"Why Do You Like ARAM and Blitz?"
I actually get asked fairly often why it is that my primary mode now days is ARAM, and now Blitz despite how much balancing the mode needs. The answer is pretty simple, though there are a few reasons:
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I don't care enough about the game to study the Meta, watch a bunch of videos (I like playing, not watching people play), or anything else really. Never claimed to be a Diamond+ player, and to be fair I've never really wanted to be. What I lack in the metagame knowledge I make up for in reaction time, grasp of champion mechanics, and ability to play most anything my team needs. Building on this -
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ARAM and Blitz are far, far faster. They are mash ups of champions with skills and abilities flying everywhere. As annoying as things like Blessing of Blitzcrank and others can BE, I guarantee after a week or two of dodging that BS in Blitz you will never be grabbed by a regular Blitzcrank again. Learning to dip, duck, weave, dodge and dive are vastly easier in Summoner's Rift, and playing these two modes speeds up your ability to react.
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Based on the above statement, you have to not only figure out the champion, but you have to do it in a narrowed down space and trying to survive. It's great team fighting training, more than teaching you to roam around and attempt to solo skill your way through games. Being amazing by yourself will only get you so far in the ranks, and if you truly want to climb properly you need to be able to operate effectively both alone and in team fights. Being as these modes are one long team fight, your understanding of skill placement and timing increases.
All in all these modes are goofy, silly, and really just for fun. However if you walk in as an assassin, and get effective with an assassin in either mode, your ability to team fight will go up naturally. Summoner's Rift team fights are far easier these past couple of years since I began dinking around in ARAM, and more recently Blitz.
I was an Ezreal One Trick for a long, long time. Then I swapped to Zed for a season. While my abilities with Ezreal and Zed still far out weigh my abilities with any other champion - I can now also play pretty much anything in Summoner's Rift to a fair degree. These modes broke me of the need to one trick.
