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@Riot I know you probably don't care about Aram balance much but Dark harvest is really overpowered

Doseqis·2/25/2018, 8:12:46 AM·44 votes·13,094 views

It's so little fun having my champion just be one shot from one ability half one shot from a tank rotation or poked by one Ezreal Q for a third of my health, this rune is just passively there and the longer the game goes the more oppressive it gets.

I really wish it could be replaced by electrocute or grayed out or something that stops 3-4 people from picking it and just smashing people with it with a sheen item ontop of it. Every other rune takes interaction and knowing it's damage Dark harvest is just kinda like an Extra Sheen proc on abilities that scales, it's doing above average damage compared to other runes early to mid but mid to late this rune is doing often double the damage of others it's just overpowering every other rune from being taken (Even though the other runes intensives the ARAM fun mentality)

I'm fine with tanks being dominant or poke comps being annoying but this rune singlehandedly pushes me away from playing ARAM and i'll admit i used it early on but realized how little fun it was to play against and tried to let others enjoy the experiance rather than Jarvan and Ekko doing over half your hp in an auto.

Please Riot let ARAM have some more strategic picking of runes rather than everyone picking up dark harvest.

70 Comments

RiotRiot MapleNectar2/25/2018, 7:34:53 PM22 votes

We had done the one nerf to DH on Aram back in...December I believe, and recall that it changed it reasonably. Does it still feel completely over bearing to you guys? See below for a graph that shows some of the relative performance of keystones from back in mid January when I pulled the data as followup, not entirely sure what it looks like now, but suspect it's similar. The red bars indicate number of plays with the keystone, and the winrate% is well...winrate. Tons of nuance here though since it's not broken out by champs that might abuse it more (Ezreal, J4, Ekko as you mention).

https://i.imgur.com/hdx7ii1.png

my waifu Taliyah2/25/2018, 12:43:06 PM9 votes

How to make aram better:

  • 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.

I will make daily aram posts until Riot fixes. Today's post: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/aAJjvfB9-everyone-takes-triumph-in-aram-but-its-better-on-ranged-champions

THE RlVER KlNG2/25/2018, 3:01:41 PM7 votes

If ur not a champ that takes Comet, Footwork, or Aftershock there is literally no reason to take anything but Dark Harvest ever on like every other champ. It’s pretty ridiculous.

Pika Fox2/25/2018, 7:49:12 PM2 votes

Ive played plenty of ARAMs in the last few months. I can count on one hand the number of times ive seen DH. Exactly 0.

soopcan2/26/2018, 2:23:49 PM2 votes

Tbh I don't see that many people even take DH on ARAM, it's so underrated. I hope deep down it doesn't get nerfed tho cause it's so fun to abuse it lol

Seleena2/26/2018, 12:38:39 PM1 votes

Why try to balance a game mode that is not supposed to be balanced to begin with? have we forgotten what happened when we tried to balance urf? the game mode that turned from the best to a shitty one.