Aram snowballs need to go!

AfterTheFall·May 3, 2015·5 votes·1,006 views

I get theyre trying to add something new to aram. But the snowball thing is the dumbest thing ive ever seen riot do. Its completely ruined the game mode. If you get a squishy champion, with no escape, and the entire enemy team has the snowball, theres no room for counterplay at all. If im playing brand, for example, being in melee range isnt his playstyle....but all the enemy has to do is throw a snowball and appear right on top of you. Boom. Almost a guaranteed death every time. It basically makes champions who have range as their advantage, b\c they have no escape/gap closer, useless in aram. If you dont have your flash, then just expect to die. Idk, i personally think it did the opposite of what they were looking for. It didnt add any fun to the mode, it just made it annoying and mainly frustrating to play

8 Comments

SeductiveGrandpaMay 3, 20151 votes

I've actually had some fun with the snowballs: SNOWBALL FIGHT! (and ya'know getting them snowball kills on a person walking away)

BerserkGoldfishMay 3, 20151 votes

you can do things like dodge the snowballs too. Situational awareness is actually oddly helpful in this game.

AfterTheFallMay 3, 20151 votes

You cant be expected to dodge everyone's abilities, plus a barrage of snowballs flying at you in teamfights. Its inevitable that you're going to get hit by them.

iClownMay 3, 20151 votes

snowball is the only way for immobile melee to have a chance against ranged poke champs and i see no reason to remove it

MiniJunkieMay 3, 20152 votes

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snowball is the only way for immobile melee to have a chance against ranged poke champs and i see no reason to remove it

There are only a few champs who really needed the help, and this global change to the mode wasn't the way to do it. I agree with the OP.

SukishooMay 3, 20151 votes

Fill more item 3070 s, I'm getting all the mana in the world.

Rand0mH3r0XMay 3, 20151 votes

"If I'm playing Brand for example,"

You Heifer, that's the reason FOR snowball. So I can Alistar Charge you and keep you from damaging the entire enemy team from such a nice distance away. Get the f**k over it.

AfterTheFallMay 3, 20151 votes

So its ok for someone like alistar, as you say, to have an unlimited & manaless gap closer? That if it hits, cant be countered without flash. You cant be expected to dodge everyone's abilities, plus 5 snowballs coming at you in teamfights. Instead of balancing the issue of melee champions (with no gap closers), all this did is shift the advantage into those melee champions' favor. And thats only IF one of the two had an advantage in the first place. It also created a retarded epidemic of tower diving, where before only specific champions had a reliable gap closer to do it. Now everyone can do it as many times as they like, all game long. So team compositions that dont suit tower diving, or being dove, are at a severe disadvantage now. I could live with the snowball if they made it so it only has like 5 charges. You get 5 snowballs per game...if you use them all in the first 2 minutes then too bad. Or you can save them for times when you need it.