ARAM sucks really hard now.

Halfaddict··9 votes·3,531 views

I am a player with nearly five thousand ARAM games under my belt. The last patch has completely ruined ARAM.

First off, remember how you said you were sick of ARAM accounts getting all the best champs? Well you made that MUCH easier to achieve with the top bar, although I like it, you took a half measure in placing only the last 3 free rotations of champions in the pool. You need to just pull the trigger and make all champions available for ARAM because you have fixed nothing, nearly every game I play contains a Lux, Ziggs or Xerath. Period. You fixed nothing there, its worse now more than ever, I would know.

Secondly, the removal of warmogs has assured that whoever has the best poke team wins, tanks are basically worthless as tits on a bull now. Also this removal has taken away the only reliable counter play to the aforementioned Lux, Ziggs and Xerath ect.

Something has changed with the amount of damage taken in general. There's no competition in ARAM anymore, it's ALWAYS a one sided stomp, whoever has the most damage and range wins. I've had more under 10 min wins and losses since this patch than I have ever had prior. Not to say the game has officially ended at that point, but stomps are more rampant now than they have EVER been. I know when I can win an ARAM and when it's over.

I think Riot secretly likes ARAM accounts and have facilitated that play style in ARAM now more than ever. It's taking everything I have not to full on rage out about this, I literally don't want to play anymore. I used to have so much fun playing ARAM, you've completely gutted it. It fucking sucks, IT SUCKS SHIT IT FUCKING SUCKS. I'm done, useless. Been playing since beta, the state of the game is the WORST it's ever been, CANCER EVERYWHERE. Why are you so cancer.

21 Comments

Int Like Rickon4 votes

I miss Warmogs as well. Playing Zac DrMundo Ornn Chogath is really a lot harder without things that are core to their kits. Plus building it on AP champs was fun! I don't want to go as far as saying that ARAM is terrible as I still enjoy it more than SR (4000+ games here) , but that was one quality of life change I just didn't agree with. There are also some clear glitches in the new items such as Jayce being able to abuse the Melee only weapons and such.

Halfaddict1 votes

It was fun on AP..I loved it on Kassadin...

Int Like Rickon1 votes

Building it on Veigar was cancer. Build item 3029 item 3089 item 3040 and a couple other hp items and then farm your passive. So cancer lol.

Halfaddict1 votes

I liked a resolve tree build with tanky Kass item 3029 item 3116 item 3083 item 3100 I'd regularly go 20+ kills with that.

MetaVolca2 votes

You're just wrong on all accounts. ARAM is at the best its ever been right now.

Halfaddict1 votes

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Wolf and Gun2 votes

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You probably think Aatrox rework is good too.

Aatrox sucks balls in Aram. Maybe his rework will make him decent in that mode.

Halfaddict1 votes

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Wolf and Gun1 votes

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Well yeah, he can hit the whole lane now with every ability lol we don't need Viktor or Ori anymore either.

Anyways, this doesn't really apply to the convo of ARAM.

Halfaddict1 votes

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Wolf and Gun3 votes

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True facts.

Man I loved ARAM so much...

Don't worry. This is just an 'event'.

ARAM will go back to normal. And it will get warmogs back. Just a little bit longer.

Baka Red1 votes

All the changes are potentially permanent, if Riot thinks they are 'good for ARAM'. I hope you are right about Warmog returning.

Wolf and Gun1 votes

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All the changes are potentially permanent, if Riot thinks they are 'good for ARAM'. I hope you are right about Warmog returning.

They stated they would only be removing it temporarily to see how players reacted to it.

Wolf and Gun4 votes

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You're just wrong on all accounts. ARAM is at the best its ever been right now.

Gross. Go back to SR. OP knows what's up.

