[2023] Updated bots are coming later this year. Are you excited like me? Anything on your wishlist for bot changes?

Originally posted by 149989058

I love playing bots just for relaxation and gaining familiarity with champs I don’t normally play while listening to podcasts. I’ve probably played like 3000 bot games on my main account. I’ve noticed there are many flaws with bots that makes playing against them very boring, weird, even ridiculous. As someone who loves bot games I’d like to see them being fixed 1. Bots are simply too buggy. Certain champs, like Nami, Warwick, sometimes go AFK for no reason after death (even when no one on our team is also afk). Taric sometimes just stand still and do nothing, Olaf will sometimes randomly go hyper aggressive and chase you into tower; Rammus will Q chase you into tower, Ryze ults himself and the wave into your tower when escaping, etc. These seem to be bugs that other bot champions don’t have an issue with. 2. Bots always stop fighting and run after they are damaged down to a certain HP threshold, it’s like 20-30% of their health. Olaf is an exception. 3. Bots play in a way that is way too predictable. They always back when low HP. They always do it under tower or in the lane behind towers out of vision so you can always go around the terrain to the same spot and kill them. Bots don’t dodge spells nearly often enough and their movements are way too predictable. Some bots play in a very fixed way such as Warwick always Q’s behind you regardless of situation, Darius always stand still during Q if you are on top of him, Vlad always W at a certain low hp threshold, etc. this makes practicing against bots kind of an issue because often they don’t play like humans do at all. 4. Bots not reacting to delayed abilities like fiddle R, pyke Q and E, Lissandra E, Poppy ult, etc. 5. Bots never ward, except Jax who knows how to ward hop when escaping. 6. Bots are too terrible at farming and using abilities to push waves. Most of the time they don’t seem to care much about it, even when super minions are surrounding the nexus, some champions will only auto attack or not use all their abilities, but this is also champion dependent. 7. Bots sometimes build in counter intuitive ways. Such as mid Zyra or Brand, Lux going spellthief.

These are the things I can think of off the top of my head that most impact the bot gaming experience for me at least.

Originally posted by blade-queen

What is the PO position? It's really awesome to see you reading and responding to a dedicated player's comment with an opportunity

Originally posted by NepthZMob

Please leave the news bots in the PBE indefinitely , not only some weeks for testing. PLS

Originally posted by CorruptDictator

If it works like they are saying it will be great, especially for new players. Personally I hope it will herald the eventual return of new and improved DOOM BOTS.

Originally posted by certifiedpunchbag

BOT HYPE TRAIN CHOO CHOOO

Originally posted by Aelotius

Also, I hope the bots start grouping for objectives so it forces players to deal with team fight situations! Playing around dragons, herald, and baron is an important part of the game that new players never learn about in Bots.

Originally posted by Aelotius

That's amazing! Is out already out on PBE?

Originally posted by Byakurane

I would luke to see bots that can rival proplay in terms of skill. It would be amazing to use them to learn things for higher level play without actually inting at high elo. Even better if those bots permanently improve and would have some self learning, they might even find new builds and picks we don't use yet.

Originally posted by Aelotius

Looking forward to it then, best of luck to the team!

Originally posted by blade-queen

Oh, awesome! Nice to meet u. I'm a game design student aspiring to be a rioter :)

Originally posted by lynxbird

When playing against new AI:

-does AI have vision of players in fog of war? if no, does it use wards?

-do champions controlled by bots get additional buffs (like in boom bots) or they are normal champions?

-do AI controlled champions get just earned gold (from CS and kills) or they get bonus gold compared to player?

-can AI roam or gank?

Originally posted by raphelmadeira

Hello u/RiotDashiJador, so I should forward the messages I exchanged with Riot Brightmoon to you:

"I hope you guys finally include jungler bots. I've been playing since 2018 today I'm level 1295 and the experience for new players is still terrible! All the new players are forced to play against bots for X levels against:

2 bots at the top, 2 in the bot, and one in the mid.

When new players go to ranked games or normal games they discover that magically there is another role within the League of Legends which is: jungler.

It is no wonder that it is one of the role that players lack the most, they are not taught to play in the jungle at the moment they enter on League of Legends. I've been talking about this for years, I hope you guys finally address this problem with a solution. And present the real game of League of Legends as soon as possible to all players who need to play vs bots first.

Games against bots should be like a regular ranked or normal game of League of Legends: 1 enemy at the top, 1 at the mid, 2 at the bot, and a jungler."

ps: today I'm level 1348

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/131vqnm/comment/ji2pl3u/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Originally posted by NepthZMob

Could you give us an estimated date of when we can test it on PBE :>) ?

Originally posted by Lillerbun

What will the bots do when the live service team decides to remove dragon and rift herald next preseason? Can they cope or will they be just as dumbfounded as the players are, wandering around the map aimlessly?

Originally posted by Deleri2

Bit of a shot in the dark but am also pretty interested in this line of work / designing bots such as these. Do you happen to have any recommendations of resources to read up on or tips to get into this particular field? Am a CS student but don’t really know where to start with something like this. Anything would be greatly appreciated :D

Originally posted by Compscitutorr

I'm not sure if this was asked, but is there a rough ETA of when this will be out? Are we talking end of year or in a few months? If you can't answer this question, that's fair - I'm only really excited to see what you guys do!