As a player who has played over 2,000 games of ARAM I would like to add my opinions on how to strengthen the game mode. I have not looked into if the League of Legends team is working on ARAM at all. It would be great if each members of a team could see how many re-rolls each teammate has. People have probably asked for it but I would love it if there were Ranked ARAM games.
You Disgust Me1 votesAlthough being able to see an ally's number of rerolls would be somewhat beneficial, it's unnecessary since you can already say you have rerolls in chat.
As for Ranked ARAM, it wouldn't be a good idea since ARAM isn't truly "All Random." Quite a few players tend to have ARAM accounts which only contain certain Champions based on an "OP-based" tier list. Even if all the Champions were unlocked, Ranked ARAM wouldn't be a fair demonstration of skill that Ranked mode normally allows in Summoner's Rift. More than likely, many players may receive unfamiliar champions. Thus, they may not be at optimal performance and will be already at a disadvantage at the start of the game. When faced in this situation and limited rerolls, players may be more tempted to dodge at the expense of LP rather than suffer a loss which may cause them to lose more. This factor leaves the Player a victim of RNG and results in a lose-lose situation; which in my opinion isn't fun or fair.
TLDR; RNG shouldn't really be a deciding factor in winning games, especially in a mode as important as Ranked.
iBubbles1 votes[{quoted}](name=The Stupid One,realm=NA,application-id=A8FQeEA8,discussion-id=aVPvZj2j,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-09-28T07:21:40.451+0000)
Although being able to see an ally's number of rerolls would be somewhat beneficial, it's unnecessary since you can already say you have rerolls in chat.
As for Ranked ARAM, it wouldn't be a good idea since ARAM isn't truly "All Random." Quite a few players tend to have ARAM accounts which only contain certain Champions based on an "OP-based" tier list. Even if all the Champions were unlocked, Ranked ARAM wouldn't be a fair demonstration of skill that Ranked mode normally allows in Summoner's Rift. More than likely, many players may receive unfamiliar champions. Thus, they may not be at optimal performance and will be already at a disadvantage at the start of the game. When faced in this situation and limited rerolls, players may be more tempted to dodge at the expense of LP rather than suffer a loss which may cause them to lose more. This factor leaves the Player a victim of RNG and results in a lose-lose situation; which in my opinion isn't fun or fair.
TLDR; RNG shouldn't really be a deciding factor in winning games, especially in a mode as important as Ranked.
Riot can make it so you need to own a certain amount of champs to play, or they can open the whole champion pool for everyone on the aram map only.
Minarde1 votesYou're mistaking the purpose of ARAM if "unfamiliar champions" is a concern. One of the big benefits of ranked ARAM is that it (ostensibly, due to the current owned+free champ thing) would reward generalists. All the other existing ranked options favor specialists (e.g. "I'm a jungle main;" I'm a top main;" I'm a Riven main."). In contrast to "how well you play your best champ(s)," ranked ARAM would test "how well you play on average."
Furthermore, if someone receives an unfamiliar champion and thus isn't at optimal performance, that's on them. It's no different from the current ranked options. It's recommended to know how to draft, how to CS, how to ward, how to rotate, and so on, but those aren't strict requirements before playing ranked. There must always be a Lich King Bronze-tier.
I will agree that dodging is a concern, but it's not like any of the other ranked queues have solved that problem either. "Dodge questionable teammates" has long been relatively common advice. Perhaps have dodge penalties accrue over a week/month instead of immediately resetting on completed game to further dissuade dodging?
On a related note, maybe rerolls shouldn't even be allowed in ranked ARAM, to further emphasize the random nature of the mode. Maybe bans should be enabled instead, for the metagaming strategic question of whether you ban overall power picks or ban champs you're personally bad at playing. Maybe ranked ARAM does away with promo series to minimize the impact of RNG. Maybe implement a whitelist/blacklist feature into unranked ARAM, so it's easier to practice a small subset of champs.
tl;dr: There's a bunch of potential changes to consider and discuss, but the basic concept of ranked ARAM is solid.
iBubbles1 votesI really don't like this idea. You will get those people that will try and force you to reroll a champ that you actually want to play because they think it's bad, or will act toxic if you don't use your reroll for them etc.
