Aram and the elusive ranked version!

Sunkey13··1 votes·545 views

Hello all!

I know there has been multiple threads as to having a ranked aram. I am no different from the rest. I absolutely love aram, and I can't believe that they haven't added ranked to it yet. So far we have 3v3 ranked and 5v5 ranked. While 3v3 still has objectives (jungle if you wanna call it that) that help move the game along, and aram is surely lacking in this area. But, does this feature make or break a mode from being available for ranked? I think not!!!! Aram has all the best features that players love from all other area's of the game. It's fast paced, action packed, and still has some strategy involved. Not your normal strategy mind you, but still there are different tactics involved when playing another team. Last hitting would go out the window for the most part. Wards (pfft who buys those :P) are nothing to worry about anymore. Except for that sneaky teemo guy grrr! All of this said and yet you still have kill preference on who you want fed. Meta's are pretty much already in place, and you are subject to the good ole rng.

Now we know that it would have to be 5v5 ranked, because i'm sorry 3v3 aram would SUCK! Having a system in place that allows for the current queue system to simply transfer over would be pretty simple. Matching up with 5 people based off your current mmr, and then placing you as you advance or fall. Still leaving the more hardcore players to create a 5v5 team to go up against other pre-made teams. You wouldn't even have to have the ranked profile transfer over to summoners rift like it currently does when you join an aram. That way people who aram and are lucky with their wins/character draws do not provide false hope if they join a ranked summoners rift.

So once again PLEASE riot do not leave us hanging for much longer. I am addicted to aram, ARAM is life! Give us a ranked version so we can display our achievements! Loves and Tiggles!

6 Comments

Around999People2 votes

No. People already cheat in ARAM by making accounts just for it. That would put someone who plays other modes at such a significant disadvantage that those people would never have a chance to compete, much less enjoy it.

Sunkey132 votes

They still have to deal with the free champion pool! So i see your point. However climbing the ranks would still be rough. Plenty of skilled players out there that would excel no matter how skilled that ONE account was at just one or two champions (if they are lucky enough to roll them)

Around999People1 votes

It's when they have 6-10 champions that win 90% of the time that it becomes an issue because they would get one of those more often than not.

Zane Zephyr2 votes

I had a 13 minute ARAM game yesterday. We took their first tower 4 minutes into the game.

The second letter in ARAM means "random." Randomness is an element that shouldn't be thrown into a match where performance is ranked. The champions are a large determining factor of who wins an aram game and it's been like that for a while. It's absolutely not a good idea to have ranked matches for a mode where you don't know who you're going to play OR who you're going to be playing against.

And continuing off of what Around said, that would also mean that riot would HAVE to make it so ALL champions are unlocked for the ranked matches, so people that create accounts to get an advantage in ARAM have the same pool as everyone else. I don't like that idea myself because I have a select few champions that I haven't bought yet and I haven't bought them for specific reasons, and I have no intentions of ever buying them OR playing them. I don't think it's fair to force me to take a chance at playing a champion I flat out don't want to play.

Sunkey132 votes

Right, everything you guys are saying is true. My point being is that there are ways that Riot can make a fair and competitive version of Aram. One that if you did not like you simply didn't have to play. Leaving the current aram as it is. While ranked could include EVERY champion. There would be no downside to it. If you like aram as it is then great play it. If you want to do ranked aram then those are the things that you'd have to put up with. Much like how they can have hex or super bots. They have the means to make this happen and could do a great job at it. Just need to balance it fairly.

As it sits now, you guys are correct. I would like to see it though. A fair Ranked aram.

Akerasi1 votes

Only way to make ranked ARAM work: force ownership of every champion. Since that makes too low of a playerbase, I'd go for no.

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