An all-mid mode without the random would be kinda nice

Karunamon·3/24/2019, 4:19:12 PM·2 votes·2,277 views

When you think about it, ARAM amounts to a teamfight simulator. This is neat.

What's not neat is when it has the infuriating ability to stick you on a pseudo-random (read: bizarrely weighted, not really random - seriously, how many times do we need to see Ziggs or Veigar) selection of champs that you, in all likelihood, don't like or don't know how to play effectively, making the game effectively decided in champ select.

This same mode, a one-lane teamfight all the way to the nexus, would be really cool if you could pick your champs (or at least ban champs). You'd then have a mode you could actually practice your favorite champion's teamfighting skills in!

Better yet, all the code for this exists in the client (since you can make customs on howling abyss), so it would amount to creation of a new queue, nothing more.

14 Comments

Hotarµ3/24/2019, 4:52:45 PM1 votes

I agree it would be a nice option to have but I can't imagine anyone would ever play it outside of a few thousand. Every single game would be something like Ziggs-Varus-Veigar-Sona-Karthus and every other champion would get absolutely destroyed which kind of defeats the purpose of the mode.

What's not neat is when it has the infuriating ability to stick you on a pseudo-random

It is random, ARAM accounts just ruin it for everyone else by removing the ability for the mode to actually be fully random. All champions should be unlocked in ARAM.

420 grams3/24/2019, 5:20:13 PM1 votes

Bring pack Poro King!

TSM TheBoyWonder3/24/2019, 5:26:13 PM1 votes

If its not random then people always troll pick the broken champs leading to rito having to nerf them for that gamemode, even with ban phase having people finding more then one broken champ and combos you wont be able to counter all.

Windy McWindface3/24/2019, 5:26:57 PM1 votes

It would make the gameplay really boring with a meta-game of unbeatable champions. It would make games really repetitive if you constantly have to play vs let's say poke champions if that becomes meta. The random element in ARAM is what keeps the gamemode alive since there is a real replay-ability in the randomness of every comp.

LordGeovanni3/24/2019, 11:57:00 PM1 votes

this would just be ranged champions 200% of the time though

Beerstein3/25/2019, 12:04:19 AM1 votes

Basically no.

https://lolalytics.com/aram/worldwide/platinum/plus/champions/

The game isn't properly balanced for it with champs ranging from 34-72% win rates.

0 Hogapu3/30/2019, 12:15:55 PM1 votes

This exists already, it is called ABAM. Play some games in custom, some ABAM groups exist.