"Custom Games must have 2 players"

[Hoticehunter]

Since when? I'm trying to play a game against bots because I want to try out Skarner, but now I can't because apparently you can't start a custom game unless there are at least two players. What the hell?

[Axethor]

Wow, thats dumb. I just played a custom game yesterday for quick IP to buy my last quint. I hope it's a bug, or it's only in place till they fix some bug we don't know about.

[This name sucks]

They usually do that when there is an excess of custom games going on at any given time so they do that to hopefully ease the load.

[Fencers]

It happens during very heavy traffic on the LoL servers.

[Makoblade]

Just do a bots game to learn a new champ.

But like a couple others said, custom games require two people during times of high server load in order to prevent people from making an excess of worthless customs.