Boycotting ARAM till they get rid of the joke known as the summon spell 'Mark'

Daedalus Rising·5/13/2015, 3:18:17 AM·7 votes·1,128 views

Here's a good idea: let's add a summoner spell to the game that has a ridiculously low cooldown, reveals the champions it hits, does damage, and oh yes! allows you to teleport to the target. Sound fun? Why on earth haven't we seen this incredible spell on Summoner's Rift? Because it's horribly imbalanced and basically ruins the game. Particularly in a meta that already favours tanks, it makes anyone else pretty useless. Even if you're a backliner who's good at dodging the never-ending barrage of snowballs thrown at you (its cd is an eternity at 20 seconds) the odds are one of your allies isn't. Suddenly there's a melee behind your squishy butt. How the $%&# he get there? So why put Mark in ARAM? To me, it's a statement by RIOT that ARAM is intended as a relaxed place for ranked players to cool off, rather than acknowledging there's a casual but at the same time kinda serious ARAM community out there. For myself, it's a huge insult. I spend my money on the game, I watch both the EU and NA LCS, and I'm not trying to say I'm anything better than anyone else, but I do believe that even we, the unranked masses, should have some say and get a fair shake. I'm a UX (user experience) designer by trade, believe me, this thing is not balanced. Now all you see in ARAM anymore is Mark and Flash (just like Dominion everyone had Revive). It wrecks everything you know about the game because it eliminates the concept of a frontline/backline. Here's what I anticipate hearing: "But it's just ARAM". Sure, but it's people's time too. And putting something in the mode that ruins all balance means that many of us ARAMers don't want to spend time playing ARAM anymore.
My friends and I (all ARAM players) have all agreed. We're pretty much out of LOL until Mark (aka snowball) is either removed or nerfed significantly. If RIOT doesn't care, no problem! We're all professionals with decent salaries, we'll spend our money elsewhere. I've never wrote on the Boards before, so I don't know the routine, maybe this'll just get taken down as soon as it goes up. Frankly, I don't care if they ban my account at this point. If you read this far, thanks!

8 Comments

Matezoide5/13/2015, 3:30:37 AM4 votes

What champion does OP play the most on ARAM?

Lux? Sona? Nidalee? Ziggs?

All of them?

Inphernal5/13/2015, 3:21:31 AM3 votes

" If RIOT doesn't care, no problem! We're all professionals with decent salaries, we'll spend our money elsewhere. I've never wrote on the Boards before, so I don't know the routine, maybe this'll just get taken down as soon as it goes up. Frankly, at this point I don't care if they ban my account at this point."

so wait do you care enough to start a petition and QQ on the boards or do you not care at all because of your huge salary?

blkh15/13/2015, 3:41:49 AM2 votes

I just think they should take the damage off it and maybe reduce the range, otherwise I see nothing wrong with it. I only have 500 ARAM matches under my belt, but I feel it is not a bad thing for ARAM. Quit whining and just melt the damn tank already!

Only Play Darius5/13/2015, 5:55:29 AM1 votes

Ok. Bye.

Berry Állen5/13/2015, 3:25:20 AM1 votes

Hey another mark post about someone leaving the game. No one is gonna miss you. If you're affected by 1 new spell they put in aram you're the type no one wants to play with anyway. They even said they're nerfing it and keeping an eye on it. Not being removed. All these people QQ about this give no reasoning behind why they hate it's just, "Oh it's shit and take it out i'm leaving."

ModWulf Helhammer5/13/2015, 4:07:46 AM1 votes

K bai

Pucking Purrfect5/13/2015, 4:19:01 AM1 votes

As an Aram player I must say that mark/dash spell not only balanced the map for melee champs but also brought so much fun with it. I was thinking the opposite when Rito added the new spell (opened 2-3 threads about how mark/dash spell ruined Aram) but after couple games I get used to it. Before the new spell Aram was a one sided game mode where most of the games won by ranged champs. Either you poke the enemy team to death or they poke you to death which was boring as hell. Now, we have a spell that if you get a melee champ you know that you gonna have some fun as well. Thanks to Rito we have more team fights than ever before. Instead of rerolling 2 times to get a ranged champ. or dodging the lobby just because you get a melee champ now you have a chance to win the game. Also, I don't think mark/dash in need of a nerf. I believe its range is fine and the cd is okay. Not to mention since we don't have a ward in Aram mode the spell gives you vision for a couple sec. I hate when ranged champs hide in bushes in Aram to poke me, especially when I try to farm some gold with a melee champ. I hope Rito won't nerf or change anything about mark/dash spell if they do it I believe Aram will go back to its boring mood which I don't.