This isn't about recognition for playing ARAM or anything. I don't care about making it big in online gaming, but I do like Ranked playlists because I like knowing where my skill-level is at and I enjoy getting matched with people on my level.
Sometimes when I make a team for ARAM by simply going into the ARAM chatroom and inviting everyone that's green, I end up really easily making a good team that goes pretty much undefeated. I've gotten so good at it that I carry my ARAM games even when playing solo. It's fun and I want to level up. I want to fight other god ARAM teams, I want a challenge again, like when I started playing League and fell in love with ARAM because it forced me to try new characters.
I'm the type of person that clings to a champ. In SR, I always feel pressured to pick Udyr or Singed because they're the only two I really feel comfortable laning with. Lately it's been Udyr exclusively because Singed feels nerfed.
Most of the champs I've bought are pretty much for ARAM and I don't like laning with them. Sometimes when I pick SR I feel like I have all these support characters and I don't like playing support, but on ARAM Sona and Soraka are really good champs and fun to play with.