What the hell is going on with the Oracle bot?

[Yummomummo]

I've already made a post about bots in general back in June which is why this is about the one specific bot and how I personally feel that even with the other issues with the bots, this one is inexcusable rather than yet another post on the bots as a whole. Also, I'm well aware of the fact that my name and profile picture might make this hard to take seriously.

In my original post, I only skimmed over the Oracle bot because I had a very limited knowledge of how the hero works. I only really play in pubs and he is very rarely picked in those. That and the fact that when I made the post I only had one game on the hero, meant that I had no idea what the hero was meant to play like. He is now my main, and the bot couldn't be further from how the hero actually plays.

First of all, laning with it is an absolute nightmare. As with most of the healing support bots, it constantly auto attacks, takes last hits and only heals itself, usually while you're dying and the bot has full hp. But in bot games, playing in any lane other than mid means you've already lost, so I haven't experienced this problem too much.

Secondly, the bot has no idea how it's spells work. Quite often, it will spam purifying flames on the enemy and NEVER follow it up with fortune's end/Eul's so you end up with the enemy carry being this unkillable beast. When the bot does decide to heal you it just whacks purifying flames on you without fate's edict. This usually happens when you're about to escape a disjointable spell with your blink dagger. I feel like the bot should just be banned from using fate's edict all together looking at it again. The only times I've seen it get used on allies are when you're pushing and are about to take the objective, only to have the oracle disarm you, wait until it's over, then cast purifying flames on you, making you unable to take the objective, and unable to stay alive for the incoming defense. It's also great to have it be cast on the enemy, just as your finger of death or laguna blade is about to hit.

Thirdly the ult. The most thrilling part of Oracle, in my opinion. Casting it and not knowing if the person is going to live or die for the next few seconds, as you desperately use all of your heals on them, but not focusing on them entirely, because your team still needs you is the reason I love the hero as much as I do. If you have a bot playing oracle, ally or enemy, this will NEVER happen. Turns out the oracle bot has no idea how to ult and will go the entire game without casting it. (also if you're playing oracle vs bots, and you cast it on a low HP ally you've just wasted it because they will just run back to base, even if you heal enough to get them back to full)

Lastly, itemization. This is a problem with the bots in general too, but Oracle seems particularly brain dead. Every game, without fail it will have 20 wards in its inventory, from the beginning of the game, until your ancient dies (which it will because this bot single-handedly loses you games). Most bots at least save you some, but every game I've had with the oracle bot, it buys all of them, every time they come back into stock. It also buys arcane boots, which is a fairly standard pick up for Oracle. But then it goes into either one of two items, mek (there's usually one already being carried by a viper, tide or necro.) or eul's. I personally don't see the point of getting Eul's on Oracle, the mana problems Oracle has are dealt with by getting aether lens (my favourite item for oracle along with spirit vessel) and Oracle already has a purge, that can hit multiple people, and also affects allies. But that's beside the point. The bot will use the eul's for the most pointless things; enemy drow taking our rax? better Eul's the dazzle who's currently doing nothing. Once it gets one of these two items it just stops. I've seen the bot get enough gold for both by taking my kills (not complaining too much because I take kills with Oracle a lot too) but only ever get one, and not pick up a single item apart from the wards it never places afterwards.

In conclusion, this post was too long. But also the oracle bot is a piece of♥♥♥♥♥♥that should be removed from the bot's hero pool like they did with Riki.

Thanks for reading this long, effectively pointless ramble.

[zZzooey.exe]

I laughed for like 10 minutes at your descriptions. Sounds to me like most ranked games Ive played in past.
I truly got no idea what to suggest to you...but thank you for funny post.
P.s. ever considered to play custom games or play bot co-op match instead solo bots?