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Bots in bot games

Gretchen Weinerz·12/29/2019, 1:42:09 PM·9 votes·10,871 views

Hello everybody!

Hope everyone had a happy holiday.

I've been playing bot games for the past couple weeks and noticed and increase in the amount of bots on the player team during Summoner's Rift. The bots usually have a name like "Joan" which is either preceded or followed by a random combination of letters with every other letter capitalized. THey they always buy boots first and go to a random lane (4 could go to one lane) they "b" when at about 33% percent life then pick another random lane. THey also rarely attack towers and use abilities randomly without rhyme or reason. Over the past couple weeks it has turned from 1-2 on a team to now having 4 bots on my team. I'm usually still able to win despite this, but it's not without work.

I have been reporting them for botting, but nothing seems to happen. Are these bots allowed as they greatly diminish the experience of players? Has anyone else experienced this?

Happy New Year! Hope it's fetch.

Gretchen

13 Comments

MordridtheBlack12/29/2019, 1:50:54 PM3 votes

It is a thing they are swarming SR now that TT is gone

and sadly there isn't much Riot can do about the bots for every bot they take down another 5-10 can easily take its place

your best bet is get out of co-op vs ai asap and only play it if u need to finish off a quest that you'd rather not do in a match made game

Prothello12/29/2019, 4:45:58 PM2 votes

I think they should negate the penalty for dodging, in co-op vs AI games only, to combat this problem. I don't know if permanent IP bans will fix it (since the creation of bots vs the destruction of bots ratio is in favor of bots being around forever) but it could be a viable option as well. At least to help do some damage control. It's true that since TT went down there's been a massive influx of bots in the bot games. i personally used the co-op vs AI mode to learn new champs; and now, unfortunately, that's all but a memory since its basically carry practice, now that the bots have moved in.

Sevita Rhys12/30/2019, 5:49:33 PM1 votes

A team mate of mine said the same thing and asked a similar question a few weeks back. Because of the holidays we've been down one or two people and I can confidently tell you that we've only had ONE real person to auto-fill the position.

Anyway, supposedly my friend said that, in his words, "Riot said 'deal with it.' " I don't think anything he said is true, but I don't doubt that Riot kinda doesn't care about bots. I don't know.

Sorostaran12/31/2019, 4:00:05 AM1 votes

I would buy the argument that Rito simply couldn't do anything because these cheaters could make bots faster than Rito could ban them, except half these bots were level 30+ and 40+. Now, co-op sans FWotD bonus gives very little experience. It takes literally months of FWotD bonuses and/or hundreds of co-op games to be rocking the levels some of these bots are rocking.

For these bots to get that far, Rito has to be basically sitting on their hands doing NOTHING about them.

[zombie-nunu-bummed]

If Rito were actually bothering to detect and to ban these bots, then setting level requirements for higher "difficulty" (haha) co-op might give players the option to use higher "difficulty" co-op relatively free from bots for testing and such, and only Intro and such would be flooded with new bots on their way to their eventual bans.

However, since bots are allowed free reign in LoL, going months and/or hundreds of games without bans, that's not really an option.

[sg-janna]

The really sad part is that half of these bots actually qualify for Ranked play. I feel bad for the Iron players if the cheaters decide to unleash their bot army upon Ranked Runeterra someday.

[sg-soraka]

Propulsionator12/31/2019, 7:24:40 AM1 votes

I am starting to think riot wants these accounts as it artifically boosts the live player base.

LordPickleton1/4/2020, 2:57:43 AM1 votes

Just do what I do: Check the number of bots when you're in champ select. If it's 3 or more, roll a 1v9 champ like Darius and revel in how absolutely broken you get from all the shutdown bonuses.

https://i.imgur.com/x70JhkL.jpg

Inkling Commando12/29/2019, 1:53:32 PM1 votes

just do what you do when a troll is in your game, play around them. since trolls and bots are one and the same.

realiluzky12/31/2019, 11:08:35 AM

i'm in a bots game right now, 4 bots, all afk in spawn. wtf am I sepposed to do rito