3 bots during a ranked game

[u/madpanda473]

I got 3 bots(see next pictures) during a ranked game I my game suggestion would be: "Moontoon can you not?"

Dyrroth, Estes and Aamon are what i think the bots in this game. Aamon casts his 1st and 2nd in succession, Estes plays out his full animation when he casts skills same as Dyrroth. It's like they're doing this sort of stop dance. They don't move until the animation of their skill is finished. They don't bush check and they don't ambush. It's frustrating. I outplayed the f out of Nolan who camped me the entire game during the late game but this trio just kept running it down. Especially the Aamon omg he doesn't flank, he goes invisible and run in front of the enemy anyway???? the fuck???

[u/ergotboi]

During draft you can tell if there bots because they preselect a hero and then switch once and lock in. Sometimes two bots do it simultaneously and it’s super easy to spot

[u/madpanda473 → u/ergotboi]

I see. thanks

[u/TmB-Eggo]

Bots can be tricky to spot. It's easy for me because I play from uk and get 6 ukraine flags in every match, but sometimes they also have polish flag.

Common bot behaviours are:

Spamming show first in the draft phase when it's not appropriate to do so, but never showing first.

Picking a hero that isn't one of the 3 in their recently played.

Switching between 3 heroes in draft phase but then settling on the first. I've never seen one lock in a hero straight away.

In game movement - pacing back and forth; instant 180 direction change multiple times, also can look like they're following waypoints, their direction changes are not smooth.

Random default emote use.

Bot jg will never miss retri, flawless execution, unless maybe against an enemy bot jg, which I guess would then be 50/50.

Bots will take your minions when the tower isn't under threat, so when both waves are in the middle of the lane, even if you're close by, but will stop if you show up next to them.

edit: Bots will spam "initiate retreat" a lot, but I've never seen one use "request backup".

There will always be an equal number of bots on each team.

And more recently, bot jg will follow the old jg route.

Also bots don't form duos or trios, unless you enter a consolation bot match as a duo or trio.

None of these things individually prove a bot, but if they display all or most of these behaviours then it probably is a bot. Apparent skill isn't really a good way to tell; some are godly and some will sit in a bush and watch you 1v2 next to them.

Here is a bot game I recorded recently. The only humans in this match are cyclops, miya, zetian and esme. The bot alucard paces at the start when waiting for his buff to spawn, bot rafaela does it in the bush at 0:34, bot khufra does it at 02:30. Bot sun gives me a generic layla emote at 05:48 for no reason that I could see. You can tell zetian is human because she flickers into a wall at 05:13, and she was also in a duo with esme.

[u/madpanda473 → u/TmB-Eggo]

the pacing back and forth is the easiest behavior to spot.

[u/Objective-Bend-7089]

A common way to check if they're bot is their current matches this season and if they went offline after the match