Can Sona be banned from ARAM until she is fixed?

Dr Poro··15 votes·1,284 views

http://euw.op.gg/statistics/champion/

Sona has 70.5% winrate in ARAM overall. There are other OP champs but none of them even reach 64% winrate.

So not only does sona have the highest winrate in ARAM, the gap between her winrate and the second best champion is 6% overall, and +8% when you look to silver, gold, platinum or diamonds. For a reference, 6% is also the gap between #2 and #12. 8% is the difference between #2 and #23.

At 70.5% winrate, she is the uncontested champion of ARAM. Most of these games aren't even close. Especially at higher ELO, the only way you can win against Sona is when an enemy is afk or if she's trollbuilding (going AD or not buying any mana). She has one of the best early games because of her massive healing, 5 man buffs and strong poke. On top of that, she has one of the best lategames because of the same reason. You cannot outpoke her, she just heals. You cannot all-in her, she just stuns you and with her auras her team will dominate you.

She's also the highest winrate on summoner's rift, so it wouldn't surprise me if she got another nerf coming. However, there's no SR balance nerf that will throw her off the throne or even make ARAM with sona close to fair.

You have removed Yorick from free week rotation, you have removed teemo and karthus from OFA, you can certainly remove this outlier from ARAM. Yes, this gamemode is about randomness, but having a game decided in loading screen just isn't fun. There will always be champions that are stronger than others, in ARAM it's even fine to have OP champs. But not champs that just win the game by rolling into them.

10 Comments

oSEXYPLATYPUSo6 votes

worried about a champ in a game mode where champs are randomly assigned based on what champs are own?

its random. no one has any input on getting sona other then owning her

but that is what aram is a game decided by randomness so to remove a champ is lessening the randomness of what champ is assigned.

and isnt aram about just mashing buttons doing damage and killing til someone wins ?

Dr Poro2 votes

You obviously have no idea about what ARAM is. You get a random champ but it is the player that has to make the most out of it. Yes, if you get Ziggs your winning chances are higher by default than when you get Udyr. However, no champion other than sona has a guaranteed victory upon champion select. And that is the problem. The key of ARAM is not randomness. They key is fun. Rerolls make this game mode less random, but allow players to get a second chance when they get a champion that they really dislike. Just like that, this would be a feature to increase the fun in playing this gamemode.

Only Play Darius2 votes

That's a patchwork fix, what they need to do is unlock all champs in ARAM. It's fine to have some overbearing champs in ARAM because it's supposedly a game mode where you can't spam the OP picks anyway, they just need to make the game truly random.

Limrick2 votes

ARAM has always been a flawed gamemode. Ashe AurelionSol Azir Brand Caitlyn Corki Ezreal Jinx Karma Katarina Lux MasterYi MissFortune Morgana Sivir Teemo Varus Veigar Velkoz Viktor Ziggs and worst of all, fucking Zilean are all ridiculous, and if you don't have at least 2 of these on your team, you will lose.

Dr Poro1 votes

I'm not talking about my personal experience (which I have plenty of but is subjective) I'm simply stating facts. The fact that Sona's winrate is just through the roof compared to any other champion. If you have sona on your team, it doesn't matter what the rest of your champs are, you will probably win. If you have ziggs on your team, but your team is full ap, you'll still have a hard time because full ap comps are really bad lategame. It doesn't matter when you have sona because she just shits on everyone (winrates telling this).

GULAG 4 U1 votes

master yi is good in aram?

Well fuck I better get lucky and get him

TouchFluffyTaìl1 votes

Because AurelionSol Ezreal Galio Heimerdinger Kennen Kled Lux Teemo Ziggs are perfectly fine.

Dr Poro1 votes

If you've read my thread and actually looked at op.gg you'd realize that there's a huge difference between sona and the champs you've listed there. Yes there are a bunch of OP champs, but none of them are even close to sona. There has never been a champion with over 6% winrate more than the second best champion in any game mode. Sona has always been the highest winrate champ in ARAM but right now she's really far over the top. I'm fine with 63% winrate champs in ARAM. Not with 70+% though.

UnworldlyAsgard1 votes

Who cares it's ARAM lel.

Dr Poro1 votes

Who cares about teemo or karthus in OFA? It's a fun mode. Oh wait, it's not fun against those champs.

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