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ARAM Dodging

AstralVoid·7/27/2016, 6:22:43 AM·3 votes·516 views

At least during night time on the east coast, I tend to see a large number of ARAM dodgers. Whether due to their inability or unwillingness to play the characters they are given, they leave the game and forfeit everyone's randomized champions.

I regularly see 3-4 dodges in a row before getting a game that everyone stays in, meaning sometimes it can take longer to get a game than it does to play one, due to the cumulative wait time between queues, champion select, and eventual loading.

I'm of the thought that scaling bans should be implemented - if an account is seen to regularly dodge a queue (for any game mode, not just ARAM), it should go from 15 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, and finally suspension. This is just an example of sorts; I'm not sure what system, if any, is currently in place, and we can't tell who dodges due to the generic "player has not selected a champion" or "player has left the game" messages.

There doesn't appear to be anything in place to prevent these individuals from creating multiple accounts and simply hopping between them in order to further dodge the ban cycle, though. I'd be interested in hearing if Riot has observed this behavior, and if they have a plan to act on it.

4 Comments

SecondAirbane7/27/2016, 6:17:35 PM1 votes

1 week? Ahahahahaha thats like being banned for a week

Harvey Rabbit7/29/2016, 6:55:22 AM1 votes

Even better, make ARAM champions truly random, as has been requested by the community for years. This will give more people a chance to play more champs, which is probably actually good for $$$ for Riot, because people will try out champs and want to buy them when they have fun with them. Also it will encourage players to play other game modes more and not do only ARAM, because it is fun to be able to play your preferred champs.

If champs in ARAM were truly random, there wouldn't be much dodging because the odds that the player gets one of their preferred champions would still be small regardless of dodge. I think dodging happens a lot because so many people have ARAM special accounts filled with strong ARAM champs, so when they dodge they have a good chance of getting an OP ARAM champ in the next roll.

The special ARAM accounts really create an unfair situation for players who have a regular mix of champions, those players end up losing disproportionately (hence, why people bother to create special ARAM accounts). It also is disproportionately unfair to newer players who end up getting free champions A LOT that they have no experience with; the problem being that the special ARAM accounts get mostly champs they are familiar with, but if it was a random selection from 130 there would not be that many players who are very familiar with playing the majority of champions in the game, so it would be more of a level playing field.