Just played my first match after a couple weeks of inactivity, and the game decided to greet me with almost completely botted match on rank. I'm convinced at least 8 of the 9 players in this match were bots, except maybe for the layla.

All from the enemy team start jiggling back and forth when I enter their aggro zone, same as bots in practice. If they have to recall they just retreat back out of my area of sight, no hiding in bush, not a safe distance from my stuns. Just enough so they can't be seen recalling on map. My team constantly spams nonsensical pings or just random messages, when I'm nearby they let out the occasional emoji without any reason for it. After inspecting them almost all have around 500 matches and 49% this season, and everyone from my team had the exact same background on their profile; the alpha luckybox skin.

This is in mythic 70 stars btw, or at least supposed to be. Most of the above bots have never even reached honor, and none have ever reached glory.

Is this the state of the game now? Either get bots on easy mode in both teams for artificial wins or hard enemy bots for loses? You either chase the unemployed sweats at 200-300 stars or play exclusively with AI? Might as well shut it down if that's the case. 

So many bots. Is the game effectively dead on lower ranks?