Robots teammates while playing against AI

bannyyyx·5/15/2017, 11:15:30 PM·7 votes·1,350 views

Resently while p,aying VS AI, I'm pretty sure that every one has some teammates who:

go midlane from start, stand behind the turret, and go straigt foward after minions spawn
start to feed, and has no response to anything
feed until game ends. These are what? Robots created by Riot to increase the level of the game??? I am tired of these bots, and hope Riot may give players an answer, I dont care team mates who are humains feed, but play vs AI with 9 Bots in a game is just ridicules. Really angry about this. Hope there would be someone gives us an explanation

5 Comments

ActualDoctor5/16/2017, 11:45:32 AM2 votes

I have had at least one bot in every match tonight between midnight and 7:30 am EST. Only one game where there were no bots. In the match I just completed, my entire team (all four teammates) consisted of bots. This is getting ridiculous...

I went 15/5/2 with Lux. Tried my best. Took out a tower. After the 25 minute mark they were all just standing on the summoner platform waiting for the game to end--presumably the script being used doesn't expect a match to last longer than 25 minutes one way or the other (a pretty reasonable expectation for bot matches most of the time).

I've been reporting for cheating / intentional feeding / afk and trying to describe what I see them doing. For instance, standing in the middle lane behind the tower outside of XP range. Charging the tower and auto-attacking it, dying from tower hits. The afformentioned standing on summoner platform spamming /dance so they don't get leaver-busted.

They're not completely terrible (oh they are bad). They'll try to attack champions. They seem to look for opportunities to get assists / kills when they happen to be nearby a champion who other teammates are attacking. Probably to make their score look like they're trying. Consistently after a 20+ minute game they have 20-40 CS, 1 or 2 kills, 1 or 2 assists, a crazy number of deaths. Level around 8 - 10 range when everyone else is 14 - 18. They still buy items, again probably to make it look like they're not bots.

For as obvious as they are, they're trying really hard to not be obvious. Presumably this is allowing a few of them to get away with it because in most matches players may think they're just new / non-communicative. Furthermore, because I keep reporting them, presumably my reports are becoming less and less weighted. So by the time someone has enough information to say "hey these are bots I know exactly what they do" their reports are having minimal impact on actually getting them to the tribunal.

They don't all have a 4-digit number at the end of their name, but a large number of them do. (All four of the ones in my last match, for instance).

Jo0o5/15/2017, 11:18:53 PM1 votes

Bots are hard to catch, and I think the integrity of the CoOp vs. AI games isn't a high priority for Riot. They're virtually always piloted by people trying to passively level an account or selling level 30s, it surely isn't Riot trying to somehow mess with their own game.

Best advice I can give is to get yourself into normals and then ranked in a timely fashion.

Look on the bright side: Bots games are very easy to win. Having useless bot players on YOUR side gives you more of a challenge!

Nesudeus5/16/2017, 5:31:59 PM1 votes

Riot isn't doing it, players are. They level up the accounts without any effort involved on their part and sell them, usually.

Zaryelle5/16/2017, 7:55:21 PM1 votes

Yup, try ARAM, the last 20-30 players I saw there with Barrier were all bots.

Giorgio Armanu5/16/2017, 10:09:14 PM1 votes

another clues are that they buy shoes first, that they attack a cannonminion first (by cannonminionwaves) Its funny to play with 4 feeding bots againts 5 bots^^ but they only feed one enemie... that is sad