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I'm done with this game

n94xLUIUfL·5/20/2018, 4:27:15 PM·3 votes·802 views

I just lost 9 of my last 10 ARAM games and I'm about done with the toxicity on my team and the enemy team in ARAM of all games. I used to be able to play ARAM for fun but losing constantly due to luck makes it feel like I'm queueing up for a loss. I only play ARAM cuz I never have time for Ranked as I'm on call 24/7. I just don't see how this matchmaking works, I literally got flamed by a challenger streamer (Yamikaze) who was on the enemy team. Tanks and supports constantly destroy me on a damage champion and I feel helpless. Unless this game gets a better balance team and they fix this god-awful matchmaking that gives me bots and enemy challengers I'm completely done with this game. Not hard to see why people are favoring games like Fortnite or Overwatch in comparison to this.

3 Comments

Pika Fox5/20/2018, 4:30:01 PM4 votes

.... Its aram.... its not supposed to be balanced. Its a roll of the dice to see what you get and see if you can use it to pull off a win compared to what the enemy team gets. The biggest reason it might feel like you constantly get rolled is there are people who dodge if they dont get a good champ/comp, meaning if you dont do the same its more likely the enemy team has a better setup through dodge spam than you do.

Rebel Phoenix175/20/2018, 5:24:19 PM1 votes

Things I know from having friends that only play aram:

  1. ARAM is not balanced and is not supposed to be balanced. Riot very rarely makes ARAM specific changes (although there are some coming soon). As Pika Fox said, its intended as a dice roll.

  2. ARAM has far fewer players than SR, so the matchmaking has to stretch farther to find 10 players to put in a game. That's why you end up with a larger rank disparity than SR.

  3. Ppl dodge when they don't like their champ/team. The diceroll nature and the fact its not the primary mode means ppl don't care as much about dodging.

  4. ARAM is, more often than not, a bloodbath. This puts the game on a knifes edge; either one team snowballs or both teams keep dying leaving you with a volatile standstill. The tactics used in SR to stall and spread out don't exist here, ARAM is feast or famine.

  5. Most ppl only care about fighting in ARAM, so CS loses meaning and most people I see do a terrible job last hitting. if your kill gold is on the wrong person, you're fucked.

  6. By "damage champion" I assume you mean Marksmen, assassins, or fighters. Many of them have weak early games compared to tanks and supports who are expected to get less gold and so are given stronger base numbers. Most assassins are expected to get a fast 1v1 kill, not extended 5v5s fights. Fighters typically do well either over a long slow fight (stacking buffs w/o getting nuked) or numerous shorter fights (short combo > disengage > repeat). Fights can be long, but if they have a mage you'll get bursted, and the only continuous short trades are going to be poke champs. Unless you cleanup kills and get items they are supposed to out-trade you.

Given you cannot commit time for a longer game then you honestly are better off playing something else. League is built around SR which averages between 20-40 minutes. OW is much faster, Fortnite probably not going far over 20m if you survive. If it honestly is just the RNG that you hate, play twisted treeline. Its faster than SR and doesn't deal with the dice roll bs.