As a hard core ARAMer myself I think my skills and many other people's are underappreciated by not having a ranked mode for ARAM. There are a lot of game play styles and interesting techniques that could come from this and I think it should be a mode. Does anyone else agree?
UnboundHades1 voteswhile aram isnt fully random on who wins it might as well be, the only way that it would be a ranked q is if you could select your champions but at that point its just spamming champs that are normally strong in aram or building team comps that are even stronger
GeneralZarnik2 voteswhile aram isnt fully random on who wins it might as well be, the only way that it would be a ranked q is if you could select your champions but at that point its just spamming champs that are normally strong in aram or building team comps that are even stronger
I highly disagree. In aram you have to be good with whatever you get and that shows a higher level of skill. Also two rerolls and team swapping more than makes up for it. I wouldn't get rid of the random part at all, in fact I think that's what makes it good and a show of skill.
Dynikus1 votesyou can't have a truly competitive game mode if one of the biggest strategic aspects of it is entirely RNG.
People already think twisted treeline ranked is a joke when it has champs with 60% winrates and some down in the 30s, but the spread is even worse in ARAM, with 
being at something like a 70% winrate.
Yes, there's strategy and skill in ARAM and you can absolutely win even with the objectively worse team. I'm at somewhere around a 55% winrate overall in ARAM last I checked. But there would have practically no ranked integrity unless the random aspect was removed.
Minarde1 votesBut there would have practically no ranked integrity unless the random aspect was removed.
That's not necessarily true. For instance, card games (e.g. poker, mtg) have randomness as a fundamental aspect, but they're still generally regarded as competitive. Of course, part of that's due to playing more games to balance out the randomness. However, the ranked splits being introduced next season encourage players to play more games anyway.
There's also ways to restrict ARAM variability without outright removing RNG. Bans would be one option. An "arena draft" system, where players choose their champ from a handful of random offerings, would be another option. Distributing champs based on relative power levels would be yet another option.
People already think twisted treeline ranked is a joke when it has champs with 60% winrates and some down in the 30s
This is tangential to the larger point, but you massively oversimplified things here. The actual state of Treeline balance is only (a small) part of the overall League playerbase's feelings towards TT, considering most players have barely any notion of TT gameplay. In general, Riot's prolonged disregard for the map has made it annoyingly common to think that the entire map "is a joke." Plus, 3v3 Flex has a similar connotation as 5v5 Flex, which isn't well-regarded either.
Flamingo Tango1 votesNah (random champions), but ranked ABAM or ranked Dominion (Riot, bring back Dominion pls k thx) would be awesome x). I mean it would be funny to do a ranked aram for lulz but you know our player base, people are going to take it way too seriously and get nasty, and having one casual game mode free of jerks (mostly, not recently though >_>) is pretty important.
currently ABAM (All Blind All Mid) seems to be custom game only and it can be tough to get people.
Honestly I think the feeling of wanting a "ranked casual game mode" is because they nixed Dominion, which would have filled that hole.
BeatzBoyFTW1 votesYeah, people will win game simply because one happens to play his main while the other gets an actual random champion that he never plays.
The concept for Ranked ARAM is honestly dumb af since the game is already determined by whether you managed to get the champions you play or not, so no.