Please Remove ARAM Bushes

Alaylia·3/14/2015, 12:30:44 AM·7 votes·1,779 views

That or add wards that don't last as long as SR wards. There is no skill in camping bushes when one side has superior range or "early game" and just sits in bush and do free poke with no way to counter.

Especially the bushes in between the outer tier and inhibitor turrets need to be removed.

7 Comments

TipsyTilted3/19/2015, 9:08:56 PM5 votes

I agree that temporary wards for ARAM would be a really good idea. Bush hoggers are extremely annoying and it makes the game completely one sided when there are ranged champions like Azir Janna Zyra Ziggs Soraka Teemo Morgana Xerath who just bush hog all day long as well as some melee like MonkeyKing Garen who just wait for initiate. For something like TT I understand where you wouldn't particularly need wards but ARAM is different because 1. it's all random 2. it's not as fair as TT is either. At least in TT you can go back to base and heal and buy if you manage to escape a bush attack.

And it really doesn't take skill to sit in a bush and poke nor does it take skill to do aram since often you're not really playing with champions you're too savvy with anyway. ARAM is all about teamwork more than individual skill. From experience ARAM are typically won by working with your team, not one person sitting in a bush poking.

We've all been there and you can't deny that it is extremely annoying when you already have a disadvantaged team and the team with the advantage bush hog and troll.

"Get better" does not work in that case.

Naramiel3/19/2015, 11:39:22 PM5 votes

For whatever reason, they took ARAM (a custom mode with additional rules designed to limit snowballing) and added multiple features designed to promote snowballing:

  • Bushes located in places that favor the stronger team, allowing them to siege in safety
  • Spawning health packs in locations that are 3/4 easy for the winning team to grab
  • Random narrowing of the lane by the tower to make dodging skill shots impossible and make it even harder to get the 2nd health pack nearer your side if your team is already losing
Jeddite3/14/2015, 3:52:30 AM4 votes

Rather than remove the bushes (which is unnecessary and won't happen), try getting better at ARAM.

( I know, I know -- path of least resistance is crying on the forums. I know -- this is nothing new for the ARAM Bronze League™ )

Frakon3/20/2015, 3:51:25 AM3 votes

The bushes definitely add an unfair advantage to ranged champions who can poke and poke without ever being hit, the map definitely needs rebalancing

Jeddite3/20/2015, 4:39:44 AM2 votes

Perhaps, next, you could snivel about turret executions?

Since, y'know, that's something else that seems to upset the unsung stratego'wizards of the ARAM Bronze League­™. So it's gotta change.