Things you CAN'T do in ARAM

Señor Karthus·Oct 18, 2015·57 votes·3,653 views

Yes, ARAM is a fun mode but that doesn't mean that you can do absolutely anything you want. And by that I mean things that make the game NOT FUN for your teammates like:

Insulting, harassing, use of slurs.
Feeding in purpose all game. (no, i don't mean a couple of bad decisions of having a bad game, I mean going in purpose 1v5 without the team to die under their turret all game)
Taking health relics in the faces of your teammates that need them when you are full health and mana just to piss them off.

You want to build AD Morgana? Go ahead. I have no problem with that. But I see the mentioned behavior quite too often and people reply things like "who cares this is ARAM." Well no, you insult or say "%%%" or "n-word" or insult teammates? You get reported. Your attitude is negative all game just to piss off your teammates? You get reported. ARAM is a fun mode. So if you make the game NOT FUN for your teammates with an unacceptable behavior, you shouldn't play this mode and you get reported. That's all.

55 Comments

Shac NorrisOct 18, 201511 votes

When you say ''you're reported'' the most likely answer you'll get is something among the lines of '' i dont give a ~~****~~ ''

Señor KarthusOct 18, 201532 votes

Until they do give a fuck and come to the boards complaining that they did nothing wrong to be banned and Riot posts the chat logs for us all to enjoy.

Shac NorrisOct 18, 20153 votes

Yeah i totally enjoy those posts :)

But most of the times even if i'm not saying anything or doing anything wrong, i get flamed all game for the 1 mistake i did, and as i report them, i never get any kind of notification that the person ive reported has been punished, so most people dont care about reports...

Señor KarthusOct 18, 20154 votes

I understand your feeling. I have reported MANY very serious things that were said in games and I only got one notification that a person I reported was punished. One, ever. I still want to believe my reports are useful. Even if I admit is kind of a blind faith.

Shac NorrisOct 18, 20155 votes

That's why i want the tribunal back :(...

I want to punish the bad guys!

ahferroin7Oct 19, 20151 votes

I think part of the tribunal will be that you don't get to vote on people you reported...

Shac NorrisOct 19, 20151 votes

So what?

I can vote for bad guys that other good guys encounter, and the other good guys get to vote for my bad guys.

How is that a problem?

PaladinNOOct 19, 20151 votes

The mistake there would be to say "you're reported" (or "reproted", as is as frequent to see), instead of explaining to him what he did wrong and why, and based upon the manner of his reply decide whether or not to make a report out of it. Dependng on the situation and offense done, obviously.

Shac NorrisOct 19, 20151 votes

Have you ever tried reasoning with a person that's trolling/feeding?

They don't give a ~~****~~ about anyone reporting them since it can't be verified unless you got it on video.

blueberrypancakeOct 20, 20151 votes

Whenever someone feeds or trolls I always mention how much worthless time they have if they bother trolling for 20 minutes on a computer game

PaladinNOOct 20, 20151 votes

No, and I don't bother with them: report with description, block and move on. "Never argue with an idiot - they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience" <- is what I think when I encounter a troll. That and "what a waste of space that person is...".

Enough people report that same person, and the video won't matter as the reports themselves serves as verification. Which is the whole point of the reports.

Shac NorrisOct 20, 20151 votes

lol ''they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience'' niiice

Focus TeemoOct 19, 20155 votes

But 1v5ing under tower is a legitimate ARAM strategy... for Karthus !

Snowballs in to say high to the low health player, dies, kills them anyway, and nukes the entire enemy team while doing so. Respawn with a shiny new item 3089 , repeat, penta, victory!

KaitriOct 18, 20152 votes

the only thing i need to add to this is... dont play any adcs besides ez and kog with tear...

Señor KarthusOct 19, 20155 votes

I never do it, but Varus with tear is pretty good too. Never ending Q. But I prefer straight damage on him.

TurquoiseYoshiOct 19, 20153 votes

Tear Varus is pretty good. There's some insane damage you can get down with a poke build. I mean, poke has always been the best way to go in ARAM, so having that extra mana for poking is essential.

