ARAM Changes
Aram could use a fixing up. It's been untouched for wayyyyyyyyyyy too long. So many patches have come out with balances and changes and new mechanics yet almost no attention has been shown for aram. I've played so many aram games where the team composition is either absolutely amazing and I win with our team demolishing the other team or my team has absolutely nothing and everyone is a tank with no damage. It's not fun when that happens. Im not sure if there is any mechanism to choose the champions for aram but I doubt there is one. There should be a system that ensures there is at least one tank, one support, one mage, and one adc or some team style combination. Ex, 2 tanks 3 mages. 2 adc, 1 mage, 2 supports. something that allows both teams to have a chance. Also some sort of incentive not to afk in an aram game should be added. within the last ten games in aram I've played I had at least 12 afk players. Thats more then 1 per game. In one game for example I had 3 afk players and as expected, lost in 7 minutes. It wasn't fun to play that game and it is never fun to play without a teammate. I have thought of a few solutions to this issue. One; when an afk player is afk for 3 minutes or some number of time, they will be removed from the game. To replace that player, there will be a que for players who wish to start in the middle of a game to replace afk players. There should probably be an ip incentive to join the que such as an extra 20-50 ip for playing for the afk player. I know it isn't a perfect system but it could save many games from unfairness. Solution two; increase punishments for players who abandon games. I've seen multiple players afk in aram without a care in the world. In normal games and especially ranked, there is enough of an enforcement against afk that no player will afk unless they absolutely have to. Solution 3; (This is a rather sketchy idea but could help) when players go afk for an excess of x amount of time, their character is replaced with a AI Bot who will battle until the player returns or the game ends. That way the bot will at least add some form of damage or support for the teammate who is afk.