When I'm playing aram, it feels more like I play Dark Harvest instead of the individual champion

my waifu Taliyah·5/14/2018, 8:20:42 AM·21 votes·10,525 views

Part of what used to make aram is never knowing what champion you'll get, and part of that is learning the new champions. Yeah I might underperform and lose the first couple of times, but that's okay. First timing a champion right now is pretty trivial, honestly. Even a supposedly difficult champion, I'll just take Dark Harvest and play exactly the same way as I would on any other champion: Wait for a Dark Harvest proc, proc it, disengage.

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warpenguin5555/14/2018, 3:20:36 PM4 votes

ADHAM

And yet I still have more fun than SR

Professor Ward5/14/2018, 1:13:03 PM3 votes

People seem to think this is a "one rune fits all" and while thats not true, there is some note to dark harvest.

And for the people saying they arent seeing it, thats insane.

I have around 7500 arams played over 2 accounts and i can say that without a single shadow of a doubt that dark harvest is overpowered in aram. And everyone knows it. The design is obviously not balanced around how frequent procs are in aram.

Tie in the fact that dark harvest resets on kills, and you have a recipe for some severe power spike throughout entire teamfights. Not unheard of to get around 35 stacks in a single fight. And over 6000 damage done from this rune alone in a single game.

I like to use it with Caitlyn headshots and long range. Last night i picked up a kill from Orianna ulting me onto a dark harvest proc, then my headshot-crit-dark harvest doing 80% of her health in one shot. Felt bad to feel good.

Baka Red5/14/2018, 10:55:22 AM2 votes

Weird. I don't feel like I need that Dark Harvest and I don't see it that much on the bridge. Yes, I hear some people telling it is that overpowered, but I don't see that happening in my matches on champions that should not have it. To utilize it, their team needs kills and those are harder to get if you aren't using the proper runes. Maybe it is MMR thing, but I don't know since you have decided to hide behind a smurf account. Smurf account use eats your credibility on gameplay matters and even ARAM balance is 'gameplay' matter.

But anyways; since there is quite a lot of complaining about Dark Harvest, Riot could consider (maybe even do) some ARAM nerf on it. I personally don't feel it to be that mandatory, but maybe. However, like we all know, Riot doesn't usually do ARAM balancing and that is part of the fun of ARAM imo. However, the fact is that "people die if they are killed", or "OP is OP".

FilDaFunk5/14/2018, 4:05:22 PM2 votes

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Mhihnj5/14/2018, 2:47:38 PM1 votes

here's an aram tip:

presence of mind is a really good rune.

if assassin, domination then presence of mind and Coup de Grace

if a mage, domination/sorcery into presence of mind

if support, sorcery/inspiration into presence of mind

if ADC, fleet footwork into presence of mind

if tank, resolve into presence of mind then legend tenacity.

Pika Fox5/14/2018, 1:22:59 PM1 votes

Then youre not playing the game? Waiting for a harvest proc is suboptimal, especially since you get free procs if anyone dies.

VoraciousX5/15/2018, 4:07:17 AM1 votes

Just so you know Dark Harvest is actually nerfed on ARAM compared to SR. They did this because they knew it would be oppressive otherwise. This topic was covered before and Riot asked if people felt it was still overperforming and also said that according to their data it was not.

Ayzev5/14/2018, 7:24:53 PM1 votes

So far the highest percentage of my total damage dealt that Harvest made up in one game is 28% as Warwick, and the average percentage over a couple hundred ARAMs is something close to 20% without forcing it on every random champion. Pretty insane for just a keystone.

JohnnyNeverSins5/14/2018, 9:27:17 PM1 votes

Unless its a tank i only run dark harvest since many champins buy something built with sheen (so more aa damage) or duskblade or they are an adc

I Love Thresh5/14/2018, 2:04:03 PM1 votes

I don't see it THAT often either. But it's really fun to play as and if your team has enough cc/is beefy enough, not too much of a problem to play against. But if really everybody takes it, then everybody is on an equal ground rune-wise and it plays off like any ARAM game would: whoever got lucky at champ select wins. I hope they keep it because Dark Harvest Thresh is life.