Aram is what hooked me on this game, now it is pushing me away.

Tamo·Feb 11, 2015·16 votes·1,957 views

I know the general response is that it is JUST aram and that it is not serious or important. I am a casual player that enjoyed playing aram since it was only available as a custom game. I don't take aram as serious as life and death, but I do try my best because it is the game type that I truly love. I own all champions but three, and I have no problem playing any champion in aram. The problem is what I continuously face on the other team. It seems that every game there are op aram champions on both sides making up the majority of both comps. Every game has a Janna, Sona, Ziggs, Karma, Lux....I truly feel like one out of every ten games is an actual fun random game, while the other nine are stomps by whichever side won the op rng contest. I feel like aram accounts are only increasing in number and it is ruining aram. I just wish that riot would address this somehow. I understand their attention is elsewhere, and I don't blame them for that at all. I am just sad that my favorite gametype that made me fall in love with this game is becoming something it wasn't intended to be.

23 Comments

INTER5TELLARFeb 11, 20156 votes

Make it a champion-wide pool (all champs) and nail down a 60 min dodge timer. No one will dodge.

Kholdstare13Mar 17, 20152 votes

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Make it a champion-wide pool (all champs) and nail down a 60 min dodge timer. No one will dodge.

Not good enough. These guys run multiple accounts JUST so they have another one to play while the previous one sits out a penalty.

Make dodging count as a loss against the dodger to prevent elo boosting by scumming (both rolls and comps). Make dodge penalties only count down while you remain logged in.

And yes, unlock all champions for ARAM only. (Hey Hippalu$, that also gives you an excuse to add in battle boosts as a permanent game fixture)

Killer X 12Feb 12, 20156 votes

If ARAM was not in this game i'd of left about a year and a half ago. AKA, just after ARAM became an official game mode. I think i have almost 1500 ARAMs and maybe 750 normals over 2 years. I never really had fun in normals and even ARAMs are really shit nowadays. I'm just waiting for URF honestly.

SarutobiFeb 11, 20154 votes

they really need to either lock ARAM unless you have a majority of the champions to make it fair, or just have all the champions unlock for this game mode. its pretty sad that people need to make an ARAM account so that they can only use a champion they know how to use thus defeating the purpose of ARAM. i really hope something is done about this because sadly i enjoyed ARAM now-a-days its just boring when people know who they are going to get!

DrCyanideFeb 11, 20154 votes

Some of us didn't choose to buy every champion in the game with the Pokémon theme song going through our heads. I only have one account, with 27 champions owned, most of which are ranged and a good chunk are mid lane mages. I'm sure I would look like an ARAM smurf to you.

To me, the fun of ARAM is having to deal with wonky team comps, getting to play champions you haven't picked in a while (hello again Twisted Fate) and remembering why you like them, as well as rolling champions you regret buying (sorry Udyr, ARAM doesn't make me like you more). Most of all, it's sort and your team won't get real mad at you if you end up feeding or going some odd build.

Only Play DariusFeb 11, 20156 votes

There is nothing fun about rolling champs like Skarner Evelynn RekSai Warwick Udyr when the enemy team consists of literally nothing but midlaners and ADC's.

It sucks the fun out of the mode when you have to be right next to someone to do damage, so you end up getting blown up as a result and then people on both teams are calling you trash.

KougaFeb 11, 20154 votes

While having all Champions available by default in ARAM would alleviate this to some degree, there will always be a statistical tilt towards "OP" champs because of rerolls. While the numbers are made up, consider the following:

Say you have "Pick" Champions (OP champs that people almost always stick with 90% of the time) and you have "Reroll" Champions (that are not well suited for ARAM and are almost always rerolled when given the opportunity, so they are only chosen 10% of the time) and then you have just some "Average" Champions where its about 50/50 - the player might reroll them, might not. You are more likely to get a "Pick" champion than a "Reroll", because you get up to 3 shots at getting one if you have both of your rerolls. Add in the fact that you can swap your Pick champion for another player's Reroll champion and the odds continue to stack up.

