TheRealSad

And while you level up your bots, could you please permaban all level 30 bought accounts raised by bot networks?

Buying accounts is by your own ToS' ruling illegal, yet every game in Plat upwards features some 'mysterious' prodigy with a level 30 account who gets 40 LP each win, is extremely toxic and plays way out of the league they're in.

And no, don't bullshit me with this "level 30s aren't all bad" nonsense. The level that these alleged 'new' players play on is absolutely ridiculous and you can tell from a single game they play whether or not they're new or an illegally bought account.

Also, their name history which I'm sure Riot can check would further drive the nail into the coffin.

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!

WoorieKod

Long ago, I've groups of friends that'd exclusively play AI intermediate and avoid norms/pvp

Is this still relevant? Is there any statistics of how many legitimate AI mode players are out there, just curious since this topic was never really brought up since forever ago

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.

redstarbird

Is there any chance that Doom Bots will come back in the future following this change? Maybe as a higher 'challenge' difficulty for the new bots?

Let's just say I'm a very big fan of Doombots of Doom and want to bring back the memes of surviving Annie bot 👀

superiorhumanz

I remember my first normals game after I gathered up enough courage after crushing my bot games. I got completely destroyed. Glad they are expanding on the bots.

This happened to me too! My friends just told me I have to lose a bunch until I "got it" and it was super painful. We are specifically trying to address this as our first major usecase so that players have a much easier ramp into PvP

warpenguin55

Sometimes I want to play league but don't have the mental energy to play vs real people. Bots are very useful for that.

Totally agree! I'd be much more willing to jump on (and convince my friends to jump on) if we had a way to avoid incurring the mental energy of PvP. (Or if we could just get 5 on to try something really silly, just to have fun).

Affectionate_Car7098

Right but a tutorial is going to be vastly better than your bots, you know it, i know it, everyone else knows it

Agree to disagree on that! But regardless, a good tutorial also needs good bot tech to function.

ztfh

As an experienced player, would it be possible to implement a more advanced training stage, like a jungle gym in prac tool? Moving targets of different speeds, or attaching items to a target to test functionality as a solo player would be nice

We are building this system to be extendable to these goals and use cases!

Since this is new infrastructure, we are starting easy and scaling to other use cases once we are confident in the infrastructure.

Spideraxe30

With the addition of jungle bots, and I assume wanting new players to jungle, will co-op vs AI be moving to Quick Play from Blind Pick, whenever that drops

We are currently working closely with the quick play team to see what the new player experience should be, whether blind pick or quick play, but our bots are being built with both routes in mind.

For the 2 week on test though, we are aiming for blind pick and when the bots are ready to roll out on production, we will adapt them to the strategy of champ select at that time.

F0RGERY

Does this mean Renekton bot going afk will be fixed?

Yes! We are building a much more scalable and maintainable system to ensure these kind of bugs are easy to triage and fix.

LionelleDi

Same, I like playing this way and can;t wait for the new bots!

Please try our bots out when they come out later this year for the PBE test! We are currently aiming for helping newbies, but we do have much longer term goals that your opinion would help us influence!

HarryHagaren

Just in case any Rioter reads the comments: why did the bots in intermediate coop suddenly stop having skins?

Up until a few months ago, bots use to have skins, and it was often a cool way to see new skins in-game.

Unsure but thank you for flagging! We do have this as a Must requirement though for our new bots, so thank you for saying you appreciate it as it makes it an even stronger Must when we launch. :)

Affectionate_Car7098

It won't be a good training system though, the only part missing is jungling and wasting resources on the bots isn't going to improve that, for players to learn they need to play against players, pure and simple

We are adding in jungle bots :)

LionelleDi

Honestly, I played over 1500 games with and aginst bots so I can't wait for this!!! I hope we will also be able to get more points for passes playing vs AI

Hey! Thanks for being super excited for our bots! We are super excited to make them feel great from newbie to co-op versus AI mains. :)

WoorieKod

As someone who played an entire year of bots before normals and spent hundred of custom only against bots this could be interesting

I hope they make it challenging enough that casuals are able to play it often and long enough as a side game

100%! I played bots until level 17 and only through sheer willpower (and the power of friendship) did I stick around long enough to learn to love League, and now it's the major reason I joined Riot.

We have a long term goal to provide challenging bots for all skill levels, since even now when I want to play, I usually want to try something fun and see if it would work out at my skill level. I think bots is an excellent opportunity to meet these types of needs. :D

Contact support! Korea has some governmental implications so they might request some proof but worth while asking!

Dyynamik

If you were interested, I put the Vi tattoo up!

I love it!

This looks amazing! I'm so impressed with the application and style. :)

superworking

Roadmap to not regretting your tattoo is pretty much - have good quality work - avoid hate symbols. You should be good to go.

Aligned! Good art is good art 👍

Dyynamik

Looks awesome buddy! They did a great job packing the color into her hair! Makes me even more stoked for my Vi piece at the end of January! Hope yours heals up clean!

Can't wait to see your Vi tattoo 👀

Bblackzuko2499

That also sound like a good idea thanks to you as well 👌

Jinx is in Wild Rift and Wild Rift has turntable models that are high fidelity, so the tattoos are higher resolution for reference. :)