Buff bots

Topic.

Buff bots please. Give them more hp. Make them hit harder. Spawn more at a time. Whatever. When I can get rid of a pocket of bots in a matter of seconds, and my opposition can do the same thing it's kind of ridiculous. If you make the bots spawn more frequently, or in bigger numbers, then teams would almost be forced to pay attention to them. Throwing a few shots at them and killing them in 2 seconds only diminishes the importance of the objective. MAKE people pay attention to them.

Taking out a pocket of bots in a few shots on your way to killing that Hotshot makes the bots secondary. By buffing bots I think you (Uber) would lend legitimacy to their spawning. Make bots an actual THREAT. Not some secondary task.

This is not Dota. Uber has gone over this a million times.

Bots are the only thing that takes down shields. So they're a threat.

Pretty much this.

Remember in the "How To Play" video when you were told to ESCORT the Breach Bots to the enemy Moneyball?

Bots are hardly a threat.

The team that gets the shields down before overtime and abuses it will win 9 times out of 10. They are definitely a threat.

I do. I cannot speak for anyone else though.

Then escort them and make them a threat.

Bots are the only capable entity that can make the moneyball vulnerable, so their potential is there.

Obviously.

Certain bots can also be very effective in certain maps. For example Gap Shots work very good against both Turrets and players on Spunky Cola Arena. Bouncers also do their job pretty well on Steel Peel Arena.

Standing in front of two to three waves of bots all bunched up (which happens if one team's properly escorting) can eat half your health surprisingly quickly.

uhhh, I'll just say no and be done with it.

Repeating for emphasis.

Oh, btw, for those that don't remember:

Support passive. There. Discussion over.

Support's Passive is one of the least useful skills for escorting bots in the game.

That being said, I agree with all the other responses in this thread. Bots are fine.

Didn't say that. They wanted a buff to bots. Technically it's a buff.

Care to explain for us not in the know?

Well it was hard to really tell what you were saying considering it wasn't a complete thought : P

Considering the conversation had moved to escorting bots I thought you were talking about that.

I see no difference between escorting bots with an aura up and escorting bots with the aura at 1. Bunched up bots are still way too easy to kill.

Passive 1: Nothing.

Passive 2: Bot Aura.

Passive 3: Health.

Bot aura: Bots receive Damage Reduction (like maybe 30% or something) + Doubled rate of fire.

30% x 5 x however many groups that back up + if the support is healing a few on the way over to the action = Bitches be tough as nails.

For a start, they WILL win over non-aura bots so if you tie up the pros in combat the bots will escort themselves. Plus they're more dangerous assisting vs. pros and they're tougher to kill. Blackjacks with the aura upgrade will survive a tank deathblossom at 100% clip with a scratch of health left, who can probably proceed to punch him being so close. Also gives you a second chance to kill him first.