User blog comment:Bachoru/Leavers, ELO and more/@comment-3358335-20110509203008

I'll respond to the two over-arching concepts here.

1. Elo is not worth worrying too much about. It is something for children to brag about, but it means very little. Also, it tends to trend. You WILL lose games because your teammates are no good. Sometimes you will lose games when you have great teammates but it seems that everyone is on different pages in their playbooks. However, over a larger samples set your individual performance will either raise or lower your Elo accordingly. Even the best players get stuck with shitty teammates, or teammates that they don't mesh with, yet they still get top rated scores.

The important part is if you win more than you lose, then your rating will go up.

2. Yes the bots cheat. They get infused with gold because they are easy to kill. You cannot lure Renketon-player into a tower like you can lure Renekton bot. Renekton Player is not going to sit still while being hit by the tower going through their AI script trying to figure out what they are suppose to do in this situation. "Hmm, being hit by the tower, AND I just got with a cleaver .. .lets see, should I go in the Cleaver decision tree, or the Tower decision tree. . .Cleaver one says to get behind minions, but I AM behind minions, guess I should go to the Tower decision tree. . lets see, how many times have I been hit by the tower? Well, that's 3 now, and a second cleaver. .(should I check the cleaver one again.)" You get the point. . . You can seriously screw with the AI once you learn how they make thier decisions, so that if they didn't get infused with gold it would be pointless.

The biggest problem I have playing bots is that people join that get snowball items and are only interested in racking up 55 kills. I am trying out a new character, and seeing what a new build could do (which infusing the bots with gold helps out a lot with since the bots tend to load up on defense and I can get a good feel on what my late game damage out put is. . if I finish the build.) but I can't tell because some jackass is rolling around with a SotO and Mejai's and just trolling the bots.

Consequently, you can't feed the bots either. If you die to the bots they do not get their items faster. They get their items at the same time every game.