Aram and the new mark/snowball

l xon l·5/11/2015, 8:32:32 PM·4 votes·199 views

I have to admit there were many features i liked in the new HA update (adding some items from SR and the reduced heal althoug this is older). However adding the Mark/snowball was a mistake in my opinion.

i nearly only play aram and know like everyone else the problems of long ranged mages/adcs and the healing of some others champions. Having melee champion doesn't mean you'll lose every game and when i look at all the melees I see a LOT of ranged skillshots or point and clicks that have an impact during games. If i take champion with no real range i see a lot of other strong aspects of the champion. Fiora has her Q that she can use 2 times and it's way enough to get in range of a champion. Yi has Q and build in heal (+ he's yi so the kill threat is always real). Garen has build in potions with his pasif. Tryndamere (one of my favorit champs) has heals and his E to get dash to back line... I will not do every champion but they all either have a stun,dash or heal or anykind of passif to help survive.

I don't see the point into putting a 20sec unstoppable dash in the game where flash can help you reposition as well. I don't see anyone take flash over a snowball (normally both your make your champ unstoppable in terms of engaging)

Of course playing melee champs is harder and it helps some (and i really mean just SOME not a lot) but it made so many more OP. Just played against a Leblanc as if she wasn't mobile enough she just has to us one dash take the snowball burst and gets out she doesn't even need her second dash on ult to get to the back line. I won't even talk about Zedand his shadows. All cc tank are now OP as hell: take allistar he's got garantied knock up and can E the target to the team every 20 sec where otherwise he had to flash Q. There is not 1 tank that doesn't take advantage of being able to dash directly to the nemie team.

Let's take adc as they're the one getting rekt by all those dashes as they certainly won't take the mark and suicide but they get kill by assassins/tank with mark. Played a sivir game and they had a Vi and LB that were flying all over the map.

If we talk about 'dodging' the mark i'm ok with that of course you can dodge a Blitz but some times you'll get caught that's how it goes. But when 3,4 or 5 champs shot a mark every 20 sec you can't dodge them all more then 2 times (won't even talk about hiiting minions next to champs to get to them) and it' the HA ONE lane even the worst nidalees hit a target on that map.

The last aspect i'd like to talk about is the concept of aram 5v5 teamfights on 1 lane so this mean the ONLY skill asked is to position/move/dash to the right champs to focus the back line(for assasins) and for tank/supp/any champs with CC was to find an openning and now lets face it with the mark it's a 0 skill gape garantied engage.

In my opinion the mark should have stayed where it was with the poroking. The engage tool is already there it's flash and it is balanced (powerfull but high cooldown to keep it balanced) andthe mark completly killed aram for me. I can focus on skillshoots ult but this snowball just rekt the entire gamemode.

(I'll ask your pardon for any mistakes you found as i'm not english if you couldn't tell by now)

I'm open to replies as long as they have sense or speak about an aspect of the mark i didn't think about as i'm sure i forgot some point while wrinting.

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