Queue soloing is one of the big goals for League of Legends players. The thing is not easy, especially when you start in the depths of the ladder. But this is not the most complicated point to manage. After all, being bronze is just a symbol that attests to your current level (stop saying you have a diamond rank) — and it’s normal to expect to reach at least gold. What often comes up on the table when we lose a game are our mates with the eternal phrase: “It’s not my fault, it’s my mates’.” While it’s true that sometimes we’re not helped with a Garen top who decides to celebrate feed day, or a jungler who out-smites an objective, you may be faced with worse: bots.
Yes, bots. Not the harmless ones you encounter in Coop vs AI, but bots you can encounter in ranked. And no, it’s not a myth.
Devastating bots
If you come across one during your game, it is easily spotted. This player – or rather bot – occupies the support position with Yuumi in particular and never clings to another ally when his mate dies but systematically returns to the fountain. It does almost no damage during the game, but above all it does not pose any ward. By taking a quick look at his history on League of Graphs, we see that he only plays support, presents the same statistics in each game but above all thatThis is an account that has just reached level 30 and has just started ranked games.
These bots were notably highlighted by Youtuber Skooch. One of his viewers raised the problem with him. The bot in question had sent a message in the lobby at the start of the game stating that he was selling the account. He also explains why Yuumi is used in this scenario. It is very hard for Riot Games to spot a bot on this particular champion since he clings to his allies and is therefore dependent. It is therefore difficult to trace the activity of the player behind the champion. This situation is all the more obvious when Yuumi is banned. The bot chooses another medium and behaves exactly like the cat — staying around its ADC.
But what do the police do?
It seems absurd that Riot Games does not react faster. There is no doubt that at least half of the players in the game reported it by the end. On the bot account I found on League of Graphs, the bot in question has already played 16 ranked and has a very low win rate of 37.5% – but it is still active.
It’s true that these bots mostly hit the smurf tail, but well-meaning players who are really starting the rankeds for the first time in their life can be hit. They therefore live an unpleasant gaming experience that can make them want to climb the ladder. On Reddit, the subject is topical. A player wanted to warn the community: “If you have a low ELO and someone in your champ select meets all three criteria: they play support, they have a win rate of less than 30%, and they are NOT banning a champion, they’re a BOT and you have to dodge or be sure to lose. There’s a tiny, tiny chance it’s a human — but if you’re low ELO and those 3 conditions are met, you better take the 3 LPs and to dodge rather than play with a shitty AI.”
We hope that Riot Games will become aware of the problem – if it has not already done so. We bet that you will not face this problem and that your games will not be ruined. If unfortunately you end up with a bot in your game, the only solution is to report it at the end of the game so that other players do not suffer the same thing.
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