Semaj3xt4h2 votes

100% agree, aram main... Really annoyed because last few times riot has touched aram they have ruined something... When they removed the gold gen items a year or so ago my wife quit playing aram and now won't login unless i make some kinda deal with her =/... If your front line plays too passive now vs a team with poke its G-G NO RE.... I literally just had this happen where the tank was constantly trying to micro the whole team but meanwhile only had one death sitting behind tower doing nothing.... guess what? we lost in like 8 minutes, they had lux/jayce... im super annoyed but oh well, atleast I can que for dota 2 ability draft still ;).... when will riot learn, if its NOT BROKE THEN DON'T "TRY" TO FIX IT.

Baka Red1 votes

As a fellow ARAM only player with over 4K matches behind me, I agree with much of what you wrote.

ARAM only accounts most likely suffer at least a little bit; even with the Bench, they roll free to play champion more often, and since they don't have as many champions in their pool, they cannot afford to reroll on nearly every lobby.

Warmog: I mostly agree. Because of Warmog removal, poke is stronger than before and that isn't fun. Poke can still be beaten, but it is harder to achieve and I hate that. I really hope that Riot returns Warmog when this experiment is over. (And I hope they toss the Wallwalkers and the Cutlass to trashcan. That AP item isn't too bad, but I don't really think it is that useful either.)

Damage taken: I haven't noticed any more damage in the field unless you mean that lvl 4 is now faster to get (I don't like that starting exp too much it appears). I have noticed that ARAMs are shorter than before though. However, I disagree that they are over in ten minutes like you say. The match isn't over until a nexus goes boom. By saying that it is over in under ten minutes even if nexus hasn't gone boom, you only reveal that you suffer from give up mentality. Oh, and I prefer the longer matches to the current shorter matches. The longer matches are still possible, but unfortunately also more rare.

Your Riot conspiracy... I ignore. You are free to ignore my Riot conspiracy too. I don't even bother to talk about that, since it isn't ARAM related. :)

Your poll "ARAM is complete garbage" is garbage. How about you leave your opinionated polls out the next time you write a post that tries to affect people via logic and reason. If you have to have a poll, make it a proper poll. That ate lot of your credibility.

Halfaddict1 votes

No I don't suffer from a give up mentality and play it through nor do I surrender, like I said, I've seen enough to know when a game is pretty much over. I like a longer match too, but when your nexus turrets are taking damage 8 minutes in, it's safe to say you're probably not coming back in the current state of the game plus someone with an actual give up mentality has AFK'd by this point about 75% of the time.

There was a time when I'd be more optimistic about a killer comeback and have performed many in the past...but not after these changes.

I've basically stopped playing LOL, maybe I'll check back after this event.

Also I don't care if you like my poll or not, this is opinion vomit, take it or leave it, it's not like Riot listens anyways.

Vekkna1 votes

I think they need to add warmogs back with one of the following caveats:

  • healing only recovers either base hp or bonus hp up to cap
  • healing cooldown is longer
  • healing reduced to 1% per second
  • healing duration capped at 5 seconds, reset after taking damage from enemy champ then being out of combat
Halfaddict1 votes

I'm of the opinion that it was fine before. I lost plenty of games while having a warmogs. Even the Kassadin build I mentioned earlier scaled out in a longer game and I wouldn't have the damage to secure the win...a few games with 20+ kills.

Out of all these I could get behind healing being reduced to 1% as a compromise is it. Because that leaves more time between engages for the opposing team to make a play after said engage.

1ocnarf1 votes

ITS ACTUALLY SO TRASH. AS someone who plays league occasionally now and has time for arams only. they completely took the random elements out of it. everything is unbalanced. bans are r%%%%%ed. 5 games and so far a nid ban in each game, so nid isnt being picked anymore. the new ga item is so fucking dumb too. whats the point of going burst if whoever you kill with that item can just kill you afterwards. Hate the new aram

emarythomp21 votes

"There's no competition in ARAM anymore," And tell me how competitive was a gamemode called "All Random All Mid" where you don't have a ranking system meaning you could get a full team of irons and the enemy could have a full team of diamonds? I've won against poke comps of lost against poke comps it doesn't matter. I literally play that gm to dick around.

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