User blog comment:Supp0rt4n00bz/Broken ARAM is broken! (Part I)/@comment-5266525-20130728223813/@comment-5331854-20130729085810

Riot does have intentions as seen with Guardian Horn and Orb of Winter, just not as many as with the main game. At least they're trying to make Champions more viable that are less desired on ARAM or to counter strategies like Poking because, well, it's random who gets the poke-champs (OoW-shield needs to be much stronger, though. 210 at 18 is doing nothing in late game when you compare it with MoM [and Health regen is useless when you're dead, which is easily accomplished in ARAM. MR is nice though, but... [Will be explained below]).

The main problem in ARAM is the sheer dominance of certain champs like AP Yi and Nidalee. Yi will probably be indirectly nerfed in ARAM after his rework. Nidalee, on the other hand... I'd either remove the scaling with distance on her Human-Q in ARAM (I'm okay with Ezreal and Ashe, but Nida's damage-scaling is very disruptive on a straight lane) or remove Void Staff and Last Whisper in ARAM. Or nerf them in ARAM, as they make building sustain even more worthless when you're not outright tanky (and there aren't many champs who can go tanky in ARAM and still help their team towards victory).

Still, ARAM is purely for fun. As long as you realise that, you don't mind losing. Heck, I had a match against Yi, Nida, Zilean and Nunu in the enemy team (forgot the 5th one), which is a hell of a team in ARAM (massive damage in Highlander-mode, massive poke, massive bombs and speed steroids, massive push-potential, slows and "hidden ult" in brushes). We lost, but we didn't made it easy for them and that gave me a big smile even when our Nexus got blown up. (btw, I played Karma and had Cassio, Leona and Shaco [again, forgot the 5th one -_-"] in team and I can tell you, AoE isn't that much of a problem in ARAM. The lane is as wide as mid-lane in Summoner's Rift. When AoE is balanced there, it most certainly is balanced in ARAM, either)

In the end: ARAM is very fun and should be viewed as a fun diversion from the stress in other game modes.