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ARAM - Champion Pool

Libalaw·3/4/2016, 2:00:47 AM·2 votes·800 views

@Riot - Been playing for a long while and I remember when ARAM was just a custom game that was made up. You made it official and it's a nice way to warm up...kind of. My question though is why not for ARAM and ARAM alone you allow all champions to be unlocked. I feel like there doesn't need to be any real "Balancing" in this mode, except allowing all champions to be unlocked, I don't know why this would be an issue. You allow people to get practice with champions they've not played before whilst at the same time making sure people aren't built around guaranteeing a specific champ of sorts pending on their pool.

I get you want people to own champions and play / pay for the champs but in ARAM it shouldn't matter really as there's no ranking and it shouldn't be a thing that matters, cept when you're trying to warm up or cool down you're going to be set against people who have accounts specifically for that game mode.

So end all be all, why don't you enable the usage of all champions in ARAM only, you already make money on people getting a skin for one round of of the game mode as it is, why not add to it?

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Valderis Vandala3/4/2016, 3:59:13 AM1 votes

Have fun playing Lee Sin for the first time in ARAM.

It sucks so much ass, you have like 7 abilities, some make no sense when you first read them, you have no idea how to build this little fucker because you've never had an interest in playing him so you don't know what works.

There's probably other champs that are just as horrible to get randomly assigned for the first time like Elise or Nidalee.

Forcing people to play stuff they don't like is bad enough, forcing people to play stuff they've never even tried before is just a horrible experience, especial in ARAM where you have no warm up period like a laning phase and if you walk out of the shop you can't get back without dieing. It's just a miserable experience on a first time champion, and by the time the champion is assigned to you for a second time you'll have forgotten all about him again and the "fun" will start anew, oh joy.

I wouldn't have a problem with it if it was optional, that way people can choose what they like to play. Same reason I want the option to remove the weekly champions from my ARAM games.