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ARAM SNOWBALL: Working as intended?

Ubiquitus·4/30/2015, 4:40:09 PM·12 votes·4,100 views

Has anyone ever considered that maybe they want the popularity of ARAM to go down? Essentially to increase the player base for their feature game mode, the Rift. These changes have so undermined the integrity of ARAM that most of my friends have said they will not play it anymore. That it's time for Summoner's Rift again. So, by driving people away from Howling Abyss it may be working as intended. Food for thought.

If they're intentions were to enhance the gameplay in ARAM by adding this, I don't think they completely thought this thru. To give a dash ability to every champ in the game is ridiculous for some champions. For example, Dash + Cho's Nom Nom, Ammumu Ulti, Galio Ulti, Nunu Snowball+Ulti. Ramus Taunt, Shen, I could go on and on. These champions weren't meant to have an ability like this, it's too broken. Snowballs flying everywhere turns the game into a circus. The description of it isn't even correct

Mark: (Throw a snowball in a straight line at your enemies. If it hits an enemy, they become marked and your champion can quickly travel to the marked target as a follow up).

They forgot to mention it does scaling true dmg and I believe it also stuns for a split second when you jump to the target. It also has a 20 sec. cooldown and a range that's almost as long as a Lux Ulti. Broken!

I don't believe they didn't know the impact this would have. So therefore I must consider that they may be trying to diminish the popularity of this game mode. If that's the case then I believe it's a success.

14 Comments

Extreme Troller4/30/2015, 5:46:55 PM14 votes

Aram is so bad now. I prefer to play another game

þang5/1/2015, 9:21:38 AM7 votes

If they're trying to deter me to summoners rift it's not working. It's just making me dislike something that I originally loved. I still don't want to play summoners rift or ARAM now.

lightdragoon885/2/2015, 5:18:53 PM6 votes

I'm done with ARAM until it is gone or it is nerfed.

eenxs5/2/2015, 6:36:39 AM6 votes

If a company's goal is to dissatisfy a considerable portion of its consumer's that is never a good idea. Whether that's the case with ARAM I don't know the numbers to say that the ARAM popularity can impact other game modes. Regardless, ARAM is one of the oldest and most cherished, and let's not forget player-created, game modes that it's such a shame how they ruined it with this direct port of Legend of the Poro King (supposed to have only been a featured game-mode for a limited time) into the ARAM queue. I've played ARAM's and ARAB's since the start and this change has made me pull the plug on this game and Riot as a company. Oh well RIP ARAM.

Dark Kuno5/3/2015, 8:31:04 PM5 votes

If the intent was to strip any semblance of diversity and fun out of the game mode, yes it is working as intended.

Muted Summoner4/30/2015, 5:54:52 PM5 votes

cd is way to short and the range is way to long. its a mini ignite thats up more often.

acidxrain5/2/2015, 7:31:52 AM4 votes

SR was never that much fun to me. People complaining it's just normals, feeding and quitting or just quitting altogether pushed me into playing ARAM exclusively. Now with the new Mark summoner spell, I'm not even interested in ARAM anymore. Played three games as AD or AP carries and got insta-gibbed by tanks. Basically, they made champions like Blitzcrank, Amumu, Alistar and many others who already have gap closers and hard crowd control that much more difficult to play against.

Any interest I had for the mode now is gone.

bigusa5/6/2015, 3:57:15 AM2 votes

too many bitching threads , not enough focus, only one thread has 207 posts, and that's "mark /snowball."

take your complaints here so we can have 1 fat thread instead of many smaller ones. http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/summoners-rift/l714yUZ8-aram-marksnowball speak out on their on league of legents in facebook. (get your free trist skin while there if you dont have it) spam them with complains at [email protected]. or [email protected].

if this is not gone by end of month i'm giving my account away .

FDru5/1/2015, 4:14:10 AM2 votes

{quoted} integrity of ARAM

You mean the mode being run by players who own 30 champions?

tintinchi5/1/2015, 10:00:46 AM2 votes

I got called a "crytard" just because I didn't like this new summoner spell.

They put in this new spell because people can't get in close using their own abilities/skills? ARAM players must be shit bad.

Aryzyra5/1/2015, 8:50:07 PM2 votes

The cooldown and range need to be adjusted. Fun ability though. Just too good right now.

Pharticus5/1/2015, 11:55:46 PM2 votes

Yeah they are hard to see with all the other effects going off. The stun and damage are silly. Not to mention it takes away the distance ranged champs need to not be obliterated by melee champs. The cd needs to be at least 1 min, maybe more. drop it to 45 if you miss...even that seems like too much. You are going to see a lot more dodges.

Yosuke Apperu5/2/2015, 5:12:17 PM1 votes

Honestly the biggest problem with aram right now, is aram accounts.. The snow ball let's you not get poked to death by that full poke comp.. what needs to be done as other's have suggested before is make every champion available for aram only.. this way you don't fight a morgana/syndra/lux every game.. so you also wouldnt even need a snowball to engage.. because then the teams may actually be fair :D