Something needs to be done with ARAM

TheLonelyPhox·Oct 30, 2014·5 votes·1,093 views

I have over 1200 games in ARAM so this is only my experience and opinion.

It's getting to the point where if i don't roll one of 18 select champions, i don't have fun. If my team has mostly melee, it feels like i'm wasting 20 mins of my life watching our Toons getting poked non-stop. And it IS to the point where if my team has no poke i just close League and play something else.

Making a new account and buying a few select champs could help(lower random pool), but that is not a solution. And the "Its only ARAM" does not mean i don't want to try and win and have epic fights, i do. But it's getting seriously hard to have tons of fun as of late.

I'm having a hard time taking it seriously now and i'm to the point where i ask if anyone else feels this way?

I don't have a solution in mind at all, it is too complex for a simple change.

Thanks for your time.

17 Comments

Darth3pOhOct 30, 20142 votes

The problem is, that for us who play mainly ARAM, the "random" part is not what we like but simple to play on The Howling Abyss. The simplest solution is to add a blind pick queue. Before The Howling Abyss got it's own queue people played it in private games and a rather large part of those games were blind pick.

I know riot commented on it after the release of "new" Howling Abyss saying something like "it takes up a lot of time and work just to make a new queue" and "ARAM is supposed to be fun and relaxing" so they didn't add a blind pick queue. I however have always wanted one and hopefully enough other people do so too, to the extent that riot will consider making one.

Sailor MintOct 30, 20142 votes

The problem is, that for us who play mainly ARAM, the "random" part is not what we like but simple to play on The Howling Abyss. The simplest solution is to ad a blind pick que. Before The Howling Abyss got it's own que people played it in private games and a rather large part of those games were blind pick.

I know riot commented on it after the release of "new" Howling Abyss saying something like "it takes up a lot of time and work just to make a new que" and "ARAM is supposed to be fun and relaxing" so they didn't add a blind pick que. I however have always wanted one and hopefully enough other people do so too, to the extent that riot will consider making one.

Sooner or later, ARAM will be shifted to use the entire pool.

SouL1essOct 30, 20141 votes

Should have been that way in the first place, if Riot didn't think that they don't want players to get to play champions they didn't pay for, whether with IP or RP.

Sailor MintOct 30, 20141 votes

Pretty sure different champion pools per game mode/queue is not supported at the moment. The current control seems to be limited to tweaking to the free rotation.

Ranked only disables free champions. Low level free rotation replaces the normal one and is global across every game mode.

The required feature would be akin to having a custom rotation, with every champions enabled, but only for ARAM.

xDingwithsaladOct 30, 20141 votes

its only aram. if you are concerned about WINNING, then you really need to take a step back and ask yourself why winning is so important. Because if youre not having fun playing a game mode that is 100% random and not winning, then you should go play something else. people like me troll in arams-we dont take them seriously, and i dont think theyre meant to be taken seriously.

TheLonelyPhoxOct 30, 20142 votes

I answered that in my post. Its either have fun with some range, or sit there and watch myself get poked and towers die...... I implore you to only use slow melee chars all day and see how you feel about ARAM

Sailor MintOct 30, 20142 votes

Only solution is making every champions available in ARAM.

I've won as 5 melees vs 5 A tier. But i agree, it's stupid.

xDingwithsaladOct 30, 20141 votes

again, you equate "having fun" to winning. if you are NOT having fun LOSING, then stop playing.

and i dont complain one bit about what i get in aram, BECAUSE ITS TOTALLY RANDOM. STOP PLAYING IF YOU DONT ENJOY PLAYING FFS.

themachamp2Oct 30, 20142 votes

again, you equate "having fun" to winning. if you are NOT having fun LOSING, then stop playing.

and i dont complain one bit about what i get in aram, BECAUSE ITS TOTALLY RANDOM. STOP PLAYING IF YOU DONT ENJOY PLAYING FFS.

Having a 1 sided match from the start screen isnt really fun though. I mean, i might afk if my team was all melee vs all the op range champs.

xDingwithsaladOct 30, 20141 votes

then afk lol, again, nobody really cares, its aram.

Poorly DressedOct 30, 20141 votes

It's still a mode where people want to win. Maybe it's not as tryhard as ranked or normal draft but still it's a team mode and if you don't care at all, then don't queue up pls.

DirewolfiezOct 30, 20141 votes

This is the guy that thinks that Lee Sin is fine the way he is now. Just ignore him, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

OleandervineOct 30, 20141 votes

If you really have a problem with ARAM, have a problem with the flood of computer controlled farming bots that are pervading that game mode. I swear, I just played 2 games where there were only 5 total human players between both teams - the remaining "players" were nothing more than poorly scripted programs.

And also, while I do agree that, yeah, getting slagged with an all melee team against a lot of poke sucks, that's what happens when chance takes the wheel. I personally think Ziggs has an irritating amount of poke for ARAM, but hey, everyone has their counters, and sometimes the random generator picks, sometimes it doesn't.

Sailor MintOct 30, 20144 votes

That's only an issue at extremely low MMR levels (sub-1000), and it'll hopefully be fixed/less common after the RAF changes.

This is about the 1700+MMR range, where half the players seem to be ARAM smurfs with only top tier champions unlocked.

MarthianOct 30, 20141 votes

I've heard of two good ideas to potentially fix this kind of issue:

All champions are unlocked
Modify matchmaking so that it sorts players based on the number of champions they own with other players with a close number as well. Or being in a certain tier of owned champions (IE 10-20 champions; 21-35; so on)

Drunk RummateOct 30, 20141 votes

ARAM would be nicer if it was truly random, but many people have ARAM only accounts or are simply fortunate enough to only own champions that are good in ARAMs. There's also the people who dodge when they don't get a good champion, which happens so frequently it's absurd.

Honestly, I don't play ARAMs because I'm feeling competitive. I enjoy winning, but I don't want to get stressed out about it. That's why I like the game mode. I don't think it needs to be competitive or super balanced, but seeing teams that constantly roll cait/nidalee/jayce/sona/morgana because they're ARAM only accounts can get frustrating.

SouL1essOct 30, 20141 votes

Try fighting a Thresh, Ezreal, Xerath, Lux, and Sona team as a 5-melee team.

That's the real surrender@20.