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Aram Ranked Mode

Baddabooooomboom·3/21/2018, 11:30:56 AM·2 votes·574 views

Hi everyone,

I do like the aram experience quite a lot in general. I think the game mode is exceptional but there is one thing that really puts a sting to it.

It's the aram mentality people get when playing. It's a rarity that I get two teams that actually try to win with the teamcomp given. Of course it's sometimes harder to pull of a teamcomp that is more all in focused than just a typical poke teamcomp. But usually those games should still be winnable. But it appears to me, most of the aram players don't really care for the game, so they build weird like "full ap/attackspeed-fiddlesticks" or play extremely bad like "going in 1v5" as fiora, so that the team always suffers and tries to make up for the disadvantage.

So here's my proposal: Create a Ranked Mode for Aram. Just like the 3v3 map. It helped there a lot in my opinion to get a good game experience even for those that actually take 3v3s serious. Just like that I would love to see a tryhard mode for aram. A problem could be, that people create accounts just with champions that are op on the map. But therefor I would allow every player that has 15 or more champs to play aram rankeds and then they get a random champion from all existing champs, no matter how many they actually own.

It would be super nice, if you could think this through and give arams more room to function properly.

Don't understand me wrong, sometimes "troll-builds" are good just like ad-lulu but the bigger problem is the mentality of "going-in" even though its the damage dealer kassadin or a fiora even.

Please Riot Games hear me!

Greetings, Baddabooooomboom

4 Comments

Kei1433/21/2018, 3:05:37 PM2 votes

wrong boards.

Try the gameplay section instead.

Kantala3/21/2018, 3:47:53 PM2 votes

The problem is that a ranked system wouldn't work for aram. Simply because your rank would and could be based mostly on luck of the draw and would encourage making accounts focused solely on the OP aram champions and less on the random luck of the draw. The only way to counter the mass of accounts that would be made just for ranked arams is to not allow people to play ranked unless they own every single champion to make it 'fair.' They would also need to take the time to balance all ARAM items just for aram instead of using the standard items for SR with the exception of wards/oracle/dorans. Or create a slew of new items balanced just for it. I don't think they are willing to focus on balancing three sets of items when aram doesn't warrant it.

Summonah123693/21/2018, 10:24:02 PM1 votes

How does a suggestion relate to player behavior? You gotta be careful when choosing which topic to put your thread in our Riot will surely remove it. Plus it happens a lot, ''yeah let's just focus on putting threads into the right places instead of taking care of more important things.''.

ModAttysu The Poro3/22/2018, 3:24:10 AM1 votes

Hey!

This thread would fit much, much better in Gameplay instead of here in Player Behavior. PB is for actions that happen in game, peoples attitude, the Instant Feedback System and Leaverbuster, etc while Gameplay is for stuff in game (like queues, modes, etc.) For that reason, I'll be locking the thread. Feel free to move this thread over to Gameplay however, it's more than welcome!

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