Aram ruined by Snowball (Mark) spell

Jifcrunchy·5/13/2015, 11:58:30 PM·8 votes·1,017 views

Aram used to be interesting! People might argue that poke comps always had the advantage and for some comps I wont argue that. Tanks and non poke champs had their place in the mode as well though, if you could survive the first 15 mins or so and get one or two items down it was quite easy to turn the tables and make a good comeback. Of course you had to utilise the champs in the way they were meant to be played and hard engage with flash or whatnot when needed. When I first tried the ARAM mode on Howling Abyss i was a little skeptic about the health packs and available rerolls in champ select but i got used to it and resigned that this is what ARAM had become. Everything has changed now though... With the addition of the Mark spell poke champs no longer have any place in the mode whatsoever! The perfect comp now consists of 5 tanks or champs who can take a beating. They throw out the Mark spell, hit anybody and the chaos ensues, players blindly smashing keys until the tankiest team comes out ahead. There is no strategy, no needed synergy with different comps nor even aiming required anymore. This spell has completely ruined the mode! Aram used to be about getting a champ you might not be 100% comfortable with and playing with a team comp you would never dream of having yet strangely lots of time it would work. It taught you how to make the best out a bad situation and play out of your comfort zone. Times have definitely changed the mode from its original state back when it first began in custom games but this spell (Mark) is the icing on the cake and personally iv lost all interest in Howling Abyss because of it. From this point on I will be going back to the roots and creating a custom game on Summoners Rift for a true ARAM experience. I hope others will join me in recreating the original game mode before it was so brutally destroyed.

4 Comments

MagicOfLight5/14/2015, 5:27:23 AM3 votes

I will look for your custom games, because mark does ruin aram. It has turned it into the fun murder bridge into more of a gimick game mode that people play occasionally. I used to main aram, now im stuck playing on SR since nobody would join my custom arams. If they dont remove mark, im not going to play aram anymore.

Dr Poro5/14/2015, 11:37:33 PM1 votes

ikr it sucks that most champions are viable now. How can I show my dominance now with my full aram champs account? People having fun with champs that used to be trash tier is UNACCEPTABLE! If I wanted a game mode that had champion diversity, I wouldn't have been playing ARAM! Riot know your playerbase seriously!