Stale ARAM
As the title says, I'm wondering if anyone else feels the same that ARAM is getting stale and repetitive. Rift makes sense that it doesn't really get stale because there's a lot of variety in champion expectancy, the length of time it takes to get through a match, and all that can ensue between the beginning and end.
I know ARAM is supposed to be a simplified game and the gimmick is "random" champions; but regardless of what champions either team gets, it seems like it's played the exact same way every time. Whoever gets the poke heavy team will control early game pretty well, but whoever has the strong CC team will have the better engage and possible late game. The champs that are mid range poke heavy just hide in bush close to tower and throw out abilities that people either aren't paying attention to or that they can't do anything about. Granted if you have skill shots you can poke back into the bush to try and keep them out, but then that takes away from the front line offense; also you may just not have poke to prevent them from staying in bush. These are what I like to call "Bush Wookies" and usually the only way to get them back is to literally play the exact same and poke from bush where they can't see you.
In a skill based game, this isn't very skillful or hard to accomplish when you're just handed a champ to do this with. Too many times I've heard people say "it's just ARAM, why are you taking it so seriously?" when I try to bring up legitimate questions to strange occurrences or so seemingly broken mechanics that show in ARAM but aren't present in Rift. I usually don't give a response further because I try not to engage with people who don't actually care what I have to say and are just trying to get me riled up or get me "triggered" further. As someone who enjoys playing ARAM over Rift because you don't have to worry about comps or investing 30 min - 1 hour of your time into one match, I do take ARAM relatively seriously. Not to the point of ranked, but at least to the point where I expect people to try and not just walk head first into the enemy team feeding them and ultimately just wasting everyone's time.
So I just wanted to bring up that maybe we could get alternate version of ARAM every now and then. Not as differing or as frequent as the game mode rotation, but just a little change every 2-3 weeks so it's not the same repetitive situations every time you play, as mentioned above. Maybe remove bushes entirely. Or you could even maybe make like an URF for ARAM (though that would be a larger difference than my previous suggestion). I'm not entirely sure what all you could do, but I at least wanted to share my opinion on the situation to maybe start a conversation to change things up a little.
and a perfect team to protect her with heals/shields and mages to poke so no one could easily engage. While my team got semi-sustain based champs, but nothing to poke back as well as the other team. Granted this kind of thing can happen from time to time, but for me, I usually just expect it whenever I go in.