User blog comment:Supp0rt4n00bz/Broken ARAM is broken! (Part I)/@comment-8802138-20130729100853/@comment-60764-20130729163314

"Blue sky is blue".

In all seriousness ARAM is a bit overpowered, but really for the better in many cases as it requires one to use their knowledge of SR to their advantage.


 * Most champion pokes still rely on players who know how to use (or get around) them, and requires actual movement and awareness of the enemy team as if it were the laning phase. It's okay to be hit by the occasional skillshot, but sometimes you and your team try not eating Nidalee spears to the face if you can help it (who most don't do or take into account). Keeping in mind that 'Poke' comes from Fighting Game lingo, there being another term for someone who misses/screws up their pokes all the time (whiffing).


 * AoE has the same problem above but is far more of a problem due to the nature of it. But this one is harder to fix all things consider.


 * It helps to have a support in ARAM no matter what team you're on, which make heal kits a no brainer to whom they should go to. That being said they do complicate things.


 * Warwick isn't good in any game mode, and Vayne's 'problem' is something that boils down to the Vayne player (you can stick people to towers even after they've been destroyed or do things like bait them into attacking with your back against the wall, or you can communicate with your team to do funny things like lead them while they give you great positioning). Aside from Evelynn (who doesn't really have many opportunities of attack) all champions have a bit of an advantage when it comes to only needing to fight in a single lane.

So the upshot of it all? ARAM isn't boring. It's also short and yet still requires a modicum of player givingaenoughofashit skill for someone do well in it.