ARAM is not random
Can we unlock all champs or have a minimum amount required to play? Tired of seeing the same 10 champs every game cough janna cough
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ARAM needs 2 changes.
1: Open the full pool. No more allowing smurfs to weigh down the RNG so intensely in their favor.
2: Increase dodge penalties to prevent scumming. That means a dodge counts as a loss against your MMR/elo, as well as only counting down the dodge penalty timer while logged in. No more dodging and account hopping until you roll a free win champion, and force those smurfs down to their actual skill level so that decent players will never have to deal with them.
I'm kind of bored and taking a break from League right now. The reason for my boredom is that I'm an ARAM player, and I'm sick of playing the same ten or fifteen champions all the time. I bought most of my ninety-something champions with real money. I would be really happy if they all had an equal chance of coming up for me when I play ARAM. I would also be a lot less bored. I've considered uninstalling or just not logging back in until Riot fixes it, and random really means random, but I'm not quite there yet.
I promise, though, I will be there in a few months, if nothing changes. The problem is so obvious, and so annoying. I know ARAM is a secondary game mode, but I spend a lot of money on League. As much or more as anyone logging in for the Rift. It's sort of insulting (and exhausting!) when you read the patch notes and they are revising some item for the ninth time in ten patches, but the core dynamic of ARAM remains fundamentally broken on a permanent loop.
Fun fact: True randomness feels less random. When Apple First made the Shuffle in the IPod, people started complaining that the same song kept coming on a majority more times, that it started feeling not random. Apple eventually made a new Shuffle that removes some of the random, by making it so the same song can't be repeated a number of times.
The same situation applies here. Due to the True randomness, it is more likely to have things pop up more often than others because OF the randomness. Everything has an equal chance to be chosen, it's just so random that it... seems like it isn't?
I think Nemesis Draft gave me the feelings of what I wanted ARA to be, at least pretty close. I didn't know what champ I was getting, I could've never even played as them before, and I had a great time. I had a game where a teammate had never played Anivia before, and they went and bought her right after because they had been forced to finally give her a chance, and actually had a ton of fun.
are in 90% of the games i play either on my team or the other team. Those odds dont add up.
Minimum amount might cause more problems than it solves. Unless the required number is a bit excessive, ARAM-only accounts would just buy the X most OP champs. However, if the required number is a bit excessive, casual players could no longer play ARAM.
Unlocking all champs or just having everyone share the same combined pool would be more elegant solutions.
I don't really play aram, so i don't know how it works. But if the randomness is restricted by your champion pool, then wouldn't it be easy to game the system by only buying a couple of the best champs for that game mode, and then you always get them? The couple games I played, I was disappointed to get champs I own. I guess that's normal, but it really doesn't seem right.
Just make bans available at the start. Never seeing Sona again would be a pleasant change
ARAM also needs a ban screen/section, like in SR draft, before we are randomly assigned our champs. Think this would help keep down the number of Ez/Lux/Jinx/Draven/Ashe/Soraka/Sona/Karthus we see.
It's random, but people will reroll more often if they don't get one of those champs that are OP, so OP champs will show up more, plus people who buy champs just for ARAM have a higher chance of getting them. Me personally...I've played around 450 arams, and have never used reroll once, and generally only switch with allies if I'm going to get a champ I know less about, I use aram as a learning experience for champs I don't play as often. More fun that way, getting Lux every time is boring, fun once and a while..but, boring overall...
I tend to get 
the most when I play ARAM. There've been a few times where I get someone different like 
but I notice I get Elise very often.
I haven't seen yorick in 100 game but I've gotten akali 7 times dianna 5 times
Really just need bans or entire champ pool open. ARAM accounts and dodging ruin the entire game.
I once had two rerolls, it went like this Dr Mundo -> Udyr -> Dr. Mundo. Well gee, thanks. I didn't want my rolls anyways
yeah i have seen 
every game