Snow ball - official riot response

bigusa·5/7/2015, 11:25:02 PM·4 votes·1,057 views

So Riot replied back to me on my email. Looks like snow ball is here to stay .

"Hey there!

We really appreciate the feedback here. Adding Mark/Dash is a pretty big change to ARAM champs, but we feel that overall it adds more to the game by giving some counterplay when the enemy manages to roll an entire poke team against an entire melee team.

But be sure to let your voice be heard on the forums! We definitely check those out regularly so if there's a lot of feedback surrounding this there, you can be sure we're seeing it and taking it into account for changes we make down the road.

-TO"

Obviously one of us is reading forums, and its not the riots employees.

please take your comments to the link below and consolidate it in one area. I just started a new thread so it stands out in the clutter http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/summoners-rift/l714yUZ8-aram-marksnowball

6 Comments

acidxrain5/8/2015, 7:39:32 AM7 votes

Simply do not like it. Rolling all melee and mages versus rolling two melees with Mark/dash, is not an equal balance. You're taking one person and changing the entire game off that one person. If there's more than one of them, and you're an ADC, gg. Game over. This change was intended to do what Riot was saying, but it's just as far right, as the way it was before, left.

Pew Pew Lasers5/8/2015, 6:40:41 AM6 votes

I hate the snowball so much. Its sucked the fun out of aram. I dont even want to play it anymore. And I havent after playing 10 games. Just hit someone as ryze, swoop in and rape someone and are gone before people even know you're there.

I dont play aram to play poro king. I play poro king to play poro king. I play aram to learn to adapt to champions I wouldn't normally use in a level(ish) playing field and you're not stuck type rolled or fighting for a lane 'position' is pre.

Distaste5/9/2015, 6:28:13 AM6 votes

Snowball completely ruins aram for me to the point of not wanting to play it anymore. I have no idea who thought it was a great idea, but they need removed from any sort of balance decisions. Giving such a long range ability that allows people to close huge gaps on an incredibly short cooldown is simply stupid. It completely destroys character balance when it's on champs that didn't have a gap closer for a reason. Poke characters lose the advantage they have sure, but that's what they are supposed to be balanced around. When you have melee that engage you from incredibly far away and running is nearly futile it just removes all fun of playing those characters. You want to keep it on aram then increase the cooldown to 1 min and reduce the range, until then you've basically gone from it being unfun to play melee to it being unfun to play pretty much anything except tank/bruiser. This should have only made it live as a new Aram variant. Do a study though! Offer classic aram and new aram and see which attracts more players after a month or so.

FDru5/8/2015, 6:30:34 AM2 votes

ARAM is more popular now than is has been for probably a year. Must have been all the smurf crybabies leaving to abuse some other game.