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This botting problem has gotten completely out of control. This is unacceptable.

Gosh Darn·6/12/2016, 1:33:33 PM·231 votes·15,448 views
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First of all, to the Rioter who removed my post from gameplay, you're completely delusional. This issue has the single biggest impact on gameplay of anything in the history of league of legends. It has nothing to do with player behavior because there are no people playing, it's scripts.

I lost after trying to stop the fed as fuck Heimerdinger from pushing into nexus and massacring everyone in his path. I've had to deal with this at least 5 times. It's next to impossible to carry 4 feeding bots unless you're an adc.

I'd say in 99% of my games there's at least 1 bot, in 80% of my games there's 2 bots. If you were a new player or had new players on your team, you'd lose these games. The IP boost I paid for is worthless because I lose half my games since there's clearly more bots than players.

I'd expect this issue in some sort of low budget MMO 10 years ago maybe, but why the hell is such a successful company allowing this to happen? Even very outdated games have bot detection that would never let the botting issue become this bad. Again, I'm just amazed that anyone spends their money on this game when PvE games aren't even playable anymore. This is an outrageous insult.

206 Comments

Telephone Booth6/12/2016, 6:47:04 PM28 votes

I can't believe people are defending the bots just because it's vs ai. It's wrong that this many bots are being allowed. There's no logical reason to allow it.

LostFr0st6/12/2016, 4:43:57 PM14 votes

Here: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/QAhwmGWy-riot-its-time-for-you-to-take-action-now-not-later?comment=005a There was a red post on this exact subject a week ago. They know about it and are actively working on it.

62227164DEL16/12/2016, 7:48:35 PM9 votes

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MrPharmD6/12/2016, 6:57:41 PM6 votes

The problem is that riot does absolutely nothing to address anything that isn't "he said a bad word to me". I reported a guy who was placing a pink ward by the krugs monster camp and just aa it to reset so that he can go afk but not be treated like an afk by the system. I took screen shots and sent in a ticket about it.

They have literally done nothing. The player is still playing games, and still going 0-0-0 while being level 1 in just about every single game. It's bullshit.

Pushn Hair Owen6/12/2016, 1:41:34 PM6 votes

just play better, maybe you should pay for private lessons along with your ip boobs

Der Lindwurm6/12/2016, 4:18:38 PM5 votes

Riot is evidently not allowed to acknowledge the bot problem in any way since that might draw more attention to the fact that these IP farming programs exist. The good news is that they're relatively rare in SR and in other modes eventually your MMR will rise to the point where you're not matched with them anymore.

I had to wade through bots for weeks when I started doing PVP in ARAM. But I did make some friends among the actual humans I encountered out there in the bot wasteland.

Zaryelle6/12/2016, 6:33:43 PM3 votes

Yeah I'm seeing them a LOT more lately as well. I used to see them all the time when I first started, then I started not seeing them as much. Quit playing for a while and come back this spring and I've seen them in almost every other game. A few nights ago I had 3 bots in one game and all 4 teammates were bots in the next game. Playing late at night/early morning and the problem becomes extremely worse.

The sad thing in the 3 bot game my teammate refused to believe they were bots and started flaming/blaming me LOL, people cannot identify bots especially the people who always reply to these topics 'Why don't I ever see any bots?" most likely cause you're not even paying attention and looking for them like I am. I've seen like 6-8 different types of scripts and most of them are pretty obvious to me because of the extremely predictable movement and casting spells as soon as they're off CD instead of waiting to cast it, and many other signs.

People keep saying 'Riot bans them in waves' is not very reassuring, because every time I look at a bot's match history they're going scores like 0/10+/0 in at least 6 games in a row before they came into my game.

And a really bad thing is some of these scripts are getting better (most just feed but there's a select few that are on par with intermediate bots) and I'm afraid these will never be banned. They play super defensively, get decent CS, even ping and say a few words like 'Push, mid, wtf, frozen, lol', but they will almost never approach enemy champions to avoid 'feeding' detection that is usually a dead giveaway it's a script. If enemy champs come to them they might hit them once or twice but then immediately they run as far back as possible then recall every time.

Kishiyami6/12/2016, 2:57:57 PM2 votes

This is one of the reasons why I play beginners bot most of the time. I can't go to a higher difficulty because of the bots feeding and just being useless for the rest of the game. I'm afraid when I see someone picking Ghost and Heal in the champion select because I automatically assume they are bots which I'm correct 90% of the time. I can't even try out new champs because I'm worried about not being good with them and losing because my team is full of bots. Now, I'm more afraid of playing against bots than I was of pvp. Seriously, bots should be a place for new people to get used to the game, practice new champs, how your champ skills work , but now, you can't do anything without worrying about having bots in your team.

They really need to do something against bots, it's annoying and frustrating when you have to deal with those sort of stuff after having a bad day. A mode that should be extremely easy for everyone is more stressful than playing pvp in my opinion. And don't get me started in the sudden amount of people (mostly ranked players) playing bots with Tahm Kench just for the purpose of trying to kill their own teammates.

Iordblasterjoker6/12/2016, 9:20:48 PM1 votes

http://imgur.com/jJq2E4w

why censor these names?

AetherKingdom6/12/2016, 3:31:59 PM1 votes

LOSING TO BOTS LUL

Dengeden6/12/2016, 6:01:42 PM1 votes

Am I really the only one who had some humility leveling up? The only one who thought to himself "Hmmmmmm, I'd better play a different game mode, I'm making no progress here"?

Grovero6/12/2016, 6:20:13 PM1 votes

Was this in PvP or vs AI?

Switheroo6/12/2016, 6:24:47 PM1 votes

I think you shoud just wait until 20 And surrender and hope that rito wil fix this . _OR _you shoud givee them tips and help them learn the game you wil lose but you can help so it doesnt happen after that game*[slayer-jinx-wink]*

King of Mongoose6/12/2016, 5:30:30 PM

learn 2 carry bots