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The Botting Issue

Suspicious Xebra·7/18/2016, 12:09:39 PM·1 votes·419 views

So I am pretty new to this game and I cannot believe the massive botting problem it has. It is a shock to see a match that doesn't have at least 1-2 bots. As a newer player, if the bot ends up on my team, it makes it exceptionally difficult to learn to get better because the opposing team gets fed by the bot (or the bots do the stupid clump in a circle and die together thing) and they get way too powerful to handle. The bots take the minion kills, thus robbing the actual players of the gold needed to stay competitive. I played a match the other day where the entire enemy team and all but me and one teammate were bots. It was pathetic to see. Even when the bots are on the other team they are so poorly programmed it takes a significant amount of the fun out of it. I have seen other posts about this issue and the response they get is "we are working on programs to help detect them". At this point, Riot needs waves of moderators in the game to swing the ban hammer immediately. If people see a bot gets a game or two if they are lucky and then gets banned, perhaps it would help detour them from continuing. I am not sure exactly how the ban works, but it should be an IP ban, so that they cannot just make another account to bot with.

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Maiziea7/18/2016, 12:21:19 PM2 votes

There's no way Riot can get enough mods in the game to monitor it, players cannot be trusted with that power and with how many people play this game it's just not possible to keep up with the demand. Most of this is automated though, it takes time before these accounts are banned but they will be banned eventually. And from personal experience I can tell you that you won't see many bots anymore later, match making takes a pretty big swing the moment you hit level 30, so just level up and get to level 30 :). And just making sure, you're talking about ARAM right?