Axis the DragonOct 19, 20153 votes

Varus (with or without item 3070 ) is God-tier in ARAM

My preference is an Armor Pen-heavy build - sure, it's less damage later in the game when everyone's nearly full build, but oh my god the midgame powerspike is retarded

I go item 3070 into item 3134 Finish item 3004 , then look at enemy builds

If heavy armor, get item 3035 If not much armor, finish item 3142 Either way, you next get item 3508 or item 3072 (if you have 10% CDR from runes/masteries, take BT - if not, take Essence)

By now, your Q should be chunking squishies for about half of their Health, more if you can get some W procs off. xD

Full build usually looks something like this

item 3042 item 3142 item 3035 item 3508 item 3071 (lol what are boots)

Last item is a tossup depending on enemy team

Full of squishies, easy to blow up? item 3078 or item 3031 or item 3072 (if you took Essence Reaver) Lots of long ranged AP poke and need defense? item 3102 or item 3156 or item 3139 Lots of divers and need peel? item 3153 or item 3083 or item 3143 or item 3157 (yeah, I've done Zhonya's before, it works well against heavy diver dudes like Talon) Is there a Teemo/Evelynn/Shaco and no one on your team is taking vision? item 3185

Kitsuki05Oct 19, 20153 votes

adcs are strong on ARAM, what are you talking about? It's hard taking down towers as a team of all melee dudes when the enemy has tons of harass.

ahferroin7Oct 19, 20152 votes

You forgot Urgot...

(don't feel bad, almost everyone forgets Urgot)

HayRossOct 19, 20152 votes

Replace ARAM with Dominion/Twisted Treeline/One for all and it still works

Señor KarthusOct 19, 20155 votes

One For All has been a pretty toxic experience for me. Afk/rage quit/dc, bitching... I honestly don't play TT or Dominion but it makes me sad to hear that it is like that there too.

Diananmen SquareOct 19, 20152 votes

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Taking health relics in the faces of your teammates that need them when you are full health and mana just to piss them off.

I do that all the time with friends though.

I mean, we burn flashes just to piss people off on the skype call, they end up dying faster too so it is worth.

BiffoloOct 19, 20154 votes

That's fine. Don't do it with damned randoms though.

Diananmen SquareOct 19, 20151 votes

I don't do with randoms.

My friends sometimes do though, but then I do that to them.

DroogzyOct 19, 20152 votes

I always take tear on Varus... o.O

It literally becomes never ending arrows from start to finish of the game, yeah you can do more damage with pick axe, but you go OOM so quick.

Señor KarthusOct 19, 20151 votes

summoner 13

DroogzyOct 20, 20151 votes

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Clarity becomes pretty pointless late game as tear or no tear, you tend to get over the mana problem late game But the tear then transition into an item that can deal quite a bit of damage once it transforms. I rather take ghost/flash since he has zero mobility and is useful at all points of the ARAM.

But I do agree with the OP, do whatever the hell you want so long as it does SOMETHING. I played with an ADC syndra a few days ago in ARAM and honestly it was fricking hilarious.

Señor KarthusOct 20, 20151 votes

Clarity is definitely not pointless late game. Obviously it is more handy at the beginning where it gives you a huge advantage to harass and sustain the harass. But even if you are a tank, once you have Warmogs and you can just retreat 10 seconds to recover your full health instead of dying, clarity keeps being handy to also sustain your mana for the long periods of time that you won't die.

DroogzyOct 20, 20151 votes

To each his own, I can't recall ever running out of mana in recent memory in ARAM once I get later on in the game, I rarely fall even under half mana most cases. For me it serves next little purpose in the late game as oppose to ghost, flash, or exhaust, or even ignite with its grievious wounds if you're lucky enough to choose it into a team like mundo.

Think the only champion I ever take it on is Lux, who is a special case, considering how insane her mana costs are throughout the entire game.

PaladinNOOct 20, 20152 votes

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Things you SHOULDN'T do in ARAM: -Don't roll a champion without asking first: there might be someone who wants Rammus, Evelynn or Nasus. Personal note: I keep the tank, even if I've just played 5 games of the same thing and am dead tired of it, if the team doesn't have another tank, and I can't trade.

-When you're going for a glyph, and there is another ally a bit further back, also wanting a glyph, you go for the glyph further down - don't be Draven (narcissistic) and just take the first one. Personal note: sharing is caring.

-Let the healer get the glyphs: if you're playing ADC, but low on HP, and the healer got full HP, but low on mana, the healer got priority. If you're playing mage, and is low on both HP and mana, that's up to individual judgement. Just remember the healer/support cannot do anything without mana. The mages usually got Doran's Ring for mana regen, whereas the support doesn't have that. Personal note: I try to let the mages take the farm for mana regen through their Doran's.

