ARAM mark (snowball)

This summoner spell completely ruins ARAM. There are several major things that are causing it to ruin the game mode.

First, the summoner has a 20 second cool down. The other main summoners that players choose in ARAM are typically Heal and Flash. Heal has a 240 second cool down and flash has a 300 second cool down. Players that choose Mark can cast their summoner ability 12 times more often than players with heal, not to mention the cool down is reduced if they reactivate the ability, which brings me to the next point.

This ability does TRUE damage. 20 + (10 x Champion level) compared to ignite's 50 + (20 x Champion level). So It does half the damage with less than 1/10 of the cool down of ignite. This means that it can potentially do 5x the damage of ignite. Its a skill shot you say? With entire teams taking this ability, it is impossible to dodge them all and the ability out ranges almost every ability in the game (54% increase in range over a fully charged Varus Q). Lets take another look at that back line while we are talking about Varus. At max level he has 1932 max hp (without any items, runes, or masteries). Most players build Marksman champions glass cannon (no defensive items), most players dont take health runes, and at most a player might grab the additional 36 + 3% max hp from masteries. Taking all of this into account, he would come out around 2027 hp. If he gets hit by 5 snow balls, he is at less than half hp. This is one of the longest range champions in the game getting taken out by something 900 units out of his range, but this isn't even the most broken thing about the ability.

Have you ever had a game where you miss point click abilities because Yi uses his Alpha Strike or Fiora Ults? Well this ability brings those nightmares back to life. Champions aren't able to be targeted while dashing to their marked target. What does this mean? When you Ult with Syndra or use any point and click ability in the game that has a travel time, it can be dodged by someone simply reactivating their ability, creating a huge amount of outplay for these previous well balanced champions.

Lastly, this ability gives vision. In a game mode where wards don't exist, every champion without a scout ability is forced to face check bushes. This ability almost completely negates the possibility of making bush plays or "back dooring" on a champion by waiting for the enemy team to walk by a bush that the enemy team didn't feel necessary to face-check.

Now that we know how broken this ability is, how is it impacting the game? First, everybody and their brother is using this ability. This includes Marksman champions and other champions that have no reason dashing into the enemy lines. Why? Because its Overpowered. Specific champions are also benefiting in ways that weren't intended to happen from this ability. Zed can put a shadow in safety, dash to an enemy and escape by switching with his shadow. No consequences and free damage. Lissandra, the shotgun mage can also exploit her teleport abilities with mark, something her kit wasn't designed for. Heimerdinger is having his turrets destroyed by 2-3 snowballs. Most of Heimerdinger's power comes from creating a safe place and destroying enemies when they enter, but only being able to put a turret up every 15 seconds (Rank 5 25% Cool Down Reduction) an enemy team with 5 snowballs can easily destroy his turrets as fast as he can build them.

To fix the problem of this ability it needs to be a closer resemblance to the ability it stems from: Lee Sin's Q Sonic Wave/Resonating Strike. Short range and the champion is able to be targeted while dashing. Aside from becoming more like Lee Sin's ability in these ways, the damage needs to be removed and the cool down can be modified as needed for balance.

Or for a simpler fix, ask yourself if this would break your beloved summoner's rift. Considering the original ARAM was played as a custom game on summoners rift, I dont feel as though riot should try to regulate this game mode. Adding items such as the Orb of Winter was one thing, but this summoner spell is completely ruining the game mode.

TL:DR - Mark is broken, fix it or remove it.