Howling Abyss (Aram) Ranked

Azien·Dec 16, 2013·3 votes·1,187 views

Hello everyone, I was thinking playing ranked games in summoners rift has be come stressful and boring and too long. Where you get people (especially in bronze)messing up the game and people who don't want to do a role due to pick order. To solve this problem i was thinking that you guys can introduce Ranked games for Aram, Where each team can still ban 3 champions each, then randomly choose (only the champion you have) a champion. This way your role has been all ready decided and it all comes down to how much champions you have (the types of range and melee) and the luck of the draw. :)

18 Comments

BogTrodder42Dec 16, 20133 votes

I've been laughed at by my friends so much for saying this should be a thing, haha, I still think it would be fun though

SIlentShadow1991Dec 17, 20132 votes

I would have to say that Ranked ARAM is kind of... stupid. I mean It would be dominated by people who build rosters for aram. IE: Nidalee Ziggs Jax Kayle Teemo ADC's Renekton Mundo TF (insert Pokey, or unkillable champion here) Supports w/ Heals: Sona, Soraka Karma

To have a game based on Luck be ranked just doesn't work. Add in the fact that ARAM doesn't have any real balancing other than the Orb of Winter to help cut back the advantage poke has on people, and cutting how long traps last on the lap (teemo shrooms, nid traps, cait cupcakes). Riot has also stated they do not intend to balance this game type. I would imagine that is because it is a nightmare and probably not really possible.

Travis FreyDec 17, 20132 votes

In theory, I like this idea. But if this were a thing, teams would only buy the same 10 of their favorite ARAM champions, and then trade to get what they wanted. it would be a steamroll every time for people who also played 3's and SR and had champions for that.

MackleDogeDec 17, 20131 votes

Which is why you institute a pre-assignment ban phase like in standard 5v5 and require a champion pool of say 20 or 25 not including free to plays.

arkhammerDec 18, 20131 votes

Nah, they'd have the 10 from the week to work in as well.

HerpesFreSince03Dec 17, 20132 votes

The whole point of ARAM is to have fun. Ranked is serious game play. Mixing the two seems simply foolish to me.

jwf999Dec 16, 20131 votes

Honestly pointless to haver naked because it's based on luck not skill, so if your best aramer in the world you might just be lucky because you could be driven going up against froggens soraka I mean there are some real unfair match ups

MackleDogeDec 16, 20132 votes

It's not pointless to those that play ARAM a lot and would like a ranked system. You might as well say ranked 3v3 is entirely pointless because they don't play it in the pro scene and because it's not on summoner's rift.

jwf999Dec 17, 20131 votes

But 3v3 requires skill not luck

MackleDogeDec 17, 20131 votes

And? ARAM isn't 100% luck. The champions you get are random, but then you have to communicate to get them onto the best player on your team for each champion. Then you have to communicate to determine if you should try to press for turrets or try to sit back and wait for level scaling. You also have to work together and communicate as to who should sustain the poke of the enemy composition, how your team should team fight and when they should team fight. Plus you're blatantly ignoring the fact that while the champion you get is luck, the summoner's individual skill with that champion can drastically influence how well they do as that champion, ARAM or not.

What it really boils down to is, what do you care? If you don't like it, don't play it. But for the people that really enjoy ARAM and are interested in having a ranked queue for it (just for the sake of amusement and less people with the "it's ARAM, fuck everybody I'm just going to repeatedly dive and feed" mentality) there is no reason for Riot to ignore that portion of the community. It's the exact same thing with ranked Dominion: the community for it is out there, but Riot just consistently ignores them.

jwf999Dec 17, 20131 votes

To have your carreer wasted and 250000 dollars wasted casue of luck, dont think the pros will like that

MackleDogeDec 17, 20131 votes

What are you even talking about? How does having a ranked ARAM have anything to do with the pros? No one is talking about replacing SR ranked with this, just like they didn't replace soloque or professional play with Twisted Treeline.

jwf999Dec 17, 20131 votes

Well just saying it makes no sense on pro level, no point in ranked its just how much luck you have.

MackleDogeDec 17, 20131 votes

So lets just remove ranked 3v3's because they don't do that professionally right? Oh yea, which means we can take out solo queue since there isn't a consistent solo queue LCS.

jwf999Dec 17, 20131 votes

3s aren't based in luck purely skill while aram is based on luck

MackleDogeDec 18, 20131 votes

You're just repeating the same thing over and over, and you're not even expounding the relevance of that. It's obvious I'm not going to get an intelligent conversation out of you, so you go right on ahead hating on community expansion ideas.

jwf999Dec 18, 20131 votes

Honestly you don't seem to get that Im not saying that anything else but 5v5 is bad because riot doesn't sponser it. Im all for 3v3s and Dominion becoming a big thing but Aram doesn't work because of the extreme luck factor that gives teams huge advantages and disadvantages before the game even starts.

arkhammerDec 17, 20131 votes

I'd settle for a "draft" mode ARAM, but instead of using your rolls to randomly change your champion, you could use your rolls to randomly roll the summoner's champion across from you. (Summoner 3 rolls for opponent Summoner 3, for example.)

It keeps it in the random nature of ARAM while allowing some fun counter-play in the champion select screen, as is the case with ranked draft-mode games.