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Edit: One should never NOT feed the poro.

Señor KarthusOct 20, 20151 votes

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Things you SHOULDN'T do in ARAM: -Don't roll a champion without asking first: there might be someone who wants Rammus, Evelynn or Nasus. Personal note: I keep the tank, even if I've just played 5 games of the same thing and am dead tired of it, if the team doesn't have another tank, and I can't trade.

-When you're going for a glyph, and there is another ally a bit further back, also wanting a glyph, you go for the glyph further down - don't be Draven (narcissistic) and just take the first one. Personal note: sharing is caring.

-Let the healer get the glyphs: if you're playing ADC, but low on HP, and the healer got full HP, but low on mana, the healer got priority. If you're playing mage, and is low on both HP and mana, that's up to individual judgement. Just remember the healer/support cannot do anything without mana. The mages usually got Doran's Ring for mana regen, whereas the support doesn't have that. Personal note: I try to let the mages take the farm for mana regen through their Doran's.

I certainly forgot the first one, which is unforgivable because I've even created several threads about it. Don't reroll without saying anything!! Ask. Wait. Then reroll.

88y8y8Oct 19, 20151 votes

There was this one ARAM game I played a while back. I was going for a health relic because I was low on health. Our full health, full mana Malphite ult'd to steal the health. Couldn't stay mad at his "you will lose," dance though. Malp has a 10/10 taunt.

Stars ShaperOct 19, 20151 votes

The definition of "fun" in this community has always amazed me as a scientist and horribly scarred me as a human being.

kaltenashesOct 19, 20151 votes

i tilted once when my allied lux (with full health and a lot of mana) got the 2 health relics all the time (she even flashed to get ahead of me) that i needed, she typed <3 to me...when i couldnt take it anymore, i suicided and opened my shoe store

ZT XperimentorOct 19, 20151 votes

By chance were you the tanner?

kaltenashesOct 19, 20151 votes

nops, the same name Tbh, my team was winning a 4vs5 when i just watching them fight, but i was so tilted that i decided to feed (i wanted to lose)...It's not nice to steal the health relic from someone who needs

ZT XperimentorOct 19, 20151 votes

I ment it from a card game joke, never mind.

NightseraphOct 19, 20151 votes

People always look weird at me when I take chalice on melee champions with only one ranged ability. Olaf axe on CD, Nasus E spam, etc. Don't ever upgrade the thing.

Meanie40Oct 19, 20151 votes

You also can't get a champion you don't own (or is not on the free rotation).

Random my foot.

PaladinNOOct 19, 20151 votes

Like someone taking a glyph when there is a low HP/mana Soraka on the team...I mean, really? Okay, I give them the benefit of the doubt the first time and tell them how my heals are way more effective than the glyphs. I ofc judge that situation individually. Not everyone knows the glyphs spawn every 40 secs, and actually keeps track of that timer...

Intentional feeding is easily spotted - no point in bothering with telling them why that's a bad idea. Let them have their fun, don't say anything to them except perhaps trading jokes with the enemy team to make the most of it, and report the feeder afterwards. Flaming at such people just gives them what they want: attention.

Also, it may be just me, but I got a big thing with surrendering in ARAM. I am very much inclined to report a person for negative attitude if he plays a tank, goes 0/13/7, even if not on purpose and basically just gives up and starts spamming surrender votes. He may not be having fun, and I can easily understand his frustration (we've all been in that situation at some point in that mode), but he made a commitment when queing up, and he stands responsible for doing his part on the team until the end screen.

As you said, AD Morgana is perfectly acceptable if they know what they're doing - if they don't, and just do it out of spite, aka "it's only ARAM", they should be reminded of the rules: put the team before yourself: "Enjoy Yourself, but not at Anyone Else's Expense". Anyone go "it's only ARAM", I report them, regardless of what their offense is.

I played my ARAM match #5000 not too long ago, and so I have seen my fair share of different attitudes there. As well as far too many people who just can't suck it up and play even if they get a..."a derp champion", I believe was the term. And so they just dodge instead. I prefer to go 2/15/5 with Evelynn instead of dodging if there is no other way. At least I get experience with her, both in playstyle and build, so as to perhaps not make the same mistakes again. After all, I did make the decision of unlocking her in the first place...

I like to think this mentality could be beneficial for a lot of ARAM'ers.

