Friendly ARAM PSA
I spam ARAMs because I don't trust my internet provider and I feel less bad lagging in ARAM than I would on the Rift. That said, just a few things to remember when playing ARAM:
- If your entire team isn't out of your base 30 seconds in- don't charge the enemy bush unless you want to fight a 4v5 or worse.
- If a teammate isn't out of your base within the first 30 seconds, chill, ping once or twice and see what happens.
- Nasus, Sion, and Veigar all can stack off of minions- at least try to let them farm.
- If the enemy team has Shaco, Maokai, Teemo, Zyra, or Caitlyn- just consider the bushes off-limits. You'll take less damage and live longer.
- Ping if you're about to take a health relic so your team can at least get a chance to respond.
- If you're low and just aced the enemy team- push and die. You won't heal and the worse off you are for the next fight the better it will be for enemies.
- Karthus does a lot more damage if you live longer than half a second in the fight- at least try to live and you'll do wonders in terms of damage.
- Not everyone will know the champions they have. If they ask for help for builds or abilities- a few seconds typing can be quite useful for them.
- If the enemy team has lots of healing- buy healing reduction. I play champions like Mundo, Swain, Soraka, etc. If you don't bother buying HR then you have no room to complain when you cannot kill me. If you're someone who can't build Executioner or Morell then fair enough but SOMEONE on your team should be capable of it.
(Personal gripe) 10) Stop pinging my minion dematerializers. I don't want to take the debt keystone and I don't like hexflash.
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- Lethality Ashe is really good if they don't have tank, max W.
- Take hail of Blades and max E, you can't rely on teammates to proc your passive.
- Take snowball, her range is so bad but a snowball in then ult is easy kills.
- If you get Shadow Kayn, buy Sorc Boots, it's more fun to go full penetration.
- Don't use W on teammates, pointless at 50% healing. Might as well do damage and have a bit of healing instead (until 200 AP when the bounce becomes more powerful).
- Take snowball and Max W for it's knockup damage.
- Never take his portal forward.
- Max E first, with the new changes he basically becomes immortal as he can just back out and heal up.
is several several times better than AP Nasus; AP Nasus became meta like 3-4 years ago in ARAM only because the bruiser or even full tank build sucked absolute balls and Spectral Scepter was a thing. The only reason the recommended default build for Nasus is AP items is because Riot followed the trend back then and never changed it back because people are still getting trapped by it. Only build AP Nasus if your whole Team is AD, otherwise, build Bruiser or even full tank, your stacks are D O U B L E D (!!!) in Aram, meaning that you get 24 stacks (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) per kill/canon minion. Pair that with on-hit items or runes (Grasp is buffed in ARAM and is absolutely busted) and you will out-perform AP in any way and outscale it, garanteed.
is dead in summoners rift and, even when he was the best botlane carry back then, he was garbage in ARAM with that build, so yeah, he is even worse now. Unless your comp literally has no ADC or you are in an all-frontline team, go full artillery. AP pokers are considered the absolute best in the ARAM meta, and AD damage surpasses in nearly every way magical damage, on top of giving you access to sustain with 
, so there's no reason you shouldn't play Varus as an artillery rather than an on-hit worse version of every single other ADC.
is bad in ARAM in almost every situation, no matter if you main her or if she has a nearly 60% winrate in SR. Even if she can end up with some kills, if you do bad you lose. If you do well? Well, Riven is almost always a solo carry ending up stock-piling gold on her. Even if she snowballs extremely hard, she hits a point in ARAM where she will stop getting increasingly stronger and, since most of the time kills from her team are concentrated on her, her team ends up with a lack of gold in comparison and can't scale fast enough, while Riven achieves her scaling ceiling extremely fast in ARAM. Result? Even if the opposing team got crushed the entire game, if Riven reached her "ceiling" while keeping the gold all for herself, the game WILL change direction. Note that this kind of thing is appliable to nearly every skirmishers, I used Riven as an example because a looooooot of people tend to NOT reroll her when they SHOULD. Note that another champion who suffers from this is 
. Unless you are literally one of the top 10 Lee Sin in the world, chances are that rerolling him will do you better.
), unlike ADCs who are extremely simple to use, harder to counter, more reliable in a non-definite teamcomp and can use Lifesteal. Given that a lot of players are unfamiliar with the champ they play with in ARAM, its better to go with simplicity, unless you know pretty well how to play the more complicated options.
, don't rush 
, unless you die with a LOT of gold. Utility items like 
are better for mages after they've built their mana item (highly recommend 
as first item, incredibly strong at any point in the game). You don't lose THAT much damage, but your abilities end up with a lot more influence that way.
or 
. If you are a mage, go 
. If you are an ADC, either go 
or 
(depending of how dependant of AS you are). Of course, there are some exceptions to all this, but my point is that you should NOT build 
or 
. They are relatively weak and stop being usefull after some levels (they do have their utility, but not as much as the rushed first items who can be quite destructive early). Guardian items are often recommended but don't use them... exception for 
. Guardian Horn scales relatively well and sits extremely well in a Tank's kit, especially since they don't get as much value as the other classes when they rush their first item. You can end up keeping it until you have like 3-4 built items and it wouldn't've stopped your progression for doing so.
in ARAM; even if he is one of the weakest champs in the game in SR, he is amongst the top 20 winrates of ARAM as of now (and has been for a while) and is the 6th best Melee champion in ARAM. His passive gives him almost permanent healing given how small the map is and how many things die. This healing is also a % max health healing, you know what that means? That means that stacking Grasp, Second Wind and Overgrowth ends up giving him near unlimited healing that keeps scaling over and over and over again, and since he has access to his W and 
, Grievous wounds doesn't do sh_t to him. Trundle is good, people seems to think otherwise, just try him :)
,
and/or 
in your team, you MUST rush the bushes as soon as you can leave spawn. If you are still AFK at this point, then sorry but you either caused your whole team to lose an opportunity or you lost one yourself. As soon as you see either of those 3 champions on the OPPOSING team, don't go anywhere near the bushes or beyond the bush between the 2 tower rows until minions are there.
, you should optimise your ult stacks to get one as often as possible. Don't wait more than a minute with your ult ready because you want to use it on someone if you can grab a stack from the nearest minion.
... Unless you are in an entirely melee team with no engage that gets bullied pout from range, you should consider evolving E first; carries are extremely hard to get to in ARAM if they have frontlines, hence why 
is so strong in ARAM (he doesn't care about no frontline), so getting an easy option to get in and get out nearly instantly is the stuff that almost every assassin wants, so use it.
ult , learn to use it. They are extremely common champions and ends up really often together. Make use of it.
's ult isn't really worth it if you aren't using it in the middle of a fight; sniping a low health enemy if there's no direct fight going on will end up wasting your ult and give time to the victim to respawn... after going to the shop. Keep the ult for when it really hurts them.