ARAM

ArtGnarfunkel·May 9, 2015·15 votes·1,402 views

I feel in the past two weeks, Riot has made it abundantly clear that this game mode means extremely little to them. As a player who plays 97% of his lol games on HA (mostly due to ragers and trolls being less abundant, shorter games, and a desire to learn all the champs), I feel completely alienated by the addition of Mark, and the champion points being an absent feature in ARAM & Dominion. It feels like drastic, wobbly changes are being made to very well loved aspects of your game... and for what? Aesthetics? Competing with HOTS? Forcing ARAM diehards into playing more ranked? I'm not certain, but the bottom line is I enjoyed a couple ARAM games every day. And now I don't.

24 Comments

Pucking PurrfectMay 9, 201514 votes

Riot doesn't give a single shit about Aram and Dominion. They only care about SR and its meta. I usually play Aram since I don't like trolls, ragers, and long games and I must say that Mark/Dash spell ruined the map. I know they wanted to balance HA for melee champs but they didn't because the fact is everyone is abusing the spell. Any champ with AOE ult ( Amumu Blitzcrank Fiddlesticks Fiora Galio Kennen Katarina Malphite Talon ) literally shits on the enemy team, not to mention if your entire team is full of squishy champs then the next 20 min. is going to be a pain in the ass. Today someone got pentakill with Galio. What the guy did is marked someone from the enemy team while they were low on health dashed in and KABOOM. Some champs with this spell are broken af...

Ghost MonsterMay 10, 201510 votes

My favorite thing about this post is that all the champs mentioned were already pretty high tier before the introduction of mark. Now they're just oppressive, even more so than god poke ever was. Riot really missed the mark on this spell.

AtheosisXMay 9, 201512 votes

Yep, I hate this fucking spell. It makes ARAM feel completely and utterly different, like literally a different game mode altogether. It's a bullshit change as far as I'm concerned.

Ghost MonsterMay 10, 20159 votes

Yup. Positioning is a completely alien concept in ARAM now. Nowhere is safe.

twerknlurkMay 9, 201511 votes

I completely agree. The addition of the snowball spell has ruined ARAM for me...

eenxsMay 11, 201511 votes

ARAM was a community created game mode, designed to make the game more fun and break away from the meta. Howling Abyss was Riot showing that they cared about it enough to make it have its own queue and enforce the rules, such as no backing and no shopping and no revive, etc.

Now with mark its not ARAM anymore. It's Legend of the Poro King minus the King plus its random not blind pick. They basically changed the mode that was once beloved and belonged to the community. They should have just brought back LotPK for two weeks if that many people really enjoying that game mode just like how they did with U.R.F this year, however I doubt people enjoyed it more than U.R.F, so much so that they ported it over and made it permanent.

Riot won't remove Mark/Dash for god knows what reason, and that just goes to show how much they care about ARAM. They should have just made two separate games modes at least. Oh well RIP ARAM Never Forget 2009-2015.

AtheosisXMay 13, 20155 votes

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ARAM was a community created game mode, designed to make the game more fun and break away from the meta. Howling Abyss was Riot showing that they cared about it enough to make it have its own queue and enforce the rules, such as no backing and no shopping and no revive, etc.

Now with mark its not ARAM anymore. It's Legend of the Poro King minus the King plus its random not blind pick. They basically changed the mode that was once beloved and belonged to the community. They should have just brought back LotPK for two weeks if that many people really enjoying that game mode just like how they did with U.R.F this year, however I doubt people enjoyed it more than U.R.F, so much so that they ported it over and made it permanent.

Riot won't remove Mark/Dash for god knows what reason, and that just goes to show how much they care about ARAM. They should have just made two separate games modes at least. Oh well RIP ARAM Never Forget 2009-2015.

Players are just going to have to go back to playing it the old school way I guess. Because yeah, this crap ain't ARAM.

xMissLadyxMay 10, 20157 votes

I have to agree. I actually stopped playing ARAM today because of the mark. It took most of the mechanics out of that map. Maybe that means that the people that are generally chill (which seem to play more ARAM) will be seen on summoner rift making it a more enjoyable place. But for now... I am done with ARAM. It was already exhausting enough dodging from high poke teams, now you have to dodge from 5 snowballs every 20 seconds on top of anything else! haha

Adrian BlackbearMay 9, 20155 votes

I've had a couple of games that, within the normal version of ARAM without mark, would have resulted in wins. Now it's kinda stupid.

Regardless, I thought I read somewhere that champion mastery was supposed to start on Summoners Rift normal and ranked queues, but would possibly be initialized in ARAM, Dominion, co-ops, etc. in the future. No idea if that's really true though.

FDruMay 9, 20153 votes

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I feel in the past two weeks, Riot has made it abundantly clear that this game mode means extremely little to them.

Really? I thought that was pretty clear 6 months in when they still hadn't done anything about smurfs ruining every single game.

