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Balance ARAM

TheSeltzerBaron·11/6/2015, 3:02:05 AM·20 votes·1,748 views

This will get downvoted straight to hell like I told riot in a ticket but they brushed me off and told me to post a thread on the forums where no one from riot will see it and where hardcore ranked lifers will flame me to death. This is what I sent them, verbatim.

"I'm sending this via ticket because posting anything on the forums is like throwing your suggestion right into the void where people unnecessarily downvote it and it gets ignored. I realize all the big money is on rift but how about some TLC for ARAM? I don't like rift, ARAM has a much faster start to the match in terms of gear and actually playing and people complain less. Every single update I see mentions tons of stuff about how we're changing this about rift or that about rift, let's talk about Howling Abyss. I'm sick of losing good champs because people dodge the starting queue. Champs NEED tuning for a one-lane game mode. Fiddlesticks, Ashe, Ezreal, Vel Koz, Xerath, Teemo, Varus, Lux, all need abilities tuned for one-lane play, I don't think I need to tell you which ones.

Hardcore rift players seem to regard ARAM as a dumping ground where matches are worthless and fast. I think it's much more fun and I don't like the fact that it seems to be completely ignored by developers. The last major change was that damnable snowball which ruined gameplay for a lot of matches where comp would have otherwise been fairly balanced because champs could shoot right into the middle of your team. Yeah, it sped things up but it also made matches into steamrollers where you run over the other team or get run over. I've had a match end in just over 12 minutes, 12! I have a screenshot to prove it. I switched to ARAM to escape the ragers and lifers on rift and I enjoy it. Please don't leave people like me out of the equation."

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19 Comments

A Liberal11/6/2015, 5:28:36 AM13 votes

Thats.... thats not what support tickets are for.

lofi n chillhop11/6/2015, 3:12:21 AM13 votes

I don't really agree with your points regarding specific imbalances. however I do agree that ARAM is considerably overlooked.

Yosuke Apperu11/6/2015, 8:40:07 AM5 votes

What they should do is unlock every champion for everyone in aram only. So that everyone has a 1/120+ chance getting kat or velkoz or blitz.

Shroom Junkie11/6/2015, 3:04:41 AM4 votes

They already change champs specifically for ARAM only(and keep their Rift counterpart different), I see no reason why they can't do this. +1

Gubaguy11/6/2015, 7:51:13 AM3 votes

Aram could have a pretty easy fix... Since every champ in game has a "role" the game could easily be modified to only allow up to 2 champs on a team per "role". so maybe you get 2 marksmen, an assassin, a tank, and a support, maybe you get 2 supports 2 assassin and a tank... etc.

then you dont end up with games where its 5 ADC's vs 5 assassins, or 5 tanks, and its jsut one sided all game.

Shadow Gilgamesh11/6/2015, 5:10:27 AM3 votes

It'd certainly be nice if they did more than like... just cut heals and shields by 50% and call ARAM balanced. Which is most of the changes to champ kits.

Poorly Dressed11/6/2015, 8:31:09 AM2 votes

The worst part is that pokers will get even better in pre-season 6 when you can start with BF sword @ 1300 gold. As if Ashe and Jinx weren't already obnoxious enough. And don't get me started about the Lux buff that was completely unncessary and played into the hands of ARAM only accounts. Riot even admitted that she might be too strong atm (on SR that is, so imagine what that means for ARAM). Honestly i want the old Mark/Dash timer back to steamroll these dirty ARAM only accounts. Yes i'm salty, downvote me ;)

Naleagueaccount11/6/2015, 6:53:19 AM2 votes

I only play ARAM and modes like URF. SR is too slow.

lightdragoon8811/6/2015, 8:47:20 PM2 votes

Snowball ruined a lot of balance in ARAM.

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The Illithid11/6/2015, 5:28:07 PM1 votes

I wish they'd stop people from dodging all the time. Make the queue timer much longer. If you dodge an ARAM game after seeing your champ, you should have to wait 30 minutes to requeue for ARAM or something. Yeah, sure, you'll sometimes get a bad champ, but I never dodge ARAM and with rerolls and champ trading I still have fun with whatever I end up with.

Spoofghoul11/6/2015, 8:44:25 PM1 votes

heal and shield nerfs are shit on aram because it is the only counter to poke and poke is already stupid strong

Hard4Hamsters11/7/2015, 4:27:27 AM1 votes

I honestly was excited about summoner 32 being added when it was... but now....

Garen summoner 32

Shit puts me on tilt...

Puynsi11/6/2015, 9:29:06 PM1 votes

People needs to stop thinking that you can play ARAM the same way they play Rift, it's not, It's not the same.

Kinjishi11/6/2015, 7:01:05 AM1 votes

Tend to prefer ARAM over SR, but like to play all the different maps available. If ARAM changes in anyway, then I'd like to see it have bans added before randomizing the champs you receive. This can help weed out the OP (i.e. global ult) champs. Also, the number of rerolls should be based on the number of champions you have (example: 1 - 1/4 of the champ pool, 2 - 1/2 of the champ pool, 3 - 3/4 of the champ pool, 4 - all of champ pool unlocked).

"I've had a match end in just over 12 minutes, 12!" Fastest ARAM game that I've had is 7:01 and it was a win. Go below 7 mins. and you don't get IP. Point being, that match of yours seems long by comparison.