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