ARAM RANK :D

Ok, let's go step by step here.

"ARAM doesn't have drafting per se, but team comp is still important. Rerolls and builds are things to consider during champ select. Maybe you shouldn't go AP Rek'Sai when your team already has three Mages. Maybe you should reroll that Jinx because your team has no magic damage. There's certainly places to "become better and improve your skills" before the game starts."

So, you reroll Jinx...and you got Talon. There goes your magic damage and your point.

Like you mentioned, ARAM doesn't have drafting...soooo...your skill for drafting good team is gone as well. You can be ADC main...sorry, I meant brainless monkey Harmless joke, for those who are breaking their keyboards, racing to show their rage and still be good at "drafting" in ARAM. And still, even with rerolls you have ZERO control over your team comp, since you have no idea what will you get. Point about builds is also invalid, since people are doing those silly AP Reksai, Machinegun Lulu etc build on SR, it's not like you can buy AP items on Reksai only on ARAM, right?

"More importantly, there's no reason ARAM has to reflect the same skillset as SR. Even currently, SR rank doesn't reflect a player's skill at League in general, but specifically a player's skill on SR. Hell, there's been an ongoing discussion this entire season whether someone's dynamic SR rank even reflects their solo SR rank. If it can be reasonably argued that two queues on the same map can have different skillsets, why must queues on two different maps have the same skillset?"

The thing is, ARAM doesn't have "skillset" you must have to succed. It's based on randomness of "champ select" and ONE skill - teamfighting. Drafting is gone. Bans are gone. Objective control is gone. Macro game is gone. Rotations are gone. Every single skill you need on SR is gone on ARAM besides teamfights. And that skill goes down to mindless fights whenever people are alive.

That being said, I love ARAMs, I play a lot of them, just to have fun and mess around with funny builds or just waste some time when I wait for friends to play normals with. ARAMs don't reflect any skills, thus making competitive ladder for those game is pointless. How can you climb, since you don't need skills to play ARAMs? It's not like you can improve your shotcalling to be better on ARAMs...or learn how to control the map on Howling Abyss. It's not like you can figure out "META" for ARAMs and proper bans for that map...you literally can do NOTHING to improve at playing ARAMs, besides being better on champion you randomly play (and that may even be champion from rotation which you never played, or champion you got from Hextech crafting that you never played before). There is nothing on ARAM that creates competitive enviroment, needed for Ranked ladder system.

The way you climb on SR is simple - you are getting better at the game. You start to realize how to control the map, how to contest and control objectives, you figured out when you can do something and when you can't, you work on you warding game and your knowledge about matchups - you learn which champions work good against champions enemy team picked and you realize how to use certain comps or how to counter them. You simply get better at League of Legends. Meanwhile on ARAM you have none of that, so there is nothing to improve at while playing ARAMs (And before you make mistake in understanding this statement, I mean - THERE IS NOTHING TO IMPROVE WHILE PLAYING ARAMS. Has nothing to do with practicing champion that can help you later on SR), it's just mindless fighting for fun.