I'll probably expand on this idea a bit in time, but the TLDR of the premise is this:
ARAM is fun, mostly because All Mid is fun, but... well, nobody takes it seriously. I see many people try to crank the randomness or just let every champ be available, but how does that promote skilled play?
You ask me, Draft/ban Mode will do the trick. Now your lack of champions will work against you scrubs.
Or is there an appeal to anti-skill?
Either way, I still can't see how any form of randomness extends itself well to competitive serious games.
% Dodge was removed for a reason, ya know.
Random adds more skill, skill of flexibility and adaptability, to change your own playstyle to fill gaps in your team or counter the enemy's main strengths.
What the mode needs is to just balance the random to where advantage is neutral over a large number of games between all players. Full pool unlock is one option for this, but I came up with a more fun and interesting way.
Having a Draft mode with 3 bans per side, then randomizing champs would be a nice way to go about ARAM.
Opening up the entire champ pool is just silly.
the appeal of aram is that its just a fun game mode to mess around in and no one takes it to extremely srsly so its actually a decent stress relief mode now that i think about it, most people dont want to get serious about aram they just kinda want to have fun
SR is featured in tourneys... is it also not meant to be competitive?
All mid isn't a game of skill, it's a team death match.
I want to make ARAM ELO important again.
But it's hard to gauge when it's all a crapshoot.
You're not getting or are dodging my point (honestly unsure, no ill will meant): a folded pre-flop poker hand has a minimal penalty of ante/blinds (if in the blinds.)
There is a penalty (maybe not harsh enough, but multiple accounts don't share ELO) for dodging, but there's a saying in poker "There's no shame in folding."
No comparison for dodging.
Hence the analogy isn't perfect.
