A Single Lane Ranked Mode (Ranked ARAM)

Ripyourflesh·11/17/2014, 1:40:47 PM·3 votes·993 views

Riot should develop a single-lane ranked mode similar to ARAM. But instead of having random character selection, do a draft selection. I personally, am really horrible at classic mode but I excel at ARAM, and I would really like to have a chance to experience the ranked game-play experience that the players of the Ranked Classic Mode gets to be a part of. Or heck, I would accept a full on ARAM ranked mode, and keep the character selection random (but keep the re-roll option and maybe increase to a max of 3 for ranked game-play). Am I the only player that thinks this?

9 Comments

Jeddite11/17/2014, 3:04:03 PM4 votes

ARAM doesn't need a ranked mode; it only needs champion bans.

disregardable11/17/2014, 1:49:41 PM2 votes

The thing about ARAM is that some champions are just really, really broken on it, and melee champions are just really, really bad on it. If you have more than one bruiser/fighter, someone is almost guaranteed to have a really bad time. The constantly teamfighting with nowhere to dodge skill shots is really not beneficial to the entire champion pool.

m3rcy11/17/2014, 8:25:35 PM1 votes

I agree with champion ban, also maybe add some algorithm to the random selection, giving each team a well rounded combo of picks. You all know that game when your entire team has no poke or cc.

u mid i feed11/17/2014, 8:52:21 PM1 votes

No because its not competitive. No mechanics involved but rather just a group of people killing each other based on luck.

Dr Jarjarbinks11/17/2014, 11:49:28 PM1 votes

I love this post and would love either a ranked aram or other all middle ranked mode. I love lol but I dont like csing so a teamfight mode would make sense to me.

I think 2 bans for each team would be a must in a ranked aram mode. My personal opinion is that sona is the only truly broken champ on aram but maybe more accurate to say most broken. Thing is this requires a champs owned minimum which is probably good for a ranked mode for other reasons as well.

In summation I too would love to play lol competitively, just dont make me cs.

Cynikul11/19/2014, 6:24:26 PM1 votes

I think you definately need to learn how to spell definitely before approaching an idea.

As someone said, Ranked mode promotes strategic, mechanical, thoughtful game play. While I'm not trying to argue if it exists in a single lane, I'm arguing that its the kind of gameplay that should remain "for fun" and not to be serious, as it has too many features that promote toxic gameplay and would need too much balancing around, and we don't need more game modes that require its own balancing- it places far too much stress on the main game.

"Toxic" refers to mostly poke, but other functions of mana/energy regen, spamming, and a whole lot of luck. The game shouldn't be balanced around luck or a single lane where its nearly impossible to miss a skillshot.

So, If I could vote for no more than once, I'd probably vote 50 no's. This is a just a bad idea in general, for more reasons than I can imagine you could possibly fathom.

Kholdstare1311/19/2014, 9:04:44 PM1 votes

Draft would not work. The game is bad enough with smurf accounts and constant queuedodging scrublords who refuse to play anything but free win champions. (Why the HELL is there no MMR penalty for dodging? There NEEDS to be). The same OP champs over and over is not fun or interesting, and draft would only make that worse.

What we need is a TRUE random mode, with the entire champion pool unlocked. Maybe allow a selection of 10-12 self-bans so you have 90% of the pool to work with, and can keep out those few you just can't ever stand to play. Possibly put champions on a shuffle instead of random. You automatically queue as your next champion on the list, so it could avoid collisions that way. Dodging would still need a penalty to prevent people from scumming for OP allies, or otherwise just hide the allies until the game is loaded. By forcing players to go through the full spectrum of champions, you could actually get a really GOOD measure of skill, even better over a large number of games than classic ranked has. If you wanted something ranked, that's the kind of mode you would need.

For now tho, let's just open up the full pool for normals and add in an MMR penalty to keep dodgers away from the actual better players

billdow9/28/2015, 7:58:17 PM1 votes

So the prerequisite's would be: Level 30 (Duh) Own all champions Be in good standing and considered non-toxic (30 or negative/lost less Tribunal cases) the pick ban phase will be back and forth one at a time 15 seconds each. (turn will end once ban is completed) Everyone gets to ban one champion then all are blocked except the random button and you can only hit it once(no re-rolls) If you fail to click the random button a random champion will be assigned( Teemo ) If you fail to ban on your turn a random champion will be banned( Teemo )

Aryzyra11/17/2014, 6:31:18 PM1 votes

Ban Sona and Evelynn from ARAM.