Influx of People in vs. AI games (bots) who A-move to grind beginner accounts.

KingAPaw·7/1/2016, 7:27:36 PM·4 votes·1,398 views

I recently made an account on league of legends, the first thing I noticed is that when you start out, there is usually only ONE person out of the FIVE who actually say anything. At first I thought I was playing with AI on my team as well. However the Ai on the opposing team were being smart. The people on my team were not playing at all, they would always head to the same lane and execute themselves at the tower, as though they were on an auto-move setting. It was quite off-putting in the beginning because in order to win, there needed to be a player on my team who was a veteran to the game. These people frequently say only one thing, like for example, a Draven only said "push" the entire game. Obviously they knew how to use the chat, but they wouldn't respond to anything anyone said. Our team went 3 to 30 because of two players who did nothing but run into the turrets and execute themselves or give the enemy team kills. It became near impossible to fight the Ai Annie or Lux.

These accounts are really frustrating when trying to learn the game. I got one of my friends to play bots with me and grind up because otherwise I couldn't win a game. For new players to league of legends, the worst side of the system is what they are exposed to first. I played on my friends regular account vs. people and there were no people who went and killed themselves, they only disconnected or stayed in base. Staying in base, to me, shows more respect to the people trying to learn the game than running into turrets to grind accounts to avoid AFK bans. At least then we'd have a chance to win the game.

In fact, one of the people I played with actually asked how many people on our team were actual people. Only I responded. For my new account I couldn't do anything to win myself the game, even if I win against my opposing laner.

Riot, this is very off putting to new players, I hope you guys could make it better.

5 Comments

AraMoOse7/1/2016, 11:29:05 PM7 votes

Your initial suspicious is in fact the correct one. They are bots. They are fairly easy to recognize as they have very obvious patterns. They DC once during the game, they will say "Frozen" or "push" or "lag" or "gj". It seems to be a random combination of two of those words. They are doing this to try to fool the automated anti bot system Riot has in place. You can help by reporting them under "cheating : unapproved third party software".

Don't let skynet win.

digimonteamjacob7/1/2016, 8:50:03 PM4 votes

Lol, yea there are usually more than 5 bots in a bot match.

aLawfulFalafel7/2/2016, 3:33:09 PM4 votes

its sad how little riot seems to care about new players, i mean, we NEED them ffs

they have to deal with these bots on their team

bots are plenty hard to new players already

impossible to learn jungle, even if you know how to jungle you wont do it without your runes / masteries

impossible to learn top lane

wont know what a lane phase gank is until it kills em in PVP if they make it that far

if they do make it to PVP they will be matched against people who have over 2k games played meanwhile they dont even have a rune yet

wbrb7/2/2016, 8:02:04 PM4 votes

Came back to LoL recently. After my 3rd co-op v AI clutch game with 3 out of 5 doing exactly what you've described. (even the "WTF" and "LAG" comments) I came looking to see if this is a known issue. What is this? Bots to grind up runes/30 or something? These games are basically 2 vs 5 with some attackmove meatshield. Does Riot have plans to address this?

quizotic7/2/2016, 11:31:11 PM3 votes

yeah, sadly it feels off putting to even try player VS AI anymore to even test new champions, I got into a match a few day ago where I was testing out Yasuo for the first time ever and we had 3 bots in our team who did exactly what you said. what was really sad about it is one of the bots lvl'd to thirty off that game. :( I'm not sure what a good fix would be honestly, maybe have one of those (recaptcha?) things pop up after a handful of bot reports to continue to que?

idk but I hope riot does something.