Treating ARAM like Standard Ranked

Hoku·11/8/2019, 12:49:44 AM·2 votes·2,204 views

Why do people take ARAM so seriously? I just played Taliyah, in a game mode where you're given a random champion, and being a Support main I've literally never played Taliyah before. So I'm berated, belittled and insulted all game on a champion I've never played before in a game mode where I didn't care who I played. Yes I reported them but what good is one report when the rest of the team agreed with them. It's hilarious that people take ARAM, even URF sometimes, so seriously like a ranked game when it's there for the sole purpose of dicking around with random champions.

11 Comments

GatekeeperTDS11/8/2019, 1:26:13 AM5 votes

People should absolutely not berate you in game modes where you are assigned random champions, or berate you in any game mode period. However...

when it's there for the sole purpose of dicking around with random champions

That is not the purpose at all. The purpose is to play them the same as any other game mode (by doing your best to win), while having fun with the randomness.

Kei14311/8/2019, 1:09:15 AM3 votes

One report is all it takes to flag they system to review the game. If the review found toxicity, then the system will assign a toxicity score and after a certain threshold, the system will punish the player. More reports won't change the review score, meaning extra reports within the game doesn't make someone more likely or get punished faster.

Silent Gravity11/8/2019, 1:50:17 AM2 votes

The rules apply equally to all game modes. That means that their berating of you will count against them, if you reported it. Also, you should never subject yourself to that. Mute them.

A single report is exactly as effective as nine reports. The IFS, being a bot, runs its program for analyzing and scoring chat when it is told to do so. Running the program 9 times would not create a different score.

But, then again, the rules apply equally to all game modes. That means that 'dicking around' is generally frowned upon. Your performance isn't bad enough that I think you were going against the letter of the rules, but your death total does make it seem like you were positioning poorly. A plat 4 player would be likely to know better. You would be the one to determine if it was intentional or not.

Certainly, you can perform poorly on champs you're not acclimated to. You can also have bad games. Just 5 days ago, I got shit on by a LeBlanc because I kept making the same mistake over and over. 4/13/18 as Ashe. (oh, I just noticed that LeBlanc is ranked Master. I don't feel so bad now.)

Ph03n1xb1rd11/8/2019, 1:09:18 AM1 votes

Yeah, but the "dicking around with random champions" is only fun when you are not deleted in 0.001 sec by a fed enemy, because your teammate has no idea how to play the game and fed them to hell.... :\

Zyniya11/8/2019, 1:21:45 AM1 votes

I don't care if you fed on a champ you don't know I just wish they would change aram to only needing 3 of 5 votes for a ff. the amount of times I've had games with 0 change to win after 8 mins and 2 people say no is just tilting to think about. I mean I normally tab out to watch YT while they waste their time but come on you know when you aren't winning and a stomp isn't fun for anyone.