Riot fix ARAM, please i beg you

wilmer007·Jan 11, 2015·1 votes·816 views

One team gets Jayce, Ziggs, Lux, Nidalee, Velkoz the other team gets all melee and no pokes
One team gets 4 ADCs and a Lux, other team gets all melee
Champ select we get Shen, reroll and get nasus. someone dodges, next champ select we reroll nasus again we get shen, we reroll irelia and we get nasus again. 2 rerolls wasted for the same champs the previous champ select. seems legit. way to go riot. please fix this so any champion that has been rerolled does not get put back into the reroll rotation in the same champ select.

thanks for the balance matchmaking on aram.

please riot fix and make it better.

and while on the subject on reroll please change it so we get at least one reroll every game with a second reroll as a backup. It gets pretty boring and stupid when you get udyr or warwick and you have no rerolls and the enemy team ends up with lux as a result.

3 Comments

ZielmannJan 11, 20154 votes

But we don't actually want that. And by 'we', I mean the real longtime ARAM players.

Is there a problem right now? Yes, there is. Is a forced balancing of the teams the solution? Definitely not! We play ARAM because we don't want to be stuck with having specific team comps and whatnot. The random factor is what makes it fun, and if you can't deal with that, then stick with the other game modes.

So what is the problem I hinted at? Manipulation of the 'random', by means of ARAM-specific accounts. Players that level new accounts so they can buy only the top 5-10 ARAM champs. This gives them a disproportionately high chance at getting one of those champions, compared to somebody playing on their main account with all (or nearly all) champions unlocked.

'But they also have a higher chance at getting a free-week champion' you say? There are generally only a couple free champs in the rotation that aren't at least okay for ARAM. The supports will generally be useful. Any ADC is generally nice to have. Most mid lane mages will have some range/poke available to them. The real wildcards tend to be whatever is in the rotation for top lane and jungle. But even then, it's often nice to have something on the team that can initiate and/or tank.

The real solution to having true 'fairness' in ARAM would be for Riot to make all champions available. And they know this. It's been discussed many times on here before, and even had a couple Rioter comments. I'm hopeful that we see it eventually, but I also realize a game mode like ARAM is far from their top priority.

CharQueenJan 11, 20151 votes

Then what would the point of 'all random' be? Part of the beauty of ARAM is that it sticks you in absolutely crackpot composition and simply lets you play for fun. A team of five tanks may obviosly lose, but the possibility of making it work or simply laughing at it is a large part of the fun.

If you're playing ARAM to win, you're doing it wrong.

SouL1essJan 12, 20151 votes

and while on the subject on reroll please change it so we get at least one reroll every game with a second reroll as a backup.

I rather completely remove rerolls and open all champion available in the ARAM mode. What's the point of random when you can random three times, and sometimes have the smallest purchased champion pool in order to further abuse the probability of a "good" champion roll?