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ARAM + Snowball = NOT ARAM

HousewifeSenpai·5/3/2015, 12:41:53 AM·53 votes·3,469 views

Riot, can we please take the snowball off ARAM? It's a function of a completely different mode that you, as a company, introduced; and honestly it had NO PLACE in ARAM. If we take a look at Griffball from Halo, we didn't see them adding in 1 shot kill from SWAT mode to griffball just because X amount of people preferred griffball to SWAT mode. Please make ARAM back to its normal self, it was my safe place from the assholes of 5's and 3's. It's honestly the only reason why I continue to play League of Legends. Please let ARAM back to its normal self, and if you're so inclined just add Poro King as another game mode available. I use ARAM as a safe place to practice champions because after all if someone bitches at you in ARAM the global response is literally "chill dude, it's aram". What could be safer?? Now with this literal throwing ourselves at each other I can't even get a breath in to practice any champs because people LITERALLY keep throwing themselves at the other team.

I just want a SAFE place to practice champions I'm not familiar with, and BOTS doesn't provide that because it's against a computer, not people.

Let people say what they want about this post, I don't care. I just wanted my voice to be heard, maybe it will , maybe it won't.

But please Riot if you're seeing this, please please please, for the sake of all the gods that have ever been/not been, take the goddamned snow ball summoner spell off ARAM.

/the end

32 Comments

Unisin5/3/2015, 4:28:06 AM30 votes

Please for the love of god take the snowball out. It changes the game to much...

Mandaari5/3/2015, 3:43:24 AM29 votes

Yes. Snowball sucks. Total departure from what makes ARAM ARAM. It didn't even accomplish what it was intended to do.

lightdragoon885/3/2015, 3:46:15 AM23 votes

ARAM is gone now. :(

Plasma Servant5/3/2015, 3:02:27 AM17 votes

Ditto (except I don't think of it as a safe place, I think of the old aram as the most fun mode out there).

Dark Kuno5/3/2015, 6:31:45 AM14 votes

Mark has sucked all the fun out of ARAM.

It was cute and fun with the Poro King. But without him, it's just an zero thought way for bruisers to initiate on champs with low-no mobility on a map with already incredibly restrained area to maneuver.

Instead of dealing with the general toxicity of the average Solo Queue player, ARAM players now have to deal with the toxicity of Mark making the mode distinctly unfun.

Unless you roll a god comp with a full CC team, Mark has made it even more punishing to get mediocre-bad RNG on champ rolls.

Uber5/3/2015, 8:26:34 PM13 votes

I don't know why they thought that it was a good idea in the first place.

Nagirah5/3/2015, 12:21:15 PM13 votes

I tried one match and now ive lost my all my interest in ARAM. Coming from a person who has way more games in ARAM than SR.

FDru5/3/2015, 8:35:47 AM12 votes

Poro King was the best thing that ever happened to this map, since it leveled the playing field between range and melee in sledgehammer fashion. Rolling Ashe was no longer a free win, you had to play well and be smart, not just rush tear and spam Qs... kind of like in the other maps.

The only problem with it was the King himself made initiating completely risk free, which broke any semblance of balance it could have had.

Now ARAM is perfect. Oh... if you actually own champs, that is. lol

Shokah5/3/2015, 6:15:55 AM12 votes

I hate the snowball, it makes CC the only useful thing since engages are completely trivialized now.

Elisequeenie5/3/2015, 12:33:59 PM12 votes

If this spell isn't removed, I have to quit ARAM. It makes the game ridiculous, my ADCs are useless in team fight.

Svddenly5/3/2015, 12:38:02 PM8 votes

Oh no! Champs that don't have long range are viable in ARAM and can get to the back line more easily!

El Cid5/5/2015, 10:14:56 PM8 votes

Riot remove the Mark summoner spell, unless you're intent is to relegate ARAM to the troll demographic and subsequently remove ARAM itself. I was an avid of fan of ARAM, learning many of the champion mechanics and synergies within different champion combos. As of now though....ARAM is a No-Go Zone. All champ roles and balancing out the window, nothing to do with random, just broken.

NoIamtheBatman5/5/2015, 2:23:34 PM7 votes

It's not even fun anymore. all it does is make a summoner that super buffs alot of champs and nerfs other ones.

freeformline5/3/2015, 8:35:43 AM7 votes

That's mostly how I feel. ARAM no longer feels like ARAM. I truly enjoyed Legend of the Poro King, and have even enjoyed 5.8 ARAM so far, albeit to a lesser degree than traditional ARAM. I think Mark/Dash could be kept without completely reshaping the game mode, but it will be difficult, seeing as it was designed just for that purpose. Perhaps with a CD extension or a commitment to dash after hitting the mark could balance it out, but I would really rather see it removed.

okaynope5/6/2015, 4:40:05 AM6 votes

BumpbumpBUMP.

I used to love ARAM. I also loved the Poro King mode with snowballs (now "Mark")....as a once in a while fun little niche mode. ARAM is an utter joke with Mark being added, and, to be honest, no longer fun.

Riot, please remove Mark and restore ARAM to its proper self!

reddeathh5/4/2015, 7:22:15 PM6 votes

Snowballs in aram is the dumbest thing. It takes away any escape from a squishy champ. I like to play and play aram but when I played it takes away any strategy (if there is any in aram) away. Just throw snowball hit someone jump to them and then ult. I won't be playing aram until it is taken out. Who ever put it in should be fired...

º LB º5/6/2015, 10:27:01 PM5 votes

aram is and always will be my home, fave mode ever <3 though.. i cant lie.. with the mark/dash sumspell.. its really hard to enjoy it :( i still play aram, its still fun. not as fun as it was last week though before the new spell.... riot i dont ask much, but if you see this post and hear our cries, please remove it. or maybe move it to another mode where it might become more appreciated. ty <3

Sukishoo5/4/2015, 5:05:31 AM4 votes

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I honestly haven't even seen that many people taking it...so I can't see a warrant for all these complaints.

Zobrie5/4/2015, 5:03:56 AM4 votes

bump

bigusa5/3/2015, 5:57:42 AM4 votes

guys this forum isn't doing crap. email riot directly [email protected]

twerknlurk5/9/2015, 8:28:11 PM4 votes

Please remove snowball, or at least give the option to play the original ARAM!

MiniJunkie5/3/2015, 6:43:35 PM3 votes

+1 to the OP.

deadsightsx5/10/2015, 4:16:43 AM2 votes

As a person that only plays this game for ARAM, I would much much appreciate the removal of this snowball, it breaks the game, champions that aren't good, now work, and not champions that are op, are unstoppable, there is no going back to heal, champions can engage at will, the game type is completely broken, the game has no reprieve, the ability to even have a chance from coming back from a down game, cant because of these snowballs, get rid of the BS and return it to the way it was.

Ixaxxar5/11/2015, 2:28:40 AM2 votes

Aram is better now because of snowball. I feel there is a lot of butthurt from people with aram accounts, that might actually lose now.

EstebanElGuapo5/19/2015, 6:38:46 PM2 votes

Amen.