Player 'Bots' and Queues

an N M E··1 votes·363 views

I don't know if this phenomenon has been going on for a while, but they're essentially useless players who don't communicate and feed incessantly--player bots, I've seen them called.

After just enduring a game with one and coming out victorious, I was queued with the exact same idiot (summoner name - uULMDolores) and had no choice but to dodge the queue and face penalization in the form of a timeout. What else was I to do?

In a previous game, I was queued with two of these players in a game of 3s. The other team apologized and gave their condolences, while I just sat there in-game trying to decide whether to sit there and twiddle my thumbs for at least 15 minutes while my teammates ran around aimlessly or leave the game. I chose the latter.

The point of this post is to express my frustration at being punished in one way or another for trying to avoid these toxic players. How am I to deal with this?

4 Comments

Zaryelle1 votes

They are leveling bots, they are in tons of games at low level. People will come in and deny it though and say these players weren't running into towers over and over cause they're bots, but cause they're 'just new' , lol right.

an N M E1 votes

It's super sucky, man... especially since I don't mess with ranked at all and I'm rarely playing 5s. I hope there's an answer to this mess soon...

Zaryelle1 votes

Back in March/April, there were an overflow of tons of bots.. I started seeing them like every other game. Then they sent out a huge ban wave and I actually didn't see any for a long time.. but I started seeing them again in like September/October, these new ones are so bad though.. they barely even play the game. Some of them don't even use skills, they just run to turret/minions, then walk back way behind turret in an infinite loop until they die.

Every time I get a bot they only do 1000 damage dealt the entire game to champions.. its ridiculous. Worse than AFK cause it pretty much just feeds and doesn't do anything else, but it's not counted as AFK. I see so many now that i don't even bother reporting anymore, sometimes there's just too many.

an N M E1 votes

WOW, 5/6 PLAYERS IN A GAME I JUST LEFT WERE BOTS. Forget this game, I'll be back once Riot rectifies this bull.

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