ARAM, and how Riot basically broke it.

AstrallyMundane·5/5/2015, 5:00:10 PM·9 votes·1,538 views

In all honesty, I play League mostly for the ARAMS. This being said, with the new advent of snowballs being added to Howling Abyss, it feels as if some champions who normally would suck, are dangerous as hell now, and champions who normally would dominate the abyss are now vulnerable as hell to dashes all throughout the game. Legend of the Poro King was fun... but these snowballs have to go, it's turned ARAM on it's head.

34 Comments

Mandang05/5/2015, 5:04:39 PM6 votes

So balance changed... you haven't argued why it's worse. I say we at least give players a bit of time to get used to new ARAM before we say it's bad. I for one welcome all the ARAM accounts now being vulnerable to tanks w/ snowballs.

Vistha Kai5/5/2015, 6:47:18 PM6 votes

Thank you for reminding me about summoner 32 . I was about to play ARAM for FUN, but then I saw this thread and I remembered, I had 0 fun playing ARAM this patch.

ZergReap5/5/2015, 5:42:32 PM6 votes

I enjoy ARAMs and the snowballs killed squishy long range mages and adcs because bruisers/assassins can infinitely gap close on a broken lee sin Q. Since we are all clumped up they can hit anyone and use it to gap close to the back line easily.

Señor Karthus5/5/2015, 5:08:18 PM5 votes

Tell me how a snowball benefits a Xerath if it is not for a lucky snowball that gets a kill as last resource? If i hit a Xerath with a snowball with my Alistar, he is dead. I can agree maybe increasing the CD would be ok. But the snowballs really brought balance to the mode. And the only ones complaining are ARAM accounts who bullied normal accounts for years.

Linna Excel5/5/2015, 5:05:32 PM5 votes
  1. I think snowballs have destroyed the pacing of matches
  2. I think the most problematic champs are exploiting snowmballs more than the lower winrate champs
  3. I think that snowballs are making it more favorable for people who might play once or twice a week as a break from SR but less favorable for people who play 2-3 games there every day.
  4. As someone who plays aram more than SR, I find the new ARAM less fun.
Señor Karthus5/5/2015, 5:01:09 PM4 votes

Another ARAM account who purchased only super ranged champs and bullied everybody else for years, crying because now melee champions can reach to them.

Sockenfreack5/5/2015, 5:14:56 PM3 votes

It makes ARAM why fairer. Did u ever face 5ranged while ur teams as only Melees ? It's BS cuz u have no chance to do shit exept ur yi but the rest just gets kited. The dash says "Fuck ur kiting I'm here anyways

DrNova5/5/2015, 5:05:29 PM2 votes

Wouldnt be bad if it wasnt for the ridiculously low CD and the true damage which shouldnt even be on the thing

Fauxfire5/5/2015, 6:46:30 PM2 votes

Last time I checked making weak champions viable and those too strong with more counter-play was a good thing.

AtheosisX5/5/2015, 9:55:15 PM2 votes

The thing that bothers me is that they basically completely changed how the game mode feels and plays. It just feels like a totally different thing, and I personally don't like it as much. Yes those poke-heavy god comps sucked if you were mostly melee, but that was rare and the fact is that melee champs have long been very good in ARAM if played well. Now ARAM boils down to high damage bruisers jumping on squishies and deleting them and high damage aoe champs jumping on teams and obliterating them. I just don't find it to be as much as fun, and I honestly think Riot seriously fucked up the game mode.

Nybx4life5/5/2015, 5:07:46 PM1 votes

Snowdown was interesting because the game mode turned into "Everyone is Lee Sin". Now, you have that again, so teamfights are a lot different then they used to be. I guess it needed something different to make it unique, but I guess that's what killed Dominion.

Myrddin5/6/2015, 7:28:48 AM1 votes

things change, embrace change.

It's a fun game mode and about time things changed it was getting stale

Saianna5/5/2015, 10:29:23 PM1 votes

ARAM accounts hate snowballs cause now they lose with their poke champions against "used-to-be-lowest-in-food-chain" melee champions.

TO HELL WITH YOU, YOU GODDAMN ARAM ABUSERS

Volt Cruelerz5/5/2015, 6:32:34 PM1 votes

I'm not sure about removing, but applying harsh nerfs would be appreciated.

bigusa5/6/2015, 3:15:40 AM1 votes

and by the way voting would have been great when the majority of players were still around to vote. lol