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Thank you for commenting! I get the frustration as waiting is a pain, but we are also building out the core infrastructure and tooling around bots as well.

We want to launch as soon as we are able to, but we want to make sure that we can long-term sustainably improve the bots, maintain them, and expand them to other usecases. (For example, future game modes, replacing AFK players, making bots come out alongside new champs, new AI for mobs and jungle monsters, and fixing bugs quickly and easily).

All this infrastructure takes time and deep consideration for the impact on a bunch of teams, but I believe it will be worth the wait for the long-term happiness of our players.

Need to finish Skarner first!

DOOM BOTS DOOM BOTS DOOM BOTS

We are building our bots to play as players, so they will get the money and gold that players get (including kill gold!)

I chose it for that extra chaos energy B)

I am also a big fan of the idea of DoomBots making a come back :)

He is indeed a very sad boi

We are building toward a future where we have the capabilities to do this! Currently, we are working on the core infrastructure, and certain champs could be fairly difficult, but this is something we are jazzed to investigate once we have a stable and working system in place. :)

Jungle bots are a priority! The current system is honestly terrible for new players

Its not that we don't care. Its more that we care alot! Delaying a champ means we are keeping people on the project longer. That usually means a more expensive project (time = money when everyone is salaried). We are willing to do that because we really want to get it right rather than ship something we don't have tons of confidence in. This usually means bigger iterations to test, playtest and run labs. It may not result in bigger changes but it means we are doing as much due diligence as we can.

Hello! Although I am only the PO for League Bots, if you check out our dev blog they talk about starting to do some ban waves around the bad kind of bots so hopefully you will see less of these kind of bad bots in the future!

SR is a separate team from Champions. We're not reducing SR priority to focus on game modes, we're shifting from new Champions specifically, based in significant part on feedback from players that they'd like fewer new champions and more other stuff.

At this point the 2v2v2v2 mode won't be just a prototype. It should be reasonably refined, hence mention for example of having a new map for it rather than just having to repurpose an existing map like we were doing during initial prototyping.

Technically he still doesn't have a real weapon

We are highly aware of this work in particular and are connected with a few folks over in OpenAI. We are also keeping a strong eye on the work around Juewu has been doing in the space!

A reason we decided to pivot our technical infrastructure is to hopefully allow a future to be inclusive of a variety of bots that provide challenging and fun experiences to a wide variety of player motivations and needs. It is one of the reasons we want to take our time to ensure our structure is sound ...

Good news since the article is that we made considerable progress since the article was written :D Not sure if it would help Skarner catchup on the time he already was delayed for... but the team is feeling way more optimistic and energy is picking up! Can wait to have Skarner rushing through into the rift for y'all :D

During development of this video we sat down and talked about how Aludarg didn't like our voices. Our solution was a written summary, just for you, that I'll link here:

https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/tl-dw-midseason-bots-champs-dev-update/

To ensure cohesion of a champion, we generally have to evaluate as a whole package. Even if the gameplay is working, sometimes we need to figure out how this champ fits into the greater runeterra world. Once we make those changes, design usually reconsiders the current kit works well or if there are lightweight tweaks that would make the champ feel alot better as a cohesive package. We also usually use these moments to clean up the scripts to more modern standards. Thus, its not always as simple as just updating art. What goes on underneath the covers on a champ is still bulky work that someone have to set space aside to take on.

There is some data, but we are working to gather a deeper analysis overall around these types of players, especially once we begin to test them out on live! I know I personally would play a lot more if I had an equitable challenge in co-op versus AI that gives me the same skill expression without the worry of a PvP experience.

Overall though, my gut feeling says if we do make overall better bots, we can also draw a lot more players to play in our co-op versus AI modes (more folks like your friends!) As the current bots get really repetitive and don't provide the variety that PvP experiences offer.

Gradual move towards more joint planning and development. We're starting to get more cases of one game/team identifying a cool direction for a character and other games then figuring out how to also adopt that approach around the same time. Won't always be possible, but should see more cases like this going forwards

We are aware of this and have adjusted future roadmaps to balance! Sometimes if I handout too many restrictions for a champ it will become extremely limiting ont he creative space. There are times when it works well: Milio needed to be from Ixtal and need to be young boy and need to be core enchanter. Sometimes you get more of a mashup that is not great for cohesion. In those cases, somethings need to give. Also, all of the champions that end up making it to players hands are not necessarily all of the champs in development/ explored. When champs don’t work out, we don’t adjust other in dev champs to accommodate because usually it’s too late. We can only adjust further out roadmaps (champs that haven’t fully formed yet).