So if you want ARAM to truly be aRam then you have to get rid of rerolls entirely and make dodging, as much as possible, not an option.

ZielmannFeb 12, 20152 votes

I do agree with this. My personal preference would be to have rerolls removed as well, so we get the game mode exactly how we want it. Or, I've seen team-wide rerolls suggested before, where the team can vote to reroll the entire roster. This way, if you've got one top-pick champ and one bottom of the barrel champ, you have to be willing to sacrifice that Ziggs or Sona in order to get rid of Udyr.

However, I think it's less likely that we get rerolls removed completely. Having the whole pool opened up is far more likely. And it would go a long way toward helping, because everybody would at least be on an even playing field this way.

Only Play DariusFeb 11, 20154 votes

Gotta love seeing a Velkoz Lux Ezreal Heimerdinger Malzahar Nidalee Xerath Vayne every single game in a gamemode that is supposedly all random......

DrCyanideFeb 11, 20156 votes

I'm convinced ARAM's RNG wanted me to main Alistar for a while...

aaronconlinFeb 12, 20151 votes

Me too...

Hyrum GraffFeb 11, 20154 votes

I feel a little bad playing ARAMs for this reason. The kind of champion I enjoy playing also tends to be OP on arams, and my champ pool is rather small (although, probably getting closer to 1/2 of champs) because I've focused more on buying runes than unlocking champs. Some day I'll unlock them all...

ZielmannFeb 12, 20151 votes

Don't feel bad. Half the champion pool is not ARAM smurf level. The people ruining the game are using accounts with only 5-10 of the best of the best picks for ARAM unlocked.

Hyrum GraffFeb 12, 20151 votes

Yeah, I'm certainly not part of the issue as much any more, but I've also only gotten to that point semi-recently.

Bulletproof CarFeb 11, 20152 votes

i keep geting champs i DONT OWN in aarm

Hyrum GraffFeb 11, 20152 votes

Were they on free week?

Fun on a BunFeb 11, 20152 votes

The thing about ARAM is that there are champions that hard to play against, but there is almost always the opportunity to win against even the most seemingly-op team. The other team is all adc's and op mid-laners and your entire team is made up of tanks? YOU CAN OUTSCALE THEM. People in ARAM just tend to give up so early but there will always be a way to win; nothing is guaranteed. Those 5 tanks? We won. You can win too if you just strategize :)

BixitsFeb 11, 20152 votes

I wish it would be locked unless you own 20 champions. Then add the free ones on top of that. I mainly play aram (several hundred games) and do not have an aram account. But I'm running into other teams where that is what they have. I have close to 80 champs and keep getting the same 15 or so. Except yesterday. Yesterday I got singed 4 times. FOUR TIMES. Luckily I had re-rolls and someone dodged so I never had to play him. To be honest I've never dodged a match myself but probably 25% of all my ques end in a dodge. Really annoying. Oh and the afks has been worse in the past two weeks. I play every day pretty much. Past two weeks I've seen 1 or 2 afks in my game for 80% of my matches. -_- Please Riot, fix the champ select and eventually update the map please. Aram is super fun but it needs changes.

Killer X 12Feb 12, 20151 votes

I think we only need 16 for ranked normals, so idk about that.

Hatless CasualFeb 11, 20151 votes

Yeah.... it's getting REALLY annoying since I would love to play Ahri or Sona on an aram and instead it's almost always been Orianna , Karma or Soraka ..... though I'm getting average of 15 kills with them but goat lady, it gets old doing the same thing over and over...

Killer X 12Feb 12, 20152 votes

Idk if you are joking, but ori/karma/soraka are all great on ARAM, and most people who are complaining about what OP are would love to get these 3 girls instead of the 40 or so champs that are just not good on ARAM.

Hatless CasualMar 15, 20151 votes

I understand that their great.... just gets REALLY old playing them over and over and over....

Killer X 12Mar 16, 20151 votes

It gets old playing champs that are bad on ARAMs over and over again. Those good champs should be the ones you look forward to. If you get them all the time then you don't own too many champs lol