i really dont understand why grades are always "ranked/normal" grades. no matter what mode you play, the grade system focuses on the average ranked. i mean come on. i counted them. i saw 5 players getting an s- AND NOT A SINGLE ONE GETTING A BETTER GRADE in over 1500 aram games.
really? riot pls
the system counts cs in WAY TOO MUCH and it really shouldnt do that in aram.
revliledpembroke16 votesYeah, it's really killer if you're someone like Olaf and you need to CS to get that S rank, but you've got 
or 
on your team. Looks like you won't ever be getting any CS, so you better have a KDA of 100000000000000000000000000000000/2/1000000000000000000000000000000 to try and counteract your low CS numbers (and it still gives you an A+).
Honestly, CS should not be brought into account in ARAM. It's the least important aspect (overall) in a game mode where CS-ing is an afterthought.
Bob the Toastr9 votesAgreed. In summoner's rift there's 3 lanes worth of farm and a jungle but in ARAM all 5 people have to share a single lane of farm so there's no way anyone could have a good cs score unless the rest of their team takes none of it.
LugiaPaladin10 votesWhile I agree that getting S's in ARAM is needlessly hard, getting anything higher than an S- is pointless, as an S- will net you a chest and the only other thing that would be effected by getting a higher rank is getting slightly more champion mastery, since you can't even get mastery tokens in this mode.
ZenaSpiritdragon6 votesYeah it's painful trying to get a decent rank in ARAM. I actually kinda of wasn't sure it was possible for a while until I got one last week, don't even remember what champ it was on either.
Ahri Baka5 votesWell , I played 200 aram games and I myself got S+ 3 times S 5 times S- 10+ times A lot of people in my matches got S+ too , but mostly S , you just shouldn't die much in aram and get as much as kills as possible and some good farm ,even if you need to die , if you have a score like 15/0/20 and end the match , here you got S+
Arammus7 votesif i end an aram 15/0 i kinda did something wrong STILL! maybe our comp was way better but you should shop. and trying to farm in a mode where everyone randomly hits minions isnt easy either
Bijeesny4 votesComplaining over irrelevant stuff in an irrelevan game mode lel
Master Noct2 votesComplaining over irrelevant stuff in an irrelevan game mode lel
And today, no point has been made.
Bijeesny1 votes[{quoted}](name=Master Noct,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=pvQOAvET,comment-id=00000000,timestamp=2018-02-25T06:16:25.363+0000)
And today, no point has been made.
My point is that OP is complaining about grade system which wasn't designed for ARAM. If he wants to get higher grade, he should play normal game. Your CS score is important when you want to get an S/S+ which you won't be able to get because you're fighting with 4 other teammates for CS. Accept it.
Master Noct1 votesMy point is that OP is complaining about grade system which wasn't designed for ARAM. If he wants to get higher grade, he should play normal game. Your CS score is important when you want to get an S/S+ which you won't be able to get because you're fighting with 4 other teammates for CS. Accept it.
The way you worded your first response is what made me say that. Now that you present ideas as to why, then I can agree with you.
Mysticman894 votesGrades are mode specific, so requirements to get an S in aram on a particular champ are different than the requirements to get an S on the same champ in any given role on SR. A side effect of that tends to be cs scores are expected to be quite low for most champs, especially compared to their SR counterparts.
The tricksy thing is since grades compare you to everyone on the same champ in that mode, the best performances end up being the ones where someone just happened to get a team comp that really synergises with the champion and/or the enemy comp doesn't offer much to counter them, so more typical team comp match ups don't lend themselves to S ranks.
That said, I don't find it's nearly as hard as you're making it out to be. I pretty reliably use aram as my method of getting my weekly S chests, as well as often using it as my win of the day method. Just looking at my recent match history in the client, I have 2 ARAM S ranks in my past 20 games (one S- and one S+), so either I'm consistently exceptionally lucky, or they're not as unreasonable as you make out.
KSul1992 votesAs a support main who frequently plays ARAM my main issue is that the comparisons are unfair in certain situations. When you play a support champ as a support, you can't hope to compete with someone who builds them like a carry. If i play support 
with 
i compete with others who build full ap and spam tornado. They will have higher cs numbers, kills, damage, etc. than me, because I choose to play a champion in a way that is best for the team. SR takes care of this by classifying mid and support differently, so the lack of damage/cs/kills is accounted for. ARAM does not, so ad 
gets the "s-" while support soraka does not.
stopmakingmemad2 votesAram is fuckingg dumb why do you care lol
Arammus9 votesmainly because i dont want aram (and 3v3) end like dominion. basically some random riot dude randomly saying "yea it takes too much ressources and isnt as fame as ranked... remove it"
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Lil Homie busta1 votesNot as dumb as your post.
DJOKER2 votesAram is the only Mode i play this Season(The Worst Season), But Riot doesnt care.
Jaspers2 votesI think the last S- in aram I got was with Udyr, full armour tank vs full ad team.... my farm was low but my kills high... I stole a lot of kills. :P
Infernape2 votesI got an S on Jhin the other day. I just had a front line protecting me while I oneshot everything with less than 3k HP
Pale Pirate2 votesThe annoying thing is that the fix to that seems so easy; just lower or remove the weight CS has in the grade formula. In case you guys haven't noticed in your ARAMs, that's the main factor in getting an S class grade.
VexingRaven2 votesI've gotten my first and only S on several champs in ARAM.
brônco2 votesdid you know that aram is a casual game mode
Venomar2 votesLet's just have 3 waves of minions spawn at a time with random raptors and Krugs jumping up from under the bridge and seiging down the lane like in doombots, that's my solution. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]
Scuffleboard1 votesI've gotten a scattering of S's in around 180 ARAM games on two accounts. Soraka, Lucian, Ashe, Xayah... Mostly ADCs
Nea1041 votesA totally not-broken mode. :D
StpTlkinAnBndOvr1 votesBuy alistar and get s+ every game from snowball + cc score.
Professor Ward1 votesi play arams and end the season with chests on basically every champion
got an s on galio and fiddlesticks today
BestPudgeNA1 votesBro i used to play ARAM all the time and S ranks aren't uncommon the key to getting them in ARAM is to just not die.
Ramza Paradise2 votesso un-true, you need to have a good score AND cs well.
I've consistently gone stupid scores of like 20-2 + assists and get an A
Only time you get an S is if you also last hit
Koerty1 votesI feel like getting a S as ADC is doable, but getting a S as mage is nearly impossible, simply because as a mage you never have enough mana/cdr to both use your spells to poke the ennemy team and kill the minions, you either end up focusing on one or the other, while adcs can do both.
For tanks you just need to know when to go in, if you end up with 3 or 4 deaths while still being here in fights then good job you got your free S rank. For example I got a S (not S-) on garen just by using the snowball on an ennemy who gone too far, do one combo then run away, regen health and repeat.
ƒrostγ1 votesI haven't counted it myself, but last year I got most of my chests from aram. ( 25 + )
big boi edri1 votesThis seems exaggerated, I've gotten quite a few S ranks in ARAM. A lot of them I ended the game with 40 or so CS. You just have to have good KP and KDA.
Jeanne fan club1 votesIts not just cs that is counted. am almost 90% sure that the rating is determined on a (k/a/cs/kp/ward score) over (deaths and time) system. If you only die 0-1 times per game you will almost always get an S, the only exception being that if the game lasts too long of a time and you aren't getting kp or cs, then your rating will drop.
Ralik0981 votesYeah the rankings really need to be readjusted in aram.
revliledpembroke1 votesOn a completely different note, I just got an S on Mundo in ARAM.