ARAM repetition - not very random?

Börk·7/12/2016, 3:51:33 PM·1 votes·376 views

(Note: This is subjective. YMMV.) I'm consistently (re-)rolling champions that I've recently played in ARAM; despite having 66 unlocked and the weekly free rotation to choose from, it doesn't seem very random.

Can we consider almost-randomness where, if necessary, one spends an extra few seconds in the queue in order to be far less likely to roll a duplicate champ from the last N matches (where N is some metric possibly based on # champs unlocked)?

Same for re-rolls -- getting a champ I had last round and then spending a re-roll that gives me the champ I had two rounds ago is a bothersome waste of something I earned.

Further, a player with fewer champs is more likely to (re-)roll duplicates, so this suggestion could possibly work across the board for all ARAM players...

EDIT: About the poll -- let's assume "all things being equal" for the suggestion (as in, it wouldn't greatly expand queue times, etc.) Voting yes or no because it may or may not break something or be easy/difficult to add (we are not qualified to judge either) is not the question being asked.

4 Comments

Chamuel857/12/2016, 4:03:50 PM1 votes

i get the same champ over and over... and it comes in wave. .. and usually a champ that's horrible for ARAM

Merbstrom7/12/2016, 5:13:02 PM1 votes

I don't like playing Nocturne all the time either, but I fear we might have significantly increased queue times if they were to change the algorithm. You have to remember it currently has to consider the champion pools for every player on both teams. Then again, I'm not a Riot employee, so I have no idea what's really going on/what their capabilities and resources are.

Plus ARAM sounds better than AP(seudo)RAM.