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PSA's With Kwaggy! time, kids!

You know how there's the option to play against bots instead of real people? You know, Co-op vs. AI? Yeah, well what you might not have known is that a lot of people like those games to end VERY quickly so they can go do something else, or just to say they beat it that quick. (My personal record for classic 5v5 was 9 minutes on the dot, in solo queue no less! Beat that!) Now, most people are okay with that, on one condition:

IF YOU WANT TO SPEED-RUN A CO-OP GAME, YOU HAVE TO ******** TELL US THAT AT CHAMPION SELECT.

I can't TELL you how many times I've had someone, at 15 minutes into a game, go "OMG Y WE NOT DONE YEEEEEEEEEET??????!!!!!?!1?!!!!?1!!1?" Just got out of a game with one. Now, I had no idea that he wanted to get out quick, so I'd been playing fairly normal and making on real effort to push for win. Had he TOLD us that he wanted out quick, I would've been pushing like a fiend, especially since I was already playing Tiamat Fiora so it's not like I push slowly.

You may be wondering why it's expected that we be made aware of this as early as champ select. It's because I want to know my mentality of play going in, so I can play and build accordingly. Especially when you look at the other two competing mentalities in bot games. (Those other two mentalities are "get full build and lolligag a little" and "get [X] total team kills," usually 100. Both of these take a LOOOOOOONG time.)

And lastly, remember that while most bot games end at ~25 minutes, it's still LoL we're talking about. In a regular game, you shouldn't be playing unless you can commit the next hour to it without fear. In bots, you can dial that back to 40 minutes. If you don't tell us you want to speed-run it, you have no right to complain when we haven't pushed for game at 15 minutes in.

In summary: If you want to speed blitz the bots, I'll do that. If you want to get full build, I'll do that, too. If you want 100 total kills, I'll even do that! (It's really fun; try it some time when you have like an hour to kill.) However, I need to know we're doing it in the first place, otherwise I'm just going to run around going "loltiamatfioralolololololol" or some other such nonsense.