Ghost MonsterMay 10, 20152 votes

So these mythical ARAM only accounts only seem to appear in low MMR ARAM according to your statement. So then ARAM only accounts must not be as strong as you think they are.

FDruMay 10, 20151 votes

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So these mythical ARAM only accounts only seem to appear in low MMR ARAM according to your statement. So then ARAM only accounts must not be as strong as you think they are.

Wouldn't know anything about low elo. And what happens there isn't important in the slightest.

Ghost MonsterMay 10, 20155 votes

Apparently it's important enough to ruin an entire game mode because they didn't know how to play melees.

jmaishereMay 11, 20153 votes

dunno it feels nice to have the mark, although the damage could probably be reduced, or the cd, it's nice to be able have nice ults with galio without having to first walk through half the enemy team or burn my flash

AtheosisXMay 11, 20155 votes

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dunno it feels nice to have the mark, although the damage could probably be reduced, or the cd, it's nice to be able have nice ults with galio without having to first walk through half the enemy team or burn my flash

So you are saying it feels nice to play a totally and laughably broken champ that has both good poke and now can dash and catch whole teams in his insanely powerful ult? Imagine that...

jmaishereMay 14, 20151 votes

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So you are saying it feels nice to play a totally and laughably broken champ that has both good poke and now can dash and catch whole teams in his insanely powerful ult? Imagine that...

with no mark these champions are dominant in ARAM, Leblanc Lux Nidalee Ziggs explain how to counter the poke these 4 have...

AtheosisXMay 14, 20157 votes

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with no mark these champions are dominant in ARAM, explain how to counter the poke these 4 have...

Do you actually play ARAM?

First of all Leblanc is nothing special in ARAM. Second of all Nidalee is overrated in that mode simply due to her annoying spear spamming nature--she doesn't actually win as much as people think. Lux and Ziggs are powerhouses but there are ways to deal with them. And none of those champs are as oppressive as Galio or Amumu with mark/dash. Not even close.

FlugalMay 14, 20152 votes

Couldn't have said it better myself Atheosis.

The only thing I can think of that justifies Riots move is that it is a temporary study to see how champions are affected by mobility. There is so much talk about mobility creep, so this is a way to see what happens if they ramp it up to stupid levels. On the down side... why would a company gut punch the most chilled of it's players for some stats.

My other theory is that Riot really does't get that ARAM players are not all ARAM only accounts looking to win, but players who don't like the toxic environment of their ranks game. Hell most ARAM games have better team work than most SR matches.... right up to the point mark hit the map.

jmaishereMay 16, 20151 votes

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Do you actually play ARAM?

First of all Leblanc is nothing special in ARAM. Second of all Nidalee is overrated in that mode simply due to her annoying spear spamming nature--she doesn't actually win as much as people think. Lux and Ziggs are powerhouses but there are ways to deal with them. And none of those champs are as oppressive as Galio or Amumu with mark/dash. Not even close.

yeah but before dash, they had no poke way to engage without using flash, or unless the enemy team had terrible positioning, and yes i play aram quite a bit. I have a bad time with leblanc especially when she disappears with w before i can even smartcast on her. With nid, the spears are not the problem, the cougar form combos are the problem as you would know if you've played against nid...

AtheosisXMay 19, 20153 votes

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yeah but before dash, they had no poke way to engage without using flash, or unless the enemy team had terrible positioning, and yes i play aram quite a bit. I have a bad time with leblanc especially when she disappears with w before i can even smartcast on her. With nid, the spears are not the problem, the cougar form combos are the problem as you would know if you've played against nid...

Say what? Cougar Nid is useless in ARAM most of the time. And did you just say Galio had no poke?

jmaishereMay 20, 20151 votes

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Say what? Cougar Nid is useless in ARAM most of the time. And did you just say Galio had no poke?

if i'm building full tank, i actually do more damage auto attacking people than using my q and e as i can stick to them, cougar nid is used as an execute, you clearly haven't played ARAM enough...as soon as you're like half health and after a team fight, you're fucked

AtheosisXMay 20, 20152 votes

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if i'm building full tank, i actually do more damage auto attacking people than using my q and e as i can stick to them, cougar nid is used as an execute, you clearly haven't played ARAM enough...as soon as you're like half health and after a team fight, you're fucked

Dude, you are talking gibberish. Tank Nid? You think that's a genuine powerhouse in ARAM? Really?

jmaishereMay 25, 20151 votes

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Dude, you are talking gibberish. Tank Nid? You think that's a genuine powerhouse in ARAM? Really?

tank galio read ffs, i already mentioned this, then i talked about nid after as a reply to your statement. Is it really this hard to follow what I write? seriously?

AtheosisXMay 27, 20151 votes

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tank galio read ffs, i already mentioned this, then i talked about nid after as a reply to your statement. Is it really this hard to follow what I write? seriously?

Go back and read what you posted and think about that question for a bit.