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@Riot, Let's discuss ARAM.

1001010001000101·4/16/2015, 1:10:19 PM·5 votes·950 views

So if the theme of ARAM is all random picks mid, and riot has stated in the past that ARAM is by very nature un balanced AND there is no ranked play for ARAM, then why isn't it that When i join an ARAM lobby i'm not given a random champion from the entire game instead of the champions I have? What i'm asking is, is there any real reason behind why ARAM doesn't grant the player a 100% champion pool? The only logical answer i've been able to come up with is Riot would lose money on giving people a game mode were you can play any champion in the game without having to pay for them via IP or RP and in theory I could understand that, if it wasn't for the simple fact that in ARAM it's completely randomized. For a long time people have asked for a way to be able to play champions before actually buying them because let's be real some of us aren't balls to the wall with investing on something which is perfectly okay "even though i'm the exact opposite of this, i mean i literally throw money at riot as if they were a religion it's amazing" I think the bonuses of making ARAM give a 100% chance of getting any champion in the game has more positives then negatives. Let's say someone gets a champion they never played before, they play them, fall in love, goto the store after playing said champion and insta buy them, and bam main them on the rift and we all know our mains have every skin available...except for those skins which laugh at you every-time we play them " god why championship riven, why me".. The player gains a new champion that they have a connection with and riot gets a new player who is pleased with there services "not saying we hate you rito we all love you" and we also know a satisfied customer always comes back. I also feel like this change would also be new player friendly instead of league being so intimidating and saying "hey look at all these champions that is going to take thousands of games if not dollars to get!!" When instead you can play ARAMs to figure out who you want to buy etc. I don't play ARAM i just think this is a good idea, what do you the boards, my people, and riot think of this?? Also writing was never really my strong suit so please Just try to keep the discussion professional, This is a smurf account my main account is Diamond with over 5k normals played, all though this maybe irrelevant some people I feel as though some would pull the whole "your just a level 21 what do you know?" card :P

3 Comments

Garurumon4/16/2015, 1:18:45 PM2 votes

Wall of Text.

You can only use the champions that you own, just like a regular game.

usul12024/16/2015, 5:22:32 PM2 votes

The enter key is your friend -_-

Other than that, it keeps the game at its roots of a custom game. ARAM is based off of 10 people hitting the random champ button and going for it, which runs based on your champ pool. If you change that, then you're leaving the original premise.

NorthernDruid4/19/2015, 7:14:28 PM1 votes

The way I see it, there's two good reasons to keep ARAM restricted to only Champions you own and Champions on free rotation .

Firstly, and most important, new players. Already with the free rotation there's a good enough chance if you're new to the game that you'll end up with a Champion you've never played before, and whom you have no idea how works or what to build, what kind of runes/masteries to bring, etc.

Currently, there's a maximum of 10 Champions who you have no knowledge about that can be picked. And more often than not less.

Opening the floodgates to all 120+ Champions in the game would make the chance of getting something you know prohibitively low, since you're likely to know less than 10% of the availible Champions. And even when you're starting to get the hang of it, hit lvl 30 and all that and have played maybe half the champion pool, that's still a 50/50 chance of getting something unfamiliar. Currently, with the reroll system in place, it's far from the same odds of that happening.

People play the game at a variety of different paces, not everyone even tries out every champ on rotation that's new to them every week, and getting something new in ARAM can feel a little disorienting.

Secondly, there's the fact that people want to play Champions they like. That's why the Champions you want to be able to play on a permanent basis are the ones you unlock. If the mode bypassed this entirely, and gave me a greater than 50% chance of Summoning a Champion I don't even know, then what is the point of playing the mode, if there's such a drastically low chance of getting to play the champions I actually know and like?.

There might be good reasons for enabling all champs in ARAM, but I don't think the mode would benefit from it, because it undermines the idea of unlocking the Champions you want to play while foregoing the ones you don't.

If the problem of ARAM accounts is what is aimed for, you're punishing not only them, but everyone else, especially new players.

And while the benefit is there, the cost is that everyone now has an exceedingly low chance of getting a Champion they want to play.

There's a reason the reroll system is there, and there's a reason you get back rerolls faster if you own more Champions.

P.S.

Also, please, please learn to use paragraphs.