ARAM rework

Beatdown Blues·Nov 5, 2014·3 votes·1,079 views

I only play ARAM, I just don't find interesting to spend 12-15 min. farming creeps, and lose in the end, and SR is much more complicated. I like to relaxed feeling i get from aram, and resource management ( mana and health) , and team battles. So here is my problem, aram is broken, basically the team with more CC wins, so I would like ( if you have some time) think about some changes about aram, put ban ( so we could get rid of op or useless champs) or make some kind of ARAM champion ranking system, example : Katarina Rank 1
Jinx Rank 1 Master Yi Rank 1 Morgana Rank 2 Viktor Rank 2 Mundo Rank 3 Shen Rank 3 Nasus Rank 4 Nunu Rank 4 Eve Rank 4 or just rank them by their CC Stun (knock)>Fear > Root ( snear ) >Silence > Slow Leona, Tresh , Alistar, Blitz, Fiddle - rank 1 Eve, Nasus, Corki -Rank 4 and then, mix the ranks so one team wouldn't have obvious advantage, Well I hope you get what I'm trying to say, Cheers

6 Comments

Blunts4BrekfastNov 5, 20142 votes

that defeats the entire point of aram.

if you want a game like that, make a custom game. find other people who dont want to play real aram.

most people want real aram.

Blunts4BrekfastNov 5, 20142 votes

also, nasus rank 4 shows your aram elo is low anyway, best to leave aram suggestions to people with high aram elo

BeatzBoyFTWNov 5, 20142 votes

I don't even care about losing in aram, although I can feel a bit of frustration when they gave enemies pokey champs like Velkoz, but that's not the point. I play aram cause I like how Riot chooses a random champ for my teammates & enemies, while also granting multiple choices of team compo to experience. And we also have a reroll function just to have the fun of picking more fun random chances of getting various better champions.

What you're trying to do here is just somewhat restricting some of aram's fun point of "random picks" and almost creating it as Team Builder 2.0. Just because you got bummed with consecutive losses in aram, doesn't give you the rights to change aram YOUR way so that you can win all the time. It's just either base on luck, or you don't own a lot of champs.

ZielmannNov 5, 20142 votes

This has been proposed hundreds of times on the forums, and it's no better an idea now than it was the first time. Balancing team comps like this is not what ARAM is. If you want that, play blind pick or draft on HA as a custom game.

But I'm not wholly opposed at this point to the game receiving some kind of balance efforts from Riot. The largest elephant in the room that Riot's ignored for this game mode is the prevalence of ARAM smurfs. These would be quickly rendered useless simply by making all champions available for this mode. It's an easy change with profound benefits for the game mode. This should drastically reduce the amount of times you find yourself up against a team composed of 3 or more top-10 ARAM champs.

At this point, I would also accept some map-specific balancing of champions for ARAM such that a few of the worst offenders get toned back a bit (I'm looking at you, Sona). They did this for Dominion, so I don't see why they couldn't do it here.

Beatdown BluesNov 5, 20141 votes

So the point of aram is the luck of getting team with more CC/poke/heal, and not managing your hp and mana so you could stay alive longer , and farm to defeat your opponents, about nasus, I may have underestimated him, but you're focusing on a wrong thing here

Earl EulrichNov 5, 20141 votes

I support putting further work into Aram, but your attempt would only streamline matches and not necessarily lead to more balance.

What should be done instead is making the mode truly random:

Everyone has all Champions enabled for this mode, so people that own more Champs (or are specialized on tanky-melees) aren´t overly punished if they want to play Aram...while specific Aram-Accounts get shut down
rerolls should be severely limited or just be gone

Because it´s mostly poke-comp vs poke-comp currently, as many players only own carries+mages+ very little melees - and even if they´d get one of the "unfortunate" melees they´ll just reroll it. It really takes the fun out of this mode, that has an incredible potential when playing suboptimal-comp vs suboptimal-comp or even an all-melee-brawl.