If aram is a fun mode, why can't we have fun on a low waveclear/range champion

my waifu Taliyah·Feb 22, 2018·2 votes·519 views

The 7.8 changes made waveclear even more important than it was before. Combined with the removal of Targon's , if you play these championis, you'll just get pushed in and lose your towers/inhibitors/nexus. The new runes combined with the passive 3 gold on minion deaths, rewards playing for KDA, and punishes dying. This makes champions that are already great at not dying better, and all-in champions much worse.

How to fix:

Revert 7.8 minion changes
disable Triumph and Dark Harvest from aram
Give melee champions a minion execute passive 3 charges , 30 sec cooldown on Guardian's Horn.

5 Comments

DeathBurstFeb 22, 20182 votes

Well, I don't know about you, but I manage to have fun on melee champs in ARAM, even those without waveclear (which is most of them). I usually build tanky and wait for an opportunity, it requires patience, but I do have fun.

my waifu TaliyahFeb 22, 20182 votes

You are essentially leaving your team in a 4v5 for the early game. This may not be punished so hard at 1800 aram mmr, but at my aram mmr, that's first tower down in 5 minutes. With the snowball runes (Triumph+Dark Harvest), good luck coming back from that.

DeathBurstFeb 22, 20183 votes

I mean, OK, I'll gladly admit that I'm far from an ARAM expert, but you can't on one hand use the "fun mode" argument and on the other hand complain about people at more competitive MMR being, well, competitive...

I guess what I'm trying to say is: if you say melee champs are under-powered in high MMR ARAM, I'll trust you, but this is a power balance issue, not a lack-of-fun issue.

12FootBlackGarenFeb 22, 20181 votes

Aram is rarely a fun gamemode already because of obvious matchmaking issues.. Either you get a full AD team or a full melee team vs full ranged poke low cooldown mages that buy tear at the start of the game and just poke you out untill you die..

JaspersFeb 22, 20181 votes

I like these ideas. Not sure about removing Triumph and Dark Harvest but halving what they do would be enough. I made a thread about it before but it got lost. :P

Think of it this way, if you have Dark Harvest as default what is it replaced with? If I'm Yorick, I hardly want Predator or Electrocute.