@Riot: ARAM Bots are on the rise lately; Some observations of their behavior for reference

Murphys Lawyer·6/12/2016, 7:06:29 AM·4 votes·699 views

Over a fair number of ARAM matches lately, I have begun to notice a trend of similar-acting bot accounts being used increasingly frequently. Particularly in the late hours of the night and early hours of the morning, I have seen multiple games now with NUMEROUS bots in each. This hasn't been much of a problem until quite recently, but now I am seeing anywhere from one to as many as seven or eight bots in some games and I wanted to point out some behaviors common to many that I have seen:

-Almost always playing a free champion of the week -No masteries or runes set -Tendency to buy multiple starter items (as many as three to four) before buying anything else -Occasionally fail to purchase items at all when using new champs in particular -Use basic summoner icons, often the same one or two when there are multiple bots in a match -Typically, but not always, using Barrier/Ghost or Barrier/Flash for summoner spells -Will group behind turrets in the same spot approximately one turret width back and slightly to the left, rarely moving from that point -Rarely, if ever, use abilities and summoner spells, and often use them incorrectly (especially true of newer champs) and almost exclusively auto attack regardless of champion -Tend to feed consistently while picking up kills mostly by auto-attacking happenstance (if at all)

This is not an exhaustive list, just a compilation of what I have observed often enough to remember and take note of. If anyone else has any they would like to add, please do! ARAM is being increasingly plagued by these bots.

1 Comments

lucario8886/12/2016, 5:41:21 PM2 votes

Yeah, them bots are really on the rise on ARAM and on SR. However, Riot can't do much because they fear they might ban a new player thinking it was a bot. They rather not risk it at all.