Señor KarthusOct 19, 20151 votes

No I do not report weird builds in ARAM as long as they are trying to actually play and win. Of course build someone AP with nothing that scales AP will get reported, or someone who just builds item 3117 But I've played ARAM just to have fun with different builds from AD Mao to tank Ashe and I'm ok with it. If it is not ARAM, where else?

Surrendering in ARAM is pretty lame too, especially in a mode that you easily get to level 18 and full build if you resist long enough even if the enemy team has been harassing you from the start. A bad ACE and you win the game. I've surrendered a couple of times but for good reasons like 3 afk and things like that.

LordForrestOct 20, 20151 votes

My favorite joke build was when i built Tank Shaco. Our team was all squishy damage dealers and was pretty even in regards of ad/ap damage. I was the least necessary, so i was like fuck it, i am going to screw with the enemy. It was hilarious, apparently none of them realized i was building tank, so everytime i appeared in the middle of their team they attempted to kill me, needless to say my team got so many kills and i actually was super disruptive and didn't even die that much.

PaladinNOOct 20, 20151 votes

And who judges if they are actually trying to win? Yes, for someone experienced, you can easily tell if that person is actually trying or just unskilled or intentially feeding, but that is relative in many cases.

Like my 2/15/5 Evelynn game - yes, from my perspective, I did try, but I always got caught out of position as I didn't/still don't know how Evelynn works. I can easily see how I could be perceived as someone intentionally feeding. It was quite odd, as I, in an attempt to stop dying, stayed at the backline, just trying to Q poke whenever I could, but then I was told "eve do something!!"...so I went back in again, and kept on dying. I think I was playing full tank at the time, with Mountain, Locket and some other tank stuff, as the rest of the team was glass cannon mages/ADCs.

Needless to say, we lost that match.

kaltenashesOct 20, 20151 votes

dude aram is so crazy, its a fun mode... i had a team where we lost inhib and we were pushing to the enemy first turret, i was like "if we're losing, why the hell are we pushing?", my teammate said "idk, its aram"... other game the enemy aced us and only they're Caitlyn survived, she started killing the nexus turrets, then moved on to the nexus...But the Troll King inhib respawned, it gave us enough time to revive, kill cait, win the next team fight (cait was still dead) and win the game ~~G to the f**king G~~

Blue Moon WolfOct 20, 20151 votes

Taking health relics in the faces of your teammates that need them when you are full health and mana just to piss them off.

I know this one all to well. I sometimes try to get back guys who do that later by doing it to them, but I really don't feel like I solve any problems that way and it definitely doesn't help the team. I think riot should just make a special report option for that mode called "relic hog". you don't get banned for that one, but enough of those in a row marks you as a relic hog and lets teammates know that you troll people out of relics, so you might want to sit on empty shrines when low on health .__.

Hyrum GraffOct 20, 20151 votes

I played poro king once against a suicide zyra. She'd just snowball into us, spam everything, die. We were all like, "Wtf is she even doing."

Then we got to post game and saw her with the most damage by a significant margin. That was a big "oh." moment.

Señor KarthusOct 20, 20151 votes

Dealing the most damage doesn't mean you have played effectively for the team. If I am playing against a team with healers, it won't matter if I just go on my own and deal some damage to several champions before I die because they will just heal up and screw my team who are now 4v5.

Hyrum GraffOct 20, 20151 votes

[{quoted}](name=Fenrir Epsylon,realm=NA,application-id=cIfEodbz,discussion-id=zBEh3zE0,comment-id=00110000,timestamp=2015-10-20T14:04:33.688+0000)

Dealing the most damage doesn't mean you have played effectively for the team. If I am playing against a team with healers, it won't matter if I just go on my own and deal some damage to several champions before I die because they will just heal up and screw my team who are now 4v5.

True. They did win that game. Despite the Zyra? Because of her? I don't remember her team complaining about her in all chat, so maybe it was part of their plan. Honestly it was a long time ago and I don't remember.

My intention wasn't to discredit your point, just share a somewhat amusing story.

warpenguin555Oct 20, 20151 votes

On the health relics, its super obvious when they troll with those. I understand just kinda walking absentmindedly across them when they are down, and one pops up as you walk over it or miscommunications on who should take it, ive done that a bunch, but the people who just stand on them and do nothing else really ruin the match. I understand stealing the relics to troll a friend, but dont do it to random strangers lol.