Sometimes. There are various AI "personalities" that include things like how willingly they throw their specials, including their SP3, how aggressively they attack into you, whether they sit back and block (turtle) or wait for you to attack in order to intercept.
Part of learning and improving in the game is learning those AI personalities and figuring out how to counter them.
In Arena, the AI is VERY passive early on, then they start to get more aggressive but also still unwilling to use their specials - SOMETIMES they'll also not use an SP3 but sometimes they'll throw it the instant they get it. Part of strategising arena is remembering when those personalities come into play and picking champs accordingly, so in those difficult rounds (somewhere around rounds 8-10 i find) is when you take in your power control champs, your high damage champs, and your champs who can tank an SP3 and/or Regen.
It's like in sports - if you have a referee/umpire who's particularly fussy about rules, then you have to be extra careful, and the team that doesn't adapt to the conditions will likely lose.
I always figured the ais stay passive at before what, 18 fights, to keep players from using lower level champs as a means of gating lower level players. After a certain amount of fights the ais never play passively anymore in my experience.
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Part of learning and improving in the game is learning those AI personalities and figuring out how to counter them.
In Arena, the AI is VERY passive early on, then they start to get more aggressive but also still unwilling to use their specials - SOMETIMES they'll also not use an SP3 but sometimes they'll throw it the instant they get it. Part of strategising arena is remembering when those personalities come into play and picking champs accordingly, so in those difficult rounds (somewhere around rounds 8-10 i find) is when you take in your power control champs, your high damage champs, and your champs who can tank an SP3 and/or Regen.
It's like in sports - if you have a referee/umpire who's particularly fussy about rules, then you have to be extra careful, and the team that doesn't adapt to the conditions will likely lose.