Are you going to balance SOME champs around ARAM like you did for TT?

Blumpkin Nation·Jul 13, 2016·7 votes·429 views

I only ask because you had changed/nerfed some champs for TT (which was completely unnecessary) and there are some extremely oppressive champs in ARAM.

Namely: Ziggs. His abilities offer WAY too much control in ARAM. It's really toxic to the level of fun anyone can have, even with the addition of snowball.

You literally spam with Q every 3 seconds. Block off paths for 5-10 seconds with your W/E. Your ult is just ridiculous and hard to avoid a majority of the time. And his ability to deal more damage to turrets is just. Stupid for ARAM?

Not to mention he can easily clear the entire minion wave himself (maybe make the minions stronger against AoE effects?)

Please consult.

edit: If you're not going to balance champions (which, fine, that's the point) at least balance the items in ARAM. Remove at the very least.

5 Comments

Edge of DaybreakJul 13, 20162 votes

Riot has more or less stopped caring. if we see any real change to the cancer of that game mode it will be when the game starts to die. Most of arams current issues feel obvious dare i say it. Idk why the health kits arent positioned so that the team being poked down has access to both of theirs rather than 1 while the team with the clear poke advantage gets 3 health kits... Idk why we arent buffing champions who function poorly on that map. I have 0 clue why champions dont gain fury over time or why aatrox doesnt get blood passively since autoing minions isnt a real option. If anything just deal with the aram only accounts. Make thresholds for champions owned so that the guys who are obviously aram only accounts play with eachother and people who actually own the majority of the champion pool do. Riot wont actually care about arams problems but well they will have to care soon if it starts affecting their wallets.

TyroneWatermelonJul 13, 20161 votes

I rather face a Ziggs than a Lux

Blumpkin NationJul 13, 20161 votes

I would rather face Lux than Ziggs. You can still avoid Lux's ult by side stepping. If Ziggs ults you when your mobility is down, you're going to take a lot of hard to avoid damage.

Ziggs can throw out 2, almost 3, Q's for every 1 E Lux can throw out. Lux only has two AoE abilities and 1 zone control item, Ziggs has 4 AoE abilities, 2 zone control abilities, and 1 spam/zone control ability. Neither are oppresive in SR because you have space to move around. ARAM is too narrow for any amount of safety.

Example being: Zyra has a lot of control with her plants, but her range for dealing damage with her spells is short. She can easily get snowballed and killed that way. Happened to me by AP Alistar (still a stupid build).

Blue Moon WolfJul 13, 20161 votes

Pokes have always been a pain in ARAM, it's just that Riot altered so much that the advantage for poke champs is much heavier than it was a few patches ago. Now the only way to win is to have more poke than the other team while every champ who doesn't have poke got the short end of the stick with them nerfing summoner 32 , removing Orb of Winter (the item MADE to deal with poke heavy match ups) and buffing every other spell in the game, including summoner 4 that lets poke champs get away easier. Not to mention the trap guardian items that are about as useful as buying 6 item 1055 on Soraka .

Blumpkin NationJul 13, 20161 votes

TBH: Poke only matters if you're facing a squishy mage/adc team like yourself. Then it's just a 1-sided battle. It feels the same way when you fight a tank team or tank-like champions. Seriously, the number of times that I could not win an ARAM because every single tank-ish tank can clear their waves and we can't push to end the game early. Then they get 1-2 magic resist items and just stomp us mid game because of snowballs allowing champions who, in SR, need positioning to initiate. Snowball eliminates any potential a poke team has in the mid-game when facing the tanky brutes.

I really hate that items aren't balanced around ARAM. I'm sure they're more of an issue than the champions themselves (I.E. item 3083 and item 3065 ),