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[ARAM] Could we get ranked or ARAM bots, Riot?

a rabid cupcake·4/13/2018, 8:18:16 AM·3 votes·1,591 views

I'm going to get boo'd off the forums I'm sure (and if not, I'll be pleasantly surprised) but one of the things that got me into ARAM is being able to goof off and build whatever with nine other people doing whatever build they like without intentionally feeding.

Then something terrible happened.

I somehow managed to hit the equivalent of Gold I in ARAM if this site and this forum post are to be believed. I'm playing with people who take ARAM way seriously. I don't want to be rude, so I typically avoid doing any of the builds I would find fun to try out, and I know when I've tried to do those builds I'd like I've been threatened with reports if I don't "build properly." Say what you will, but three people of your team of five are saying that, it moves you towards building whatever is the ARAM meta at that point in time.

I'm happy some people enjoy taking the game so seriously. I don't want to be one of them. I just want to play around, and I don't have a group of friends in ARAM to do that with. The only solutions to this I see are ranked ARAM, ARAM bots, or me never touching what has been for years - since before it was an official game mode and it was ten people in custom games standing in the middle lane of Summoner's Rift - my favorite mode to play.

I just want ARAM to be fun again. [sg-soraka]

16 Comments

Aerial Queen Liz4/13/2018, 8:40:25 AM1 votes

who even plays Aram seriously...? O_o Aram is only fun cause you can go with weird builds and do stupid stuff...

DOUBLE TAPPED E4/13/2018, 9:40:46 AM1 votes

ARAM bots would be excellent.

Dead flag blues4/13/2018, 11:49:45 AM1 votes

If they make ARAM as a ranked mode, they should first unlock the entire pool

Minarde4/13/2018, 11:57:13 PM1 votes

ARAM ranked would be great. It'd provide a natural separation for competitive and casual players, as it does for SR (and TT to a lesser extent). Competitive players get another option for demonstrating skill and earning rewards while casual players such as OP get a more relaxed gaming environment. In addition, specialized queues allow for more fine-tuned experiences. Things like bans or "unlocking all champs" that casual players might not appreciate as much as competitive players could be implemented solely in the ranked queue. (Ranked would also require a higher summoner level than unranked, mitigating the impact of offering free champs on Riot's income.)

As an aside to OP, your MMR/rank comparison is off. Whatismymmr's estimates seem fairly accurate, as they roughly match other estimates offered by other sites in the past. However, the numbers in the forum post aren't applicable for ARAM, since MMR in ARAM has gotten increasingly inflated through the years. The total MMR available rises from new accounts filtering in, and, unlike ranked, there's no annual MMR reset to bring those numbers back down. It'd be more useful to compare percentiles rather than raw numbers. Based on these sites, you're roughly the equivalent of Gold 5.