You can't balance champs around ARAM.

Blumpkin Nation··2 votes·447 views

But there are a few things to note that become obvious in ARAM.

  1. because champs generate gold quicker, you are allowed to get builds online much faster.

  2. because of this you can see which champs become stronger/weaker as the game progresses.

  3. feeding is only temporary when it comes to whose behind. - Unless you're unlucky and have 0 poke or sustain.

  4. some champions just feel inherently broken and anti-fun to play against. (Trundle and his immense healing/tankiness that can out trade teams with no ADC. Brand popping your tanks to 0 because of his passive. Etc).

  5. which champions have really poor team fighting capabilities (ARAM is 100% team fighting).

There's a lot of good things about ARAM than can teach you when a champion is a good pick. But I honestly feel like if you get a champ in ARAM that is just too good at everything (Trundle comes to mind; healing, tank, stat stealing + more healing. The passive is really anti fun in ARAM tbh) they should probably be reworked or nerfed.

ARAM shows which champions need reworks more than nerfs, IMO. But because of the nature of the mode, I doubt anyone considers it a good way to balance champs in general. Everything is based on SR, but ARAM allows a quicker glimpse into what a champion can or cannot be.

tl;dr rework Trundle. Thanks.

4 Comments

CerealBoxOfDoom1 votes

theres a champ being balanced around aram?

Hrbrt1 votes

You shouldn't balance champs around ARAM. ftfy

Sir Fuzzi1 votes

ARAM allows a champion to show what they can do in a teamfight, whether that's a lot or a little.

Things like Thresh getting two souls or the idiots who keep saying Nasus needs auto-stax are just excuses to deny punishing bad play. The mode is obviously fundamentally unbalanced; that's why everyone gets insane gold.

Stop using it for anything, ever. It's a game mode for fun that shouldn't have the word 'balance' hung around it because it just won't ever apply in the same way.

But you know, far be it from me to suggest your dumb asses should pick up Grievous Wounds against healing-centric champs in a mode that's a single lane. Why would I ever do that?

To quote a great sage before me,

{quoted} You shouldn't balance champs around ARAM. ftfy

Minarde1 votes

Different maps have different game flows and pacing. Some champs excel with straight-foward maps; others, with confined, twisting maps. Ideally, champs should be balanced separately for each map, but that's not terribly practical due to developer resource constraints. Riot focuses on SR, and their obsessive focus has made it the most popular map. As such, champs get balanced around SR.

Basically, you can balance for ARAM, but you shouldn't balance around ARAM.

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