bot accounts

MedicalMisfit·6/10/2017, 8:17:10 PM·3 votes·3,855 views

Will riot be doing anything about the ever growing bot accounts in games? I try to learn new champs and farming in the AI games and they are flooded with bot accounts who just run it down mid lane, feed and die. last game I just played had 2 and we lost. Actually lose a bot games. This is rather annoying and become way out of control. Can an option be listed for REPORTING after games for "BOT ACCOUNT" so they can shut them down faster. This needs to be addressed.

8 Comments

Deep Terror Nami6/10/2017, 8:23:37 PM3 votes

I know how frustrating it can be with a bot on your team and I do wish we had some better methods to prevent their creation, but it's important to understand how bot accounts are dealt with and why;

Bots are banned in waves, rather than immediately upon detection. This could be every week or two, not entirely sure. Riot does this so that the botters have a difficult time figuring out what they do to trigger the flag for this. If they are immediately notified it will tell them what is getting them caught and it would allow them to circumvent that detection, which would mean the bots go undetected for longer or entirely. That time between ban waves feels bad for the low elo/level players, but it's much better in the long run.

As for reporting them, please use the "Cheating" report option!

BlazingMuffins6/10/2017, 8:42:47 PM2 votes

I've never lost a bot game. I've actually had to 1v5 but I didn't lose, I understand your struggle though. For now, I would advise playing bots with friends or take it to practice mode.

32mb RAM6/10/2017, 9:33:41 PM2 votes

I had 4 bots on my team 3 games in a row

MedicalMisfit6/10/2017, 10:33:35 PM1 votes

Forgot to mention the joys of leaving the game and losing your "win of the day". So just ride out the bot games and waste time losing so you can still get win of the day? Especially if its 3-4 bots on your team? Seems unfair

Grout Flamer6/11/2017, 12:09:33 AM1 votes

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