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Either make ARAM truly random or do some slight balancing for it

JMoormann·8/30/2016, 8:28:15 PM·21 votes·1,654 views

I'm not an ARAM only player, I just play it once in a while when I don't have time for a full game.

I get that some champions are just better for ARAM than others, but it's just so frustrating when RNGsus decides that you have to play with 40% win rate champs against 60% win rates, and at the same time it can be very boring when you . This has 2 very annoying consequences: it means that many games are decided before they are even started, and because of that it's very profitable to have an ARAM only account.

Look at the highest and lowest win rates. There are 7 champs at a whopping 60%+ win rate, and equally much below 40%. With (36.9%) and (37.5%) on one team and (69.4%) and (64.2%) on the other, you can be pretty sure who is gonna win.

I know that rebalancing an entire game mode is a lot of work, but Riot apparently doesn't want to make it all random, and like I said, it's so frustrating to stare at your loading screen and see that your chances of winning are sub-optimal because of the huge delta in champion win rates.

Please Riot, MAKE ARAM GREAT AGAIN

25 Comments

R FLASH XD8/30/2016, 11:43:51 PM4 votes

I don't think it's because they don't want to balance ARAM, I think it's because they don't fucking care.

M1A4Silencer8/30/2016, 11:41:04 PM2 votes

Aram is all I play over 6,000 aram games in total so far... ARAM matches tend to be more diverse when all the players have most of if not all the charcters. BUT i have noticed that ARAM isnt so random when your playing with players that only have 3 or 4 champs... becuase usually youll see mostly free champs..

SeductiveGrandpa8/31/2016, 9:58:13 AM2 votes

It would be nice if the game was purely random but a strong argument of that is that players will constantly get champs that they've never played or have little experience with. Although, this could lead to players feeding because a lack of skill with said champion, they could easily reroll or it could encourage more trading with team-mates and overall talking with your team. If the whole mode is completely random, you'll always be able to trade with team-mates so getting stuck with a champ you can't play should be a very uncommon experience in itself. Yeah, now im leaning towards Aram being fully random.

JDB8eoX8x08/31/2016, 12:49:23 PM1 votes

My thoughts:

Reduce shields by 50%

Remove dicerolling

Remove trading

Reduce AoE Crowd Control by 50%

That's what random is. You play what you get, end of story. As for the shields... it's obvious what the issue is. Riot didn't want people to heal up behind turrets, but it's okay if Janna, Orianna and Karma can spam shields? And what about Amumu and Sona's AoE CC? Aram is a tiny map, it's too strong that people can use AoE CC on a map with only one lane on it. That'd be fair.

If Taric and Alistar's healing effects which are already 15-100 at BEST only are halved already, then so should other effects.

Harvey Rabbit8/31/2016, 2:37:04 PM1 votes

Those numbers are interesting. Sona winrate is even crazier than I thought; it's laughable how OP in general she continues to be, but she is Riot's golden child and golden goose, so I don't expect any real changes in that regard. I'm surprised to see Galio, Sion, and Maokai high on the list, I rarely see them do well, but maybe that is because I rarely see them in ARAM except when they are free champs.

At the bottom of the list i'm surprised to see Ryze so low. I boss ARAM hard when I get Ryze, and see other people do that if they are decent with him -- he has a spammable snare and high burst potential with low cooldown on everything but his ult. In the case of Ryze, maybe it is a matter of most players not being able to play him well. Also a lot of players don't seem to realize that once you build item 3070 and item 3010 it's pretty hard to run out of MP, so you can spam like crazy.

Jungle specific champions like Nunu obviously do poorly in ARAM, so it is not surprising to see many of them at the bottom of the list.

I would hate to see Riot make special champion or item changes to "balance" ARAM, though. Part of the fun is being creative with the champions and trying to find ways to make them win. The main problem that needs addressing imo is the problem of ARAM only accounts, which skew things badly because those people almost always get champions who are op in ARAM.

MangoStitch6268/31/2016, 5:25:26 PM1 votes

I feel like aram isn't truly random either cause I always get shen, vlad, or soraka. Champs that really aren't that good in aram. Shen isn't that bad but vlad and soraka im not really good with and it's really hard to win a game when they have alot of dmg champs or tanks on their team.

Pika Fox8/31/2016, 11:33:09 PM1 votes

Its already random. Random refers to hitting the random champion select button, not actually a random of all champions in the game. ARAM queue randoms for you, where in the old days you had to do it yourself.

LitAF8/30/2016, 8:44:32 PM1 votes

reroll

Qiy4na9/1/2016, 12:34:35 AM1 votes

make Jhin stop

PokladnicaZla8/31/2016, 7:43:27 AM1 votes

People on boards always complain aram isn't truely random,but I still seen people request things that would make it truely random. 1)That the same champion would be on both teams. 2)That's it possible the have the same champion on the same team,but adding the cap to max2 would be a good idea. 3)Maybe 1 reroll per team.Everytime we join champ.select on aram,that whole team should get only 1 reroll and communicate who will get to use it,if it's needed.

I would really love to see this things happen. Or just a "MEGA-Aram" gamemode where these things are possible.

Ace Access 8/31/2016, 10:05:45 AM1 votes

I've extremely rarely won against a team with a Ziggs on their team in ARAM