BOT INVASION 2017 - The State of Co-op VS AI

OurLestrade·May 18, 2017·6 votes·1,965 views

You get used to seeing bots around Co-op VS AI leveling accounts and all that jazz, but there's been a massive burst of botting lately to unprecedented levels. I haven't played a single bot game this month without at least two bots... And just today I played one with four bots!

Riot never made a statement about the last bot invasion from what I've seen, and it's happening again. Not only that but from some quick LOLKing hunting it's clear that many of these bots are being queued together for hours on end, and are heavily hampering low level games. When will Riot take action?

6 Comments

Sir BaffendorMay 18, 20173 votes

http://imgur.com/a/NrEYT

The quality isn't stellar but I hope it can contribute in any way.

This is absolutely unacceptable.

OurLestradeMay 18, 20172 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sir Baffendor,realm=EUW,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=PE6MyRKM,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-05-18T18:44:34.249+0000)

http://imgur.com/a/NrEYT

The quality isn't stellar but I hope it can contribute in any way.

This is absolutely unacceptable.

And I thought it was bad in bots. My condolences :/

Telephone BoothMay 19, 20171 votes

EDIT: Wow I just had a game with 3 bots for the first time, and of course it was right after I read this hahahaha

themachampMay 19, 20171 votes

As long as the leveling experience sucks and runes are too expensive.....then bots will exist.

Sir BaffendorMay 19, 20171 votes

Maybe I sound obvious but the problem originates from smurf accounts.

New players wouldn't even think about speeding things up and getting to the real action without knowing the game's mechanics and whatnot.

Now, I realize there's no cure to smurfing but we know full well how harmful smurf players can get towards legit new players. At least Riot should punish players caught botting real HARD. Like---weeks of ban---hard. (to be honest I don't really know for how long bot players are banned right now though)

That'd both deter people from creating smurf accounts ('cause it'd take actual real time to raise one) and make new players learn the game in sweet peace.

Smurfs are still going to stomp newbies in ranked games (which is sad) but that's at least a step in the right direction.