggers Riot detection Riot will always be one step ahead.

Also not trying to sound rude but basing a bot by the choice of the champions and summoner spell is pretty terrible. By your logic every single person who levels a new account is a bot because they obviously need to level up in order to get summoner spells and enough IP to get champions. But it is someone easy to detect. Do they chat? Are they actually playing? From the bots I've seen they either don't type, or say very common things in inappropriate places (random GG despite nothing happening) just moving around rarely using skills, or also spamming skills (using it the moment it comes off of cooldown) but again you should be cautious because it could be a new player as well who doesn't know any better. But majority of the time if that was the case they'd at least say something in chat!

alhillx2/2/2017, 9:23:35 PM1 votes

It's absolutely bizarre that I bring up a crystal clear problem in ARAM about bots and many of these response are vaguely hostile to me. Do these people actually play ARAM? I'm not going around looking to ban people, and for a long stretch this was not a significant problem. Then the new season started and it suddenly went out of control.

X Anivia X2/2/2017, 11:43:53 PM1 votes

Nunu, Thresh, Nasus, and Xin seem to be the most common bots. I've seen disproportionate amounts of those champions, especially Nunu.