Why Riot should introduce a heavier scripted rank of AI-games

by Trey Yeoman

10/23/2016 - 08:00am EST - Florida

“Doom Bots”, amazing… tough… terrifying. The Teemoing is definitely enjoyable (and I would expect nothing less, at this point).

But, seeing the bots in Doom Bots play, makes me have a feeling that has been consistent throughout my playing league of legends: there needs to be a more realistic bot mode to prepare new-accounts that are making that initial transition out of AI-Intermediate into PVP Draft (and for general casual play for veterans and/or practice)

I think that there needs to be “Bot - Expert; or Bot - Realistic” mode that exists outside of holiday-events. I believe that the coding already exists, as evidence by the intricate game play of the ‘Doom Bots’. They are able to gank lanes, focus specific players, combine their ultimate’s and coordinate ganks.

With the release of the “Doom Bots 2″ AI Map, I now know that there is code to both implement a textual-voting experience where the players can vote for "ai-levels" as well as inherently being able to manipulate the severity of spell use, intensity of play-combos and over-all power of the AI-Bots.

While I do not think that the “realistic/expert” bot mode that I am advocating for should have any disadvantageous coding (like the environment effects of the Teemoing); I think that it is not unrealistic to expect and request Riot to have the ability, knowledge, source code, experience and willingness to implement a more advanced, but year-round, expert/realistic bot-game mode.

As part of the aforementioned realistic/expert bot mode, there should be a “jungler”-AI introduced into the expert/realistic bot-mode to ensure that the Riot Gamer is able to more successfully transition into playing against real players.

Of note: this realistic/expert mode could be used for veterans to train their weaker champion’s or practice for new champions with the stress of dealing with a toxic-ass enemy team and reducing the chance of having toxic teammates, because: who joins bots and wants to be a troll?