Full tweet from Riot K3o, who's on the League anti-cheat team:
As of today, we're ramping up our cadence in removing bots in League of Legends. Feel free to DM me any bots you encounter moving forward, particularly if it's in a non Co-Op game mode.
I've seen a lot of posts recently on this sub about bots. Seems like Riot is taking notice.
External link →f**k there was a rammus jungle in a game of mine a week ago that was very, very obviously a bot. Not flaming a bad player, it was clearly just an AI and in a ranked game lmao
I'll see if I can dig up that match history
Let me know! I've been reading DMs here and on Reddit, so far so good, but looking to make sure we're on the mark.
Thank you so much for helping out with this, the bots are out of control.
Any thoughts on targeting intermediate/beginner bot games? It’s basically all bots, especially in beginner bots, and might be a way to reduce how many smurf accounts are in circulation.
Is there a way to track the suspected bots from those games if they aren’t suspicious enough to ban outright, and then ban them when they all of a sudden go from terrible to gold/master performance?
We're looking to ban a whole swath of bots, though I can't be specific on the specific cadences for all game modes, besides us having a zero tolerance approach to bots in Ranked. I will also say, we do look to minimize the player impact of bots, which includes account selling/smurfing.
Why not zero tolerance for bot-leveled, purchased accounts in ranked?
Botting is always going to be against ToS and bannable, but we have to be careful at the cadence we ban as not to let the botters iterate faster. We still ban bots in all game modes, just some we need out of game faster than others.
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