Can we get a more severe punishment for those dodging ARAM lobby?

ZapMyHeart·3/16/2019, 6:51:40 AM·5 votes·4,646 views

Tired of whiny, entitled players acting butthurt when they don't get the champ they want in a supposedly (almost) RANDOM mode or when you want to keep your roll and decline their trade request.

Or at least have the game be locked in and prevent dodging with less than 20 seconds left.

11 Comments

Wolfalisk3183/16/2019, 8:18:49 PM2 votes

There is very little reason to proceed into the match if you don't have a) the champion you want to play or b) several of the S-tiers on your team, because you can expect 2-3 of them on the enemy team.

Because of alt-accounts, re-rolling, and trading, it's remarkably easy to get a busted Champion or your main. The vast majority of ARAM matches, in my experience, are over at the loading screen. So as mind's well shut that down before it even gets there if you're not happy with what you have. It's not about winning every game, it's about not playing matches you can't win, which is going to be the situation in 80-90% of ARAM matches.

I don't particularly like it. But "Random" in this game mode means some assortment of Xerath, Brand, Lux, Vel'Koz, and Ziggs, Veiger, etc. are in every single game. And if you don't have some of them on yours, you can bet they're on the enemy team, which means there's very little reason to play that match.

hhaavviikk3/16/2019, 3:47:17 PM1 votes

sure, as soon as all champions are enabled for ARAM, I sure feel more inclined to dodge knowing that there are ARAM accounts there to ruin my fun

SpiritOfOdysseus3/16/2019, 6:55:28 PM1 votes

I agree partially.. Dodging is always on my mind if our team gets a decent+ comp. Then if we get a shoddy and useless comp it's like nobody dodges ever so I have to. It's not that people just do it to ruin other players' fun, its that their fun takes priority- even if their team gets a good comp I've known people to dodge just because they cant suck it up and tank.

The real agony is when you get shoddy comp for like 7 games straight. Dodging just twice feels so bad, but it's better than a 7 game losing streak because the enemy gets something with Caitlyn, Ziggs, Sona, Xerath, Maokai damn every time.

wolvius3/16/2019, 7:47:24 PM1 votes

Maybe if you where not guaranteed to be facing a team with 3 of 5 having an S tier champ like lux, ziggs, sona, xerath, veigir, malzhar ,(maokai if they have poke) I might play reksai/udyr .

######Lol xerath autocorrect to death, accurate.

KVbqbFsC8e3/16/2019, 7:49:25 PM1 votes

I can't blame anyone for dodging when the other team has Ziggs/Sona for the third straight game.

Beerstein3/16/2019, 7:53:44 PM1 votes

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Tired of whiny, entitled players acting butthurt when they don't get the champ they want in a supposedly (almost) RANDOM mode or when you want to keep your roll and decline their trade request.

Or at least have the game be locked in and prevent dodging with less than 20 seconds left.

They should force you to get the same champion next ARAM if you dodge.

  1. Enable all champs for all accounts.
  2. Force same champ if you dodge.
  3. Make it slightly less random in that it tries to keep teams more balanced based on historical performance. 95% of the games the first tower that drops loses. May as well end it there with teams being so skewed.
C0NCH0BAR3/16/2019, 8:08:10 PM1 votes

I believe it is a 15 Dodge penalty on your first Dodge, which is pretty substantial. The second Dodge is 30 minutes? So it's a huge punishment. Now I'm not standing up for the people that complain about a randomly selected champ they got and decided to ditch because there are three systems that have been implemented to make it less random. The concept of ARAM is pretty clear by the name, so if you can't handle some goofy, non-main picks and team comps then you are in the wrong game mode.

ggigotfed3/16/2019, 9:29:30 AM1 votes

There's already a lockin after 0. And no it's a gamemode meant for spammy fun if someone gets absolute garbage and rerolls more garbage they should have the option to gtfo

Yokkers3/19/2019, 7:57:27 PM1 votes

I see both sides of the argument here however, aram is pretty busted now ( because of bench ) and its almost ALWAYS heavily one sided... So, that's why I can't blame people who have talon + akali + yorick etc etc. A 4-5 melee team just isn't fun to play with when the enemy team has all poke and its essentially just turned into dodge ball x5.... I'll dodge 95% of the skill shots, get to close to a minion and boom ludens echo proc into comet.

I mean I really miss those games before they changed aram & runes, there were games that were close and came down to a mistake or two... Now it's rarely close or "fair"...