Snowballs should NOT be in ARAM.

TheWorstAtLoL·4/30/2015, 1:02:30 AM·41 votes·2,528 views

These stupid snowballs... Ruined ARAM. ARAM was a player made idea for All Random All Mid, nothing more nothing less. now you add some BS snowballs with 20 cooldown? This is the first time i have been upset about an update. ARAM is the mode i play when i want a short fun game.

I hope this gets taken out, it is awful.. I mean scaling true damage too? come on.

25 Comments

Smushey4/30/2015, 9:21:11 PM9 votes

Completely ruined aram. Some people like it? Fine, make ARAM CLASSIC and ARAM SNOWBALL available please.

Mikal Pikal4/30/2015, 10:12:10 PM7 votes

Essentially the only people against this are ARAM-exclusive players because they have ARAM-only accounts with all range poke. You used to be able to roll the unfortunate melee champs without a challenge. Now you have to buy an actual variety of champs.

No doubt the damage and cooldown of snowballs with be decreased/increased. This is obvious.

9baksQuJhb5/1/2015, 12:23:20 AM6 votes

Oh, I'm sorry, does the precious poke comp you randomly got now have counterplay? How horrible for melee champs to have a chance.

inb4 Saltines, I'm munchin on em right now.

Dr Poro4/30/2015, 10:18:14 PM6 votes

Cry me a river. This is the best thing that happened to aram. As a previous aram player (and will return to be), it got pretty boring to see the same ranged poke champions over and over (because once you get a certain amount of aram games/winrate, you usually see people with only good aram champs and they use rerolls for when they get a free week champ that is bad). They were so superior to melee champs that when people had multiple melee champs (without good gapclosers) in their team they just dodged resulting in even more boring poke champs.

Legends of the poro king was the best funmode IMO because it made ARAM more balanced. I'm happy that we now have a more balanced ARAM permanently. Yes, there are still God tier picks, but not as many and not an as overwhelming difference between the good and the bad champs as before.

Nutorious BIG4/30/2015, 8:44:06 AM6 votes

Snowballs are the most retarded thing, and pretty much ruined aram.

Anyone who downvotes this is pretty much a bronze (most of the community so whatever).
All I've been seeing is bronzes/silvers spamming snowballs and thinking they're prozors.

ManlyTeemo4/30/2015, 8:47:37 PM4 votes

Triple the CD, leave it in.

spacesloth4/30/2015, 4:22:39 PM4 votes

Love it. Great spell, range, CD everything. Great adaption to a game that was otherwise many times frustrating to play as certain characters. Very good update imo.

Astrox34/30/2015, 8:49:40 AM4 votes

I love the addition and think the range is fine too, only thing I'd change is the cooldown. I think it could be a bit longer.

GrungyDesires4/30/2015, 2:31:43 AM3 votes

I think if they kept mark but gave it about 1/5th the range it has now would be solid.

Franco Sanchez4/30/2015, 10:26:54 PM3 votes

Yeah, because it's unreasonable to give melee champs some kind of an answer to ridiculous amounts of poke damage, in a gamemode that favors heavy siege. Give your head a shake dude.

ZerglingOne5/1/2015, 1:01:44 AM3 votes

Needs a 60 second cooldown because currently it's the only viable option and tanky bruisers with PBAoE are currently ruling the game mode.

Otherwise I like it.

Articuz5/3/2015, 1:22:19 AM3 votes

I am against this change. It made the game a lot more stressful to be dodging everything or even to use it every time it comes up. A lot better than Ignite. It's a fun ability in Poro mode - but it is really bad in ARAM mode.

Naramiel5/1/2015, 1:13:38 AM2 votes

I like it, but agree that the CD could be a little higher and the range a little lower.

Hirengurth5/1/2015, 9:36:52 PM2 votes

As someone that owns all the champs I like the idea of the spell... But, there are some big issues. Range needs reduced on both the projectile and dash 10-15% reduction would likely do the trick. The cd would be reasonable at 80-120 sec. its just too abuseable as is. Mobility is powerful and that much of it makes me question how it was allowed past QA in its current state...

Its fun and offers champs some hope of having an interesting game but... well you get the point. Tuning is required.

As for aram only account, yes they exist they annoy me. I would like to see a aram queue for those who have ~90% of champs unlocked. Though this is unlikely as riot generally takes a stance on keeping mode restrictions to the minimum and the number of accounts that have that many champs unlocked are in the minority i am quite sure.

Nutorious BIG4/30/2015, 9:04:16 AM1 votes

Literally got a pentakill 3rd aram game with a melee with these snowballs...

Sukishoo5/3/2015, 6:47:54 PM1 votes

keep filling my item 3070 s, I got so much mana now.