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What has happened to ARAM?

Joppalo·9/20/2017, 3:10:57 PM·21 votes·1,705 views

The games are so quick anymore that you hardly have time to really "get in" to it or get a full build, or develop strategies with your team. Turrets are absolutely worthless past level 5 or 6. Your team can dominate for 10 minutes, but one lost team fight then means you lose your 2nd turret, inhibitor, and one (if not both) nexus turrets. Any champ that is slightly tanky can just walk past turrets while getting continuously blasted, make a sandwich, eat that sandwich, put everything back in the fridge, then mosey back out of turret range safely. It's basically become just one big brawl in fast forward. One other strange thing that I have noticed, possibly just a coincidence, is the "random" aspect of champ selection doesn't seem to be very random anymore. What I've been seeing are teams with 4 champs that have a very similar mechanic or play style like who all have abilities that prevent them from dying. Or four champs with self heals, or shields, etc. This may just be total coincidence, but it seems to happen almost every other game.

I don't know what Riot intends to achieve by having games move this quickly, but I personally find it much less fun. I don't play SR at all, but is the same thing happening there?

25 Comments

mkyner9/20/2017, 3:16:46 PM16 votes

You bring up a good point: directly under the turret is a terrible place for the refrigerator. We need to look into getting that moved. I'd like to see someone make a comic of Sion making a sandwich under a turret.

Infernape9/20/2017, 4:03:11 PM9 votes

Still waiting for Riot to make all champions available on ARAM regardless of whether you own them or not.

Eedat9/20/2017, 3:47:07 PM9 votes

I have A LOT of ARAMs played (>1000) and the whole point is to be over quickly. I don't understand why this mode should ever reach full build. I'm not sure why you think towers do no damage when they actually do a ton of damage. Way more than SR towers

Linna Excel9/20/2017, 4:51:34 PM5 votes

IMO this feels like a microcosm of the game at large.

It seems like riot wants quicker and quicker games.

DRAGOON Burst9/20/2017, 6:55:33 PM5 votes

So the plague in SR has seeped into ARAM as well, eh?

bàn9/20/2017, 4:44:57 PM4 votes

They should have left it alone. They made these stupid gold changes which makes it more snowbally than before. I played ARAM exclusively because Summoners Rift is a shit show currently but now ARAM is starting to become a shit show too. Almost every game I'm either up against a poke comp or some hypercarry with 4 other tanks or 2 healers dxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdx so random! haha. Games are onesided, and usually done by 15mins. Enemies shouldn't be at the inhib by 10 minutes. What a JOKE. But you know "Who cares, its just ARAM xD!" right?

MarvelOtter9/20/2017, 3:53:11 PM4 votes

my big issue with aram(i play alot) is while the random is good, there should be some level of diversity(4 mages and an adc vs 5 melee ad champs will wreck hard). Assigning one of each main type like in a normal game would help make it so much more fun and less one sided while still keeping the "random"

Bańg9/20/2017, 3:15:30 PM3 votes

Same as summoners rift. One sided stomp ends in 15-20 minutes

Eightprism9/20/2017, 9:36:02 PM3 votes

2500+ games on 2 accounts, past few months feels like the system wants me to have free champs 8/10 games. Go ahead and roll, it will be another I don't play.

just OK jungler9/21/2017, 2:26:02 PM2 votes

Aram has the same fate as Dominion

Dragfin9/20/2017, 3:32:30 PM2 votes

RIOT's focus on player behavior and their lack of focus on player development has created more bad players than ever before. People now know that if you suck assholes at league but behave yourself you will be entitled to more goodies. This is RIOT's version of what goes on in society...

You don't have to be good at anything or better yourself in any way and you will be okay.

Be the best you can be and always look to improve and you will get shit on most of the time.

This is my opinion but I see the proof everyday I leave my house to go and deal with the people I have to deal with.

Dethflash9/20/2017, 4:01:22 PM2 votes

Some people make accounts with champions they only like to play on aram, so that way they almost always get the champion they want to play (unless they random one of the free to play champions). So it could be possible that more and more players are making accounts like these for aram. I wouldnt be suprised if people started doing the same thing for "All Random URF" so that 90% of the time they always get their fizz or zed

Critmaster Garen9/20/2017, 3:13:30 PM2 votes

its the same on summoners rift.

Xenomancers9/20/2017, 7:15:13 PM1 votes

an increase in tower damage would probably be a good thing - Ultimately I just think they should do more damage to minions.

SwiftKitten889/20/2017, 3:50:50 PM1 votes

i just played an aram game yesterday (because my friend invited me, i stopped playing aram a long time ago because my champion pool is so small)

the first tower fell at 21 min....

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2602058609/207008136?tab=overview and u can see why i dont play adc EVER

L8R pig9/21/2017, 4:40:52 AM1 votes

"I only have time for an aram."

SchmidttyGames9/20/2017, 6:10:23 PM1 votes

Turrets weren't designed, really, to fight off a five man team. At all. If you want to make them useful again, bring back the death lasers and let them target multiple champions.