r/Teamfight_Tactics

I genuinely like the core game of Teamfight Tactics. The economy, scouting, positioning, adapting your composition and competing for a shared champion pool can be excellent.

Unfortunately, my recent Ranked experience has made me want to stop playing completely.

Riot openly acknowledges that bots can appear in Ranked games in Gold and below. According to Riot, this is supposed to make the climb to Platinum “smoother and more enjoyable.” My experience has been the exact opposite.

I regularly encounter accounts that behave very obviously like bots: default cosmetics, no interaction, bizarre compositions, strange item choices and highly mechanical play patterns. Yet these same opponents can finish 1st, 2nd and 3rd with extraordinarily upgraded boards.

That completely undermines the purpose of Ranked.

I do not queue for Ranked TFT to compete against Riot-controlled AI. I would far rather wait five minutes for a lobby of eight human players than get an instant queue filled with bots.

Even worse, the presence of bots destroys confidence in the competitive integrity of the game. As a human player I have no way of knowing what information these bots are given, how they evaluate the shared champion pool, whether they scout in the same way humans must, or whether their shop behaviour follows exactly the same limitations. Riot may know the answers, but the player does not.

That uncertainty alone is enough to ruin a competitive game.

I have repeatedly experienced uncontested compositions where the champions I need barely appear, while heavily contested champions appear constantly. At the same time I have watched bot-like opponents assemble boards filled with 3-star units, sometimes taking the top positions. I cannot prove that their shop odds are different, and I am not claiming that as a fact. The problem is that Riot has created an environment where I am even forced to wonder about it.

Ranked competition requires trust. Once I am spending more time asking “Am I playing another person, or Riot’s AI?” than thinking about my composition, something has gone seriously wrong.

And there is an absurd catch: Riot says bots disappear from Ranked when a Platinum-or-higher player is present. So players in the lower ranks potentially have to beat Riot’s bots to reach the rank where they finally get to stop playing against Riot’s bots.

That is one of the strangest design decisions I have encountered in a competitive multiplayer game.

Give players an option:

Human opponents only — longer queue times accepted.

Until then, I am done with Ranked TFT. The underlying game is good. The Ranked experience has made it feel artificial, untrustworthy and, ultimately, pointless.

I'm Silver IV Silver III player, I understand fundamentals but I know I can do a lot better. I need some human contact to better learn so if someone is ready to help me, i would appreciate !